Category Archives: neep-neep

how Google does it

PigeonRank™

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packers and mappers

Reciprocality: some interesting stuff about the psychology of creativity.

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short and stout

Steve Baker tells the tale of the Utah Teapot. (Found through another Steve’s links.) Links in turn to the Stanford Bunny. And what collection of digital models would be complete without Lena Sjööblom? I first saw her in Foley & … Continue reading

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Schelling points

New Scientist: Neural network ‘in-jokes’ could pass secrets This reminds me of a discussion, years ago on Extropians, of “Schelling points”: for under-constrained problems there may be a cultural preference for particular solutions. For example, if I ask you to … Continue reading

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legibility is in the eye of the reader!

Here is a paragraph from HTML: The Definitive Guide, by Musciano & Kennedy, second edition published by O’Reilly in 1997: Yield to the browser. Let it format your document in whatever way it deems best. Recognize that the browser’s job … Continue reading

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keep on bloggin’

Machine translation is not quite here yet. I started to read “BLOG ALWAYS, YOU INTEREST Me” (linked from this article on Googlebombing) but quickly decided to try my luck with the French instead. I’ve written my own translation.

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manufacturing consensus

Vernor Vinge’s mind-expanding novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) contains numerous postings on “the Net of a Million Lies.” But unlike the Usenet of our time, most of the senders have institutional names, like Khurvark University or Sandor Arbitration. … Continue reading

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