Sanjeev Singh

I want to get a better feel for that use case. Expect me back in a few weeks :). - Sanjeev Singh

But I just learned about flouridation from you last week! :| - Mona N.

Any chance you can leave me on your feed? I enjoy reading your science related posts. - GS 2Go

'cos it means the code is super tricky. - Sanjeev Singh

/* if you understand how we got here, you're a better man than I */ - Chris White

assert false - Chris Lamprecht

Give more info? What choices did you make and who did you go with? Also, where do you house them? - Derek Collison

good to hear, I'm about to buy 10 servers of the same CPU, 40Watt is nice. - clarke thomas

Clarke, the L series Xeons are 50W tdp, I think. Hopefully you are putting those in systems that don't use fbdimms :) - Sanjeev Singh

On the difficulty EPA scientists face when they try to publicize politically unpopular truths. - Sanjeev Singh

Silicoflourides are commonly used to flouridate municipal drinking water. Unfortunately they are associated with higher levels of substance abuse, crime and learning abilities, possibly as a result of increased lead absorption in the body :(. - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

Luckily my municipal water company does not flouridate my water. Unfortunately, the ground water source they use already has flouride in it, of unknown form. - Sanjeev Singh

Flouridation started for San Francisco in 2005! I wonder if I should be worried. Thanks for this, Sanjeev. - Mona N.

Mona, if you're worried about flouride, some water filters can get it out of your water. Brita doesn't, but some others might. - Sanjeev Singh

"When I got a hold of the contractor report and reviewed it very carefully, not only was it reporting cancers in the animals, [it was reporting] osteosarcomas which bothered me a lot because I've been trying to produce osteosarcomas in animals for almost 20 years and the only luck I ever had was with an experiment in dogs and monkeys, and the osteosarcomas took nearly the lifetime of the animals, and we were using radium which specifically produces that in bones. And here we have a compound commonly available - fluoride - that did it in rats in two years or less." - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

"Due to his criticisms of the tumor downgradings, Dr. Marcus was fired by the EPA. The US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, later ruled that EPA fired Marcus out of "retaliation" for Marcus' stance on fluoride, and ordered EPA to reinstate Marcus with full back pay and compensation." - Sanjeev Singh

Neither can the private suppliers of anthrax medication / countermeasures. This just passed on Oct 1, 2008. I wonder if the government knows something we don't. - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

Google claims that its data centers get an average of 1.2 PUE (20% overhead for air conditioning, battery backup, etc.), much lower than the old expected value around 2.0 (100% overhead), and that one of their data centers got 1.15. PUEs are going up in the graph because cooling needs are higher in summer. The EPA expects that with improvements, by 2011 the average data center will reach 1.9, and the very best data centers will get down to 1.2. - Amit Patel

I don't think the crawling/indexing is included in that comparison, but It's still pretty amazing if true. - Sanjeev Singh

Gabe, the switches and routers probably take negligible energy compared to the servers. - Sanjeev Singh

from Joshua Schacter. The blade retracts instantly, causing very minor damage to the sausage. - Sanjeev Singh

I guess I'd have to go back to cutting hotdogs on the bandsaw - Andrew Smith

"This proposal would exempt from the excise tax any shaft consisting of all natural wood with no laminations or artificial means to enhance the spine of the shaft used in the manufacture of an arrow that measures 5/16 of an inch or less and is unsuited for use with a bow with a peak draw weight of 30 pounds or more" - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

@Tudor: unrelated, yes, but I just don't think it ought to be listed along with, say, youth archery supplies, as an example of porcine incentives. - Chester

Count me among the "Likes" who don't like. Man, has our government always been this dysfunctional, or is it getting worse? - Keith Pelczarski

"Join us for our very first Member Spotlight where featured member Dr. Michael Pinneo will share his method for creating real diamonds with a DIY diamond deposition machine. Yes, we're serious!" - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

hopefully they will post a video of the event or a webpage about their technique - bob

"We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that’s $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands — losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” People should have known better but in some way’s it’s unavoidable with markets: “People should always know better. … I mean people — people don’t get — they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is, and he’s doing these things, you know, and he’s getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing — pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. And that’s what happens. Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

To have my blog post distributed on Friendfeed by The Paul Buchheit is pretty damn cool. Thanks :) - Ranjit Mathoda

Buffett (and Charlie Rose also) two of the smartest minds I've heard - Alex Hammer

Via an article from Nivi. A fast good read. - Sanjeev Singh

Igor, I agree with (2). Sometimes a subteam is on the critical path and needs to go into crunch to deliver something that unblocks other teams. regarding (3), Ruby on Rails seems super popular, though I've never used it, and 37signals claim to abide by many of the ideas in this presentation. I also don't believe NASA's software team, widely regarded as pretty good, works at a 60-hour pace. - Sanjeev Singh

There is a lot of good software that is delivered at crunch mode rates, but that may have more to do with the quality of the people than anything else. A 10:1 productivity difference easily swamps a 30% hit, especially when you take into account the smaller teams better people allow you to have. - Sanjeev Singh

So, those are called "pin screens" (also referred to as "pin art" or "pin impression" or "pin-pression" or "pin-head"). They're popular at children's museums and hands-on science museums. Haven't found where this particular one is, and I'm not sure what's next to it - are those PO boxes? Why are a bunch of the windows missing? Why would you have PO boxes in a science museum, or why would you have a pin-screen in a post office? - ⓞnor

So it was San Jose after all? If so, I think Sanjeev gets the points. - ⓞnor

Now it makes sense why a bunch of the windows are missing. That fake post office is remarkably popular with the kids. :) - torque

It's funny how even low-level Compiler decisions are ouput as an XML file. - Sanjeev Singh

"“We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, told The New York Times. “So we stopped it.” He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood." - Ana via Bookmarklet

“Killing is not in our plans,” he said. “We only want money, so we can protect ourselves from hunger.” When asked why the pirates needed $20 million to protect themselves from hunger, Mr. Sugule laughed over the phone and said: “Because we have a lot of men.” - Sanjeev Singh

Seriously, this is the funniest thing I've read all day. "He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. “We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits,” he said. “We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.”" - torque

I have Nudge, which is not bad, but once you get the core idea (people are busy, so make the default choices good and don't confuse them with too many choices) there isn't that much else. You are free to borrow it :) - Sanjeev Singh

"Although the principles of aperture synthesis have been known for many years, and are used regularly in radio astronomy, astronomers had thought that building an optical telescope using this principle was just too difficult. Light waves are about a million times shorter than radio waves, so the precision required in building such a telescope is a million times more challenging than for radio synthesis instruments." - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

"Somalia’s notorious pirates have staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship in the Indian Ocean full of arms bound for Kenya’s military, including dozens of battle tanks, maritime and diplomatic officials said Friday... But this time the pirates may have gotten more than they bargained for. Unloading the tanks is likely to be well beyond the capacity of the pirates, experts said. Meanwhile, an American naval vessel was Friday in hot pursuit to intercept the ship and the Russian Navy said it was not far behind." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

Pirates and hair loss. Arrrrrgh. - Jay Tannenbaum

i posted some selected and illuminative comments on this thread: http://friendfeed.com/e/2ec835... - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

"Many networks of interest in the sciences, including social networks, computer networks, and metabolic and regulatory networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or modules. The problem of detecting and characterizing this community structure is one of the outstanding issues in the study of networked systems. One highly effective approach is the optimization of the quality function known as “modularity” over the possible divisions of a network. Here I show that the modularity can be expressed in terms of the eigenvectors of a characteristic matrix for the network, which I call the modularity matrix, and that this expression leads to a spectral algorithm for community detection that returns results of demonstrably higher quality than competing methods in shorter running times. I illustrate the method with applications to several published network data sets." - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

Sanjeev: http://www.pnas.org/content/10... ? - Aviv

ha ha thanks Aviv! - Sanjeev Singh

A wonderfully evocative sentence: "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go?" - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

Sanjeev - yeah, that was my favorite line too ... awful! - Susan Beebe

"The above images show a direct comparison between the Lucky image (left) and the Hubble image from the ACS (right). The Hubble picture goes fainter because the exposure is longer and the wavelength shorter (where CCDs have a much higher sensitivity). The ACS image has been "drizzled" to improve its appearance. The Lucky image is as taken. The markedly better resolution of the Lucky image is clear. This is exactly what is predicted purely because the Palomar 5.1 m telescope is twice the size of the 2.5m Hubble." - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

from JMS - Sanjeev Singh

yum - Rose

Do you get that wacky job offer spam? This oldie but goodie explains that scam and a lot more. - Joe Beda

This is a really good talk: the right way to take down terrorist cells, why websites with TRUSTe certification are more likely to be bad than sites without them, why volvo drivers have more accidents and other insights. Freakonomics meets computer science. must watch. - Sanjeev Singh

Also, Chrome is pretty sweet. - Paul Buchheit

I've been wondering where the osx version is too. I wonder if Google avoids being as aggressive on the Mac because (a) they respect Apple's design sensibility so much, (b) the development time isn't worth it when their product isn't solving something that sucks as much, or (c) out of respect since their CEO is on Apple's board. - Ranjit Mathoda

love the new photo viewer that comes with picasa 3 - cjmart

Benjamin Fulford was a journalist for Forbes Asia for several years, covering finance and corruption, afaict. He now lives under the protection of the Red and Blue Asian secret society, and has a ton of interesting stories to tell. This interview is UFO-free. - Sanjeev Singh

No transcript that I know of. It was pretty interesting to watch, if you like good stories. - Sanjeev Singh

found the transcript: http://www.projectcamelot.org/... - Sanjeev Singh

Friendfeeding just for the pic. - Sanjeev Singh via Bookmarklet

Love the explosion of yellow when day breaks. - Benjamin Golub

It's like watching tides of money. - seth

Amazing!!! - Ray Chen

If you click on the link (instead of playing inline), you can select the high quality version of this video. - Sanjeev Singh