Mike is a professor at a reputable university. He teaches advanced machine learning and robotics, he’s finishing up his PhD in computer science, and he always has a new gadget he’s playing with. David is a software entrepreneur. He has sold a software company or two for modest profit and […]
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Ted Talk: Visualizing Humanity with Aaron Koblin

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, […]
On the distinction between work and play
[HT Nancy Prager] One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The […]
Good artists borrow, great artists steal
[HT Joanne Jacobs] The Khan Academy is an excellent online resource that many luminaries, including Bill Gates, have endorsed as either an educational supplement (which was its initial purpose) or a harbinger of a profoundly new way of “doing” education.
Khan: Use video to ‘flip’ education
[HT Information Aesthetics] Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.
Visualizing WiFi
[HT Alex Popescu]
Jeopardy and Hadoop
[HT NoSQL] facebookevents on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free