EclEmma - Overview
EclEmma - Overview
Useful Eclipse Plugin for JUnit Testing and Code Coverage.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Friday, April 6, 2007
Good Talk on Find Bugs
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Richer is poorer
Money Talks: A Brain Image of a Microeconomic Theory: Scientific American
It seems That the law of diminishing marginal utility has some more evidence. Apparently the poorer you are the more motivated you are to win games with small rewards. Rich people just don't seem to have that drive to earn a few extra bucks.
ScienceDaily: The Psychology Of Baseball
ScienceDaily: The Psychology Of Baseball: "Arizona State's Rob Gray has used a virtual hitting simulation -- something he describes as a 'purposefully simplified' video game -- to help determine what cues help hitters make contact with the ball. In a 2002 study, he varied the speeds of the virtual ball randomly from about 70 to 80 m.p.h., and hitters failed miserably, with batting averages of about 0.030. That'll get you cut from a T-ball team. But in the same simulation, hitters fared much better -- with batting averages of 0.120 -- when pitches were thrown at just two different speeds: slow (75 m.p.h.) or fast (85 m.p.h.). It's the randomness, not an over-powering fastball, that fools hitters. Gray's conclusion: 'It is clear that successful batting is nearly impossible in the situation in which pitch speed is random and in which no auxiliary cues (e.g., pitcher's arm motion or pitch count) are available to the batter.'"
If the Cubs could try this maybe they'd have a pitching staff this year.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
Top 10 Lifehacker Firefox Extensions
Good comments below as well that will give you even more.
I really want to create a Firefox with all the extensions I need and put it on the portable apps version. It's difficult to keep all my firefox's in sync. And when I am somewhere else I feel lost.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Letting people do what they want as long as they don't hurt anyone else is a good thing.
news @ nature.com - Cancer patients opt for unapproved drug - Internet trade pre-empts clinical trial.
This seems like a really interesting notion. What is the issue with allowing terminally ill patients to experiment on themselves? If the information that they share as to the results of their treatment it totally open and I think that we could save a lot of lives faster.
The other option is to force these people to not be able to take a chance that may save their lives when they have no other chances left. If we could open up the clinical trial system to something like this we would more rapidly find the cure for diseases.
I think that this comes down to my core Libertarian Philosophy: "Letting people do what they want as long as they don't hurt anyone else is a good thing."™
Why?
Well as long as it can be agreed that a treatment does not pose a risk to other people and the patient understands the risks to themselves, increasing the sample size and more rapidly undertaking clinical trials will lead to a better knowledge of how the drug is going to perform.
Forcing the drug to go through several stages and a long lengthy trial and review process that cost millions and millions of dollars is not going to do anything to ensure the safety of the drug above and beyond a well diversified cheap process without so much government regulation.
As long as the information that is garnered from a distributed clinical trial is shared openly then any negative side-effects will be rapidly uncovered and fully disclosed. Patients and their doctors could then decide impartially how to proceed with treatment. When a doctor recommends a treatment a patient could go the neutrally controlled site and read about it's effects.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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