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Big Money for Companies That Can Analyze Big Data
Big Money for Companies That Can Analyze Big Data nosql: three skills necessary for data-driven start-ups: data munging, the corralling and wrestling of data; modeling, the statistical analysis of data through algorithms; and visualization, the presentation of all the data. While all three are necessary for success, Driscoll believes that modeling and analysis through algorithms…
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Silly Bandz are great fun, but they’re not really relevant to adults. So we made these Serious Bandz, suitable for anyone who has a dysfunctional marriage, a humdrum job, or a looming awareness of their own mortality. Get yours today! Silly Bandz, of course, are the variously-shaped rubber bands that all the kids are wearing…
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secondside: omg, can you imagine this
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Indenting the first paragraph. The first paragraph is never indented, subsequent paragraphs are.Indenting a paragraph too far. The standard indent for a paragraph is 1 em, not ½ inch. (Identing and adding empty space require penance. Save your soul by using one or the other, not both.)Failing to hang punctuation into the margin. Punctuation has…
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parkparadigm: Big data principles according to Josh. i2pi
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rhibozoids: Great idea and visually stunning. I really like the full-frontal display of the stacks, but would love to see some smaller lifts in the system to get to those books in the harder to reach shelves…a little tastefully-added complexity never hurts plus that would answer some basic functional questions.
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I maintain this isn’t a “real” game. I think somebody, somewhere was taking the piss until publisher Majesco actually took the bait, is actually releasing it, and now it’s all gotten a little awkward. Babysitting Mama is a babysitting game for the Wii, where you cram a Wii Remote inside a baby and…do babysitting stuff.…
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Dimension 7: Guilermo Del Toro: “Games are art”
Dimension 7: Guilermo Del Toro: “Games are art” callmewill: Guillermo del Toro is an awesome director. His credits include Hell Boy, The Orphanage, Pan’s Labyrinth, and soon, a major video game with THQ. According to del Toro, games are Art. “Videogames are the comic books of our time. It’s a medium that gains no respect…
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Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (The Frontal Cortex)
Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (The Frontal Cortex) 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart: psychotherapy: For thousands of years, people have speculated that there’s some correlation between sadness and creativity, so that people who are a little bit miserable (think Van Gogh, or Dylan in 1965, or Virginia Woolf) are also the most innovative. Aristotle was there first, stating…