http://spolyak.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ it's always tea-time, and we've no time to wash the things between whiles. en Vox Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:58:03 -0500 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/brave-new-classroom-20.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/brave-new-classroom-20.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/brave-new-classroom-20.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:58:03 -0500 Students at every level, from grade school to grad school, face dramatic changes in the institutions they attend thanks to new digital technologies. PCs, the Internet, whiteboards, presentation software, and other high-tech devices, once considere... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/brave-new-classroom-20.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa96a429330002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> teaching technology education learning students classroom britannica http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mits-introduction-to-algorithms.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mits-introduction-to-algorithms.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mits-introduction-to-algorithms.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:34:05 -0500 MIT's great lecture series on the classic Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest Introduction to Algorithms content. All software developers should be required to review the lectures in this course. video <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mits-introduction-to-algorithms.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d7840640100a7f3c94b000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mathematics introduction computer science algorithms http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/large-hadron-rap.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/large-hadron-rap.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/large-hadron-rap.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:45:10 -0500 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/video/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa968d75ab0003.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa968d75ab0003-50si" alt="Large Hadron Rap" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> it's, like physics... yo. <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/large-hadron-rap.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fae8d16710000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rap collider large hadron http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/the-water.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/the-water.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/the-water.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:19:18 -0500 the water washed away everything but the chance to begin again so we came from cities & towns, from long golden fields & we stood side by side until we made a bridge to dry land, back to a place we have promised to hold safe for each other's c... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/the-water.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fae8c5df47000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> river hope city iowa flood sandbag coralville cedar rapids http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/olivine.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/olivine.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/olivine.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:01:01 -0500 the mars phoenix onboard microscope analysis might have a nice chunk of olivine. we shall see what the results say... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/olivine.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa967f55ee0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> science phoenix mars nasa mineral olivine marsphoenix http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/how-to-save-a-city.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/how-to-save-a-city.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/how-to-save-a-city.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:59:22 -0500 the situation: water rising well above the 500 year flood stages. flooding on all fronts. the solution setup: buy a massive amount of sand (actually something that looks more like kitty litter) buy a massive amount of bags (burlap, plastic... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/how-to-save-a-city.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa967e6ff90003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> water disaster flood sandbag iowa city coralville cedar rapids http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/an-pan-we-fi-waan-you-to-shake-dat-ting.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/an-pan-we-fi-waan-you-to-shake-dat-ting.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/an-pan-we-fi-waan-you-to-shake-dat-ting.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:45:48 -0500 To quote that modern day poet, Sean Paul, "An pan we fi waan you to shake dat ting" [reference]. word. shake indeed! the Mars Phoenix explorer has successfully managed to shake dat ting! Not quite ready to move to the wet chemistry (see Britannica... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/an-pan-we-fi-waan-you-to-shake-dat-ting.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa967e1bb70003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> phoenix exploration mars soil http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/linkedin-architecture.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/linkedin-architecture.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/linkedin-architecture.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:59:58 -0500 read an interesting post about the architecture behind the professional networking site, linkedIn. features: tomcat/jetty, mysql+oracle, spring, lucene, straight JDBC (no hibernate, etc) Site Statistics 22 million members 4+ million unique vis... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/linkedin-architecture.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fad68ec3650004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> architecture linkedin http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mars-exploration.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mars-exploration.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mars-exploration.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:12:28 -0500 Mars Phoenix is finally ready to do its soil analysis. For more on this amazing planet, see what Britannica has to say about Mars <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/mars-exploration.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa967b01570002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> space phoenix exploration mars encyclopedia soil analysis planet encyclopaedia britannica http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/my-mba.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Steve Polyak) http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/my-mba.html?_c=feed-rss http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/my-mba.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 24 May 2008 10:41:17 -0500 really pleased so far with my macbook air (MBA)! my main machine at work is my ubuntu (hardy heron) dell 3GHz and my main machine at home is my Mac Pro. aside from being a perfectly capable machine in its own right (e.g. doing xcode iPhone sdk dev... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://spolyak.vox.com/library/post/my-mba.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00ccff8e8d78406400fa9677cc880002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> apple computer laptop mac air macbook macbook air