My shared links for January 5th through January 10th: Manning: Big Data Big Data book by Nathan Marz and Samuel Ritchie: “Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems” byrd & belle Nice-looking felt and leather laptop, phone, etc sleeves. Own A Front-Load Washer? Read This in [Market-Ticker] – Order theory for computer scientists [...]

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My shared links for January 3rd through January 5th: 2011 Annual Question | Edge : "what scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit" – As usual more thought provoking essays than will fit in my head, but seriously, what is "A Proxemic of Urban Sexuality" getting at? Simplified Unity Lens Development with Singlet | Michael [...]

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My shared links for December 28th through December 29th: The Email-SIG Archives – Archives of group working on email package in python Link Grammar – grammar parsing package homepage as part of abiword Overview — NetworkX 1.6 documentation – dmalcolm – Automatically detecting reference-count bugs in Python extension modules – PyCon US 2012: Parsing Horrible [...]

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My shared links for December 22nd: Pearsonified’s Golden Ratio Typography Calculator – calculates line height, font size and content width appropriately for readability. Using the golden ratio might be bogus, but the point of matching font size to line width and height is well taken and the results look OK.

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My shared links for December 13th through December 19th: Treatment and Side Effect Info from Patients Like You : PatientsLikeMe – NVIDIA open sources compiler for CUDA based on LLVM – tweeted by insideHPC at 12/13/11 7:19 PM The Architecture of Open Source Applications – Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and [...]

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My shared links for November 27th through December 1st: The Acme User Interface for Programmers – UF Sparse Matrix Collection – SNAP group – collection of datasets including social networks Action Science Explorer (Formerly iOpener Workbench) – iOpener Project – The goal of iOPENER (Information Organization for PENning Expositions on Research) is to generate readily-consumable [...]

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My shared links for November 19th through November 25th: Norway: an Eden with wifi – FT.com – "Visiting Norway during the global crisis felt like prosperity tourism, or “wealth porn”." The Axis of Eval: The extensible way of thinking – An interesting way of looking at requiring types: it hampers extensibility… U1DB in Launchpad – [...]

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My shared links for November 10th through November 18th: Apache Lucy – Lucene for C, but not compatible with lucene files. The Xapian Project – About | Sphinx – C++ library for text search. GPL licensed Edward Tufte forum: Touchscreens have no hand – "So instead let us give more time for doing physical things [...]

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My shared links for November 4th through November 8th: The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog) – Cinder | The library for professional-quality creative coding in C++ – A very full featured 'processing'-like library in C++ targets mac and windows and ios Machine Learning 10-701/15-781: Lectures – Xtext – An environment for building DSLs on [...]

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John Gruber wrote a bit today (“Getting Steve Jobs Wrong”), about Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was missing the central question of the man – how can we define what it was, exactly that he brought to the table? Gruber’s piece rings true and a bit sad, because we probably won’t get the insight [...]

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