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14 Jun 08

Fitness: Track Your Fitness Progress with Free Tools

You don't need to plunk down $90 for a Wii Fit to track your progress toward a healthier body—even if that downhill skiing game looks mighty fun. If you're trying to curb unnecessary calories and stick to an exercise plan, there are tons of free applica

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13 Jun 08

50 Tools that can Increase your Writing Skills

The values supporting these guidelines are rooted in Poynter’s dedication to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. Poynter is a school that promotes excellence and integrity in the practices of craft and the practical leadership of s

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12 Jun 08

The GITS Blog » Six GoF design patterns, Python style

Although it usually requires some adaptation, Python makes implementing most of the GoF design patterns trivial. In some cases, they're actually part of the core language; in most of the others, they're a lot simpler in Python than C++ et al. Here I have

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What's that name? - The Boston Globe

You know the feeling that something is on the tip of your tongue? It offers deep insights into the nature of the mind.

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10 May 08

Jewish Currents: Resisting Authority: A Personal Account of the Milgram Obedience Experiments

In 1961, I participated in a famous experimental study about obedience and authority — although I and other participants were led to believe it was a study of memory and learning. The experiment was designed by a Yale University professor of social psyc

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ONJava.com -- A Generic MVC Model in Java

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a widely used design pattern, especially popular in graphical user interface (GUI) programming. JDK 1.5 introduces parameterized types, or generics. Combining the two allows for a generic implementation of the MVC design pat

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05 May 08

Seven Common Misconceptions About Atheism

Atheism has long been the target of hostility. In the Laws, Plato recommended various degrees of punishment for atheists. Thomas Aquinas held that unbelievers should be "shut off from the world by death." John Locke's famous doctrine of toleration stopped

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11 Apr 08

Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind - New York Times

Interestingly, restraining our consumer spending, in the short term, may cause us to actually loosen the belts around our waists. What’s the connection? The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to

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18 Jan 08

Gödel and the limits of logic

The man in the photograph on the right looks formal, reserved and somewhat undernourished. His face and his writings are unfamiliar to most, except for a few philosophers and mathematical logicians. He was Kurt Gödel, celebrated for his incompleteness th

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25 Dec 07

CodeProject: Statistical parsing of English sentences. Free source code and programming articles

In a previous article, I presented a maximum entropy modeling library called SharpEntropy, a C# port of a mature Java library called the MaxEnt toolkit. The Java MaxEnt library is used by another open source Java library, called OpenNLP, which provides a

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24 Dec 07

Weka 3 - Data Mining with Open Source Machine Learning Software in Java

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, a

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23 Nov 07

10 Classics from Cognitive Science

he editorial board of Cognitive Science has identified several classic articles that appeared in our journal over the last couple of decades. With the permission of the Cognitive Science Society, the full text for these articles is available here. Membe

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08 Nov 07

Exploring Leopard with DTrace

oftware is abstract and non-tactile by its very nature. It can be difficult to see what it is doing and why it may be misbehaving. To get a better view of software, we often use tools like gdb, leaks, lsof, and sc_usage, just to name a few. We even still

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05 Nov 07

LRB · Jerry Fodor: Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings

Die Meistersinger is, by Wagner’s standards, quite a cheerful opera. The action turns on comedy’s staple, the marriage plot: get the hero and the heroine safely and truly wed with at least a presumption of happiness ever after. There are cross-current

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22 Sep 07

10 Easy Arithmetic Tricks - The List Universe

Math can be terrifying for many people. This list will hopefully improve your general knowledge of mathematical tricks and your speed when you need to do math in your head.

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