August 2011
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Watchisomorphismes:
Seriously … why don’t math classes use computers? Excel, simple Python scripts, Mathematica / Sage, everything beyond the TI-83. Kids could be creating totally sweet visuals instead of cribbing formulae. And thinking instead of copying.
I can say from my experience teaching that giving kids some real data and having them muck around with it for an hour, was better than an hour of...
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“In our every cell, furled at the nucleus, there is a ribbon two yards long and...”
– Alan Moore (Snakes And Ladders)
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The clouds are moving fast on out and sales on water/non-perishables likely skyrocketed this weekend. If I were the head of any major corporation selling those products, I’d likely start paying off the meteorologists for more outlandish predictions. Or maybe they already do.
In other news, I am very hungover and my body can’t decide if it is very awake or deliriously tired. Producing...
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“What sick ridiculous puppets we are / and what gross little stage we dance on /...”
– On the subway today, a man came up to me to start a conversation. He made small talk, a lonely man talking about the weather and other things. I tried to be pleasant and accommodating, but my head began to hurt from his banality. I almost didn’t notice it had happened, but I suddenly threw up all...
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fuckyeahfluiddynamics:
Some wisdom for you this...
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I am not clean; I am content-producing; I am going swimming.
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Tonight's Community: The most insanely... →
andrewxnguyen:
Slate’s Bill Wyman discusses what he thinks about Community through “Paradigms of Human Memory.” A good, lengthy read analyzing Community. However, he misses a couple things. First, the Jeff/Annie and Abed/Pierce montage is a parody of fan videos for ‘shipping.’ Second, he also misses the point of the entire episode. Yes, it’s the anti version of “Cooperative Calligraphy” where...
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“You cannot know somebody at the same time in the light of love and in the light...”
– Niels Bohr - Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
A truly profound quote found in the dumbest book I have ever picked up.
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tl;dr - a weblog
I’m afraid future-employers will be turned off by some of the slightly sad and pessimistic art I want to create.
I need to build up my resume with concrete, tangible (or at least e-tangible) things to prove that I’ve actually been doing something for the past few years of my life.
First and foremost I want to redirect my focus. Going along with l’embarras du choix, I’ll...
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“There is some irony in the fact that philosophers reject interactionism on...”
– Chalmers, Consciousness and its Place in Nature (via majidrazvi)
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“The paradox is that infinite complexity is also infinite simplicity. It is a...”
– (via inthenoosphere)
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They set Pythagoras on Mars and he knew no truths about no water.
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peachfist:
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The universality of quantum computation, and its... →
intothecontinuum:
The set of all possible motions of a universal quantum computer includes accurate images of all possible motions of all physical objects. That the laws of physics permit this ‘universal object’ is clearly a profound feature of them, but still an elusive and controversial one.
This is a link to a video where David Deutsch talks about the universality of quantum...
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Watchwashedspace:
Varfix (by kotaro tanaka)
This is very annoying but a brilliant visualization.
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Finished what might be my most ‘complete’ writing yet when I felt tremors from the massive East Coast earthquake. Metaphor for my greatness? I THINK YES
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lastdrone:
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mini-golf
Wrote a post on my phone about stream of consciousness posts on my phone, it got deleted, I tried writing it again, and it came out garbage. Ironic or perfectly sensible?! (My dyslexic sister is a linguist. Hm.)
It included how I don’t even like Proust and that a written stream of consciousness, especially under a spotlight, is impossible in practice. And how I like mad scientist-like...
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Consistently blows my mind that we have to look to the stars and other galaxies in order to learn more about QUANTUM PHYSICS. This is, researching the fundamentals of matter as it is expected to exist across the entire universe.
We look at the fission of stars in other galaxies and compare to the stars in our own. We may have solidified the theory that space is constantly expanding because of...
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Costco
The kind of old lady that buys that Swedish hornet book about that cyberpunk girl after browsing through it for at least 20 minutes. That also doddles around the aisles aimlessly to feign surprise when she comes across the free sample kiosks that she’s really been navigating the whole time. The Alfredo lady was shouting about how she wish she had some wine to go along with it.
I’m...
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