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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. Wish I had a dark sky and a telescope. Or even just a tripod. The Pleiades. A 30 second exposure with the camera precariously balanced on an end table on a beach, on Thanksgiving weekend. Brightness cranked way up in software after the fact. Remember those bean plants. That we’ve been growing? And how I wasn’t sure if they’d actually produce anything? It turns out reproduction was the least of our worries. What Spider Mites Will Do To a Leaf. Today we picked th...
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. What I’ve been up to for the last couple years. I’ve just put my Master’s thesis, “Structural Representation of the Game of Go”, online. Download it if you dare. On unimaginably huge numbers. I’ve been working on my slides for my thesis defense talk, and it reminded me of this particular observation. There are 360 possible replies, and 359 possible replies to each of these, etc, until the game finally ends, typically about 300 moves later. Consider this: if you...
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. I have an iPad. I got it last week at the Apple Store in Montreal, where we spent the weekend being tourists. I would have picked one up sooner, but they sold out pretty quickly in Ottawa. I’ve had it for a week now, and figured I’d post a little review here on the old blog. And what of the other iPad capabilities? Be warned: an iPad is surprisingly hard to put down once you pick it up. Took her on a “tour” of the falls in one of his TV programs....8221;, an...
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. Are You A Gadget? I have several complaints about Jaron Lanier’s. You Are Not a Gadget. But in spite of those complaints, I’m still recommending this book to everyone I meet. It expresses a number of ideas that I’ve felt implicitly, draws some incredible connections, and engenders a lot of worrying thoughts about the digital age we’re living in. 8220;Take a look at one of the big cultural blogs like Boing Boing, or the endless stream of mashups that appear on Y...
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. Cool Physics and Astronomy Videos. Is a collection of short videos on topics in physics and astronomy, presented by various faculty members from the University of Nottingham. I’ve been enjoying them thoroughly. I liked the one on dark matter. They’ve been around a while, I gather, but I just found ‘em, so maybe they’re new to you too. My new favorite CBC program is The Late Show. You might be small, but you’d better play large. She picked someone off! She’s cle...
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. Cool Physics and Astronomy Videos. Is a collection of short videos on topics in physics and astronomy, presented by various faculty members from the University of Nottingham. I’ve been enjoying them thoroughly. I liked the one on dark matter. They’ve been around a while, I gather, but I just found ‘em, so maybe they’re new to you too. We watched the movie Primer. Primer is probably not for everyone. The last third is extremely hard to follow (there’s a huge...
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. The Daily Mail reports on the latest trend among young British drinkers: Vodka Eyeballing. As in, pouring vodka into your eye. Go click on the link and look at the ridiculous photos of people with bottles stuck in their eyes. This seems to fantastical to be real. People actually think this is a good idea? Mind boggling. Also, apparently, damaging to the eyes. The Illusion of Socialized Media. In Wired, Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative.
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Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms. Ten years ago this morning I sat down in Ethics class next to an American friend and asked, “What happens now? 8220;Bush goes ape,” he said. 8221; is the most useful question to be asking, because it’s the only thing we have any control over. We can’t change what happened, we can’t prevent extremists from plotting against us, but we can control our response. Our Prime-Minister-non-elect Michael Ignatieff had a pretty good take on the last decade. Not long after...
