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An Undervalued Math Problem
As most of you know there are 7 problems worth $1,000,000 (see here). It may be just 6 since Poincare's conjecture has probably been solved. Why are these problems worth that much money? There are other open problems that are…
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Bullet Graphs
A Perceptual Edge post about bullet graphs, which I have never used. Apparently these were designed to replace circular gauge type displays. In their simplest for they use a single measure and indicate where its value falls…
10 most common misconceptions about user experience design
Whitney Hess, an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant, asked some of the most influential and widely respected [USA] practitioners in UX (including Steve Baty, Mario Bourque, Dan Brown, Liz Danzico, Bill…
CMU Students Cited by the CRA, NY Times
Well, I’m finally on my way home from Taipei. I’m on a layover right now in Osaka, Japan, awaiting the continuation of my flight back to the USA. While I’m here, I thought I would mention some of our undergrads who have made…
Finish this sequence of equalities…
8809 = 6 7111 = 0 2172 = 0 6666 = 4 1111 = 0 3213 = 0 7662 = 2 9312 = 1 0000 = 4 2222 = 0 3333 = 0 5555 = 0 8193 = 3 8096 = 5 7777 = 0 9999 = 4 7756 = 1 6855 = 3 9881 = 5 5531 = 0 2581 = ? Hint: My wife found it immediately.…
Google Expands Semantics in Search
I recall doing several searches where I thought the results indicated a fairly complex semantic net was being used on their side. Here is more evidence that they are doing this and have expanded its breadth. Makes sense. Comments…
Frequency of Impulse Purchases
Wharton Prof David R. Bell, in a detailed article, says that there is less general impulse purchasing than we had thought. " ... "The message ... is that the amount of unplanned buying that takes place is more about person-to…
Tom Peters on Boomer Markets
Tom Peters comments on the Boomer market and links to some new Forrester work in this area.
CES Overview
Have not been to one of these in years, but worth a look: The Consumer Electronics Show
The purpose of peer review
Michael Nielsen has an excellent post today: Three myths about scientific peer review. The myths are:
Scientists have always used peer review: it seems it became widespread only during the second half of the XXth century.…
User Response: 10GbE Cluster Interconnect
Yesterday, we posted a summary and link to an article arguing for the general acceptance of 10GbE as a valid cluster interconnect platform. We asked the readers to respond via comments with their independent research and comments…
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Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on…4-year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as…Run-length encoding (part I)
Run-length encoding (RLE) is probably the most important and fundamental string compression technique. Countless multimedia formats and protocols use…
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