Why So Few Winners Among Many Intelligent People?
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-only-a-few-become-really-successful-although-many-more-are-equally-intelligent/answer/Patrick-Diamond?srid=nBt2&share=1
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What makes our Systems Slow?
http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/files/hpx-0.9.11/html/hpx/tutorial/intro/slow.html
- Starvation occurs when there is insufficient concurrent work available to maintain high utilization of all resources.
- Latencies are imposed by the time-distance delay intrinsic to accessing remote resources and services.
- Overhead is work required for the management of parallel actions and resources on the critical execution path which is not necessary in a sequential variant.
- Waiting for contention resolution is the delay due to the lack of availability of oversubscribed shared resources.
Breaking down the centre.
#BlueLiberals: Had enough of Harper.
#GreenLiberals: Still voted for May.
#OrangeLiberals: Did not trust Mulcair.
–Elizabeth Jackson
https://twitter.com/ejr_to/status/716773043981393921
“…People unfamiliar with Arabic would experience the central motif found throughout mainly as a labyrinth through which a path with a red pen has been drawn. …”
http://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/evidence_by_the_iraqi_artist_wamidh_alameri/
“MIT’s entrepreneurial impact is so great that, according to a 2009 study conducted by the founder of the Trust Center, active companies created by its alumni bring in a combined revenue today of as much as $2 trillion. That would make those companies the equivalent of the 11th-largest economy in the world.”
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/10/mit-important-university-world-harvard/
“…One final thought… I’m actually a fan of using algorithms to prioritize items in a queue. I just read an interesting post by a Twitter VC firm saying how great that was going to be for Twitter. But I think we all know the obvious truth which is that this is a revenue model. This algorithm isn’t about showing users the most relevant content. It’s about showing them the most relevant content PLUS any content that has been “boosted.” We stopped using Facebook for this very reason. We had thousands of followers but Facebook only showed our posts to a few hundred. If we wanted all of our followers to see a post we had to pay.”
http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/141859434694/instagram-unlevels-the-playing-field
“Unlike a lot of my cousins, I haven’t
touched my share of the trust money.
Like my father before me, I live only
on the income from my law practice. I
don’t want my daughters growing up
entitled and spoiled. And I agree with
my father — you give your children
enough money to do something but not
enough to do nothing.” — Matt King
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Descendants,-The.html
Taking Note: The Finer Points of A Successful Mayoral Campaign
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/03/25/taking-note-the-finer-points-of-a-successful-mayoral-campaign/
The Lessons of Film School, Distilled In One Speech
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-lessons-of-film-school-distilled-in-one-speech?mbid=rss
“…There may be a way for Obama (if he has the guts) to force the Senate’s hand to do its job to consider and vote on Merrick Garland’s appointment to the Supreme Court and if they do not, to seat Judge Garland on the Court without their action.
“There is a maxim in the law, from the Latin, “Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit” (He who is silent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to, is taken to agree). 4 Wigmore on Evidence, 3rd ed., § 1071
“Thus, legally, consensus can be presumed to exist until voiced disagreement becomes evident.
“A corollary is that if you disagree, the onus is on you to say so.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/senate-doesnt-act-obama-may-able-seat-judge-garland-anyway-ford