Category: Delicious Bookmarks

Lazy Lasagna with Tomato-Basil Sauce | Gianni’s North Beach:

Have some crusty bread handy to wipe up the sauce left on the plate. You won’t have to wash that dish before you put it back on the shelf.

Understanding spurious correlation in data-mining – Boing Boing:

Last May, Dave at Euri.ca took at crack at expanding Gabriel Rossman’s excellent post on spurious correlation in data. It’s an important read for anyone wondering whether the core hypothesis of the Big Data movement is that every sufficiently large pile of horseshit must have a pony in it somewhere.

Heed these 10 expert tips for mobile app design:

This “don’t overload the app” notion can be tough to explain to clients, especially given the pressure to “do more” in each revision, but it’s essential that apps don’t become unwieldy or confusingly complex. (Griffith suggests you cite the line “Freedom of choice is what you get, freedom from choice is what you want” from the band Devo’s iconic “Freedom of Choice” song.)

Daring Fireball: Vesper: What’s New and What’s Next:

Our policy, like that of many companies, is not to comment on future plans or work in progress. There are many good reasons that companies as big as Apple and as small as one-person shows adhere to such a policy. One reason is to keep attention focused on what is already available. Another is that keeping your mouth shut about work in progress is a way to implicitly under-promise and over-deliver. When a company says “We plan to ship X in the next three months” and it turns out to take six months, customers are naturally disappointed.

When you say what’s coming next, people naturally want to know when. And when you tell them how long you think it will take, you’re giving them a guess, but to the customer it feels like a promise. And at heart, we’re all optimists about how long our work will take. In short, talking about work in progress and future plans is often a recipe for disappointing your customers.

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Hawthorne effect – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Hawthorne effect (commonly referred to as the observer effect) is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior, which is being experimentally measured, in response to the fact that they know that they are being studied, not in response to any particular experimental manipulation.

The Perfect Client is Not So Perfect After All:

Without any sort of feedback from the client — the person who knows the message, mission, and vision for the project the most — it’s hard to make sure you’re keeping true to the project’s objectives. Every once in while, it’s really nice to feel that shadow falling over your shoulder and hear a throat clearing behind your workspace.

Quartz/Chartbuilder · GitHub:

Chartbuilder / Gneisschart is a D3.js based front-end charting application that facilitates easy creation of simple beautiful charts. Chartbuilder is the user and export interface. Gneisschart is the charting framework.

Interview with David Epstein: How Athletes Get Great | Books | OutsideOnline.com:

No cookie-cutter training plan is ever going to work… People need to pay attention to their training plans, because if something is not working for you as well as the next guy, it may be your biology, so you should try another plan. If you’re not taking a trial-and-error approach to training where you’re measuring something your time, you’re way less likely to find a plan that works for you. The cookie cutter approach to training is purely a facet of having a large group of people to train.

There’s nothing new about uncertainty – The Washington Post:

Most of the time, people exist in a happy little bubble of self-created delusion. We engage in selective perception, seeing only the things that agree with us. Our selective retention retains the good stuff and disregards most of the rest. In our minds, we are all younger, better-looking, slimmer, with more hair than the camera reveals.

In short, we construct a reality that bears only passing resemblance to the objective universe.

During those brief instances when the facade fades, the curtain gets pulled back and the ugly reality becomes clear. We get a glimmer of understanding about our own lack of understanding. That’s when the grim reality of the human condition is revealed — and it terrifies us.