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- List of school shootings in the United States - Wikipedia
- Swatch Internet Time
Something reminded me of this recently and it keeps popping back into my head. Divide the day into 1,000 beats, and that is the time. In beats. I even created a Time in Beats…
- Fear of missing out - Wikipedia
This is the thing that keeps people from disengaging with social media. It’s good to name it, understand it, so you can manage it.
- IKEA effect - Wikipedia
I had no idea this was a known effect but it makes a lot of sense and the name is pretty awesome. 🤣
- Equifinality - Wikipedia
What a delightful word! I didn't know this word and it showed up in a presentation and made the logic-based thinker in me all excited. Now I need to find several places to use…
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Wikipedia
This is fabulous story about this song. Thanks to Steve Yaeger for the introduction to this. 👍 However, the drive is actually possible, driving at an average of about 65 mph. If…
- Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970) is a treatise written by Albert O. Hirschman. The work hinges on a conceptual ultimatum that confronts consumers in the face of deteriorating…
- Rete algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rete algorithm is a pattern matching algorithm for implementing production rule systems. It is used to determine which of the system's rules should fire based on its data…
- Promise theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Promise Theory, in the context of information science, is a model of voluntary cooperation between individual, autonomous actors or agents who publish their intentions to one…
- Superforecasting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A number of people participated in an IARPA tournament that encouraged forecasters to update forecasts in real time. The top performers on the 2,800 tournament were categorized as…
- The Good Judgment Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Good Judgment Project (GJP) is a project "harnessing the wisdom of the crowd to forecast world events". It was co-created by Philip E. Tetlock (author of Superforecasting and…
- Apache Camel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apache Camel is a rule-based routing and mediation engine that provides a Java object-based implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns using an API (or declarative Java…
- Constrained Application Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a software protocol intended to be used in very simple electronics devices that allows them to communicate interactively over the…
- Jon Kabat-Zinn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jon Kabat-Zinn (born Kabat on June 5, 1944) is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care,…
- Quantum cryptography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Using HTML in wikitext - Wikipedia
- List of privately owned public spaces in New York City - Wikipedia
Privately owned public spaces (POPS) in New York City were introduced in a 1961 zoning resolution. The city offers zoning concessions to commercial and residential developers in…
- Richat Structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Richat Structure, also known as the Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat, is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of westcentral Mauritania near Ouadane. This…
- Wikipedia:Lua
Lua is a programming language that is now available, via the Scribunto MediaWiki extension, on the English Wikipedia. Lua code can now be embedded into wiki templates by employing…
- Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
Brion Vibber has been a Wikipedia editor for nearly 11 years and was the first person officially hired to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. He was instrumental in early…
- Skyr
Skyr is an Icelandic cultured dairy product, similar to strained yogurt. Technically, it is a fresh acid-set cheese. It is very popular in Icelandic cuisine. It is traditionally…
- Moxie
Enjoyed some Moxie at the Union Fair and Blueberry Festival today. Pretty good. Got a shirt too! Moxie is a carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks…
- Electroluminescent wire
Electroluminescent wire (often abbreviated to EL wire) is a thin copper wire coated in a phosphor which glows when an alternating current is applied to it.
- U.S. Route 66
Route66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which the road…
- Ludwig von Mises
von Mises is mentioned in Rory Sutherland's talk "Perspective is everything" and referenced as an influential thinker on the psychology of economics. Mentioned as a related…
- N-gram
In the fields of computational linguistics and probability, an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given sequence of text or speech. The items in question can be…
- BackusNaur Form
In computer science, BNF (Backus Normal Form or BackusNaur Form) is one of the two main notation techniques for context-free grammars, often used to describe the syntax of…
- The Shining (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shining is a 1980 British-American psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson,…
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My new favorite Wikipedia page ever.
- Wikipedia Signpost/2012-01-30/Technology report
Of course, the introduction of a programming language would bring with it a number of other problems, particularly with regards to privacy, security and memory footprint. As a…
- OpenStreetMap
Maps
- Kubb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Decemberists
The Decemberists are an indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy. The other members of the band are Chris Funk (guitar,…
- Turtle
Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language) is a serialisation format for RDF (Resource Description Framework) graphs.
- Friend of a friend
FOAF (an acronym of Friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. Anyone can use FOAF to…
- SPARQL
SPARQL allows for a query to consist of triple patterns, conjunctions, disjunctions, and optional patterns.
- Triplestore
Much like a relational database, one stores information in a triplestore and retrieves it via a query language. Unlike a relational database, a triplestore is optimized for the…
- Marshall McLuhan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a…
- Evercookie
Evercookie is not merely difficult to delete, it actively "resists" deletion by redundantly copying itself in different forms on the user's machine, and resurrecting itself if it…
- Security Assertion Markup Language
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity…
- Affero General Public License
The Free Software Foundation has recommended that the GNU AGPLv3 be considered for any software that will commonly be run over a network. The Open Source Initiative approved the…
- Clement Bezold - Wikipedia
Clement Bezold is one of the founders of the Institute for Alternative Futures as well as its for-profit subsidiary Alternative Futures Associates, and is the current Chairman of…
- List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Carcassonne (board game)
Wikipedia page on Carcassone with lots of details on the enhancement packs.
- Mondrian OLAP server
Mondrian is an open source OLAP (online analytical processing) server, written in Java. It supports the MDX (multidimensional expressions) query language and the XML for Analysis…
- Fitts's law
Fitts's law (often cited as Fitts' law) is a descriptive model of human movement primarily used in human–computer interaction and ergonomics. This scientific law predicts that the…
- Proxy auto-config
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- Land Speed Record (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
♫ Listened to Hüsker Dü, Land Speed Record, while reviewing a legal doc. Went surprisingly well together. :-)
- Timsort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wow. I thought sorting algorithms were solved science. Cool to see even that is still iterating.
- Data URI scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huh -- I had no idea about the data: URI scheme. Seems brilliant for small CSS images.
- John Muir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read up on John Muir on Wikipedia. #wikiwednesday
- SCART - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plan to plug iPod into TV here in London is thwarted by confusing SCART connector!
- Anachronism
Anachronism is a tabletop game with aspects of both miniatures and collectible card genres. The basis of the game is war between various historical characters.