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Getting Things Done by David Allen gave me a framework to get out of the weeds when I am overwhelmed (usually once or twice a year when I stretch myself): build a to-do list that u…

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I am curious if the reduction in quantity of news consumed resulted in an increase in average quality of news consumed.

Another thing that made a difference for me regarding wrist pain was to switch my keyboard layout to Colemak.

> If you look at the reality instead of aggregated statistics and packaged narratives, you will find that gun deaths in US very much are not of the charts in places where religiosi…

I don't think they are comparable. DuckDuckGo federate the results of other search engines (e.g. Bing) and add its own sauce on top of it. There is a limit to what it can do. Googl…

BM25 has been available for Lucene since version 4 thanks to a refactoring that allowed anyone to plug in a custom relevance score if I remember correctly . The big news is that st…

Really nice. I hope it will make clojure scripts faster to start than with the jvm and thus a real alternative as a scripting language.

I started using ConTeXt ( http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page ) after many years of LaTeX. The command interfaces are more homogeneous than with LaTeX and it is quite easy to d…

I am currently using this toolkit and I must say that I really like it. The main advantages of mallet over weka (the main java toolkit used in academic machine learning) for Natura…