The blog Computational Complexity usually focuses on issues of, well, computational complexity, but sometimes a post veers off in another direction, like this particular post on the relative strength of French engineering: In my last post one of the comments asserted without justification that The French will never be as good at Engineering as the [...]
To post too often to Twitter. I’d follow you if you weren’t clogging up my timeline! Suggestion: twabby. Blogs that I subscribe to but don’t want to admit to reading. Suggestion: glogs.
I’m sorry, but among the already super annoying style repertoire at the Times, this has succeeded in cultivating in me an entirely new level of disrespect for the vapid heart of NYC social life.
I really cannot comment on the Iranian election itself, but I think I can comment somewhat on the popular pundit reaction to the election. Fortunately, Matthew Yglesias captures most of my thinking in < 140 characters: People who now think Obama is insufficiently concerned with the Iranian people used to think we should drop bombs [...]
I’m working on an in-depth post on sights around Ann Arbor, but I thought I’d highlight this unique business: Robot Supply and Repair.
From the New York Time: A historic month for women in British poetry turned sour on Monday when the first woman in 301 years elected to Oxford University’s prestigious chair in poetry resigned and admitted what she had previously denied — that she had played a part in a covert effort to taint her main [...]
Anastasia and I went to see Dialogues of the Carmelites Friday night at the Long Center. The show was notable for several reasons. First, the Austin Lyric Opera director welcomed the audience by warning us about the length of the first act and implying that the second act would be revelatory, and we should definitely [...]
To some extent, locals must be in on the joke. Commander’s Palace is something of an iconic local establishment, but the things it’s known for tend to be just slightly over the line of good taste. We attended their jazz brunch on Saturday and were greeted by something approaching nine pieces of silverware — yet [...]
Here’s what this had to say about me. INTJ – The Scientists The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be pshysically [sic] [...]
I really like the way consumers can fight back against DRM through the kind of community tools that the web enables. For our own sanity as consumers, we ought to make DRM a bad word. I propose we start by requiring that all products that contain DRM come with an appropriate hazard label.