izzy's pragmatic ramblings

wizzy: @benkepes oh :) happy birthday !

Some engineer out there has solved P=NP and it’s locked up in an electric eggbeater calibration routine. For every 0x5f375a86 we learn about, there are thousands we never see.

(xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe)

wizzy: @hermione1 that sounds good! i'll get intouch to talk more in ST :)

wizzy: @hermione1 that sounds good! i’ll get intouch to talk more in ST :)

wizzy: @hermione1 heard your session in the nz office was brilliant ! ... are you going to be in the nz longer?

wizzy: @hermione1 heard your session in the nz office was brilliant ! … are you going to be in the nz longer?

On the Origin of Species, Revisited - New Scientist

wizzy: @wattenberg re math eqn grapher give octave a try http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index.html ive used it back at uni n its pretty&easy

wizzy: @karenlilla cheers on that link ref which let me discover @wattenberg of manyeyes! i referenced his arc-diag paper a few yrs back on a paper

wizzy: @wattenberg its a download however, not webbased

wizzy: @karenlilla under 100, yikes hope im quirky enuf to make the cut!

wizzy: @karenlilla reading every tweet is a noble thing!

At its atomic level, a CYOA book is a collection of numbered pages of a few different types. Most pages tell a portion of the story, then finish by telling you to jump to another page. A smaller number of pages tell a conclusion to the story and represent an endpoint with no further jumps. We can subdivide these ‘narrative’ and ‘endings’ groups further based on the number of choices offered or the goodness of the ending. To visualize this, imagine color-coding every page in the book and then laying the pages out next to each other

"Nullius in verba"

Motto of the Royal Society (founded 1660)

“Take no one’s word for it”

extended version of the drink vs. dive challenge video. (via bacardiltdchampions)

wizzy: @benkepes congrats on the run placement!

wizzy: @eric_andersen yay thanks for the add :) yup will send u a couple more nz ibmers when im at a proper keyboard