February 2011
68 posts
Music & Life →
Short, simple, enlightening. Makes you stop and assess how you’ve approached life and how you’ve lived it so far. Go watch!
Watchthedailywhat:
Slight Overreaction of the Day: A Michigan woman upset at having to pay a $200 towing bill causes $10,000 worth of damage to repair shop.
[fark.]
Yeah… $200 is clearly outrageous and therefore lets rack the bill up to a pocket change amount of $10,000… that clearly makes sense. People never cease to amaze
Why do we believe in electrons, but not in... →
Inside Watson, IBM's Jeopardy Computer --... →
Why not get to know our new overloads a little bit as well?
Watch12:01 (by Ryan Dunlap)
The IBM Watson Challenge. Can a machine be ‘taught’ to understand the nuances of the English language in Jeopardy? Find out by watching Parts 1 and 2 below!
Sleep...
You always seem to want it when you can’t have (any more of) it.
And yet, you can’t seem to just let yourself relax and drift off when you need it.
Or (maybe) that is just how it feels right now…
Anonymous to security firm working with FBI:... →
Damn hackers are capable beings when they put their collective minds to work on a single project. Note to all people in powerful positions, don’t make computer nerds angry, they will get you back for it, and they will do a damn good job too.
“When we think about commercials that offend us, we think of those that glorify...”
– Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, in an official statement concerning the controversy surrounding his company’s ostensibly insensitive Super Bowl ad. He goes on to say that the ad was meant as a knock at “the often trivial nature of stuff on Groupon when juxtaposed against bigger world issues.”
As the man...
