Browser Usage —
I’ve long thought that the percentage of visits going to Firefox in my site statistics were oddly high. It turns out it’s pretty much in line with numbers put out by both Bob Sutor and Joe Gregorio…
tomayko.com
09:02
Vox Populi —
A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google’s ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we’ve come to know as “democracy”, are so capable.
tomayko.com
09:36
100 People: A World Portrait —
Interesting way of breaking down various aspects of the World’s population. e.g., “If the World were 100 people, 1 would have a college education, 1 would own a computer, 1 would be dying of starvation.”
100people.org
20:20
An Introduction to A/B Testing —
I’ve read about five extremely solid articles on this site (20bits.com) today; all thorough, easy to read, and cover interesting topics.
20bits.com
16:14
Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs —
Includes a nice chart of the Differentiation of Fat Joe’s Liquid Based Promiscuity :)
aclevercookie.com
23:27
Programs on the scale of a million lines of code are getting more common. But how big is that? —
“A million lines of code is not ten times more than 100,000. It’s well-known that schedules grow faster than the code … so the schedule for developing a million lines of code is 22 times bigger than for 100,000 LOC.”
embedded.com
13:08
Condorcet's jury theorem —
Interesting corollary to Vox Populi. (Via Aristotle Pegaltzis)
en.wikipedia.org
05:06