Monday, January 21, 2013

This is the old blog

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After about 400 posts here, I have decided to move to a different blogging platform. So I won't be posting here any more. I'll be po...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Fix R Tcl/Tk dependency problem on Mac OS X by installing working Tcl/Tk

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For some reason, if you just install R on Mac OS X, you don't have a working Tcl/Tk by default. The problem manifests itself like this: ...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Opinionated notes from the NYC Ed Tech Meetup

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Context: A friend asked for highlights from the NYC Ed Tech meetup that happend earlier today, so I decided to make it into a blog post. T...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Upload images to your imgur account from the command line

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If you just want to anonymously do a command line upload to imgur, use Bart Nagel 's fairly complete imgurbash.sh , available along with...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Highlights from "This Will Make You Smarter"

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This Will Make You Smarter organized by John Brockman I previously read and enjoyed John Brockman's What We Believe But Cannot Prove ...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Art is Art: Two Galleries

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I went to see Edward Tufte's gallery, ET Modern, at 547 West 20th Street. He's a sort of demigod of data visualization. Now he do...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Success in Natural Language Processing is Human-Level Intelligence

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There's a lot of talk about Natural Language Processing, NLP, using computers to deal with lots of text. The current state of the art is...