If you could force people to stand and sit on a subway car when you decided they should, what algorithm would enable everyone to optimize the amount of time they get to sit down on a subway car? I guess…by ensuring everyone gets an equal percentage of time sitting based on their total ride time. [...]
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How to optimize subway seating
Posted by Shubha on December 17, 2012
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Meaningful Dates
I don’t know how I missed this one before… So why are the first of most months really important except poor February 1? Also I wonder how to scale the numbers are… like is September 18th and basically the 11th of every month really THAT less important than every other date? Also why are [...]
Posted by Shubha on December 12, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/2596
Ui
Have you ever noticed there’s a “u” in us but no “i”? I think us should be changed to ui
Posted by Shubha on December 10, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/2592
Earth Day moves from March to April because the US rules the world
From Wikipedia: The name and concept of Earth Day was pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. He proposed March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at [...]
Posted by Shubha on November 22, 2012
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Africa for Norway
You’ve probably all already seen this.. but it’s great. A spoof charity video making fun of the sort of development-porn version of aid.
Posted by Shubha on November 19, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/2584
Dark Pictures
I was in Barre, MA this past weekend and I took a photo of the night sky with my phone because there were beautiful stars in it And here is the photo I took in Manhattan the day after the hurricane:
Posted by Shubha on November 17, 2012
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Unemployed get less exercise
Here’s an interesting one, and one many of us can relate to. Ugh just getting myself to get to my kitchen to spread peanut butter on toast was hard when I was unemployed. But true to myself, now that I’m working I’ve also started a literary magazine, volunteer at my meditation centre, and volunteer at [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 20, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/2519
How eating meat is like being in an American mega-store
Today marks one week since I decided to become a vegetarian – again. For those of you who don’t know, I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for about half my life, from 13 to 28. The switch to eating meat was a fairly gradual one, started by the clichéd villain: bacon. I’ve tried all kinds of [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 18, 2012
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Workplace injury stats… The deadliest job is…
This is a few weeks old but had been sitting in my inbox for a bit. It’s stats on workplace injuries in the US! The majority of work fatalities (39%) are transportation injuries with 21% being highway incidences The next biggest is Assault and Violent acts at 18% and falls is 14% Assault and violent [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 14, 2012
http://shubhabala.com/archives/2407
Pi
And while we’re on the topic of Pi, 5 airplanes in San Francisco write the first 1000 digits of Pi. People are confused… and really mad at numbers that are seemingly random. And Fifteen Furlongs gives meaning to really large and really small numbers. Like the 44TB of disk needed to do the Pi computation? [...]
Posted by Shubha on October 11, 2012
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