Author Archives: kaliatech

Weekly Random: #24

Boring, but maybe Interesting Treating all men as potential predators doesn’t make kids safer “We think we’re protecting our kids by treating all men as potential predators. But that’s not a society that’s safe. Just sick.” “Alone Together”: Professor Urges … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #23

Readable Wikipedia’s List of Common Misconceptions 10 Simple Truths Smart People Sometimes Forget Readable, but less readable Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich There are Exactly Seven Internet Business Models Interesting Local vs. Tourists – Photo Locations … Continue reading

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Art of Manliness

One of my favorite websites: http://artofmanliness.com Slang from the 19th Century 45 Worthwhile Hobbies Art of Manliness: Best of 2010 How to Build Your Wardrobe

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Weekly Random: #22

Excellent Khan Academy Interview w/ founder In Investing, It’s When You Start And When You Finish Interesting Time Lapse Video of 2010 Blizzard Music Videos Worth Watching Katy Perry – Firework Rodrigo y Gabriela – Diablo Rojo Ryan Bing – … Continue reading

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Weekly Random: #21

Interesting The Proposal Purity Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse Interesting, but less Interesting We Hold these Truths to be Universal An MRI of Love Technical Paul Graham’s Essays Herding Firesheep in Starbucks The Full Stack, Part I

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Weekly Random: #20

Just Excellent The Joy of Stats Lying is not Patriotic – Speech by Ron Paul Large Hadron Collider  – How does it work? M3 (E92) – Real vs GT5 Just Technical Framework fatigue: How many frameworks do I need to … Continue reading

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SQL to select filename component of path

The following works on MySQL to extract base filename component of a complete file path.

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Weekly Random: #19

Reference Typography Anatomy Lesson Sine & Cosine Funny… maybe It’s not the message, it’s the delivery Impressive (#1) (#2),  Not Impressive, and then there’s Avatard

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Weekly Random: #18

Heavy Reading Why is Mommy so Mad? Recommended Papers for Theoretical Computer Science Just Interesting National Geographic’s 2010 Photo Contest “Fundies” ( the word I have been searching for recently) Self Effacing “Stance” – A case study on Alibre.com

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Weekly Random: #17

Heavy Reading America: Land of Loners? Heavy Watching Science Saved my Soul MIT’s Video Lectures for Linear Algebra Entertaining Playing with an electron microsope Snow White Remixed Left Right Left Hgiyiyi (hgjhjh, hjhk) the Book

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