When to be most careful about catching the flu?
by Continuing on my blogification of Peter Norvigs excellent talk, the question is, when to watch out for the flu, e.g. if you live in Denmark? …
Category: Fun and trivia
How long is a year?
How to find out how long a year is on Earth by only analyzing text? This approach is lifted straight from an excellent and very …
A gallery of big graphs
I like graphs. There is a gallery of big ones over at nd.edu
Playing with GraphViz and MathGenealogy data
Math in Genealogy is a great project (donate online). Sven Köhler from Potsdam, Germany has written a python script for visualizing the database, which I’m …
Gregory Palamas 1363
This stuff blows my mind. Gregory Palamas (1296–135), spelled Γρηγόριος Παλαμάς in greek, was a monk on Mount Athos, a place I’ve visited with my …
A new side to Bill Gates
I don’t know why, but I really liked to read this post by Bill Gates. In an odd way it was heart warming :-) Three …
NSA back door
This is geek humor at it’s best, and is one of the funniest reactions to PRISM I have seen. Here is a screenshot from the …
Surviving a startup with small children in the house
The question: Is it possible to be an entrepreneur while having small children and a wife? Here is what a bunch of entrepreneurs say about …
Evolving database algorithms through human experiments
Here is something fun to do on a sunny day. The idea is the following: A group of people collectively designing an algorithm by playing …