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Hipsters são todos iguais, sempre se gabando de conhecer aquilo que ninguém mais conhece e se uma banda fica famosa, meio que perde um pouco da graça. O Apresentador americano Jimmy Kimmel resolver fazer um teste com os Hipsters do Coachella 2013 e saiu perguntando se eles conheciam bandas inventadas por ele. E o resultado não foi muito diferente do esperado…
Sim, uma das bandas é real, mas não menos absurda que as outras.
Via: Samurai LOL Tradução: mvpetri
Kevin Jamieson, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, put his work in active ranking into practice. The experimental app is called Beer Mapper.
The application presents a pair of beers, one pair at a time, from a list of beers that you have indicated you know or have access to and then asks you to select which one you prefer. After you have provided a number of answers, the application shows you a heat map of your preferences over the "beer space."
Around 10,000 beers with at least 50 reviews on RateBeer were used as the foundation of the recommendation system. The reviews were reduced to just the individual words and counts, which gives sort of a profile for each beer (or a "weighted bag of words"). You rate beers, and the system tries to find profiles that are mathematically most similar.
Two caveats. The first is that it looks like the app just gives you a heat map of the styles of beer you might like. A recommended list of actual beers would be way better. Second, the app is a research project that likely won't be in the app store any time soon, so the first point is moot. Sad face. Maybe Untappd should read Jamieson's paper. [via Fast Company]
Data Points: Visualization That Means Something is available now. Order your copy.
Two-time Oscar-winning shrug
Italian design studio H-57 created a series of brilliant illustrations that show the history of famous artists, musicians, and politicians.
I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!
Wow, eff you, Otto Hahn.
Para alegria dos trekkers e desespero dos lacaios de George Lucas a Virgin Galactic continua com seu projeto de criar naves espaciais reutilizáveis que cheguem ao limiar do espaço, levando passageiros, turistas e cientistas aonde pouquíssima gente jamais esteve.
Contando com os abissais bolsos de Tony Stark Richard Branson como fonte de financiamento, a empresa não tem pressa. Querem fazer tudo direito, sem correrias e explosões tão comuns a programas espaciais incompetentes.
Algumas semanas atrás eles testaram a VSS Enterprise em vôo planado, depois com o motor ejetando N20, sem iniciar combustão. Agora pela primeira vez ligaram o bicho pra valer.
Levada a uma altitude de 47 mil pés por sua nave-mãe, o avião White Knight Two, a Enterprise foi solta, caindo com estilo planando por alguns momentos, para em seguida acionar o motor-foguete. O teste só durou 16 segundos, o suficiente para acelerar a nave a Mach 1,2; quebrar a barreira do som e atingir 55 mil pés de altitude.
Farão mais alguns testes semelhantes, depois mirarão para o espaço, na casa dos 100 mil pés, e até o final de 2013 iniciarão operações de rotina. Se é que um vôo que custa US$ 200 mil por passageiro pode ser chamado assim. Espero que sirvam mais que barrinhas de cereal.
Aqui o vídeo do teste. Assista em FullHD, é lindo.
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No, you're not looking at an early preview of Star Wars Episode VII -- it just might represent the future of air transport, though. Boeing has spent years developing a truly quiet supersonic airliner concept, the Icon II, and what you see is an aerodynamics test of a mockup in a vaguely Death Star-like wind tunnel at NASA's Glenn Research Center. The starfighter design is for more than just show, as you'd suspect. Its V-tail design moves sonic booms further back, reducing the chance that shockwaves will reach the ground (and our ears) intact, while the top-mounted engines isolate engine noise. Boeing and NASA are ultimately hoping for production passenger aircraft discreet enough to fly over land at supersonic speeds, although we can't help but think that the sci-fi look is a convenient bonus.
Filed under: Transportation, Alt
Source: New Scientist
A "Snowball" is a poem "in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer." Nossidge built an automated Snowball generator that uses Markov Chains, pulling text from Project Gutenberg. It's written in C++, with code on GitHub. The results are rather beautiful poems (these ones are "mostly Dickens"):
o
we
all
have
heard
people
believe
anythingi
am
the
dawn
light
before
anybody
expected
something
disorderlyi
am
the
very
great
change
Snowball (also called a Chaterism) (via Waxy) 
    
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Now, wait until I tell you what's in it first! Put down the mug and let me describe Barbara Kiebel's breakfast treat. It has Maker's Mark bourbon, vanilla ice cream, scratch whipped cream made with bourbon and scratch hot fudge made with espresso and coffee liqueur. Okay, now you can drink.
Link -via Tasteologie
Beijaço é um movimento iniciado por Laerte nas tiras de 25/04/2013 na Folha para lembrar da primeira sessão da Comissão Extraordinária de Direitos Humanos, que é, por sua vez, um protesto e uma recuperação das discussões abandonadas pela Comissão quando o Pastor Marco Feliciano assumiu.
Para saber mais sobre o evento, clique aqui.
A seguir a lista de todos os beijoqueiros do pôster.
Proféticos - profeticos.net
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Tiras da Jeh - tirasdajeh.blogspot.com
Talco e Show - talcoeshow.com
O Diário de Virgínia - odiariodevirginia.com
Chairim - chairim.com.br
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Mentirinhas - mentirinhas.com.br
Como Eu Realmente. - comoeurealmente.com
Tirinhas do Zé - tirinhasdoze.com
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This collection by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze will have your head spinning in a dizzy state of confusion. The French photographer and graphic artist created Vertical Horizon as a visual exploration of Hong Kong and it's rapid growth towards the sky. Using a unique perspective, Jacquet-Lagreze presents the ever-growing city in a repetitively graphic expression of its architecture. More » 
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“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces.
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