My name is David and I like building cool stuff.
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It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they want.
- Steve Jobs
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Source: startupquote
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Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds everybody — friends, co-workers, romantic partners, that guy who lived on your block but moved away after fifth grade — into the same big room. It smooshes together your work self and your home self, your past self and your present self, into a single generic extruded product. It suspends the natural process by which old friends fall away over time, allowing them to build up endlessly, producing the social equivalent of liver failure. On Facebook, there is one kind of relationship: friendship, and you have it with everybody. You’re friends with your spouse, and you’re friends with your plumber.
–Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
(via buzzandersen)
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Jazzketball
(via tedr)
Source: robotindisguise
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google chrome vs. a potato
Source: soupsoup
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INCREDIBLE cover of “stand by me” - they had musicians all over the world play their own interpretations and then mixed them all together - don’t miss this!
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larry david's awesome tip rant
Waiter: Sir, you didn't leave a tip, and usually when I've provided excellent service my customers like to tip me.
LD: Well there is an 18% tip included.. Generally I do leave an additional tip, but you know what? I'm kinda protesting the additional tip. I don't care for it.
Waiter: You're protesting --
LD: Yes. Let them charge me 20%, let them charge me 25%, I'd rather be charged a 30% tip included than have to add up 18% to 20% to 25-- whatever.
Waiter: It's not that much man, it's 2%.
LD: Eh eh, it's hard to get to 2%. I don't know..
Waiter: It's like 1%, you just move the decimal point two spots and--
LD: OK ok, you have a system. I don't have a system to get to 2%. You know-- Don't make me do math at the table.
Waiter: Sir, you're protesting math.
LD: I'm protesting math!
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Apple’s newest product - the iRack; a classic madTV clip that never gets old
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This is a fun infographic I made the other day in response to a post on GOOD. It charts the trustworthiness of a person based solely on beard style. Click here to view full size.
Note: based on no scientific evidence.
Source: pixelspread.com
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xkcd.. a great blog
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The Technium: Twitter Predicts the Future
The Social Computing Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA found that using only the rate at which movies are mentioned [on twitter] could successfully predict future revenues. But when the sentiment of the tweet was factored in (how favorable it was toward the new movie), the prediction was even more exact. To quantify the sentiments in 3 million tweets the team used the anonymous human workers found by the Amazon Mechanical Turk to rate a sample of tweets, and then trained an algorythmic classifier to derive a rating for the rest
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Word on the street is that Google is starting a hedge fund. Someone [Howard Lindzon I’m looking at you] should start a Twitter hedge fund.
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The graph above compares the predicted vs actual box office scores of tweet-rates (blue line) and Hollywood Stock Exchange (green line).](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0b1fxazUA1qz4gu8o1_500.jpg)
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The Technium: Twitter Predicts the Future
The Social Computing Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA found that using only the rate at which movies are mentioned [on twitter] could successfully predict future revenues. But when the sentiment of the tweet was factored in (how favorable it was toward the new movie), the prediction was even more exact. To quantify the sentiments in 3 million tweets the team used the anonymous human workers found by the Amazon Mechanical Turk to rate a sample of tweets, and then trained an algorythmic classifier to derive a rating for the rest
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Word on the street is that Google is starting a hedge fund. Someone [Howard Lindzon I’m looking at you] should start a Twitter hedge fund.
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The graph above compares the predicted vs actual box office scores of tweet-rates (blue line) and Hollywood Stock Exchange (green line).
Source: kk.org
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“Old Model”
Reason #500 why the record companies need to die.
Source: dataviz
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
New Six13 track - “Tefillin”
A new parody-medley, including Lady Gaga’s Poker Face (“Kosher Plate”), Kanye’s Heartless (“Latkes”) and Black Eyed Peas’ I’ve Got a Feeling (“I’ve Got Tefillin”). We’re either hilarious or super dorky… probably both?
Mike Boxer wrote the lyrics and produced the track, nailing it as usual. I’m actually not on this one, but the guys did a great job anyway! :)
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Hilarious graph of Edmonton’s water consumption during the Gold Medal Hockey game. The best part is the small jump between the win and the medal ceremony, for those who just couldn’t wait any longer..
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Judge a Cover
Friends, I went to a bookstore the other day with one goal in mind: Buy a Great Book. After my trip to the bookstore, I can assert that, all other factors held constant, any great book that is going to be bought out of the blue MUST have a great cover. Yes, if a friend told you “YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS BOOK!”, then regardless of the cover, YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS BOOK! Yes, if you’re determined to finally finish reading Crime & Punishment after that 10 year hiatus, you will not be swayed by a yawn-inducing cover. But readers, if your goal is to discover a fascinating read, chances are slim that you will even have the opportunity to find out just how fascinating that book is unless it has a fascinating cover.
Judging a book by its cover may not a great practice. The phenomenon I am discussing preempts judgment though - plenty of books never even have the opportunity to be judged because the cover just sucks. The good news is, just like all books with great covers won’t be great, all books with boring covers won’t be boring - so readers, next time you visit a bookstore, judge a cover, pick up a boring cover and be surprised (and never smile at a monkey).
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The Technium: Twitter Predicts the Future
The Social Computing Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA found that using only the rate at which movies are mentioned [on twitter] could successfully predict future revenues. But when the sentiment of the tweet was factored in (how favorable it was toward the new movie), the prediction was even more exact. To quantify the sentiments in 3 million tweets the team used the anonymous human workers found by the Amazon Mechanical Turk to rate a sample of tweets, and then trained an algorythmic classifier to derive a rating for the rest
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Word on the street is that Google is starting a hedge fund. Someone [Howard Lindzon I’m looking at you] should start a Twitter hedge fund.
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The graph above compares the predicted vs actual box office scores of tweet-rates (blue line) and Hollywood Stock Exchange (green line).](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0b1fxazUA1qz4gu8o1_500.jpg?.jpg)
