Links
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Some pointers for Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning — Gist
Not sure I’ll ever need this, but Matt Biddulph has collected useful things he’s found while getting to grips with this stuff, and I love it when people share their learning like that.
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LED Light Review
Thorough reviews of LED bulbs. Doesn’t seem to do little spotlights though. (via The Wirecutter)
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Boris Johnson: brilliant, warm, funny – and totally unfit to be PM | Max Hastings | Comment is free | The Guardian
I did like Hastings’ article on Johnson. Although it doesn’t exactly hold out hope for there being any better politicians either.
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The Quietus | Features | Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far 2012
I’ve only heard of five of these 50 artists. I’m so, so out of touch. Still, more music to try. (via Beyond the Beyond)
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Skala Preview, a Mac app by Bjango
Quite magic Mac and iOS app for previewing graphics on iOS devices. Live updates as you change things in Photoshop.
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The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization: The first Massive Open Online Course about infographics and data visualization
Free six-week online course starting 28th October, by Alberto Cairo, through the Knight Centre for Journalism, about infographics and data visualization. Sounds good.
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Programmer Time Translation Table | Passion for Coding
Nice article on translating programmers’ time estimates into reality. Less snarky than that sounds. (via Migurski)
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Do you really want to be making this much money when you’re 50?
Conversely, on why programming is a good job to be doing, even when you’re 50+. (via @tomstuart)
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Do You Really Want to be Doing This When You’re 50?
On what programming is really like. (Me? I’m not sure I do, not professionally, but I don’t know how to stop.)
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Black Rainbow Project
Bags. Not much to see yet, and not yet making backpacks, but sounds interesting. Based in Leicester. (via Carryology)
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Lexdray - Products
Some nice looking bags and backpacks with some interesting pockets. (via Carryology)
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Chrome Web Store - Stylebot
Lets you adjust the CSS of any website and have your changes stick. *cough*Co-op business banking*cough* (via @bamblesquatch)
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Made by Hand- the great Sartorial Debate: Indochino- How did my garment turn out?
Tips on getting a made-to-measure suit, and an analysis of the good and less-good points on a particular suit.
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The easiest way to share localhost over the web - Showoff
Seems to work well. Happy to pay a couple of dollars to avoid more mucking around with SSH keys and all that.
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Global Offshore Wind Farms Database
Ugly, and lacking a key, but a detailed map of offshore windfarms.
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A List Apart: Articles: Application Cache is a Douchebag
Jake Archibald on exactly how this is a royal pain. One day down and I’ve still not got it working properly.
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Tower of London
The Tower of London’s Facebook timeline goes back to 1066. (via Londonist)
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A List Apart: Articles: The Web Aesthetic
Paul Robert Lloyd on designing for the web’s constraints, not imitating other media.
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Chrome Web Store - Postman - REST Client
No idea if there are other/better options, but this has been very useful for making POST requests etc.
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Learnable Programming
Beautifully done and lovely essay on programming languages, programming environments and how programming should be taught. “Typing in the code to draw a static shape is not programming! It’s merely a very cumbersome form of illustration.” (via many tweets)
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Minced oaths in literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Why don’t you ram it up your pim-hole, you fusking cloff prunker.”
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Bash script to parse Apache log for a count of RSS subscribers and email it to you — Gist
Nice little thing by Marco Arment. (via Infovore)
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Off The Page – David Hepworth on magazines and beyond: InPublishing
On how much has changed. “…you could supply the NME’s news editor with a piece of information secure in the knowledge that it would not escape into the wider world for the week it took to get through the production and publication process and actually appear on the page.” (via @matlock)
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Bookslut | WE WILL CONVERT THE KING IF POSSIBLE: The Greatness of Little Magazines
Really worth a read. “The Web, one would think, opens up all kinds of possibilities for imaginative typography or design a la BLAST, but adventurous publishing like that is rare. Why? The pageviews-for-cash, keywords-are-compulsory bottom line? Laziness? Dullness?” (via Magazine Modernisms)
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Modernist Journals Project
“Our primary mission is to produce digital editions of culturally significant magazines from around the early 20th century and make them freely available to the public on our website.” Fab.
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Shoe Cabinet | Shoe Cupboard | Shoe Storage Cabinet | Shoe Cabinets
The eternal quest for shoe storage. Lots here although I suspect it’s all a bit chipboard.
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Jonathan Meades: Architects are the last people who should shape our cities | Art and design | The Guardian
In fine form. “It is the business of attempting to create places that defeats architects. Architects cannot devise analogues for what has developed over centuries, for generation upon generation of amendments. They cannot understand the appeal of untidiness and randomness, and even if they could they wouldn’t know how to replicate it.”
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The portable-infinite: David Markson interview
From 1996. “The new book is not even a monologue. It’s a semi-non-fiction, semi-fiction.” “People still do [write fiction books], and good ones, but I don’t know why. It’s been done.” (via Rodcorp)
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Ray Booty obituary | Sport | guardian.co.uk
Sounds like a good chap. First cyclist to do 100 miles in under four hours (in 1956). Stayed an amateur. Had cold porridge in his drinks bottle
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Benjamin Hubert Studio
Some interesting furniture and lights made with many different materials and processes, what Matt J told me about. Some nice prototypes, manufacturing and sketches if you click through to later images.