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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Ancient Pompeii
Forking street in ancient Pompeii, originally uploaded by gisleh. Check out the grooves worn into the roads in ancient Pompeii by the chariots. Apparently they were also subject to detours from roadwork, one-way streets and traffic jams. Darn New York … Continue reading
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Unsubstantiated statement of the day
The US will not get rid of $1 bills until $5 becomes the norm for minimum tips.
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Picasa photo tuning
This is a continuation of Part 1 of my Picasa discussion. I am continually surprised by how powerful the relatively simple photo tuning tools of Picasa are. Take for example this photo my wife snapped while flying from Seattle to … Continue reading
Tuesdays and Google Reader
I read an interesting article linked from Hacker News to 16th Letter which discussed different productivity on different days. While both myself and Melissa are both late to the party on productivity on Tuesdays, I was interested to see that … Continue reading
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First accepted Fark.com link
Back in the day (ie as a procastinating PhD student) I used to read Fark.com every day. I submitted a few links (mostly personal articles to be honest) but none got accepted. I don’t know why it tickles me so … Continue reading
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Wikipedia article of the day – Banach-Tarski Paradox
As found from a commenter on Hacker News, the Banach-Tarski Paradox is described as thus: The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into several non-overlapping … Continue reading
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Is there anything Wikipedia doesn’t know? The Palace of the Soviets
Through Google Reader, to BoingBoing, to Modern Mechanix, I found the following Wikipedia article detailing the Palace of the Soviets, which I found fascinating. The 30s was a heady time for large scale architecture in Europe. Albert Speer rose through … Continue reading
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Wikipedia is a productivity killer
Start on a page like the Dunning-Kruger effect, and end up on something fascinating like like fact that 0.9 recurring is equal to 1. The notations “0.999…” and “1” represent the same number. The equality has long been accepted by … Continue reading
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American Idol auditions
This may be a bit late, but I was sent this explanation of the Dunning-Kruger effect by a work colleague. It perfectly explains the reason behind the look of incredulousness on the faces of people auditioning. Kruger and Dunning noted … Continue reading
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