a blog by Felix Cohen

Things I’ve liked: June 16th

June 25th, 2009

These are my links for June 16th through June 25th:

Things I’ve liked: June 12th

June 14th, 2009

These are my links for June 12th through June 14th:

Things I’ve liked: June 4th

June 8th, 2009

These are my links for June 4th through June 8th:

  • Rands In Repose - "It takes a little practice to make the correct move when you feel the spin coming. You are going to do three things:

    1. Acknowledge the Screw-Me.
    2. Admit “I don’t know.”
    3. Concretely explain the steps you’re going to take to find out and give yourself a deadline.

    You have completely defused Tim. See, Tim was pissed which is why he waited until precisely the wrong moment to throw down the Screw-Me. He wanted to see you spin and make a fool of yourself in front of your management team and what you did with the instant acknowledgement was crush emotion with structured sanity."

    Yes. That is all. This is such a big part of my meeting strategies.

  • skytraq-datalogger - Google Code - "configuration and download tool for GPS data loggers based on Skytraq Venus 5 and 6 chipsets"

    My new data logger seemed to be just windows only, but this python script looks to solve that.

  • Sensation, perception and computation « Alex McLean -

Things I’ve liked: May 23rd

May 28th, 2009

These are my links for May 23rd through May 28th:

  • Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All - "Ah, confounding. The most difficult thing to explain to a programmer, yet the most elementary part of all scientific experimentation. It’s pretty simple: If you want to measure something, then don’t measure other shit. Wow, what a revelation."

    This looks like a great read. Queuing up for the train tomorrow!

  • The Smithfield Nocturne - Folding Bike Race - "…using their skill and experience in the city to skid their wheel for as long as possible. Strictly no brakes allowed. Competitors will skid one by one, giving the crowd non-stop fixie action."

    Hahahha. Skill. hA!

  • Nixie tube - "The first trochotrons were surrounded by a hollow cylindrical magnet, with poles at the ends. The field inside the magnet had essentially-parallel lines of force, parallel to the axis of the tube. It was a vacuum tube; inside were a center cathode, ten anodes, and ten "spade" electrodes. The magnetic field and voltages applied to the electrodes made the electrons form a thick sheet (as in a cavity magnetron) that went to only one anode. Applying a pulse with specfied width and voltages to the spades made the sheet advance to the next anode, where it stayed until the next advance pulse. Count direction was not reversible."

    Indulging my thing for nixie's and the ancillary bits.