Month: November 2010
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Sasha and the Phillie Phanatic
This is one of my all time favorite photos now. The Phillie Phanatic came by during the Collingswood Christmas parade.
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Rob Kolstad is an Asshole
This month’s Wired has a great article (not online yet, so no link) by Jason Fagone about the International Olympiad in Informatics where high school students from all over the world compete to solve problems through software. It’s fiercely competitive and has its own sub culture of super stars, namely Gennady Korotkevich of Belarus, who…
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Scariest thing I’ve read all year: The Dunning-Kruger Effect
When Will Ferrel describes his George W Bush impression, he says he just imagines having a lot of “unearned confidence.” How would you know if you were one of these people? I first heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect in a comment on Hacker News and it immediately made me question a lot of things. The…