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MP3 and Entropy
If you’re like me, with a wife nursing in the other room and an infant distracted by any noise or movement, then your mind naturally drifts to the topic of entropy[1]. I saw something on “TV”[2] about music, and began wondering about whether different musical styles had different entropy. Slashing around with a little Perl…
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Red Hat is the Best IT Software Company!?
Friday night, Red Hat was honored as the “Best IT Software Company” along with luminaries from other industries including Elon Musk, LeVar Burton, and Jane Goodall by the World Technology Network. Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot and winner of the individual award for IT Hardware, made the joke that it was nice to have a hardware…
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India’s Parliament is hiring men with a gift for mimicry to scare away monkeys
More here: http://qz.com/242905/indian-parliament-to-hire-men-to-dress-up-as-langurs-to-scare-away-monkeys/
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Camera Obscura
A slipping cap on our ceiling created a camera obscura with our television.
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Calling Data Anonymization Experts
With the ever increasing amount of open data, I’m having a surprising difficulty in tracking down best practices for anonymizing data. I’ve started collecting some, and I’m sure there are lot of people out there with brilliant expertise to share. Content after the break, or drop some knowledge here.
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NYC Taxi GPS
Chris Whong got a hold of a lot of GPS data for NYC taxis, using the cleverest hack of all: He asked nicely. Not sure what I want to do with this yet, but spend an evening putting the basics together, and drew this from a small subset of the taxi dropoff locations. I love…
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An Unlikely Google Solicitation
It’s not surprising to receive an unsolicited job offer, but the personalization and craftsmanship that went into the language of this one takes the cronut. Maybe an autonomous car was transferred to HR? (1) NEW OPENING WORKING WITH GOOGLE emorisse you were chosen as a candidate for this position
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13 Years of VC Connections in NYC
Anyone ever tell you that fundraising is a small world? Drawing the graph of connections between funders and NYC companies from 2001 through the present, we see a highly connected core with most outliers representing single deals. That level of connectedness is why reputation matters so very much. (Also thrilled to see the NYC funding ecosystem grow over…
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West Village on Georgetown
Person of Interest is filming in my neighborhood today, and the crew has changed some of the street signs. I probably would not have noticed, except this happens to be the “famous” corner where Waverley intersects with itself. Remember Kramer getting lost in the West Village and stumbling upon intersection of 1st and 1st?
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Weather be damned, we’re putting the top down!
as seen on Waverly Place @ Gay Street