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nameandnature- The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
- The guy who single handedly runs Pinboard writing about Facebook and social stuff.
(tags: socialgraph social facebook graph pinboard relationships) - The Marvels And The Flaws Of Intuitive Thinking Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge
- The Edge also did a feature on Kahneman a while back. Here it is, with more examples of ways in which our thinking fails, but also things we can do which we're finding difficult to program computers to do.
(tags: psychology intuition daniel-kahneman cognition cognitive-bias rationality) - Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error | Business | Vanity Fair
- Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky did ground breaking work on cognitive biases: the ways in which human thinking systematically fails. Fascinating article. Via andrewducker.
(tags: psychology rationality bias cognition cognitive-bias daniel-kahneman amos-tversky) - Requests: HTTP for Humans — Requests 0.8.0 documentation
- An HTTP library for Python that's less awful than urllib2. Hopefully someone will add it to the standard library at some point. Via Leonard Richardson.
(tags: python http library requests programming)
