life with Mr. Mischa

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[thehikingastronomer]

Scientists: “Climate change will be responsible for larger, more powerful storms.”

Deniers: “Irma is a Category 5, just like Andrew in 1992. Fake news.”

Scientists: “Did you miss the part where we said LARGER.”

[biglawbear]

Oh god. I had never seen a visual comparison of the two hurricanes before. Oh my god.

[mrmischa]

Unpresidented

Finally got Chew.tv to fix the broken vid. Check it out

[magandmach-blog]

[universeofmemes]

[mrmischa]

I’ve been gone for a minute, but I’m back with another one

[mrmischa]

What a mobile website is SUPPOSED to do - The Oatmeal

The accuracy 😂

[mrmischa]

From An Education Policy Expert

I think the cons outweigh the pros..what about you?

[mrmischa]

Hehe

[mrmischa]

The future of front-end development is design

Should our kids learn to code? I can’t argue against the value of every child having a working knowledge of software development. But there is a difference..

Interesting read...

[mrmischa]

PiDeck makes a USB stick into a free DJ player, with turntables

There’s something counterintuitive about it, right? Plug a USB stick into a giant digital player alongside turntables. Or plug the turntables into a computer. What if the USB stick … was the actual player? In the age of rapid miniaturization, why hasn’t this happened yet? Well, thanks to an open source project, it has happened (very nearly, anyway). It’s called PiDeck. And it radically reduces the amount of gear you need. You’ll still need an audio interface with phono input to connect the turntable, plus the (very small, very cheap) Raspberry Pi. But that’s just about it. Connect your handheld ...

DJ + Coding = :D

[mrmischa]

Don’t you hate it when Neil deGrasse Tyson sciences the shit out of your favourite film? (25 Photos)

You can't deny that Neil deGrasse Tyson is a little bit of a scientific badass, I mean he's got memes, he's got a PhD in Astrophysics and he doesn't pull any punches when it comes to talking about science. But he's also so incredibly charismatic and relatable and his Twitter machine is both educational and…

For science!

[mrmischa]

Researchers at Brown University believe there's a real link between Facebook bullying and depression.

Interesting.

[mrmischa]

HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion

HP is buying Samsung's printer business for $1.05 billion in a move aimed at "disrupting" the dusty and stale printing industry.

They basically give the printer away to consumers b/c the real profit is in the consumables...

[mrmischa]

Optical illusions have a way of breaking the internet, and the latest visual trick looks like it’s well on its way. On Sunday afternoon, game developer Will Kerslake tweeted a picture of...

Science!

[mrmischa]

A cautionary tale about humans creating biased AI models

The AI field lacks diversity -- even more spectacularly than most of our software industry. When an AI practitioner builds a data set on which to train his or..

Glad to say it wasn’t an issue in my Brooklyn College AI graduate class... students born in the US are typically in the extreme minority in class.

[mrmischa]

Damnit!

[ithelpstodream]

[mrmischa]

Hehe

[mrmischa]

One more school year to go...