http://eugeni.us/blog All things NSFW Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:51:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Around 9:55pm. I sat by my window in the back at my apartment at East 72nd st and 2nd Ave, New York City. I saw a bunch of objects flying in the sky. They all have wings like eagles. But they either glow the yellowish light or reflect yellowish light ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/04/14/did-i-just-see-ufos/ I was reading Google Ajax Search api document last night. A new link in the page just came up. Flash and other Non-Javascript EnvironmentsNew! Geeze, I did not see anyone mentioned this on any blog recently. Maybe I am really not following trends closely. But this is a ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/04/03/finally-we-can-use-restful-apis-from-google/ Daniel Berninger on GigaOM wrote a post: Here Comes Trouble: Telephone Number Tyranny has a very interesting quote from Edward Tuck's speech in 1996 IEEE (I failed to find out original speech and not sure who Edward Tuck is and the exact conference) Below is the quote from the ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/08/sometime-it-is-hard-to-imagine-when-you-never-had-a-chance/ A 2003 paper in evolution psychology by Satoshi Kanazawa was mentioned today on Hacker News. The paper: Why Productivity Fades with Age: The Crime-Genius Connection proposed an interesting interpretation for a statistical phenomenon. Why male creativity decreased by age? Kanazawa compiled statistics from two groups, one is accomplished scientists, another ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/07/testosterone-and-creativity/ In New York City subway, you always have a chance to meet strangers that may be hard for you to meet outside your normal social circle. On my way home today, I rushed to slide my Metro card to catch an uptown 6 train. I then noticed there were two ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/06/sitting-by-a-budding-model/ A question showed up on Hacker News today: On: AI is hard, so just outsource the I , citing Outsourced Robot Brains. It reminds me John McCarthy wrote on his website in 1995 that because Robotics and Artificial Intelligence had been progressing so slowly, but communication and internet technology has ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/06/john-mccarthys-dream-of-future/ When I was in PubSub long time ago, probably around 2004, I was thinking about turning RSS feeds into voice mp3 files. I thought it would be great for people listening to their content based subscriptions while performing other tasks such as driving. I am lucky to live in ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/05/rss-to-podcast/ Brad Fitzpatrick did a long talk on Social Graph. The presentation can be viewed in www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRv9q16_ZE [wp_youtube]KeRv9q16_ZE[/wp_youtube] http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/04/socail-graph/ I was on the phone with my sister. Suddenly, roars, honks, whistles, and yells just filled the air. I told my sister I think Giants won the super bowl 2008. I guess after Yankees failed the ALCS, Mets forfeited playoff and Knicks. A team from New York won something! I ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/04/giants-won/ I guess the reboot just reset all spam bots. It is just a hunch from me because I did not see any new comment waiting to be approved. But before I put on recaptcha, a bot from dftone just register itself as a user, but I guess the Ajax comment ... http://eugeni.us/blog/index.php/2008/02/03/test/