Analyzing this data, Wisely tells the consumers which is better place to shop or dine and how popular and expensive is the place. It tries to provide these insights based on three parameters: Average transaction amount: This is an indicator of the expensiveness of a place. Number of paying customers: More the number of paying customers, higher is the popularity of the place. Percentage of repeat customers: This indicates the quality of service offered by the place, since customers will only come back when they are satisfied with the service. Wisely tries to provide this data to its consumers before they visit a place
Wisely, Unique Platform to Provide recommendations based on Transaction Data - Lets Talk Payments December 5, 2013
Dallas greets us in what strikes me as too cold of a night for my preconception of “The South”. Bars are dimmer, pool tables plentiful, people nicer, and bouncers stricter than New York airport security guards: - “Your ID is expired” - “Right. But I’m not getting any younger, am I?” My reasoning doesn’t appear to stick.
Mani Nilchiani - The magnificent road trip south December 5, 2013
بخشی از فشارهای غیرقانونی در تحریم‌های یک‌جانبه برداشته و فروپاشی سازمان تحریم آغاز شده است. درنتیجه این ابتکار ایران اسلامی و استقامت ملت بزرگ ایران، قدرتهای بزرگ به این نتیجه رسیدند که تحریم و فشار، راه به جایی نخواهد برد و همان‌گونه که ایران از آغاز اعلام کرده بود، برای کسب توافق، راهی جز احترام متقابل و مذاکره عزتمندانه وجود ندارد، موضوعی که متأسفانه طرف مقابل با تأخیر به درک آن رسید. بی‌تردید حصول این توافق، به نفع همه کشورهای منطقه و صلح و پیشرفت جهانی در راستای رویکرد برد-برد خواهد بود.
پاسخ رهبر معظم انقلاب به نامه رئیس‌جمهور درباره مذاکرات هسته‌ای ایستادگی در برابر زیاده‌خواهی‌ها شاخص حرکت مسئولان باشد/ تقدیر از تیم مذاکره‌کننده ایران December 5, 2013
Presentation of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Urban West” uses spatial analysis to investigate how – in a constant process of in/exclusion – changing urban neighborhoods become the locus of representational conflicts, especially where the presence of the other group is concerned. Through their activities and the way they inhabit social space, these immigrant communities express their social agency by challenging and in some instances subverting the official use of social spaces.
Harvard Graduate School of Design - Somayeh Chitchian presents at Northeastern University December 5, 2013
how reliable is the triangulation? How accurately does it reflect the properties of the original surface? For example, as we increase the number of triangles in the approximation of the surface, will the surface area of the triangulated surface get close to the surface area of the original surface? In 1880, mathematician and righteous facial hair maintainer Hermann Schwarz answered this question in the negative by producing a counterexample, a surface and sequence of triangulated approximations for which the surface area of the triangulations gets arbitrarily large and hence doesn’t converge to the surface area of the original surface.
Counterexamples in Origami | Roots of Unity, Scientific American Blog Network December 5, 2013 | Modified
Between vast rolling hills and gently contoured flower petals, right-angles are a rarity in the great-outdoors. "Curved buildings can point to nature, whereas angular buildings contrast with it," he says. "Instead of blending into the environment or evoking natural themes, they stand apart from it by using one of the few shapes you never see in nature—a perfect box."
Do these buildings turn you on? The psychology of curvy architecture - CNN.com December 5, 2013
Growing up, I learned these stereotypes too. On Mondays back at school when people would ask "Hey, where were you this weekend?" I'd fib because I couldn't bring myself to admit that I enjoyed the company of books
Just A Reminder: You're Not Crazy for Being an Introvert | Katy Ma December 5, 2013
Idris is just the type of "third-culture kid" Hipster Shaadi's founders had in mind when they made the site: young adults, often the children of immigrants or living in a country they weren't born in, balancing old traditions in a new setting. They have to navigate that space between their cultures, even if they sometimes don't reconcile.
Single Muslim Hipster Seeking Same? You May Be In Luck. : Code Switch : NPR December 5, 2013
In order to determine if a person's left or right hemisphere is more important for their language production, physicians use things like the WADA test, in which a barbiturate is injected into one hemisphere to temporarily shut it down, allowing the physician to see what each hemisphere can do on its own. This is obviously a very invasive test (and not perfect at that). If it were possible to instead figure out whether someone relied more on their left or right hemisphere by having them look at a spinning figure or answer a few questions, that would obviously be preferable ... but it doesn't work.
The Truth About The Left Brain / Right Brain Relationship : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR December 5, 2013
The claim that the left hemisphere is the seat of language, however, is a little different. That idea comes from observations that damage to the left hemisphere (for example, due to a stroke) is often associated with difficulties producing language, a problem known as aphasia. Similar damage to the right hemisphere is much less likely to cause aphasia. In fact, for most people, the left hemisphere does play a much more important role in the ability to speak than the right hemisphere does.
The Truth About The Left Brain / Right Brain Relationship : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR December 5, 2013
On the other hand, some recent headlines challenge the left brain / right brain dichotomy. One highly publicized paper, summarized at The Guardian, failed to find evidence that individuals tend to have stronger left- or right-sided brain networks. A new book by Stephen M. Kosslyn and G. Wayne Miller argues that the left / right brain divide is largely bogus, and should instead be replaced by a top brain / bottom brain distinction.
The Truth About The Left Brain / Right Brain Relationship : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR December 5, 2013
In the United States, child psychiatrists consider ADHD to be a biological disorder with biological causes. The preferred treatment is also biological--psycho stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall.French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children's focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress—not in the child's brain but in the child's social context.
Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD | Psychology Today December 2, 2013
As part of that “manage yourself” mandate, CGI doesn’t even track sick days, and its three-week “bench policy” requires an employee to find a new project in that time-frame or risk being fired. Most employees are identified as “consultants,” and are compensated through profit-sharing plans. All that traces back to Godin’s favorite saying: “Nobody ever washes a rental car” -- if you own it, you will take care of it. “Everyone is kind of self-employed,” says Gordon Divitt, a senior executive consultant at CGI in 2007 who was chief information officer at Interac, a Canadian ATM company for which CGI ran technological plumbing. “You’ve got to manage yourself, which is very unusual at a company this size.”
Inside the Company That Bungled Obamacare December 2, 2013
The Kayhan writer warns against perceiving any diplomatic agreement over Iran’s nuclear program as a first step toward broader rapprochement between Washington and Tehran. “The nature of the opposition of the Islamic revolution with the regime of liberal democracy is fundamentally philosophical,” Mr. Fazlinejad says. “It’s an ideological difference. It is not a tactical enmity, or one that has to do with temporary interests, which can be shifted and the enmity thus done away with. . . . So in contrast to all the punditry of late in the international media, which says that these negotiations are a step toward peace between Iran and the United States—those who take this view are completely mistaken.”
Attack Machine » An Iranian Insider’s View of the Geneva Deal December 2, 2013
They then measured their gut reaction to each other using their intriguing "love test". This involved showing one partner a photograph of the other for a fleeting third of a second. They then had to answer as quickly as possible, whether certain words such as "great", "awesome", "horrible" and "scary" were positive or negative words. The speed with which they answered was an indication of their true feelings, say the researchers. The test is based on the psychological principle of association. The theory is that after fleetingly seeing a picture of their partner, the newlywed is in a positive or negative state of mind.
BBC News - 'Love-test' identifies newly-weds true feelings December 1, 2013
No country has ever obtained nuclear weapons as a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), including the six non-nuclear weapon states that currently enrich uranium on their own soil: Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, the Netherlands and Iran.
Two myths that could sink the nuclear deal with Iran | TheHill December 1, 2013
I thought it was neat. It's a whole different timing; it's definitely a different cadence for a comedy special. I'm trying to use big hoity-toity words because I'm on NPR right now. I don't know if you know that. I use words like "cadence." It's a big one.
Sarah Silverman, Serving Up Sinfully Divine Comedy : NPR December 1, 2013
"I’m incredibly excited to be joining HBO, especially as I presume this means I get free HBO now," Oliver said in a statement. "I want to thank Comedy Central, and everyone at ‘The Daily Show’ for the best seven and a half years of my life. But most of all, I’d like to thank Jon Stewart. He taught me everything I know. In fact, if I fail in the future, it’s entirely his fault."
John Oliver Leaving 'The Daily Show' To Star In HBO Talk Show November 15, 2013
He presented a maxim about an MIT company and a Stanford company building products for the same market. The Stanford company gets a product out quickly, they make money, iterate and then raise money. They use network effects to lock-in customers or viral growth tactics to get super-linear returns on marketing investment. The MIT company seeks to develop an unassailable technical advantage, optimizing their product or process in terms of kilojoules, units per second, and dollars. They either find a market-fit or sell their technology to a Stanford company.
Reconfigurable Computing: The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup November 12, 2013
The dichotomy is between a focus on technology development and a focus on market development.
As for what it says about the odds that there is life somewhere out there, it means "just in our Milky Way galaxy alone, that's 8.8 billion throws of the biological dice," said study co-author Geoff Marcy, a longtime planet hunter from the University of California at Berkeley.
Study: 8.8 billion Earth-size, just-right planets November 5, 2013
More fundamentally, Kristol erects a straw man when he complains that the philosophical rationalism of secular humanism cannot deliver a moral code. This charge is a red herring for at least two reasons: (i) Theism as such has turned out to be morally sterile no less than atheism or "philosophical rationalism," taken by themselves; in fact, when Kristol urged that "Morality does not belong to a scientific mode of thought," he himself conceded that morality also does not belong "even to a theological mode, but to a practical-juridical mode." (ii) Secular humanism can tack on moral directives to its atheism on the basis of value judgments made by its adherents, just as, in point of actual fact, theists tack on such directives under the purported aegis of inscrutable divine revelation. Yet, unlike revelationist theists, humanists insist on the liability of their moral convictions to criticism. Kristol allowed that "Pure reason can offer a critique of moral beliefs," but his aim in saying so was not to make a partial concession; instead it was to complete the sentence by saying one-sidedly: "but it cannot engender them." Nor, as he fails to see, can theism "produce a compelling, self-justifying moral code."
The Poverty of Theistic Morality November 4, 2013
Moral codes turn out to be logically extraneous to each of these competing philosophical theories alike. And if such a code is to be integrated with either of them in a wider system, the ethical component must be imported from elsewhere. In the case of theism, it will emerge that neither the attribution of omnibenevolence to God nor the invocation of divine commandments enables its theology to give a cogent justification for any particular actionable moral code. Theism, no less than atheism, is itself morally sterile: Concrete ethical codes are autonomous with respect to either of them. Just as a system of morals can be tacked onto theism, so also atheism may be embedded in a secular humanism in which concrete principles of humane rights and wrongs are supplied on other grounds. Though atheism itself is devoid of any specific moral precepts, secular humanism evidently need not be. By the same token, a suitably articulated form of secular humanism can rule out some modes of conduct while enjoining others, no less than a religious code in which concrete ethical injunctions have been externally adjoined to theism (e.g., "do not covet thy neighbor's wife"). Therefore, it should hardly occasion surprise that theism is not logically necessary as one of the premisses of a systematic moral code, any more than it is sufficient. And this failure of logical indispensability patently discredits Dostoyevsky's affirmation of it via Smerdyakov's dictum in The Brothers Karamazov: "If God doesn't exist, all things are permissible."
The Poverty of Theistic Morality November 4, 2013
Facebook has about 300 so-called Preferred Marketing Developers. They all do one of just four things: Place ads on Facebook, manage Facebook pages for companies, provide social media analytics, and create marketing apps for Facebook. They are basically ad agencies, in the sense that advertising clients hire them to promote their brands via Facebook. But there are more Facebook PMDs than there are major ad agencies in the U.S., even though the non-Facebook ad business is many times the size of Facebook. Not all of these companies will survive, and a few have recently realized that there is not enough money to support them all. Even Facebook has moved to cull the herd.
Evidence That Tech Sector Is In A Bubble - Business Insider November 3, 2013
I found the food here a little too subtly flavored and refined, but I think that may just my feeling about Persian food generally. I've had this reaction before. I want more garlic, more herbs, more citrus, more tang, more char, and juicer, messier, more succulent grilled meats. But I think that's...a different cuisine. So maybe it wasn't meant to be, me and lovely little Sabzi, where the decor matches the food.
Sabzi - East Arlington - Arlington, MA November 3, 2013
Still, even if I loved Persian food, I think I'd be giving this place 4 stars anyway. Service was very awkward in that "local-girl-with-tatoos-asks-you-where-you-went-to-high-school" way. Honey, we're trying to have a quiet dinner and we're not from here. And she oversold the baklava (and apologized because there was no ice cream?!) when I desperately wanted some sort of milky, eggy pudding or custard. Okay, well, it's not her fault that I probably should have gone to a Turkish restaurant in the first place.
حمید دباشی از زندگی در حوالی هارلم رضایت کامل دارد و می گوید بعد از چند دهه اقامت در این منطقه دیگر احساس غربت نمی کند و خود را "بچه این محل" می‌داند. او و همسرش حتی تصمیم گرفتند که فرزندانشان را در مدارس عمومی ثبت نام کنند و با وجود استطاعت مالی خانواده، بهتر دیدند که آنها را از بطن جامعه جدا نکنند.
ايران - BBC فارسی - حمید دباشی: ما چمدان نداشتیم، چادرشب داشتیم November 3, 2013
Ambiguity is what makes this particular riddle so interesting, he adds. “You are given a list of stuff that you are supposed to share with parents who show up at 3 a.m. But you have to realize quickly the answer is none of those.” Although eyes was the right answer and door was the wrong answer in the version Hodge told Sturgnell as well as in the version Sturgnell explained in the video he posted on the Facebook page and website, not everyone shares their certainty.
Facebook Profile Pictures Taken Over by Giraffes: Behind the Invasion - The Daily Beast November 3, 2013
Consumer-oriented unicorns have been more plentiful and created more value in aggregate, even excluding Facebook. But enterprise-oriented unicorns have become worth more on average, and raised much less private capital, delivering a higher return on private investment.
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups | TechCrunch November 2, 2013
What's the takeaway from the study? That despite so much current talk about genetics and peer influence explaining most of the variation in individual performance, parenting actually matters. It seems, in fact, to matter a lot. Genetic pre-determinism is a big part of the debate about birth order effects on school performance, but that performance, Hotz argues, is about much more than raw intelligence; working hard and "stick-to-itiveness" play a big part too, and those skills are teachable.
Why does the first child get the gold? An economics answer | PBS NewsHour November 2, 2013
Fariborz Raisdana, a prominent Iranian Marxist economist who criticized government-subsidy cuts1 by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration and spent one year behind bars, specifies that 90 percent of imports, 25 percent of exports, and 48 percent of investments are by the private sector. Moreover, 95 percent of the country's housing has been built by the private sector. Nineteen percent of the country's agriculture belongs to the private sector, too.
Soheil Asefi, "A New Phase of Neoliberalism in Iran: The Untold Story of Iran's "Moderate" Government" November 2, 2013
Regarded as the Johann Strauss of Paris, Emile Waldteufel wrote some 300 dances (more than half of them waltzes) for French society balls and private functions. Although his music has been criticized for its lack of melodic and rhythmic variety compared to Strauss, it is generally less ceremonial-feeling than that of Waldteufel's Austrian counterpart, with smooth, singing themes epitomized by his popular Les Patineurs.
Emile Waldteufel - Listen to Free Music by Emile Waldteufel on Pandora Internet Radio October 30, 2013
