podcast: advantages of meditation

lots of great ideas and info in this podcast on the advantages of meditation. Sam Harris interviews Joseph Goldstein.

Waking Up with Sam Harris: #63 — Why Meditate?

new short talk: Distributed Processing

My new talk is about different processing tradeoffs, using good old Unix utility xargs, Python multiprocessing, gevent, and some distributed processing tips.  Also: tonight there's a seekrit announcement -- watch this space, and/or follow me at @JohnTellsAll

Talk URL is http://bit.ly/jta-dist (this page, which will receive updates)

Slides are in Google Docs