I’m back visiting my old home town of Nashville for a few days, and had a super-fun breakfast conversation with Mary Laura Philpott this morning during which she mentioned that she sometimes gets automatically tagged in photos as Nashville mayor Megan Barry. The two bear a passing resemblance but not enough that you’d probably think to comment on Read more about Algorithmic Lookalikes[…]
via graphjam.memebase.com (Note: if the image isn’t changing, click it to go back to the original – it’s an animated GIF, and it’s worth seeing.) Cassette singles. Remember those?
via xkcd.com We get used to seeing metaphors and metrics in certain contexts, and we just start taking for granted that they make sense. It’s why I get really animated whenever an e-commerce client cites something Amazon does as proof that a techn…
In the circle of life there are many players and while there’s no shortage of people, there are unfortunately thousands of endangered animals and plants. Biologists have been looking for ways to determine the most important species based on the nu…