Archive for the 'knowledge' Category
26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong
Tuesday, May 29th, 200726 cognitive biases to which yosefblog is immune.
Update: wikipedia has more complete list (of course it does!)
do something productive this summer
Thursday, May 17th, 2007what color is your hat?
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007NYT: Why Mathematicians Now Care About Their Hat Color
I’m reserving comment until some yosefblogger solves this. And remember what Pólya said: “If there is a problem you can’t solve, then there is an easier problem you can’t solve: find it.”
Note to ERs: stop killing dead people
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Docs Change the Way They Think About Death. Is Newsweek a trustworthy source for ______ [noun]?
Dean of Admissions at M.I.T. Resigns
Thursday, April 26th, 2007lesson to stressed-out kids applying to college: don’t worry about being perfect: just lie and say you are
lesson to anyone who got their job by lying about their credentials: if you don’t have the guts to come clean, stay under the radar. forever. don’t try to get quoted in the press. and definitely don’t write a book.
[update: expert consensus is that either way you’re screwed]
Wikipedia Releases Offline CD
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007via slashdot:
“WikipediaOnDVD, with cooperation with the Wikipedia community, has released its first offline test version. The articles were selected by Wikipedians and reviewed for accuracy, vandalism, and importance. Nearly 2,000 core Wikipedia articles will be sold on compact disc to give people without a net connection access to highlights of the popular web resource. The CD can be purchased or downloaded online via their site or the torrent.”
Seriously? I think its a great idea to have “fixed” versions of wikipedia articles approved by staff, just like many software authors distribute both stable and beta releases of their work. So I could go to wikipedia and click on “see last community board approved version of this document”. But offline? Seriously? Unless they’re intended for time capsules.