Really enjoyed Jeff Bezos’s commencement speech at Princeton — thought provoking, and not boring, about choices and choosing.
When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the [...]
Watson, an IBM supercomputer, is supposed to be able to answer natural language questions (or I suppose in this case, provide questions for natural language answers?). First Deep Blue played chess, now Watson’s going to take on Jeopardy. I hope it has a chance to play again Ken Jennings. :)
I. Cannot. Believe. This. My goodness, when Georgetown lost, I thought that was bracket-busting craziness. But today, well! First Villanova fell, then Kansas fell — Kansas, the overall number one ranked team in the country. Sheesh.
I don’t even remember what we were talking about, but I said something or other, and Yut called me a big nerd! To which I replied that I was not! (It was a v. mature conversation between two adults, I assure you.)
But he insisted that I was, anyone would agree! And I [...]
So what do y’all think? Am I a big nerd?
Please just answer in the comments.
I was at the Other Change of Hobbit when a man walked in and asked if they carried the Bible. They don’t. He was kind of agitated, and became more so, in a way that intimated that he could not understand why the place wouldn’t carry the Bible. The Bible! At [...]
So far today, I have woken up later than I meant to, spilled hot tea on myself, and in a separate incident, spilled tea on my desk (luckily not my keyboard). It’s only 10am!!! Gawd I need this week to be over.
Happy Lunar New Year — 恭喜發財 (gong xi fa cai)!
Not that I’m much of a traditionalist, but I’m wearing some red, and no black or white. And I won’t wash my hair tonight. And I had noodles for lunch (for longevity) and I’ll have an orange tonight (for good fortune); I’m also gonna [...]
Harper’s Index: A Retrospective of the Bush Era [Daring Fireball]
Well… I really don’t see how Bush is gonna be vindicated by history. I hope not.
Portion of his presidency he has spent at or en route to vacation spots: 1/3
Okay, admit it, you didn’t even know all of these:p And you’re probably not as cute! (Or is it just me? :p) [kotaku]
