tprynn

Not the author, but if you want to host your own you should consider goread (https://github.com/mjibson/goread) or ttrss (http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki). Goread.io is the hosted version of goread if you don't mind paying the $3 per month. Otherwise you have feedly, newsblur, theoldreader, ..., but goread is really the closest to Google Reader (clean/fast UI, keyboard shortcuts are the reason I pay).

Iterative algorithms which attempt to solve maximum likelihood usually fall under the category of expectation maximization (a good example is K-means clustering).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation-maximization_algori...

Your phone didn't connect to a WiFi network, but it did scan for them. Then, when you got back on data, the scan information was connected with Google's database of WiFi networks and their locations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/25/android-map-reveals...

As accent colors, sure. But in an office setting as the primary colors you'll be looking at all day? Not so pretty.

Website won't load for me. Here's Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8A_6A_v...

His comment doesn't really seem partisan in any way to me. It's just a statement that it would be interesting to see the current president's college applications too, as it would be interesting to see any president's college applications.