another sleepless finals night
another night spent in the library, cozying up to computer programs and job applications. EIGHTEEN, NO PARENTS, WOOOOOOOO.
Variations
-Oscar Wilde
Oh God yes!
Protect me from what I want.
(via phineaspoe : killingbambi : flickr » _silverlining)
The Limits of Search
“When you know what you’re looking for search will always be king. When you don’t know what you’re looking for but just looking, social is where it is at.”…For instance, I adore Netflix. They will, however, no matter how finely they tune their matching algorithm, never be able to anticipate my desires better than Dave, the guy at my hometown video store who has known me since I was a child and shares my fondness for Japanese horror films. Side-scrolling through a list of recommendations is all well and good, but will never be as effective as physically browsing a shelf, picking up a box and reading the asinine commentary on the reverse. We trust recommendations from our friends. We have instincts and intuitions about wht might be good, what might be interesting, above and beyond what a given film’s Rotten Tomatoes score might be. Search can only do so much.
true, for now. just wait until i get my hands on those algorithms!
“ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via quote-book)
“It was so simple, and it worked beautifully,” says Emily Holmes, a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford and an author of a paper published in January on the experiment. She calls Tetris a potential “cognitive vaccine” for P.T.S.D.
The scientists suspect the Tetris vaccine works because flashbacks are registered primarily as visual memories. By playing Tetris right after a trauma, the visual cortex becomes so busy that the brain doesn’t encode the horrific visual imagery in the way that it otherwise might. The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com
This is just… the coolest thing in the world to me right now. I’m glad those weird “tetris dreams” you have after playing a lot of tetris (you know what I mean, right?) are potentially useful.
Raj: How about we go rock-paper-scissors?Sheldon: I don’t think so. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in the game of rock-paper-scissors, players familiar with each other will tie 75-80% of the time due to the limited number of outcomes. I suggest rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
Raj: What?
Sheldon: It’s very simple. Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard. Lizard poisons Spock. Spock smashes scissors. Scissors decapitates lizard. Lizard eats paper. Paper disproves Spock. Spock vaporizes rock. And as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
The Big Bang Theory 2.08 The Lizard-Spock Expansion (for Sin)
LOVELOVELOVE
GPOYW: the getting smashed and writing my last paper of the semester edition!
Researchers finds hidden sensory system in the skin
Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network is located throughout our blood vessels and sweat glands, and is for most people, largely imperceptible. This discovery may shed light on the causes of unexplained chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia.
