people’s voices tremble or even squeak when they get nervous. It’s because our vocal cords close up as a protective response to stressful situations, so we don’t accidentally inhale water. The video shows an exercise to open your vocal cords if you are nervous about having to speak in public.
Tag: presentations
Software Development knowledge
Greg Wilson talks about What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True
Buttcoin qualities?
i have made a lot of fun of bitcoin recently, because it attracts the worst speculators and confused “down with the man” types. if you peel away all that, there are interesting properties in the protocol that i hope will see the light of day, like Contracts . if we are lucky we can get rid of most banksters and also most lawyer types. that’s real progress 🙂
Gettysburg slides
Uh, good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? No, that’s not right. Hmmm. Maybe I’ll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I’m your president. While we’re waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee supervising the dedication of the cemetery. It’s great to be here, Dave, and you and the committee are doing a great job. Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn’t live without it, could we? Oh – is it ready? OK, here we go:
if you missed Abraham Lincoln’s PowerPoint presentation in Gettysburg 150 years ago today, he kindly posted his slides online, along with rough speaker notes.
Various ularities
Free culture
the canonical free culture talk by lessig, from 2002. i remember being in the audience when that happened. it has aged well.
Prezi
The Zooming Presentation Editor sure this will get old but for now, wow.
Google Maps Ranking
a third party perspective on our ranking
Dictionary Compression
40% data reduction better than Gzip alone on Google search
PARC Forum
The first PARC Forum was held in September 1977, beginning a tradition that has endured for more than 25 years. Most of these talks are open to the public and there is never any charge to attend. Forum speakers include both our own research members and other leaders in the worlds of the arts, sciences, education and politics. The speakers offer their unique perspective on many facets of the world, entertaining and informing not only members of PARC, but also the Silicon Valley community. Past speakers have included Nobel Prize winner Dr. Arno Penzias, author and TV host James Burke, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and chocolate maker Dr. Robert Steinberg. The topics range from PARC projects to “The Origin, Diversification, and Dispersal of Language,” “Planetary Mayhem,” and “Physical Simulation in Monsters, Inc.”
Nice. Its no TT, but still pretty good. via rekha
Gregor J. Rothfuss 