#analysis (32 links)
- Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong noahpinion.substack.com
Via Popular.
- McNamara fallacy - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
- My first impressions of web3 moxie.org
- Chris Granger - "Is Web3... anything?" chris-granger.com
- Cryptocurrencies: A Necessary Scam? - BIG by Matt Stoller mattstoller.substack.com
The traditional populist view is that we should reform our social order through politics, things like mass education, elections, and civic engagement. That’s how Elizabeth Warren sees the world. She wants to strengthen the state so it can restore the social order, one that will tolerate less cheating and will involve the rule of law applied to the powerful.
The crypto response is different. The crypto response is to reject the social contract itself as irredeemably corrupt. Their goal is put pressure on the state itself by creating a money-like instrument outside of the public rule-setting capacity of the government. This is framed in the name of consumer choice, as in the state shouldn’t be able to boss you around and tell you what you can do with your money. After all, it’s yours. And anyone who doesn’t buy into this idea is inherently defending a set of collusive bailout-friendly institutions that we sometimes call liberal democracy.
- What is the metaverse? (Interconnected) interconnected.org
Yet all of these technical arguments circle around a deeper truth: a technology which is purpose built to circumvent and arbitrage the regulatory perimeter cannot be brought within the perimeter without destroying its core claim to value or irreparably crippling it.
- google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
A power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
- Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: griotism anti-mega.com
Employing an internal data griot makes a lot of sense: someone who can spend the time looking for both large trends and individual needs and uses that illuminate and portend. It’s a hard job, needing a mix of skills rarely found – a smidgen of hard maths and statistics, a pinch of programming, and dessert spoons of various liberal arts. The Economist (sub required) posits them as data scientists (a position Flickr are currently looking for), but this misses the ability to ask interesting questions, and having hunches – being so immersed in the data that relevancy screams out."
- What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar radar.oreilly.com
Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.
Via russelldavies.
- databene benerator databene.org
A framework for generating realistic and valid high-volume test data for your system under test (avoiding the Datalite anti-pattern).
Via markrocky.
- ongoing · Doing It Wrong tbray.org
What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.
- django-lint - Statically check Django applications « code « lamby chris-lamb.co.uk
Reports on common programming errors and bad code smells, including checking for nullable CharField field types, the use of brittle or deprecated Django features (such as auto_now_add) as well as the absence of recommended options in settings.py. It aims to encourage the development of high-quality re-usable Django applications.
Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets.
- The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research research.microsoft.com
"The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." Free book from Microsoft Research.
- stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News stevenberlinjohnson.com
A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects.
- whitehouse.gov Website Code dotnetperls.com
You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET
- An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
- Why Social Ads Don’t Work - Bokardo bokardo.com
"Social ads don’t work as well because people are being social, not searching for something." Context matters.
- Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel swivel.com
Explore and compare data, graphs and maps, Share insights via email, blog or data downloads, Upload the data you care about.
- No Man’s Blog - Facebook Applications Trends Report #1 no-mans-blog.com
A systematic analysis of the 100 most popular applications - those that have at least 1million users - in an attempt to get a better grasp on favoured activities that take place in this global playground.
- VentureBeat » Facebook debunked venturebeat.com
Useful (if sometimes obvious) insights.
- alphaWorks : IBM Page Detailer : Overview alphaworks.ibm.com
Graphical tool that enables Web site developers and editors to rapidly and accurately assess performance from the client's perspective.