"Instead of lots of people saying, “You know, somebody should … ” there were lots of people saying, “So I did this, this, and this” - Postman pondering Orwellian (control) v Huxlean futures (indifference), media not as means of communication but shaping our conversations - indifference - what do you plan to do (in 1984? nothing) - what's new? What's the difference between classroom and American idol auditions - (dis)engagement? "escaping from the anonymity of modern life" (Henry Canby in 1926!) - Being on the assembly line, existing in suburbia, connected only by roads - a brief history of 'whatever', meh, here we are now, entertain us - generations - narcissism and search for identity (in culture that doesn't give it) - knowing ourselves through relations, new media enabling new conversations, new way of knowing - a new language, remixing Charlie (ouch!): masks, constructing identity - tension between values of individuality and community - we speak video - lets do whatever it takes

via http://www.openculture.com/2009/05/getting_hired_and_fired_by_the_new_yorker_as_told_in_tweets.html

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• How could Jeff Hawkins Hierarchical Temporal Memory be used to make sense of this data? http://www.numenta.com/

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Personal Hype Quotient for:

Michael Shook

On a scale of 0-10, your ranking is
Level 3: Stupidly unaware of my social climbing and hyping possibilities..

How we did it:

We took your follower count which is 49,
along with your last 422 tweets:
Where you hyped in 4 of them,
you re-tweeted in 0 of them
and you self-linked in 0 of them.

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We munged all these together in our secret algorithm to come up with a level 3 score.

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• http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=pid+kalman&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=7d15299a959dbb33

Roll Rate

File: In sw/airborne/fw_h_ctl.c we define the roll rate loop:

float cmd = throttle_dep_pgain * ( err + h_ctl_roll_rate_igain * roll_rate_sum_err / H_CTL_ROLL_RATE_SUM_NB_SAMPLES + h_ctl_roll_rate_dgain * d_err);

Note that the roll Pgain is variable with throttle and multiplies through the entire equation affecting the I and D terms as well for ease of tuning.

• Rational Irrationality - The real reason that capitalism is so crash prone by John Cassidy - The New Yorker - October 6, 2009
• Steven Strogatz on sync - TED Talk - See also Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks.

Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.

Fiddler is freeware and can debug traffic from virtually any application, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and thousands more.

An I thought the Fiddler name was a metaphor for the bow going back an forth like HTTP messages.

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