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? 1) Go to www.google.com/trends/ 2) Type in the word “influenza” 3) Select your geographical region (Denmark in my case) 4) See data up to year 2008, to avoid the graph […]
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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 inspiring talk by Peter Norvig. 1) Go to www.google.com/trends/ 2) Type in the word “Icecream” 3) Measure the distance between the peaks (turns out that the average is exactly the […]
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A gallery of big graphs
I like graphs. There is a gallery of big ones over at nd.edu
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 going to try. First step is to clone the git repo: $ git clone git@github.com:tzwenn/MathGenealogy.git$ git clone git@github.com:tzwenn/MathGenealogy.git His instructions are quite simple: $ ./genealogy.py –search 38586 # 30 seconds […]
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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 father two times. It is a beautiful peninsula in northern Greece, scattered with old monasteries. Furthermore, only men have been allowed on the peninsula for around a thousand years. Palamas […]
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DIKU APL Group IRC channel
Come join the DIKU APL channel on IRC:
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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 Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett Maybe I should start reading Bill Gates blog as well, just for more of that feel good vibe I got from reading the blog […]
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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 github project flask-nsa The project description simply goes: “Give the NSA free backdoor access to your Flask app”. <3
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 that: Entrepreneur Verdict Jason RobertsPasadena He says yes. Has three kids aged 6, 4 and 2 and several startups behind him or in the works, including AppIgnite. Jason CalacanisLos Angeles […]
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 a game.