January 31, 2009 at 2:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"CAS and the Threshold Effect: Views from the Natural and Social Sciences is currently a proposed event. A final determination for scheduling this event will depend partially on the amount of interest from the community of CAS researchers. Please send an email if you are interested in attending or hearing more about this symposium. You do not have to commit at this time, as registration is not yet open."
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numpy review
January 30, 2009 at 2:00 am · Filed under del.icio.us
January 29, 2009 at 12:24 pm · Filed under Project, local
I think Mike Kessler can actually do this. He’s already overcome the worst barrier to entry we faced when we were exploring a local coworking facility: the tendency to dilute your decisionmaking by being too communitarian. And I have a feeling he might even beat the second-worst barrier to entry: the cost of commercial real estate in downtown Ann Arbor.
Not by having a lower cost. If that were to happen, the local world’s tangible power structure would collapse, and those well-regarded wearers of finely spun black wool coats who hold the city in their black leather gloves would fly into a panic. Heaven forfend anything renting in such a prime abandoned building in the quiet part of Main Street nobody walks down for less than $23/foot. Mike’s overcome the barrier by having a bird in the hand: Ed Shaffran.
So I’m committing to paying my share for six months, for whatever that’s worth. I’ll hold court there during the days, take my business and planning meetings there, use it as a base of operations when I wander Main Street and Liberty and State to other meetings, do my genetic programming and complex systems training sessions there, set it up as a permanent base for our Scanning Bee distributed digitization projects, have after-hours parties and user-group meetings there.
Whatever. I’m in. I like it.
January 29, 2009 at 2:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
January 28, 2009 at 2:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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Something I had no idea about.
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"That said, the guy is the Tony Danza of higher ed. For reasons that elude me entirely, he keeps popping up. How he continues to find sweet gigs, like New York Times columnist, is a complete mystery. I suspect that in an attic somewhere, there's a picture of him looking unpublished. But I digress."
January 20, 2009 at 1:05 pm · Filed under del.icio.us
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"The sort of bureaucracy that would label Op-Ed writing an act of war goes a lot deeper than just Bush and Cheney and their immediate circle. There are a lot of people who need to be fired at the very least and prosecuted in many cases. Equating an Op-Ed with war suggests to me that Joe the Plumber is running the Pentagon."
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Trying to learn a bit more about this, to reconcile it with my understanding of agile design. Thinking there may be an incremental path between agile development and formal completeness/consistency… but it would be a path of practice meeting a path of logical modeling, and that will be complex and interesting and difficult to elucidate.
January 19, 2009 at 11:59 am · Filed under Uncategorized
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, and finally American Magazine Journalists, 1741-1850 (Dictionary of Literary Biography) Volume 73
, which pisses me off because it’s so goddamned expensive. Gale Research (now displaying your name in the skyline near my house), you are increasingly becoming an obstacle.
[He said, waving a fist at the sky, not realizing that Gale Research might well be a different animal from the Thomson Reuters sign he was indicating. And also failing to connect in any way his disappointment in finding how expensive the Dictionary of Literary Biography actually is to his failure in reading the one he had been hosting in his own home for several weeks.]
January 17, 2009 at 2:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"Or the methane could be produced by some kind of Martian cows, buried no doubt. On Earth each Earth-type cow produces .6 metric tons of methane annually. One of the comments to yesterday’s NASA press conference on this discovery pointed out that since the plume contained about 19,000 tons of CH4 that indicates (if Martian cows are similar to Earth cows) that we should be looking for about 19,000/.6 = 31,000 (hidden or buried) Martian cows. This possibility will probably be reported on extensively in supermarket publications over the next several weeks."
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"There's also an unspoken class bias at work here, a bully mentality that chooses its targets based on who's likely to fight back and win. Consider commercial TV, which is filled with programs that routinely air copyrighted material without permission for purposes of journalism, satire or simple entertainment. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report don't ask permission to air any of the news clips they slice and dice each night for yuks; they consider a network's onscreen logo to be acknowledgment enough, and their assumption is almost never challenged."
January 12, 2009 at 9:24 pm · Filed under Project, Tidbits of nanohistory
Theodore Thinker’s Tales: The Balloon and Other Stories, by Francis C. Woodworth. Clark, Austin & Smith (New-York), 1859. Uncorrected OCR and downsampled grayscale images; we’ll post a more authoritative version someday when I’m not just putting the software through its paces.
January 12, 2009 at 2:01 am · Filed under del.icio.us
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"To that end, I’ve created—with the help of Mr. Rowe, Mark Teppo, and William Shunn—the Gene Wolfe Book Club. Our reasoning is that while the Solar Cycle books are fun to read on their own, discussing them with other people greatly enhances your reading. We also know that this book club is ambitious, but if we all pull together, I think we can do it. Even if you aren’t able to commit to all 12 books, but want to partake in the discussion, please come over and chat; the more the merrier."
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I'm skeptical.
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"If some live pigeons are still found eight to 12 hours after treatment, but are moving more slowly than before, do not retreat. Comb dead and remaining live pigeons out of the hair. The medicine sometimes takes longer to kill the pigeon."
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