Thursday, March 15, 2007
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
I guess I won't be good as a day trader.
Robert Deel, who operates an online trading school from Murrieta, California, says the worst day traders are engineers, doctors, lawyers, dentists, economists, computer programmers, accountants and entrepreneurs. Mr. Deel says psychological characteristics common to these successful individuals tend to hamstring them as day traders.
CareerJournal | Financial Services/Insurance -- Salary Data and Hiring Trends
Design Eye for the Code Guy
A passion for aesthetics can mean the difference between code that others enjoy working on vs. code that's stressful to look at.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Man, it sure as hell would take more than just spooning for me to ejaculate!
Near the end of the flight, the FBI said Gonzalez sat next to the woman as she was trying to sleep. He touched her, which she described as spooning, lifted her shirt and then got up and left. Court documents said she felt a warm fluid on her back, clothes and seat after he walked away. She told the officers he had ejaculated on her.
wcco.com - Off-Duty NWA Worker Charged With Assault On Flight
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Merit Badge Effect
"The other benefit of the logbook is the Merit Badge Effect. People seem to have a chipmunk-like hoarding instinct, whereby once they start collecting something, whether it be Scout merit badges, bottle caps, or hours worked on a thesis, they want more and more. The secret is to turn your hours into a collection. It sounds silly, but it may work for you. After you've been collecting hours for a few days, you'll start thinking, 'I earned ten hours yesterday. Wonder if i can get eleven today?'" - Getting What You Came For, RL Peters.
I much prefer the written word
Scribd “YouTube for Documents” Gets $300K
http://www.scribd.com/word/download/91?extension=mp3
Listen to the audio above. It's pretty darn funny.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Ummm.. yeah. I think I need one of these.
10 Ergonomic Ways to Enhance Your Office Space - 1. ErgoPod 500
Yes, I want to worry about the freak'n monitor falling on top of my head while I'm surfing the web.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Condom applicator
I didn't know it was that difficult to put on a condom. How about a toilet paper applicator that makes wiping your ass easier?
dezeen » Blog Archive » Condom device wins Most Beautiful award
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Efficient Algorithm for Training Neural Networks with one Hidden Layer
The LM algorithm is now considered as the most efficient[6]. It
combines the speed of the Newton algorithm with the
stability of the steepest decent method.
combines the speed of the Newton algorithm with the
stability of the steepest decent method.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Automatic initialization
The database initialization step is not absolutely necessary. For instance, in the HSQL-based examples early in the book, we configure Seam to automatically create table schema based on the entity bean annotations (see last section in this chapter). We then place an import.sql file in the EJB3 JAR file. The SQL INSERT statements in the import.sql file are automatically executed when the application is deployed.
Safari Bookshelf - 013241273X - JBoss Seam: Simplicity and Power Beyond Java EE 5.0
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Captcha!
JCAPTCHA, for Java Completely Automated Public Test to tell Computers and Humans ApartThe open source java framework for captcha definition and integration
Chewie and some person I don't know.
me and chewie
Originally uploaded by bonniegrrl.
Oops. I spelled it Chewy in a previous post.
At least I didn't spell: Chuy. What a childhood friend prefered to be called, even though his name was Jesus. Yes, he was Latino.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Steve Ballmer is a douche (I think I've used this title before)
If "poor nations" is really your target market, you've got a problem. Why not make "Microsoft Vista / Homeless People Edition" as well, genius?
Call Me Fishmeal.: "Piracy reduction can be a source of Windows revenue growth"
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Levernberg-Marquadt
I think Marquardt's original paper appeared in a SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Journal somewhere around 1975.
As I recall:
Basically this is a compromise between steepest descent (very slow convergence, but converges from anywhere) and Newton's method (very fast convergence, but converges only close to the optimum). Newton's method also has the disadvantage of requiring computation of the Hessian matrix (the second derivative with respect to all pairs of variables x_i, x_j), or actually it's inverse. This is a very expensive computation.
The Newton direction is often not the same direction as the steepest descent. Levenberg-Marquardt attempts to use Newton (or perhaps a variant of Newton, using a positive definite approximation to the Hessian) wherever it gives good descent results, and steepest descent where it doesn't. There is a parameter which causes the update direction to vary between the two directions, and which also controls step size. The algorithm continuously varies this parameter to maintain descent as speedy as possible while ensuring that the steps are indeed descents.
Friday, February 23, 2007
The end of an era.
FOX Broadcasting Company: The OC
I will miss The OC. I admit to sounding completely gay. The OC kept me company when I first moved to Aliso Viejo.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
All women are crazy
She told the police she had worn diapers on the journey so that she would not have to stop to use the restroom so she could arrive in time to meet Captain Shipman’s flight at the airport.
Monday, February 05, 2007
13 CLI Tricks
Below is a list of command line tricks I've found to be very useful in web development that a surprising number of web developers don't know about.
SEOmoz | Web Developers: 13 Command Line Tricks You Might Not Know
I don't like to code.
Summing up: programmers don’t like to code, we like to solve problems. Coding is not problem solving, but software problem solving usually involves some coding. Even when we talk about rewriting something, the objective is not to code, it’s usually to get a better understanding of the problem for solving in the best possible manner.
Friday, February 02, 2007
So the French like open source software as well as Jerry Lewis
The sticks will probably contain the Firefox 2 Web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, an office productivity suite such as OpenOffice.org 2, an audio and video player, and software for instant messaging, he said.
French students to get open-source software on USB key - Yahoo! News
Netgear's Storage Central Turbo
Toigo, who has been testing the new Zetera-enabled NETGEAR box for the past month, said that the technology is "utter simplicity to deploy and use" and "performs with greater alacrity" than any of the low-end NAS products. "It is the perfect compliment to media servers and MP3 players for the consumer market in its current manifestation," Toigo said, "but I expect to see Zetera technology and architecture climbing the storage food chain in the near future to meet the business needs of millions of companies."
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Geez, is it really that easy to get laid?
iTunes: Guy and girl plunk down laptops in cafe. Girl connects to guy's iTunes. Guy changes iTunes library name to "Hey, are you that cute girl with the Dell?" She changes hers to "Yeah, you the boy with the giant smoothie?" "Yep. Try the Apples In Stereo. Good band." "Hey, you're pretty cute yourself. Got an extra seat at that table?" Guy gets laid.
ROMANCE: "How will this software get my users laid?" Here's how. - Valleywag
Monday, January 29, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Altruism
"We believe that the ability to perceive other people's actions as meaningful is critical for altruism," Tankersley said.
PowerBook 165c
PowerBook 165c
Originally uploaded by soyburger.
This was the very first notebook computer I've ever owned.
Mac Classic
Mac Classic
Originally uploaded by soyburger.
This was my first Mac (not this particular one, but this model). I was in high school at the time.
How to annoy a dog in 10 seconds
Bon Ton Collar Tote | Outblush
I'm pretty sure Bowie would find a way to remove his bon ton collar tote and proceed to chew it to smithereens.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
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