Browser Usage

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 05:02 PM

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...

Vox Populi

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 04:36 PM

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.

Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs

Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 07:27 AM / aclevercookie.com

Includes a nice chart of the Differentiation of Fat Joe's Liquid Based Promiscuity :)

Programs on the scale of a million lines of code are getting more common. But how big is that?

Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 09:08 PM / embedded.com

"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."

Condorcet's jury theorem

Saturday, December 23, 2006 at 01:06 PM / en.wikipedia.org

Interesting corollary to Vox Populi. (Via Aristotle Pegaltzis)