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Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience ? in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father ? and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary "theory.", blogmarks.net

Absolutely hilarious that those conspiracy theory quacks who are convinced that the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell are actively working with the New England Patriots to cover up the wrong doings attached to the Spygate cheating schandal. This website offers a forum for voicing your opinion on this black mark of a situation. I just hear Colin Cowherd Challenge all the conspiracy threory knuckleheads to start a website called tinfoilonmyhead.com and here it is ..., blogmarks.net

# Balanced treatment of the simplex method and interior-point methods. # Efficient source code (in C) for all the algorithms presented in the text. # Thorough discussion of several interior-point methods including primal-dual path-following, affine-scaling, and homogeneous self dual methods. # Extensive coverage of applications including traditional topics such as network flows and game theory as well as less familiar ones such as structural optimization, L^1 regression, and the Markowitz portfolio optimization model. # Over 200 class-tested exercises. # A dynamically expanding collection of exercises., blogmarks.net

One of the most complicated aspects of generics in the Java language is wildcards, and in particular, the treatment and confusing error messages surrounding wildcard capture. Java developer Brian Goetz deciphers some of the weirder-looking error messages emitted by javac and offers some tricks and workarounds that can simplify using generics., blogmarks.net

The quest to understand the most complex object in the known universe has been a long and fruitful one. These days we know a good deal about how the human brain works - how our senses translate into electrical signals, how different parts of the brain process these signals, how memories form and how muscles are controlled. We know which brain regions are active when we listen to speech, look at paintings or barter over money. We are even starting to understand the deeper neural processes behind learning and decision-making., blogmarks.net

Clive Thompson has been getting some well-deserved attention for his recent Fast Company piece, in which Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts explodes the hierarchical theory of social influence and trend propagation popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in the bestselling book The Tipping Point., blogmarks.net

Systems that manipulate large quantities of string data are poorly served by the Java language's default String and StringBuilder classes. A rope data structure can be a better alternative. This article introduces Ropes for Java, a rope implementation for the Java platform; explores performance issues; and provides pointers for effective use of the library., blogmarks.net