Link. Suspect smartphone distraction, not least GPS.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Children of adults with bipolar disorders have 20-30 fold higher risk mood/sleep disorder.
Link. If true, then start management plan at birth.
Mathematics at a crossroads: ZFC + (ultimate_L XOR forcing axioms)
Link. " … there are myriad mathematical universes, some in which the continuum hypothesis is true and others in which it is false — but all equally worth exploring…"
Android’s curious advantage: lawbreaking made easy.
Link. Google’s gonna go straight any day now.
Mike Konczal reimagines undergrad econ.
Link. Persuasive. Hope K responds.
Future Stunned: Earlier reality flux in the post-material world.
Link. Comprehension is futile.
Krugman on rethinking economics: first the old books.
Link. Hmm. consider the case of evolutionary econ…
Siri bypasses iOS 7 parental controls.
Link. Very educational when Siri "Show Me" image search results are shared via Photo Stream.
Paste as Typed Text macro – defeats idiotic web / UI forms that don’t allow paste.
Link. Damn! I want this an OS X service!
iOS 7.0.3 bug: If you start to view an iCloud movie on WiFi, then move to LTE, movie will continue to stream on cellular data.
Link. Expensive on anything but unlimited plan.
Why Benedict XVI resigned: because he didn’t have the energy to fight church corruption.
Link. The Vatican Bank in particular. Lots of worms in there …
Fleeing Chrome for Safari (Mavericks)
Link. I am addicted to Chrome profile switch, but when I go to Mavericks I will flee too.
Open Office awfulness: “Serendipity is when we’re both listening to Django at the same time.”
Link. Worse than cubes.
Mountain Lion crash associated with hourly CCC Cron job process, tmp KSInstallAction mount point, Google Drive / Problems / Discussion Area – Bombich Software Support
Link. I’ve since updated both Google Drive (manually) and CCC. So we’ll see if this improves. It’s intermittent.
Google Drive crash/update bug with non-Admin user account?
Link. Rumor has it this may be fixed with 1.11. My iMac was still on 1.7, probably due to the auto-update bug for non-admin accounts.
Bias in animal vs human studies.
Link. ITP is a treasure of the net.
Goldieblox v Beastie Boys: why this is great law.
Link. We will learn something from the litigation.
Priceonomics has a business: Data Crawling Services
Link. Beats adwords.
In The Pipeline aces it: 23 And Me And the FDA.
Link. Exactly. I wonder if 23andMe is running out of money.
Gruby: Replacement for Google Reader
Link. FeedBin for me. No hassles, works with Reeder.app, web UI fast.
Over the past 3 years the blogs I read have become more scholarly even as the writing has improved and volume has increased. Where does it go from here?
From app.net – http://alpha.app.net/johngordon/post/16157972.
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
Link. And can outsource anything that they can’t legally do.
Schneier: Surveillance as a Business Model
Link. I believe a majority of Americans either don’t mind or enjoy full exposure. Reality TV for all.
Infographic: Evolution of Default Privacy on Facebook
Link. On ios switch to image and tap. Inexorable.
Travel hacking: monster flight and FF miles.
Link. Saved 5 K, which is something, but huge time investment.
Shanghai tour: “Jian Guo 328 … bans smoking”
Link. How many years before smoking bans are common in China?
Infants with Alzheimer associated APOE4 gene start out with different brains.
Link. Fits idea that Alzheimer’s is lifelong process, but a bit of a wild finding. Needs confirmation!
T Rex DNA: the dream is back…
Link. Extremely unlikely, but serious scientists.
Rogue Amoeba still struggling to get apps to run on Mavericks.
Link. One of the reasons I like to wait. They have a hard slog because their apps break app store rules.
Adventures in Chinese tech: configuring ENH202 bridge in WDS MAC mode.
Link. Device has worst documentation ever. Best bit is the Wikipedia derived list of typical dBm values.
Brilliant Thanksgiving profile in style of US media covering foreign events. (via Marco)
Link. Absolutely accurate.
Amtrak Montana ~ Ski Tours by Train – RMA tours
Link. Montana, Whitefish mountain
Cowen explains Bitcoin pricing: China currency control evasion.
Link. Big time gambling fun.
Another clueless assertion about failure of healthcare genomics and 23andMe
Link. Arggghhh. This isn’t hard; The Science Failed.
Resurrecting Kepler: solar photon pressure as balance wheel.
Link. They are actually serious. Wow.
Drang’s car jack math would be great hogh school physics exercise.
Link. There is so much great stuff to learn.
MindNode 3 for iOS – more praise
Link.
UK gov: use child porn tech to block extremist information.
Link. UK today, US tomorrow. China tech helps.
Sean Carroll 2010: effective field theory.
Link. I wish he’d do his next book on EFT/QFT.
Thanks for Landauer’s Principle: entropy of erasing information.
Link. Check out links to prior essays. One reason we get old and die v
Kimball and Smith on the salting of freshwater economics.
Link. Apparently U of MN was bastion of bad ideas.
NYT really likes new Pages.
Link. Share feature is neat.
Albatrosses gender preference is adaptive.
Link. When males are scarce, females pair.
Lethal Neutrinos: xkcd’s on suprrnovae.
Link. Hydrogen bomb by the eyeball .. wimpy.
Florida Sheriff says “this isn’t Toronto”
Link. Oooohhh. That stings.
A Realist’s Take on Obamacare: it ain’t going away.
Link. TP GOP is delusional, but sane GOP fully know this.
“Non-Political Blogs” and politics
Link. So annoying pub/sub world never widely implemented tag-streams/filters.
Valley looking forward to next Crash.
Link. Pencilled in for late 2014.
SF has the London disease: only for the rich.
Link. Manattan without rent control.
“a surprising number of people still use the AOL browser”
Link. That browser id is blood in the water.