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andrewducker) wrote2009-03-09 04:01 pm
andrewducker) wrote2009-03-09 04:01 pm
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Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-9-2009
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The technology can be used to program cells to make virtually any protein, even some that donâ™t exist in nature, the scientists said. That may allow production of helpful new drugs, chemicals and organisms, including living bacteria. It also opens the door to ethical concerns about creation of processes that may be uncontrollable by lifeâ™s natural defenses.
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Some nice visualisations
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Donâ't make it a whacking huge deal if you say something racist, or something others perceive as racist.
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The scans showed that two brain regions were involved in opinion-forming, the almond-shaped amygdala, which is linked to regulating emotions, and the posterior cingulate cortex, which is active in making financial decisions and putting values on the outcomes of situations.
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Yet more proof that the stuff down at a quantum level makes no sense when thought about using metaphors derived at a human level.
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Go on. You know you want to.
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Fascinating piece on why PopCap managed to launch a hard-core game without realising it.
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I reall,y really hope I never turn into this person.
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With some comments on why jamming in more pixels can make your cameras _worse_.
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Programmers, as a rule, are delighted by it, and managers, invariably, get more and more annoyed as the story progresses; true mathematicians, however, fail to see the point.
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The Economist makes sense
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Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture.
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3) Don’t make it about you. Usually the thing to do is apologize for what you said and move on. Especially if you’re in a meeting or something, resist your desire to turn the meeting into a seminar on How Against Racism You Are. The subject of the conversation is probably not “your many close Black friends, and your sincere longstanding and deep abhorrence of racism.”
I think it's a great site, and some great points there, but having read some of what's been bandied about the interweb in recent weeks, I think that this bit is slightly unfair. There are plenty of cases (and not just in regards to racism) where someone says something, means it in a particular way (which is utterly innocent), and then is pulled up for being racist/sexist/etc by someone who is making a mountain out of a molehill/is overly sensitive. It goes both ways, and I don't think that it's always the case that someone should apologise for what they've said if it has been utterly misinterpreted. And that applies to both sides of the giant debate that's ongoing.