February 2012
82 posts
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“Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing...”
– Teller Reveals His Secrets | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
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“The Internet isn’t just a network of wires and switches, it’s also a sort of...”
– Sometimes Eric S Raymond knocks one out of the park: An Open Letter to Chris Dodd.
I may not agree with everything he says here — and he conveniently cherry-picks some examples — but it’s certainly worth reading in its entirety.
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“A theoretician is someone who, when asked how to get from SF to Berkeley, goes...”
– Twitter: @josecamoessilva.
A made a funny. Well, funny for some people.
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“We are power Matlab users. Some of us are Lisp hackers. Some are Pythonistas,...”
– Why We Created Julia.
Great pitch. Now, let’s talk performance. As fast as C? Are you sure?
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“In 1882, the British theater impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte sent a charming...”
– Oscar Wilde’s Wild West | Legion of Honor.
I guess the joke was on Gilbert and Sullivan, then.
By the way, thanks for opening an exhibit on the weekend that Caltrans is closing the Bay Bridge, Legion of Honor. It’s not like I wanted to see it. (Ok, ok, I’ll see it during the...
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“Speaking as a Classical music fan, I’m not only not dismissive of other...”
– My answer to Do you think Classical Music fans tend to be dismissive of other musical genres?
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BACHELOR LIFESTYLE RULE #65536
Bachelor rule for deciding what to cook:
Done ← FALSE;
REPEAT
Remove foodstuff f from refrigerator or freezer
IF
foodstuff f is “better before x”
AND
$TODAY > x
AND
$TODAY < x + 30
THEN
Dinner ← throw_in_microwave(f);
Done ← TRUE
UNTIL Done;
Replace foodstuffs into refrigerator or freezer as appropriate.
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“He [Nassim Nicholas Taleb] inverts the observation that geniuses are often...”
– Falkenblog: Nassim Taleb Imitates Kanye West.
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“The result, rather than being a crossfertilization, sounds more like a church...”
– From a review of Tears of Lisbon: Music of Portugal From the Renaissance Through Today’s Fado.
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“the choir sounds like it is singing too fast and seems to consist predominantly...”
– A reviewer of Dufay: Missa “Se La Face ay Pale”, Missa Sancti Jacobi, Rite Maiorem, Ecclesiae Militantis: Alejandro Planchart Capella Cordina.
Listening to the free samples, I think there’s a little too much vibrato, but not enough to disqualify these masses as pure Renaissance....
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“He didn’t actually discuss what the equation is, or how it adds to the...”
– Falkenblog: How to Detect Blather.
Falkenstein takes Brad DeLong to task. I think he’s a little harsh on Brad, one of the original Economics bloggers, but there’s a lot of this “he blinded me with science” (sorry, Thomas Dolby) going on.
I have to agree with Falkenstein...
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“He is still giving talks, and the titles now all include the word...”
– A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working - The Chronicle of Higher Education.
I have so many objections to so much of this article, that instead of writing them (at least for now), I’ll quote Robert Talbert’s comment:
We can’t call any...
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“Miscellaneous Articles in which he vomits up very sour grapes over deviant...”
– Ah, musoc; almost as diplomatic as Waugh to his critics…
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“I think the politicization of science—where a lot of scientists have to write...”
– A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American Interest Magazine.
Amen, brother!
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