“They like him because he’s white.” - BlanketDenial
"An escalator can never break—it can only become stairs. You would never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there.’"
— Mitch Hedberg (from probably the funniest comment thread I’ve seen this week)
CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC
I look forward to “Fotoshop by Adobé” for men.
“Drillmaster,” he said, “this is not alagai’sharak as we were taught it.” -The Desert Spear
I think I win this one.
“The quality of laughter is so incredible and deep and real and serious.”
Nope, I do!
“He can’t look at me — his eyes are closed, his face is all scrunched up.”
:(
“The moment blew away like an autumn leaf, and Chris sat back with a look of tipsy fulfillment on his face.”
Hey, I’ll take it.
“The translation of linear addresses is accomplished in two steps, each based on a type of translation table.” -Understanding the Linux Kernel
Well, this doesn’t bode well.
“Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.”
“The use of coupling in probability theory goes back at least as far as the beautiful proof by Doeblin of the ergodic theorem for Markov chains.” - Probability on Graphs
It’s not often you see the word “coupling” in a mathematical monograph. Bring it, 2012.
(Source: meme-meme)
Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls (via Chescaleigh)
Born and raised in the suburbs, this video is basically my life story in 2 minutes. Throw me a reblog if you can relate.
The Beckhams have returned to Mother England, looking very casual. (Harper’s still not keen on shoes, I see.)
In the spirit of the holidays, I shall put aside my differences with Harper Beckham and not rejoice in the fact that these dear friends of mine are on another continent right now.
I will also, very politely, link you to this scientific assessment of celebrity children and our spheres of influence.
Spoiler alert: I beat Harper for first.
We’re friends.
Many algorithms require random number generators to work. For instance, locality sensitive hashing requires one to compute the random projection matrix P in order to compute the hashes z = P x. Likewise, fast eigenvalue solvers in large matrices often rely on a random matrix, e.g. the paper by Halko, Martinsson and Tropp, SIAM Review 2011
(Source: aibesful, via allisbjork)
