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Cycle fatalities up over 6% in 2012.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Suspect smartphone distraction, not least GPS.

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Children of adults with bipolar disorders have 20-30 fold higher risk mood/sleep disorder.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

Link. If true, then start management plan at birth.

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Mathematics at a crossroads: ZFC + (ultimate_L XOR forcing axioms)

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

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…"

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Android’s curious advantage: lawbreaking made easy.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Google’s gonna go straight any day now.

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Mike Konczal reimagines undergrad econ.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Persuasive. Hope K responds.

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Future Stunned: Earlier reality flux in the post-material world.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Comprehension is futile.

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Krugman on rethinking economics: first the old books.

Posted on November 30, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Hmm. consider the case of evolutionary econ…

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Siri bypasses iOS 7 parental controls.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Very educational when Siri "Show Me" image search results are shared via Photo Stream.

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Paste as Typed Text macro – defeats idiotic web / UI forms that don’t allow paste.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Damn! I want this an OS X service!

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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.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Expensive on anything but unlimited plan.

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Why Benedict XVI resigned: because he didn’t have the energy to fight church corruption.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. The Vatican Bank in particular. Lots of worms in there …

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Fleeing Chrome for Safari (Mavericks)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I am addicted to Chrome profile switch, but when I go to Mavericks I will flee too.

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Open Office awfulness: “Serendipity is when we’re both listening to Django at the same time.”

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Worse than cubes.

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Mountain Lion crash associated with hourly CCC Cron job process, tmp KSInstallAction mount point, Google Drive / Problems / Discussion Area – Bombich Software Support

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I’ve since updated both Google Drive (manually) and CCC. So we’ll see if this improves. It’s intermittent.

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Google Drive crash/update bug with non-Admin user account?

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

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.

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Bias in animal vs human studies.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. ITP is a treasure of the net.

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Goldieblox v Beastie Boys: why this is great law.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. We will learn something from the litigation.

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Priceonomics has a business: Data Crawling Services

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Beats adwords.

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In The Pipeline aces it: 23 And Me And the FDA.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Exactly. I wonder if 23andMe is running out of money.

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Gruby: Replacement for Google Reader

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. FeedBin for me. No hassles, works with Reeder.app, web UI fast.

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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?

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

From app.net – http://alpha.app.net/johngordon/post/16157972.

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The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. And can outsource anything that they can’t legally do.

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Schneier: Surveillance as a Business Model

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I believe a majority of Americans either don’t mind or enjoy full exposure. Reality TV for all.

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Infographic: Evolution of Default Privacy on Facebook

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. On ios switch to image and tap. Inexorable.

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Travel hacking: monster flight and FF miles.

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Saved 5 K, which is something, but huge time investment.

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Shanghai tour: “Jian Guo 328 … bans smoking”

Posted on November 29, 2013 by jgordon

Link. How many years before smoking bans are common in China?

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Infants with Alzheimer associated APOE4 gene start out with different brains.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Fits idea that Alzheimer’s is lifelong process, but a bit of a wild finding. Needs confirmation!

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T Rex DNA: the dream is back…

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Extremely unlikely, but serious scientists.

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Rogue Amoeba still struggling to get apps to run on Mavericks.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. One of the reasons I like to wait. They have a hard slog because their apps break app store rules.

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Adventures in Chinese tech: configuring ENH202 bridge in WDS MAC mode.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Device has worst documentation ever. Best bit is the Wikipedia derived list of typical dBm values.

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Brilliant Thanksgiving profile in style of US media covering foreign events. (via Marco)

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Absolutely accurate.

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Amtrak Montana ~ Ski Tours by Train – RMA tours

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Montana, Whitefish mountain

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Cowen explains Bitcoin pricing: China currency control evasion.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Big time gambling fun.

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Another clueless assertion about failure of healthcare genomics and 23andMe

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Arggghhh. This isn’t hard; The Science Failed.

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Resurrecting Kepler: solar photon pressure as balance wheel.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. They are actually serious. Wow.

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Drang’s car jack math would be great hogh school physics exercise.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. There is so much great stuff to learn.

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MindNode 3 for iOS – more praise

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link.

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UK gov: use child porn tech to block extremist information.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. UK today, US tomorrow. China tech helps.

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Sean Carroll 2010: effective field theory.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. I wish he’d do his next book on EFT/QFT.

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Thanks for Landauer’s Principle: entropy of erasing information.

Posted on November 28, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Check out links to prior essays. One reason we get old and die v

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Kimball and Smith on the salting of freshwater economics.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Apparently U of MN was bastion of bad ideas.

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NYT really likes new Pages.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Share feature is neat.

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Albatrosses gender preference is adaptive.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. When males are scarce, females pair.

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Lethal Neutrinos: xkcd’s on suprrnovae.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Hydrogen bomb by the eyeball .. wimpy.

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Florida Sheriff says “this isn’t Toronto”

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Oooohhh. That stings.

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A Realist’s Take on Obamacare: it ain’t going away.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. TP GOP is delusional, but sane GOP fully know this.

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“Non-Political Blogs” and politics

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. So annoying pub/sub world never widely implemented tag-streams/filters.

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Valley looking forward to next Crash.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Pencilled in for late 2014.

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SF has the London disease: only for the rich.

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. Manattan without rent control.

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“a surprising number of people still use the AOL browser”

Posted on November 27, 2013 by jgordon

Link. That browser id is blood in the water.

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