Software Carpentry Viewership Down Again
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Lots of people still find it useful, but viewership is definitely down---really need to rewrite this:
Archive for February, 2009
Lots of people still find it useful, but viewership is definitely down---really need to rewrite this:
A Good Week for Weird Fish
Friday, February 27th, 2009It's not quite a transparent head, but it's still pretty cool.
The Hacklab is Having a Job Fair
Thursday, February 26th, 2009Saturday, April 04, 2009 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM --- http://hacklabjobfair.eventbrite.com/ has the details.
DemoCamp 19 Schedule
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009David Crow has posted a schedule for DemoCamp 19 --- still looking for a couple of presentations, if you have something cool to show or say.
Transparent Head, Tubular Eyes
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009This thing really exists. On our planet. How cool is that?
Charles Petzold Talking at U of T on March 5
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009I'm very pleased to announce that noted computing author Charles Petzold will be giving a talk at the University of Toronto on Thursday, March 5, 2009. The talk is based on his most recent book, an extended commentary the 1936 paper in which Alan Turing created Turing machines. The talk ...
David H. on Starting Small
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Great post from David Humphrey about how to get a big project off the ground. The secret? Start small. (See also Benjamin Smedberg's post on sanity testing.)
Das Kapital, Computational Thinking, and Productivity
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Somewhere in The Age of Uncertainty, Galbraith wrote that what made Das Kapital and the Bible great books was that they were so large, and so full of contradictions, that everyone could find support in them for anything they wanted. I have felt the same way about the phrase "computational ...
Fallacies of Prediction
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Gary Westfahl's latest essay for Locus magazine, titled "Pitfalls of Prophecy: Why Science Fiction So Often Fails to Predict the Future", should be read by everyone trying to figure out what the next big thing in tech is going to be.
“…And Thousands of Their Closest Friends”
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009DemoCamp Toronto 19 was announced on Thursday, after a 7-month hiatus. It's moving to a smaller venue as part of an attempt to get away from the "trade show" feeling of the last few 'camps --- lots of people had said that they were too big, and that the proportion ...