It’s been cold.
We’re having a warm spell right now, actually. It’s a warming -15º before, of course, you factor in the wind chill.
But I try to look on the bright side: it keeps my brain sharp, my step brisk and my expectations low.
I’m writing to share a little mathematical proof I was reminded of today. [...]
My first term back at school has just wrapped up, and I’m spending the early morning reading about – what else? – qubits and quantum computing. This looks like the next big field, if it’s not already.
This excellent little article by one of the leaders in the field (Michael Nielsen) is easy enough to understand, [...]
I hear cool things about Ruby, but also horror stories. And also, just bizarre things like this from Evan at snax:
I ran into an interesting issue. Ruby is faster if compiled with -Os (optimize for size) than with -O2 or -O3 (optimize for speed). Hongli pointed out that Ruby has poor instruction locality and benefits most from squeezing [...]
Unsurprisingly, I am again writing from my weekend hideout in Blue Monday, the local coffee-shop inhabited by college students and the few locals doughty (or ignorant) enough to brave the affected intelligentsia crowd telling stories from last night a little bit too loudly.
Unsurprisingly, I am not studying Green’s Theorem nor am I calculating optimal bundles [...]
Once again I find myself with writer’s block, so I’ll simply post an interesting link. It’s a cop-out, but hopefully an entertaining one.
Touchy, Feely, Smelly, Interesting Public Art.
I’d like to check this out next time I’m in New York. It’s heartening to hear that there’s still money out there for weird art. Or [...]