You know, we learn we remember 10% of what we read, 20% percent of what we hear, but 80% of what we actually experience. Or, wait, maybe it’s 20%. Or 30?
Of course, as many people know, this delightful little statistic has no backing in any sort of serious research—nor, indeed, could it:
…As Dwyer points out, [...]
79% of oft-cited statistics are total garbage
July 16, 2008 – 11:43 pm
Game theory
June 20, 2008 – 7:26 am
Quick, Google a picture of two seagulls next to a rock, with a woman in a red jacket in the foreground. Not too easy, is it? The problem, of course, is that images aren’t indexed by their content; while text is machine-readable (ergo machine-indexable), image indexing still requires the Mark I Eyeball.
One solution: throw automation [...]
Zotero: the best open-source app you’ve never heard of.
May 17, 2008 – 5:46 am
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Zotero. But, speaking from experience, Zotero is one of the best open-source projects out there. What is it? In the project website’s words:
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right [...]