Free (no signup) tool for browser shots

I've just discovered Browershots, a nice tool for viewing your webpage in a number of different platforms/browsers. Unlike many equivalents there is no need to sign-up etc.

Link: Protecting the internet without wrecking it

A thoughtful essay on both the benefits and pitfalls of general purpose PCs that anyone can program.

I found it informative, interesting and well thought-out.

Python machine learning resources

Elefant - Python OSS machine learning library

Pyrex - a Language for Writing Python Extension Modules

OSS for machine learning

Randomised trials

A simple explanation about the need for randomized trials in testing medicine, critical of the exemption homeopathic medicine seems to expect from this. Also, how some homeopaths have reacted to criticism.

Has mainstream Western society lost a belief in the objective to try and gain back the romantic?

(PS. This is not say that "big pharma" are not capable of running their own scams, but that fairly conducted randomized trials are the way to test medicinal claims, regardless of who is making the claims.)

Quote on integers

Leopold Kronecker

God created the integers, all else is the work of man.

Teaching by passwords

Overcoming Bias's Eliezer Yudkowsky has a painfully accurate description of how science can quickly become a game of passwords with no true understanding. This should be required reading for all school teachers.

My computer's thoughts on neuroscience