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For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life http://t.co/4JihqVB4 // a strange meeting between hacking and product [2nplus1]— 13h ago via @2nplus1
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RT @christineburns: Brilliant visualisation: "Who supports these NHS reforms?" http://t.co/RzLt21Zi (Wait for it to load) [2nplus1]— 16h ago via @2nplus1
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RT @guardiantech: Real hero of the Facebook story isn't Zuckerberg, it's the internet http://t.co/i2vmSGVf [2nplus1]— 2d ago via @2nplus1
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RT @speckled_jim: The published Sport ontology: http://t.co/VqPw5aI2. Good work all round. [2nplus1]— February 1st via @2nplus1
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Crime comparison between Llandaff, Cardiff, Caerdydd CF5, UK and Grangetown, Cardiff, Caerdydd CF11, UK | Crime Rates http://t.co/km4ErH11 [2nplus1]— January 28th via @2nplus1
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Old flame (attraction from the past)
I was digging around on the Wayback Machine today, and stumbled across a lost piece of code from December 2004. It’s a Strange Attractor Generator, from the pages of Clifford Pickover’s book Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty (p 165). As … Continue reading
Joining the queue
Queues are comprised of customers joining, waiting and then being served. There are two random processes here: arrivals, and serving time, which in this case are both Poisson processes. There can be one or more servers. A handy notation for … Continue reading
Mnemosynr
You have a set of friends, colleagues and vague acquaintances you’ve accumulated over the years, and expressed as a graph of connections in various applications such as Facebook, Myspace, blog networks, twitter, flickr etc. You’ve spent years constructing a trail … Continue reading
Redecorated
I’ve had the builders in, and redesigned this blog. The main aim has been to make a bit more room. The default WordPress theme, despite cosmetic adjustments, is a little mean and narrow – while the wide themes all have … Continue reading