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And more specifically d3.geom.voronoi() https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Voronoi-Geom

These examples are by D3.js author Mike Bostock, who currently works at The NYT. http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4060366 http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4360892

This is part of the creeping one-sided "professionalization" of low-wage work. Employees are expected to arrive pre-trained, stick within specific constraining roles, and be available at all hours. Employers are demanding all the responsibilities of white collar salaried jobs while offering none of the benefits. For many people it's not even possible to juggle two of these jobs thanks to "improved" scheduling technology.

> The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled … a Web portal that will link to full-text papers a year after they're published. > Open-access advocates such as University of California, Berkeley, biologist Michael Eisen slammed CHORUS when publishers announced the program it last year. They prefer a full-text government archive like PubMed Central so it is possible to "text mine," or search across the entire body of papers. “Under this [DOE] plan, the public's ability to download, text/data mine, and digitally analyze these articles is severely limited,” SPARC’s Joseph agrees. > But Frederick Dylla … says there is little demand for text mining. He says AIP has never gotten a request for its more than 1 million articles; Elsevier, the publishing giant, gets only about six requests a year, he says. Text mining journal articles is “a field that's just beginning," he says.

12 months is a joke in the timescale of scientific research, most papers already went through up to a year of prep time before publishing. I would like to see a plan that isn't just paying lip service to the ideals of open-access. And Eisen is right about data mining, most journals are terrible in that regard. Even the wonderful arXiv.org doesn't provide citation/reference metadata in their API and they are a groundbreaking leader of the movement. I had to write a scraper to map out an arXiv citation network and there are only a few subfields with enough info to do that. Maybe scientists would make more requests if the APIs were better and the citation information wasn’t copyrighted or obfuscated.

The primary focus of Meep is simulating the interaction of light with Photonic Crystals (periodic materials that control light based on both their shape and composition).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_crystal

http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep_Tutorial/Band_d...

You may have heard of optical metamaterials (aka "invisibility cloaks"). They are sometimes made with photonic crystals, but photonic crystals aren't always considered metamaterials. Butterfly wing coloring is a good example.

> Despite being banned, Unidan has already made a new account, called UnidanX, and has been posting for most of the day under that username. It's looking like he hasn't been banned with that username yet.

What's the point of trying again, he's already lost the trust of the community and his name is a red flag. Is that subreddit super-forgiving? Or maybe the turnover is so high people will just forget?

Some people say this is "missing the point of traveling" but for certain experiences it's an amazing idea. Going to a quiet museum, exploring a cathedral, or attending an intimate live show could be a lot cheaper and accessible if you synched with a surrogate wearing high-quality cameras and microphones. You can still go in person for the real deal, but the remote version would be at least as good as most chill-out tv shows.

Hesse is timeless, there's a reason he resonated with so many people in the 60s movements.

Siddhartha is a great meditation on life in its entirety. For startup-focused professionals it can be hard to imagine satisfaction with a life lacking "accomplishment" but Hesse paints a thoughtful picture.

"Activity was strongest in the U.K., where companies raised 28% of the total amount in the second quarter, followed by France with 19% and Germany with 15%."

How long until Berlin startups can expect reguler SV-level exits? The city is amazing and there's a lot of positivity, but venture capital needs to be there as well.

Thanks, there are a lot of overlapping packages out there and it helps to see a working collection.

And does anyone have suggestions on D3.js packages that aren't just code snippets? Sublime Text 2 has been great so far for JS but it could be more specific.

"Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, and the movie is great as well. The main character is a horrible person but so is everyone else. Possibly the funniest nihilist book ever written.

Also interesting to those of us with no sense of smell.

Dr. David Perlmutter should be ashamed for contributing to the trend of lumping ADHD in with huge lists of symptoms such as (quote): "dementia, decreased libido, depression, chronic headaches, anxiety, epilepsy, and ADHD"

ADD and ADHD may not be as crippling as some mental conditions, but there is real peer-reviewed medical research out there concerning diagnosis and treatment. Hint: counseling and doctor-prescribed medication is more effective than homeopathy and trivial diet changes. People just want an easy solution and someone to blame.

Not sure about individual-scale models, but Markov Chains are common in Mathematical Ecology. You can do quite a lot in animal group modeling with transition matrices and basic probability theory. This is a good book if you can get it cheap (like most monograph textbooks): http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Stochastic-Processes-Biol...

Also, props to submission author Victor Powell. Those force-directed graphs are visually interesting, add to the article, and are even responsive (try changing the window size).

Thanks, it's even focused on web data. Just got it for Kindle.

Some nice irony too: There's a typo in Jonathan Schwabish's bio with visualizaing.org instead of visualizing.org

Can you recommend a book or project idea for building intuition on messy data? When it comes up in my hobby projects I compromise on the fly, and a professional approach would be much better.