"But Watson couldn’t distinguish between polite language and profanity — which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word “bullshit” in an answer to a researcher’s query. Ultimately, Brown’s 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory"

Teaching IBM’s Watson the meaning of ‘OMG’

with useful comparisons to sql-style joins

Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review (by Google)

neurowear “shippo / brain controlled tail” concept movie(脳波で動くしっぽ) (by neurowear)

use \protect and/or this method to prevent uppercasing the whole footnote…

great icons!

"While it is important to save and invest for the future, it is also okay to enjoy nice things. Denying yourself the pleasure of new gadgets when you can truly afford them is no healthier than buying gadgets you can’t afford."

Retire Wealthy Using a Simpler Lifestyle - daveramsey.com

php and pdo

why doesn’t everyone do it like this? (via php the right way)

$pdo = new PDO('sqlite:users.db');
$stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT name FROM users WHERE id = :id');
$stmt->bindParam(':id', filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'id', FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_INT), PDO::PARAM_INT);
$stmt->execute();