Completely unsolicited opinions on various random subjects.
Did you know that university research can get access to Google Translate API? With this API, researchers can get access to up to 25 hypotheses for each query that are scored by confidence. This is really useful in my work, and as I’m coming up with ways of interacting with the results of request, I’m putting…
This is a living document where I will add new resources and comments. Please comment with any suggestions! 12 additions so far. Last updated 3/3/2012 Stage 0: Understanding Visualization Healey’s Perception principles (illustrated! With interactive examples!) A short summary of Tufte’s principles for visualizing information Shneiderman: “Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand” (also, The…
Putting problems at the center of our decision-making changes everything. It’s not about the self anymore. It’s about what you can do and how you can be a valuable contributor. People working on the biggest problems are compensated in the biggest ways. I don’t mean this in a strict financial sense, but in a deeply…
Have you heard about #womanspace? Nature Publishing Group allowed a male scientist to crap out a “science fiction” piece so terribly-written and sexist that it managed to offend a bazillion of scientists, women, and science-fiction writers/aficionados. It’s hard to believe this happened, because it was so stupid and surreal, but it did; it would be hilarious, too,…
Let me be clear: I value well-executed interaction. I value devices and applications that are fun and simple to use, especially when it is clear there were a lot of clever people making them that way. I agree with pretty much every review of the Kindle Fire that bemoans the slow and clunky interface. I agree that relative to my…
I have a soft spot for people who, though they may be wrong sometimes (and right others), make me think longer, harder and more deeply. I have a soft spot for people who don’t fit neatly into ideological categories, and whose wrongness makes me interrogate my own position, and defend it more thoroughly. Christopher Hitchens…
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