The Neuroscience of Suffering and Its End
Nice article on Gary Weber's loss of I-my thoughts here.
Do not pursue the past. Do not usher in the future. Rest evenly with present awareness.
Free Will Is an Illusion
Sam Harris speaks on the delusion of free will at the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas 2012. Includes audience questions.
Video sourced from YouTube here.
Transitfeed Patch
For the GTFS Explorer project i've been working on, i needed to convert GTFS feeds to KML. Google's transitfeed package is designed to do this, but the latest version (1.2.12) has a bug in it which prevents the KML writer from being imported.
Searching the web on the issue, i found Dylan Vassallo's Github repo pybcp47, which helped me create this patch to squash the bug: transitfeed-1.2.13_unofficial.tar.gz.
To test the KML output online, i used this site.
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