alexleavitt

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by alexleavitt 7y ago
Dreadful, if you take the Dark Forest theory to heart (see Liu Cixin's second book in the Three Body Problem trilogy).
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by alexleavitt 9y ago
"Everything is Obvious," by MSR researcher Duncan Watts. Imagine every time when people infer seemingly-obvious extrapolations from data. This book addresses that phenomenon to make you more self-conscious about the limitations of
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by alexleavitt 10y ago
The Shikoku pilgrimage is still one of the best experiences I've had in Japan. The hospitality, generosity, and respect you encounter along the route, not to mention all the people you get to meet, are so unique.
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Twenty-nine teams use same dataset, find contradicting results [pdf](osf.io)
172 points by alexleavitt 11y ago|32 comments
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by alexleavitt 11y ago
In fact, I would argue that Ghost in the Shell's entire franchise remains the most intriguing and exciting science fiction media about networked technology. If you have never seen the 2-season TV series (and 3 additional films), "
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by alexleavitt 11y ago
I really liked this article. It reminded me a lot about Tim Rogers' Earthbound review, which is my all-time favorite game review article: https://web.archive.org/web/20080219052007/http://www.largep.
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by alexleavitt 11y ago
To be realistic, too, the original "six degrees of separation" did not take into account this international context.
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by alexleavitt 11y ago
"Let's help fight high-rise buildings in San Francisco." Welp... But on another note, if you're fascinated by this history, I highly recommend Fred Turner's excellent 2008 book, "From Counterculture to Cybercul
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by alexleavitt 11y ago
> "Japan has a very low crime rate, which is surely a key reason parents feel confident about sending their kids out alone. But small-scaled urban spaces and a culture of walking and transit use also foster safety and, perhaps just
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TACIT: New open-source text analysis, crawling, and interpretation tool(tacit.usc.edu)
43 points by alexleavitt 11y ago|4 comments
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TACIT: New open-source text analysis, crawling, and interpretation tool(tacit.usc.edu)
3 points by alexleavitt 11y ago|0 comments
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Reviewing My Facebook Year in Review(medium.com)
7 points by alexleavitt 12y ago|0 comments
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by alexleavitt 12y ago
Hatsune Miku is also a projection, not a hologram. But I think it's "further" than you think, because every single song at the concert is created by a musician or team that releases the song online for free. The extremely pop
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by alexleavitt 12y ago
Yes, I am pretty sure this article is just rehashing the Twitter grants (I believe there were only 6 to 8 rewards), rather than announcing full open data to any researchers (thereby making the title misleading).
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by alexleavitt 12y ago
Just keep in mind an R^2 of 15 isn't that high, so these variables are only accounting for a small portion of the variance in the model. I think there's an important control here: number of followers per user. It'd be interes
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by alexleavitt 13y ago
This is the entire underlying message of Banksy's film, Exit Through the Gift Shop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Through_the_Gift_Shop
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by alexleavitt 13y ago
This is the same in the social sciences. I'm currently a PhD student in one of the top Communication departments in the US, and it's painful to see how far behind in technical skills and tools the curricula are (eg., Excel and SPS
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Show HN: Simple web app to find birthday videos to post on friends' FB walls.(happybirthdayto.us)
1 points by alexleavitt 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexleavitt 13y ago
How much of "the Reddit" did you actually use to calculate these stats? Is this based off a one-time snapshot from the API (which limits to 1000 posts, per type of query) or is it a longitudinal crawl (and how data was produced in
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by alexleavitt 14y ago
The worst part of Academia.edu: you must log in to download the PDFs.
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by alexleavitt 14y ago
What this post doesn't describe is usage numbers per person. I wonder how many Tumblr users are also Facebook, Snapchat, etc. users...? Also, how many respondents chose none of the options?
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by alexleavitt 14y ago
Highly recommend picking up this book. As a former local colleague of Nick Montfort, I can say it's going to be a great read.
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Android phones can be remotely wiped by hackers, here’s how to check yours(thenextweb.com)
2 points by alexleavitt 14y ago|0 comments
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BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuck are retiring.(blog.bioware.com)
4 points by alexleavitt 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexleavitt 14y ago
Oh no... :( http://i.imgur.com/FlPXf.png
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by alexleavitt 14y ago
This is seriously one of the best bundles released yet. All these games have been lauded, and all were on my to-play list. :D
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The Ethics of Attention: Bots for Civic Engagement(doalchemy.org)
7 points by alexleavitt 14y ago|1 comments
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Yahoo Lays Off Flickr Support Staff(nolancaudill.com)
203 points by alexleavitt 15y ago|112 comments
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by alexleavitt 15y ago
Having moved to Los Angeles only 7 months ago, I was really surprised to see fixies as a dominant mode of transport, especially within the Latino community (colored, deep-V rims are a huge trend). And even though LA tops the chart in terms
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Internet Blackout: SOPA, Reddit, and Networked (Political) Publics(henryjenkins.org)
9 points by alexleavitt 15y ago|0 comments

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