You get all of my imaginary mod points.

Darth Cheney isn't going to leave him alone until he gets a big smooch. I'm just not sure it'll be on his face.

"Don't let tailored analogies restrict your thinking on the utility and limits of regulation." Agree. Analogies don't constitute a valid argument.

Damn, you're right. You can't even make jokes any more without Mitt Romney having already said it!

Sounds like a Craigslist ad to me. "Must like long walks on the beach and menages-a-trois with minotaurs."

"Staying low lvl meant that enemies were weak. Lvling up with the wrong skills meant that you stayed weak, while the enemies got stronger."

OTOH, this is SO much like real life...

+1 seriously funny.

I'd say that if they make their request in writing, and I sign it in the presence of a witness and of course get to keep a copy, I'll agree.

It'd be fun to see them break out in a cold sweat.

But let's say they agree. After all is signed, then I say "You do realize that my profile likely contains at least one piece of protected information that would be illegal for you to ask me to share, don't you?"

Heh...

There's plenty of big data in medicine -- mass cytometry with 35-40 parameters per cell; gene expression profiling, deep sequencing with gene sequencing data on many individual cells per patient. Visualization needs to catch up with what's being done.

This is a great article! No wonder so few comments.

"I guess online dating is kind of like automation software for a brothel"

What a GREAT conversation-starter for your next date!

I disagree. It takes a while for people to learn their own nature, what works best for them, and what they really want. 'Adapting to' a mate means knowing how to take the measure of a person, knowing how to tell when the 'fit' is right -- whether for a life together, or just for coffee. You're not born knowing that; you have to learn from experience. And it gets much easier with age. Neuroplasticity is a lifelong phenomenon.

Could this all just be measurement error? But the people who'd know are taking these findings seriously, so probably not.

Photons have to travel at the speed of light because they have no mass. What if there were a way for neutrinos to have negative mass?

That's probably too freaky even for physics.

Is there a way to do some arm-waving about string theory that makes this all work?

"Skeptic, but believe we need to take action now."

A lot is getting lost in translation:

"[Shanghai is the proposed "innovation house" to promote public hands lathe machine tool has everything you will] newspaper reported use of machine tools, lathe? Are not interested in DIY a stool? Shanghai Science and Technology Commission plans to "second five" during the construction of 100 "innovation house", each area of not less than 100 square meters, equipped with wood lathes, metal lathes, saws and drill grinding combined machine, milling machine and other tools, the first streets in the four pilot projects."

But is it ergonomic? After about the tenth zombie he's gonna get carpal tunnel and then he'll REALLY be in trouble.