Monthly Archives: September 2013

Gorin sur Harrison — 3 billets, 3 pépites.

Beware of darkness précéda-t-elle l’agonie des Beatles ? […] Une jumelle de Something, en mieux, avec un nerf. La meilleure de George, en fait. Meilleure progression d’accords. Meilleure voix doucement déchirée dans ses touchantes limites

George Harrison (1), gaffe au côté obscur

George Harrison (2), en petit frère consolateur

George Harrison (3), le pacificateur voulait d’abord se pacifier lui-même

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Lou Reed: early pre Primitives, Velvets pic taken while he was a student at Syracuse University, 1963

Treemap Art (Mondrian inside)

via @flowingdata

Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems — Nice write-up about the Traveling Salesman Problem, how it is relevant and used in routing optimization, and how modeling human behavior is essential to real-world optimization.

Modern routing models incorporate whether a truck driver is happy or not—something he may not know about himself.

[…] a program could come up with a great route, but if it violated, say, the Teamsters Union rules, it was worthless.

Unhappy Truckers and Other Algorithmic Problems – Issue 3: In Transit – Nautilus

via @kottke