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One Day, and One Day Only
It was that eerie hour after midnight when Sam Reshevsky, who was tired of having worried over the composition of a poem all day, and just about to give up on it, saw a magical portal appear in the...
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Blizzard Servers: Cataclysm
World of WarCraft: Cataclysm, the game’s third expansion, was released on North American servers approximately 20 minutes ago. Just before the release, some areas became super-crowded. To experience...
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The Basics of Recursion vs Iteration
Today’s topic was chosen by Prad N, who attends UT Austin. The original topic as proposed was “recursion vs iteration with stacks”; however, that is a fairly narrow—and somewhat technical—topic, so...
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The Blue Danube
Without music, life would be an error. —Friedrich Nietzsche Today’s topic of music was chosen by Jonathan C at UT Austin. He is also QUITE a musician, unlike me. There is so much to say about music,...
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Some More Pictures [Photos]
Playing around with my new camera… 1. Novel collection of Samuel Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot. Birthday present. 2. Mathematical watch, also a birthday gift. [click image to zoom] 3. Light! 4....
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Cars and Time Management (And Not How They Are Related)
This article is overdue by over one and a half months. In December 2010, I was writing a post each day on a topic chosen by another person. There were two topics that I didn’t get to: cars and time...
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The Daily Stumble #1: Slow Time
I’m starting a series where I take the 5th Stumble of the day and write a blog post about it. Why the 5th one? I don’t know, why not? Today’s 5th stumble is: 20 Things that Are Way Better in Slow...
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Two Laptops
The XPS 13 arrived today, so I am now on a 2-laptop setup: one for portability, and one for performance. An XPS 13 (left) and an Alienware M17x (right). For a size comparison, that is a Galaxy S3...
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The Media
So all I’ve been hearing from the media in the last few days is the Zimmerman trial. Perhaps there might be some situation in which I would have actually followed it. But frankly, there was no reason...
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A Blogging Experiment
In previous years, my blogging was quite sporadic and inconsistent. This year, I tried writing one blog post a week, and it seemed to be fairly successful, both at getting ideas out and at writing more...
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Interstellar
Finally, a movie that supports technological progress! (As opposed to condemning it, like every other movie.) This is just a great movie to exist right now. Granted, some of the messages, as critics...
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A Blogging Experiment
In previous years, my blogging was quite sporadic and inconsistent. This year, I tried writing one blog post a week, and it seemed to be fairly successful, both at getting ideas out and at writing more...
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Facebook Bias, Bernie Sanders, and Ubers in Austin
Does Facebook Have a Liberal Bias? I feel like this story is a lot less relevant than it sounds, but here is some background. From CNN: An anonymous former Facebook contractor says he witnessed...
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YOLOing, Holes, and Facebook
Millennials Just Want to YOLO It is a month old but still one of the most amazing articles on millennials. Ok fine, to be fair, it is a particular group of millennials who bet all their money in the...
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On Reviewing Things
Every year I go through the movies I watched that year and assign a number from 1-10, adding it to my list of movie scores. For example, last year Arrival (10) was the best movie, followed by Star Trek...
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Travel vs the Internet
I’ve explained to many people in the past year why I don’t like travel. This summarizes my main reasons: It costs lots of transportation time, both getting to and from the destination, as well as local...
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The Blue Danube
Without music, life would be an error. —Friedrich Nietzsche Today’s topic of music was chosen by Jonathan C at UT Austin. He is also QUITE a musician, unlike me. There is so much to say about music,...
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Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Population and Technology
There is an old saying in physics that “nature abhors a vacuum,” as the stuff around the vacuum would just fill in the vacuum and remove it. If a random cubic meter of air suddenly disappeared above...
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Without music, life would be an error. —Friedrich Nietzsche Today’s topic of music was chosen by Jonathan C at UT Austin. He is also QUITE a musician, unlike me. There is so much to say about music,...
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