I bet you thought I would put an entry here. Sorry to disappoint.

Go read this piece in Scott Adams's blog. That is all.

happyghost once asked me how long it took me to come up with a song parody. These two took about five minutes each, mostly because I stopped at one verse. Some background ( Read more... )

In 2001, Joe Sheehan, Jeremy Sato and I spent an extended weeked working on this. So for once, I feel like I have something useful to contribute! Let's talk hurricane evacuation ( Read more... )

I wonder why music is so small a part of my life compared to everyone else's. I've never been to a concert. I don't have an iPod. I buy maybe five CD's a year, and I listen to them only when driving. I find out about new artists essentially at random, by hearing something catchy on the radio or when it's played by one of my friends. The entire ( Read more... )

Not all of you know that I'm in London right now, attending my second Pro Tour. But so I am, and the blasts were on the other side of the city (I'm at Earl's Court), and I am fine. Have a great weekend, everyone.

Given n vectors in R^(something), I want to know whether some halfspace contains at least k of them. Here's two partial results.

If we stack 'em up into a matrix A, then there are rank(A) independent vectors running around which define a rank(A)-dimensional halfspace, so I'm done if k <= rank(A ( Read more... )

I didn't sleep last night. It was kind of an accident ( Read more... )

Unlike most libertarians, I don't have an opinion on gay marriage, and I'm not going to have an opinion no matter how much you bait me.

Wow. Now I'm going to have to rethink my position as well, thanks to this piece. I used to think I hadn't seen an intelligent argument against gay marriage; now I'm not so sure I've seen an intelligent one in ( Read more... )

My school deserves more time. I'm in no danger of failing classes, but I have no research ideas and haven't spent much time looking for any. I need a paper proposal by the end of the year, and three papers need to be written in the following year, in addition to the time I spend as a T.A. Plus, in lectures I can feel the information fly by me ( Read more... )

Thanks, leech! This thing is the best ( Read more... )