Standard Deviations Explained | Daniel Miessler
If you read a lot but aren’t much into math you’ve probably heard the term standard deviation being tossed around, but didn’t know what it…
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I Just Dumped Whos.amung.us and Chartbeat for Woopra
Something about realtime web analytics is just cool to me. I think it’s the idea of visualizing the interactions with distant objects. Well, people in…
A List of Different Case Types
CapitalizationWriting the first letter of a word in uppercase, and the rest of the letters in lowercase. Title CaseAll words are capitalized, except non-initial articles…
The Goal of SocialTech is to Broadcast You as a Personal Stimuli Frequency
Jun 4, 2010 I’ve written before about how SocialTech’s main purpose is to present each of us as an API, and I want to expand…
Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love
Ideas suck. Ideas are everywhere and pop into our heads all of the time. Ideas are not the inspirational spark that ignites us into becoming…
Is it becoming cool to not capitalize story titles?
While reading certain publications recently I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the typography and capitalization. The main thing I’ve been noticing is that…
Just Implemented Memcached | Daniel Miessler
So I just implemented memcached. It’s basically a system that uses hash tables to serve content directly from memory rather than from disk. It’s used…
Percentages of Hitting a Given Number Using x Number of d6’s
My buddies and I are doing a Harn campaign right now and one of the mechanics involves accruing stat “checks” over time. Every five stat…
Modern Science on Self-Control, and 4 Things You Can Do Immediately to Improve It
Image from scientificamerican.com Scientists are now discovering that self-control is a precious, finite resource that can be raised and lowered by a number of factors…
PayPal and Two-Factor Authentication: A “Weakest Link” Case in Point
I am an enthusiastic user of the Verisign PIP two-factor authentication service. It’s a system that allows you to add additional security to sites that support…
Why We Shouldn’t Call Ourselves Atheists
First, watch the talk. Believe me–it’s worth it. Now, I think the talk is brilliant, and I think he makes a strong point that would…
The Mexican Immigration Solution: Make U.S. Immigration Policy Match Mexico’s
So perhaps you’ve heard the story of evil America trying to enact a draconian immigration policy towards Mexico. It’s the policy that does things like:…