November 5, 2009
Hubble’s New Camera Delivers Another Stunner | Wired Science | Wired.com

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Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe.One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena. (David Constantine)more here (via furth:kayfabe:noahkai:lickystickypickyme:)

Physicists discover that the structure of a brain cell is the same as the entire universe.

One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years across. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena. (David Constantine)

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Dara Epstein Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Duane Park restaurant in Manhattan has begun hosting an Opera Night series where Ms. Epstein has been invited to sing. The restaurant is located at 157 Duane Street. For reservations, please call 212.732.5555. 8 PM - 10 PM (if you’re interested there will be more shows upcoming.  This was my first time and I have to say it was amazing.  Dara was awesome, best one there!)

Dara Epstein

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Duane Park restaurant in Manhattan has begun hosting an Opera Night series where Ms. Epstein has been invited to sing. The restaurant is located at 157 Duane Street. For reservations, please call 212.732.5555. 8 PM - 10 PM

(if you’re interested there will be more shows upcoming.  This was my first time and I have to say it was amazing.  Dara was awesome, best one there!)

Now time for a bazillion omg baseball posts from a bunch of "true Yankees" fans who wouldn't know what a full count was if their life depended on it....

jessk:

biteofpythias:

Good night…

There are people who don’t know what a full count is?

There are people who don’t know where Idaho is.

“Remember This!” A New iPhone Memory App — A new iPhone app. from Smart.fm, based in Tokyo, says that the adaptive-learning algorithms behind its software can help users memorize all kinds of information. How cool is that! The company’s algorithms were inspired by research that shows people remember information more effectively they try to memorize it at key times. Those algorithms determine how often to present a piece of information to the user and in what context. Once the user has demonstrated the ability to recall that word and its meaning, this information will appear less often To use Smart.fm, a person selects an existing list of material—a dictionary of foreign words, for instance—or starts building a new list. The list could be text-only, but the system also supports images and audio. A user might match the names of birds to the sounds they make, or view images of different parts of the human brain in order to learn how to identify them. Someone who snaps pictures of the people she meets at a conference might use the software to commit those people’s names to memory. (via dailygalaxy)

“Remember This!” A New iPhone Memory App

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A new iPhone app. from Smart.fm, based in Tokyo, says that the adaptive-learning algorithms behind its software can help users memorize all kinds of information. How cool is that!

The company’s algorithms were inspired by research that shows people remember information more effectively they try to memorize it at key times. Those algorithms determine how often to present a piece of information to the user and in what context. Once the user has demonstrated the ability to recall that word and its meaning, this information will appear less often

To use Smart.fm, a person selects an existing list of material—a dictionary of foreign words, for instance—or starts building a new list. The list could be text-only, but the system also supports images and audio. A user might match the names of birds to the sounds they make, or view images of different parts of the human brain in order to learn how to identify them. Someone who snaps pictures of the people she meets at a conference might use the software to commit those people’s names to memory.

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104 days to pitchers and catchers.

icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse:

Pitchasandcatchas pitchasandcatchas pitchasandcathcas.

November 4, 2009
Opera…

Opera…

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The Crosstown Rivalry - Beat Yankees 1999

-never forget.

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Nothing I like more than domestic lazyness…

Nothing I like more than domestic lazyness…

leitch: So here’s the highlight of MY day. I write weekly episode reviews of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for Vulture, and Sunday’s episode featured an angry stonemason who hates Derek Jeter. My favorite part was that he used statistical metrics to criticize Jeter’s defense, which of course drives Larry David insane. (He actually calls it “the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.”) I pointed out in my review that this was “the rare mason familiar with advanced baseball defensive metrics.” The next morning, I received the following email. Hey Will- Someone just forwarded me your Curb review and I about had a fit when I saw you wrote it. I am a big time fan of Deadspin and of yours. It was crazy you brought me up and I just wanted to let you know that, yes,  I am “the rare mason familiar with advanced baseball defensive metrics.” I had just read a bunch about SABR and UZR before the audition and I had to bring it up. I am not sure I buy it…it has Aaron Rowand as below average defensively and I disagree wholeheartedly. Anyway, for a nerd who checks Deadspin as often as I do it was really cool to read your article. I’ve read some of the baseball stat websites and they say stuff like “no actor would know abdthat stuff…Larry had to have thrown it to him.” Not true! Maybe not all actors worshipped Floyd Bannister and Han Solo equally as children but I did. Just wanted to say hello and keep up the great work. Looking forward to your book. Thanks again, Eric The actor’s name is Eric Edelstein, who played the stonemason (and also shows up as Angry Townsperson every once in a while on “Parks and Recreation”). Yep, I received a fan letter from a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” character. I would like one from Leon next. awesome.

leitch:

So here’s the highlight of MY day. I write weekly episode reviews of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” for Vulture, and Sunday’s episode featured an angry stonemason who hates Derek Jeter. My favorite part was that he used statistical metrics to criticize Jeter’s defense, which of course drives Larry David insane. (He actually calls it “the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.”) I pointed out in my review that this was “the rare mason familiar with advanced baseball defensive metrics.” The next morning, I received the following email.

Hey Will-

Someone just forwarded me your Curb review and I about had a fit when I saw you wrote it. I am a big time fan of Deadspin and of yours. It was crazy you brought me up and I just wanted to let you know that, yes,  I am “the rare mason familiar with advanced baseball defensive metrics.” I had just read a bunch about SABR and UZR before the audition and I had to bring it up. I am not sure I buy it…it has Aaron Rowand as below average defensively and I disagree wholeheartedly. Anyway, for a nerd who checks Deadspin as often as I do it was really cool to read your article. I’ve read some of the baseball stat websites and they say stuff like “no actor would know abdthat stuff…Larry had to have thrown it to him.” Not true! Maybe not all actors worshipped Floyd Bannister and Han Solo equally as children but I did. Just wanted to say hello and keep up the great work. Looking forward to your book. Thanks again, Eric

The actor’s name is Eric Edelstein, who played the stonemason (and also shows up as Angry Townsperson every once in a while on “Parks and Recreation”). Yep, I received a fan letter from a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” character. I would like one from Leon next.

awesome.

43rd coolest bike in NYC…

43rd coolest bike in NYC…

There's a word for it...

nihilarian - noun: One who does useless work.

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andrewmuto: Extreme attacks. awesome.

andrewmuto:

Extreme attacks.

awesome.

Build your own iPhone App!

soupsoup:

13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App

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