What the hell is water?
A speech by the late David Foster Wallace.
A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
Jóhann Jóhannsson dies at 48 (9 Feb).
Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envy.
Noting that human data differed from that in the natural sciences by its fluid nature, Leontief said that economists would do better to spend less time perfecting their mathematics, and more time getting down and dirty with their data.
Same same but different.
Pogona aka bearded dragons.
From visualization with D3 to Jupyter-like notebooks.
See the Pen CSS Toucan by Clara Song (@clarawrsong) on CodePen.
The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.
Bebilderte Hörbücher: Die Unsitte der Filmsynchronisation in Deutschland.
Die Vorstellung hingegen, dass gerade dank Synchronisation dem deutschen Publikum fremde Kulturen näher gebracht würden, geht von falschen Prämissen aus. Sie hält kulturelle Unterschiede für unüberbrückbar, unterschätzt die Universalität der Filmsprache und führt zum „Mallorca-Syndrom“: Das Fremde wird erst akzeptiert, wenn es als Verlängerung Deutschlands wahrgenommen werden kann.
Relevant: Laurel & Hardy Foreign Scenes compilation.
6 Fruits With Surprising Flavors.
