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Duolingo: Learn a language and translate the web
Another one of Luis von Ahn‘s ingenious projects: http://duolingo.com learn a language for free and translate the web in the background. There is a pretty recent TED talk by him, and below you can find their introductory video on youtube:
Interesting talk about “Filter Bubbles”
A few days ago I stumbled over an interesting TED talk by Eli Pariser about the ever increasing personalization of the web, its search results, your facebook news feed, … Do you think that you still see the whole picture … Continue reading
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Mac OS X Harddisk high Load Cycle Counts
Mac OS X’s default power management settings might wear your hard drive down unnecessarily. This post provides a lot of background information and how to change these settings. Continue reading
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Tagged 193, apm, clicking, hard disk, hard drive, hd, hdd, hdparm, hitachi, load cycle count, mac, mac book pro, mac os x, mbp, setup, smart, wear down
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Live mapping of tweets, facebook msgs, emails, sms…
Reading the Wikimedia blog I stumbled over this interesting post. They mention a framework called Ushahidi (Swahili word for “testimony’) with its subproject SwitfRiver which can be used to track and verify the reliability of news concerning current trending topics, … Continue reading
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Tagged analyzing, disaster, facebook, framework, live, management, mapping, maps, mashup, news, trends, tweets, twitter, visualization
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LaTeX Thesis Skeleton
As it might be useful for other students (especially for computer science students at the University of Kaiserslautern), I decided to invest some time and create a skeleton for a thesis. The project can be found on github: http://github.com/joernhees/thesis-skeleton. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged bachelor, latex, master, skeleton, template, thesis, uni-kl
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Interesting analysis of a post’s life cycle
Corte.si did it again. This time a very interesting analysis of what happens when he posts on his blog and twitters about it. Most interesting: the number of bots that access his page just seconds after he published it, where … Continue reading
Daylight saving time
Well, you’ll have noticed, in Germany the daylight saving time striked once again… as per Romain I was reminded that many people have a problem remembering when the time is changed in which direction, so here comes my mnemonic (“donkey … Continue reading
Beautiful data visualizations and why we need open data
Today when I attended a talk at LWA 2010 I remembered a nice talk about beautiful data visualization by Hans Rosling, that I want to share with you (it’s worth the time): When I searched for this talk I also … Continue reading
Incentives for Creativity
Actually I saw this nice TED-Talk by Dan Pink on Motivation quite a while ago already (see below), but today I was pointed to this amazing animation by Ludger: Here’s the original talk:
Tipp-Ex viral marketing
Well, perhaps you’ve seen it already, but this indeed is a masterpiece of viral marketing worth knowing: Tipp-Ex: NSFW. A hunter shoots a bear: Here is a list of things you can let them do. Furthermore, Wikipedia tells us about … Continue reading