A minimalist way of getting around minimalist Geo restrictions

Design your data analysis process through visual programming. Orange remembers your choices, suggests most frequently used combinations, and intelligently chooses which communication channels between widgets to use.

Orange is packed with different visualizations, from scatterplots, bar charts, trees, to dendrograms, networks and heatmaps.

Actions seamlessly propagate through data analysis schema. Selection of data subset in one widget can automatically trigger change of display in the other one. By combining various widgets you can design data analytics framework of choice.

Over 100 widgets and growing. Coverage of most of standard data analysis tasks. Also specialized add-ons are available, like Bioorange for bioinformatics.

With scripting interface in Python, programming new algorithms and developing complex data analysis procedures is pure joy, using and reusing all power found in v

"I almost feel like if you’re spending $145 for “holistic” cat food that you’re just trying to get rid of that money and someone else is going to take it if the cat food company doesn’t. You’ve got that money out in your hands, and you’re waving it around, and as soon as the first person walks by with a crystal or a dreamcatcher you can finally get rid of that horrible money you hate having."

nonlinear gradient ascent library for generic optimisation needs.

YEt another entrant in the strangely intransigent jobs of getting people to collaborate well using technology

What it isn’t is a hierarchical company model of being. Decision-making is very flat and inclusive, and the Courtenay Place-based business (but going global) has even released an alpha version of software to help reach consensus and develop conclusions. (See here for loom.io)
Hence Enspiral’s model, in which members share the same information and have the same level of autonomy as a business owner would have.
Enspiralites also set their own salary – what they think they’re worth – but have to bring in work and show they’re justified in receiving it.

turns out goldman sachs is also evil.

More on the theme of involving people in their own decicison processes

Best explanation I've seen for people with slim grasp of probabiliyt and causality, of the contingent but real influence of gender, sexuality, race...

Hybrid language for getting high-performance inner loops in your code, called from python or javascript, JIT-compiled on the machine. dependcy graph/mapreduce primitives drive the whole thing. Nice. "KL is the custom language used to define operators in Fabric Engine. KL combines the benefits of high performance languages like C++ with the benefits of dynamic languages like JavaScript and Python. ‘KL’ stands for ‘Kernel Language’ and refers to the scope of the language: writing operators. Kernels are small stateless blocks of code with an entry function. The syntax of KL is similar to the syntax of JavaScript and C."

"Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Other features include full support for shared libraries, sharing between users, and integration with native platform package managers. It supports both binary and source packages, and works on Linux, Mac OS X, Unix and Windows systems. It is fully Open Source."

Application as dynamically cached URI. seductive distribution technique for userspace software that is *not* HTML5

git-as-opensource-dropbox. Excellent. Doesn't solve the hosting problem, is all.

GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A job is can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU parallel can then split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

fun little piece talking about how we haven't sworn off moon shots, but out moonshot projects have gotten no closer to remedying existential threats to humanity. High energy physics and telescopy are he argues,, like finance, diverting our best minds away from threats to our very existence as a species.

some mastering that I've liked was done by these guys

Found a woo-worthy constant? justify it retrospectively.

Remote-shell protocols traditionally work by conveying a byte-stream from the server to the client, to be interpreted by the client's terminal. (This includes TELNET, RLOGIN, and SSH.)

Mosh works differently and at a different layer. With Mosh, the server and client both maintain a snapshot of the current screen state. The problem becomes one of state-synchronization: getting the client to the most recent server-side screen as efficiently as possible.

This is accomplished using a new protocol called the State Synchronization Protocol, for which Mosh is the first application. SSP runs over UDP, synchronizing the state of any object from one host to another. Datagrams are encrypted and authenticated using AES-128 in OCB mode. While SSP takes care of the networking protocol, it is the implementation of the object being synchronized that defines the ultimate semantics of the protocol.

Roaming with SSP becomes easy: the client sends datagrams to the server with increasing sequence number

Rule 44 is that if you can think of it, you can download it from rapidshare. This search engine helps you do that.

build your website the easy way: naked C.

Atlassian'ts DVCS GUI entrant. now the field is crowded

The bestest introduction to the easiest parallelisation doohickey I know

'nother approach to automating the packaging boilerplate

the mysterious cargo-cult bits of setup-tools explained for humans

dodgy old realtek, playing up again.

make that card stop vanishing!

Where the x27d drivers live

worked example of making a dos boot usb key to flash your firmware with a dos loader.

Gruber's automagic bookmarkletatron

chrome can be conservative about javascript bookmarklets (Although this problem has not ocurred for me)

For when functional programming isn't pure, austere, or provable enough.

Various performance options for you inner loop, including showing how to do D calls from python.

bibtex predates the inventions of non-english speakers, and as such can't handle their new-fangled names. This can.

cute caffeine estimator for your bloodstream.

claims to convert audiobooks faster than realtime, and be aware of chapters.

REST for the sneakernet - how to send your next few likely uses for a sporadically available API by sending a queued decision tree of API calls.

"Open source tools have recently reached a level of maturity which makes them suitable for building large-scale real-world systems. At the same time, the field of machine learning has developed a large body of powerful learning algorithms for a wide range of applications. Inspired by similar efforts in bioinformatics (BOSC) or statistics (useR), our aim is to build a forum for open source software in machine learning."

a DAW by some of the creators of ableton, that tries to address deficiencies of ableton - i.e. it has multi screen support, linux suport, per-note automation, multiple documents, metadata browser, multi-user internet browsing support...

A very friendly introduction to criticism, targeted at defanging it for both critics and the criticised

Allan Kay is an interesting bastard, in this meandering interview.

"Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you’re always going to get a pop culture. "

make your documents into tiny little documents

Jit-compiled scientific computing language that promises the performance of c, but has a REPL and such. intriguing.

manage a whele bunch of repos at once.

better subprocess dispatch for python. because explicit is better than implicit, and simplicity is great. but between the subprocess module and perl lies system scripting that's actually both usable and maintainable. Sarge looks like a contender for this role (see also: envoy)

'tis all online, the pomodoro thing

online latex editor with git-backed version control.

browser charts not based on prototype.js

Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.

That guy I met and newcastle doing hyperactive making of tweeting birds

interactives toolkit for c++

cute algo-dubstep

musicradar's libraries of sweet, sweet sample action

Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.

amazing DIY electronics repair howto, in the old Usenet style.

ultra-simple game-theoretic explanation of market failures in private health care

Oz guide to internet border issues

The indispensable reference to getting help without annoying people who might help you.

hot academica/researchey lifehack tips

high performance bayesian inference over complex graphical models.

FACTORIE is a toolkit for deployable probabilistic modeling, implemented as a software library in Scala. It provides its users with a succinct language for creating relational factor graphs, estimating parameters and performing inference.
It is object-oriented... in the definition of random variables, factors, inference and learning methods.
It is scalable, with demonstrated success on problems with many millions of variables and factors, and on models that have changing structure, such as case factor diagrams... capable of handling billions of variables.
It is flexible, supporting multiple modeling and inference paradigms. Its original emphasis was on conditional random fields, undirected graphical models, MCMC inference, online training, and discriminative parameter estimation... has preliminary support for variational inference, including belief propagation and mean-field methods.

combo data-mining/NLP/web-scraping toolkit for instant natural experiments online

Hot simple Vim tips for minimum pain

making phone-friendly PDFs (coz it's not HTML5 all the way down)

Gladwell is right when he notes that the 10,000 hour rule keeps appearing as a necessary condition for exceptional performance in many fields. But it’s not sufficient. As Ericsson, along with his colleague Andreas Lehmann, noted in an exceptional overview of this topic, “the mere number of years of experience with relevant activities in a domain is typically only weakly related to performance.”

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To understand what else is necessary, I’ll turn your attention to a fascinating 2005 study on chess players, published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. After interviewing two large samples of chess players of varied skill, the paper’s authors found that “serious study“ — the arduous task of reviewing past games of better players, trying to predict each move in advance — was the strongest predictor of chess skill.

Poster is a unix program that allows one to scale postscript images to a larger size, and print them on larger media and/or tile them to print on multiple sheets.

github's entry in the web analytics world is supposed to me more agile, responsive and simpler than google's, and doesn't involve pimping your private user data to google

Unionised online book wrangling, (which presumably means not quite as famously exploitative as Amazon.)

Scrape web data sources for fun and profit, collaboratively. Want a provocative data set to scrape?