Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The Popsicle Twins

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Last night, I was watching a Gameshow network show about Chuck Barris (about whom the excellent movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was ...
Monday, February 26, 2007

The Cult of Genius

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Here is Gazebo's post about the cult of genius. It links to some excellent comments in Cosmic Variance and Uncertain Principles abou...
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Grand Unification Theory (sort of)

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Check out the first sentence in the abstract of this recently-posted arxiv paper: ----------------------------------------------------------...

Overheard in Firestone

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The following was uttered by a grad turkey a few minutes after noon today as we were trying to figure out if Tom Hou would show up to lectur...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

New issue of SIAM Review + Congrats!

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I was talking to Zifnab at lunch on Thursday (am I remembering the day correctly?) and I asked him when his article was officially coming ou...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Conservapedia

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Here is the straight line; you provide the joke: Gazebo reports on a project called Conservapedia , which is supposed to be the Conservativ...
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There's got to be a good joke to go with this...

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Or maybe Gazebo can write another comic strip for this one. The term of the day is "ZZ topology". OK, it's not a real term, b...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Thesis title of the day

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Here's a real winner: "Detection of Single Quantized Vortex Lines in Rotating HeII" (by Richard Packard, 1969) When I first re...

Another quote

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This comes from the always amusing Maciej Zworski, who was giving a talk today in the local mathematical physics meeting . Zworski's com...
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Overheard at Lunch

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"I'm going to get the implants in Romania because it's cheaper there." -- Catalin Turc
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Quote of the Day (revised)

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OK, I need to replace my other so-called quote of the day I was just talking to one of my friends on the phone. He uttered the immortal phr...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

Quote of the Day

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Today's quote comes from me during a meeting I was having with a couple of my collaborators: "I don't give a shit if people thi...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

iTunes Prose (random 11)

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In a twist on the usual random music selections from iTunes to determine fortunes, New Year's resolutions, and so on, I offer the follow...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Download rankings (Chaos), 12/06

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One of my articles, Community structure in the U.S. House of Representatives , was the 19th most downloaded article in the journal Chaos in...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

Today's fortune

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My fortune cookie dissed me today: "You have given some thought to a different life style."
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Tales from the arXiv: Best. Title. Ever.

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The following paper just got posted on the arXiv. It has the best title ever . ------------------------------------------------------------...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

It's apparently "flaming red month"

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Here is the straight line: I received an email from some sort of association of local Cornell alums. Apparently, this month is flaming red ...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Overheard in ACM 210a

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In ACM 210a today, Professor Tom Hou said, "You don't want to jump the shock." This is my quote of the day, and it will requir...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

100,000th web site visit

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My website received its 100,000th unique visitor today.* Let me specify what I mean by "unique" here. It doesn't mean that 1...

Perverted by Physicists

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I'm about to do a calculation in which I am going to subtract off an infinity. Every mathematical bone in my body is rebelling against ...