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- The Secret Life of The Manic Depressive
- The Ascent of Money
- The Century of the Self
- (Alan Moore)
- (John Nash)
- Trinity
- Chasing Ghosts
- Helvetica
- The King of Kong
- (Pinball)

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require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

class Twitter
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'twitter.com'
  
  

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require 'rubygems'
require 'csquares'
require 'geohash'


class TileMaker

  def self.make(lat_min = 0.0, lon_min = 0.0, lat_max = 90.0, lon_max = 180.0, step = 0.0001)

    lat = lat_min

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require 'rubygems'
require 'wirble'
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize

script_console_running = ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] && IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES].include?('console_with_helpers')
rails_running = ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && !(IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] && IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES].include?('console_with_helpers'))
irb_standalone_running = !script_console_running && !rails_running

if script_console_running

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- Una presentación sobre nada
"nothing happens on the show. You see, it's just like life. You know, you eat, you go shopping, you read.. You eat, you read, You go shopping." (Seinfield)

- The Lunar Society
"The Lunar Society of Birmingham was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England."

- John Snow - The Ghost Map
"John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was a British physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered to be one of the fathers of epidemiology, because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, England, in 1854."

- Historias individuales intricadas en un marco histórico

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# home 
require 'lib/stairway'
oauth = Stairway::OAuth.new('4W3Wj1BO4T2Dglt9pNMl','5ctPK7n8V695rd1uVEPOKDcv2Ak3ptvCiplHH6Lk')
oauth.authorize_from_access('esxMpOTZxhvzCov3YzeP','nCkj2acM9HfXai6Wats5OULY0gymjIBnV39T9XJT')
traveler = Stairway::Traveler.new(oauth)
traveler.ping('54.19','-0.17')

# work
require 'lib/stairway'
oauth = Stairway::OAuth.new('ySsLWOjjLpi4W0E6sEHN','JRjIrhplCHOudJNN2dSoXyEjy1MsTUdUGaKqG88g')

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A backup of http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/creating-shazam-in-java-1 just in case
Why is this necessary? Read http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/patent-infringement
Please fork, tweet about, etc.
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Creating Shazam in Java
A couple of days ago I encountered this article: How Shazam Works

This got me interested in how a program like Shazam works… And more importantly, how hard is it to program something similar in Java?

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# Activity streams' notifications to third parties are cool because they bring a feeling of a shared public space and increase the chance of serendipitous findings
# But too much information quickly becomes noise, and relevant bits of news can disappear among a tsunami of irrelevant (to me) "x did y with z' 
# What we're trying to do here is going from deterministic notifications (stuff happens, stuff gets broadcasted) to stochastic ones (stuff happens, stuff may gets broadcasted)
# Thanks to the fantastic alea gem (http://github.com/linkingpaths/alea) by Linking Paths, the explanation is way longer than this very naive one liner implementation.
# TO-DO: experiment with varying the probabilities based on time thresholds (i.e. 100 similar notifications (same type / same originating user) in one hour have a 1% chance of showing up, 1 single notification in one hour has 100% chances of showing up)
 

def do_probabilistic_broadcast
  # Always notify you of activity around your stuff
  notify_owner

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## CAUTION: Very rough draft. A more complete and polished version will follow soon:

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Kandypot es un sistema de karma social, implementado en forma de API HTTP para su uso desde/por toda clase de sitios basados en la interacción social. Tiene tres principios básicos:

- Recompensa: a las buenas acciones se les conceden premios. Estos premios son unidades de kandies.
- Aleatoriedad: No se recompensan todas las acciones, sino que se maneja un porcentaje de probabilidad que determina que a veces se otorga el premio, a veces no.
- Transferencia: si la buena acción implica a dos usuarios, y merece premio, se produce una transferencia de kandies del recompensado al otro usuario involucrado. Es decir, si yo dejo un comentario en un post tuyo, y mi comentario me hace ganar 10 kandies, un porcentaje de estos pasarán a ti. 

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require 'rubygems'
require 'wirble'
require 'hirb'
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize

Hirb.enable

script_console_running = ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] && IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES].include?('console_with_helpers')
rails_running = ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && !(IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES] && IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES].include?('console_with_helpers'))