May 2013
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Apple carried out research into breathing rates during sleep and used that...
– of course they did. (via Quora)
Details.
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April 2013
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It’s Monday. Enjoy a 30min Thom Yorke DJ Set.
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I asked what a teacher’s salary was. $100 per month. So I went to an ATM and...
– This is an absolutely amazing story about education.
Neil Fraser: News: CS in VN
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March 2013
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Customers are no longer just consumers; they’re co-creators. They...
– Mark Boncheck on shared purpose. This speaks to what we’re looking to accomplishing at Shapeways with our customers.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/purpose_is_good_shared_purpose.html
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Randy J. Hunt: Helping People Understand Your... →
randyjhunt:
This post is a revised version of an email I’d sent to the Product Development team at Etsy. I love finding inspiration in adjacent but not obviously relevant places. This is a great example of that.
When developing products, we’re often faced with numerous decisions along the way. Decisions of…
Perfect post and example on communication.
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February 2013
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The more fundamental problem is that we have a demand for experts in our society...
– Robin Hanson in The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t
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In recent years, physicists have found that people invariably prefer a certain...
– http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/why-we-love-beautiful-things.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&
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3D Print All The Voxels
You know what’s better than voxels? 3D printing your voxels. Here’s how to print your voxels with this great Node Package
https://npmjs.org/package/voxel-print
Usage
First you need to connect to ShapeWays, which is pretty easy to do:
var lpr3d = require("voxel-print")({
username: "Your ShapeWays Username",
password: "Your ShapeWays Password"
});
And then you can...