Luis Rei

How and Ad is Served with Real Time Bidding (RTB)

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:37:48 +0000

How and Ad is Served with Real Time Bidding (RTB)

Invisible Boyfriend FAIL

Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:41:44 +0000

Invisible Boyfriend FAIL

E-mail: from zero to 100 faster than any supercar.

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:28:05 +0000

E-mail: from zero to 100 faster than any supercar.

Perceptron - The New Yorker (1958)

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:42:00 +0000

Perceptron - The New Yorker (1958):

[..] The perceptron, a new electronic brain which hasn’t been built, but which has been successfully simulated on the I.B.M. 704. […] Dr. Rosenblatt defined the perceptron as the first non-biological object which will achieve an organization o its external environment in a meaningful way.

"It’s not the actual amount that matters. It’s whether you understand what you are selling, or rather..."

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:33:17 +0000

“It’s not the actual amount that matters. It’s whether you understand what you are selling, or rather what your players think they’re buying.”

- Tadhg Kelly, The Lesson of Monument Valley

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes....

Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:46:35 +0000

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (Available at www.eamesoffice.com)

Rich Hickey @ strange loop: Transducers

Tue, 21 Oct 2014 07:04:26 +0100

Rich Hickey @ strange loop: Transducers

"If there’s a bug, it’s not in bash, but in apache and the other internet facing programs..."

Mon, 29 Sep 2014 07:23:39 +0100

“If there’s a bug, it’s not in bash, but in apache and the other internet facing programs that call bash without properly validating and controlling the data they pass to bash.”

- Paste number 143864: Not a bash bug

"The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual..."

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:56:27 +0100

“The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero.”

- via What Coke Contains

Stop Science now! (via US spending on science, space, and...

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:37:47 +0100

Stop Science now! (via US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation)

"Work and pleasure are not synonymous, but they’re not opposites, either. Loving what you’re doing..."

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:45:00 +0100

“Work and pleasure are not synonymous, but they’re not opposites, either. Loving what you’re doing (well) can be infectious and motivating to others. Ultimately, that’s leadership.”

- If I Knew Then

A Litte bit of Slope Makes Up for a Lot of Y-Intercept (via...

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:49:16 +0100

A Litte bit of Slope Makes Up for a Lot of Y-Intercept

(via What are the most profound life lessons from Stanford Professor John Ousterhout? - Quora)

38 maps that explain Europe

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:40:09 +0100

38 maps that explain Europe:

Europe, as both a place and a concept, has changed dramatically in its centuries of history.

"Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or..."

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:22:52 +0100

“Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time…by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders.”

- Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse

"Geoff Hinton doesn’t need to make hidden units. They hide by themselves when he approaches."

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:17:21 +0100

“Geoff Hinton doesn’t need to make hidden units. They hide by themselves when he approaches.”

- Yann Lecun - Fun Stuff

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:57:46 +0100

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

- H. Abelson and G. Sussman (SICP) via lit

Python is the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 06:09:56 +0100

Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities

Yours truly, 2007 [PDF]:

Python is well designed for beginners being easy to use and easy to learn. It was, in fact, designed to be easier to learn, read and use yet powerful enough to illustrate essential aspects of programming languages and software engineering. These advantages not only make Python well suited for teaching programming to Computer Science students but also for students in other areas.

I never really understood the hate against Phil Fish. This...

Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:15:23 +0100

I never really understood the hate against Phil Fish. This explains it. Internet stupidity explained.

James Mickens at Monitorama PDX 2014

Sun, 18 May 2014 16:49:23 +0100

James Mickens at Monitorama PDX 2014:

Hilarious comedy sketch about word counts, the cloud and the “mossad/not mossad” threat model.

Spurious Correlations

Sun, 18 May 2014 16:12:56 +0100

Spurious Correlations:

Nothing new here but I feel stuff like this should be printed as a poster and hanged around everywhere.

While on the subject, p-hacking should be the a chapter in every intro to stats course.