Rosemary Kirstein‘s THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT FACEBOOK:
I
Your farm does not exist.
You puzzle me.
II
I was of three minds,
Facebook, Twitter, and blog.
But it was only one post,
Like a blackbird
Sitting in three trees at once.
III
Sixth grade lunch hour
Cafeteria.
Decibel level = 110.
All my friends are talking at once,
But not to me.
(Continued)
If you have not read Wallace Stevens, this will [...]
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Ada Lovelace, Notes on Menabrae’s Memoir on the Analytic Engine
Cheers to Ada Lovelace, the original [...]
I have a few quibbles with the inferential leaps people make about the Fibonacci number, phi and related ideas (for instance, fudging examples), but I cannot argue with the quality of the following video — it is a stunning visualization of the the relationship between the Fibonacci sequence, the Golden ratio, the [...]
These are my links for March 12th through March 23rd:
Stanford Large Network Data Sets – Like it says.
Google Translate vs. the Humans – NYTimes.com – EVERYBODY has his own tale of terrible translation to tell — an incomprehensible restaurant menu in Croatia, a comically illiterate warning sign on a French beach. “Human-engineered” translation is just as [...]
These are my links for March 5th through March 12th:
R Videos – Online instructional videos for R.
Flickr: Creative Commons – Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Welcome to Apache Hadoop! – The Apache Hadoop project develops [...]