January 2009
30 posts
“whatever you do, somebody in psychometrics already did it long before”
– A longstanding principle in statistics - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by...”
– EOP - Blog Post - A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation (via gtcaz)
“The programmers who wrote your word processor type all day long, every day, and...”
– Cory Doctorow, Writing in the Age of Distraction
“Writing in a text editor has changed the way I write—for the way, way better.” (via sleuth)
“You Know Who You Are When You’re You”
– The Mighty Boosh
“But one of the signs of maturity is to realize that 99 percent of the stuff that...”
– Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University first noticed at timoni, and a statement, if internalized and effectuated, that could prove wonderfully liberating, not in a “fuck y’all” way, but in the sense that your limitations are often based on conjured ghosts. (via griffinandhoxie)...
“This is an invited manuscript. This submission procedure has already wasted...”
– Walter Mischel, Abstract from Personality and Assessment (1968) to Personality Science, 2009. Journal of Research in Personality.
“If you are investigating
the character of a colleague,
Do not make inquiry of...”
– Ptahhotep via Judging Personality at the Dawn of Written History | Psychology Today Blogs
“We are dealing with people about whom it is impossible to say either what they...”
– Lefebvre on Character via τέχνη
“Data visualization should portray this “life” in data that it...”
– One Death is a Tragedy; a Million is a Statistic | FlowingData
“…so long as you don’t design your own software, you guys are losers.”
– Paul Virilio in The Accident of Art Programmers via τέχνη