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Nay, a tumblelog.

Upon which many were tumbled.
Feb
28th
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The Institute of Physics on Climatology after Climategate

“The Institute is concerned that, unless the disclosed e-mails are proved to be forgeries or adaptations, worrying implications arise for the integrity of scientific research in this field and for the credibility of the scientific method as practised in this context.”

Institute of Physics report. (It’s short and worth reading)

The Institute of Physics “is the UK and Ireland’s main professional body for physicists. It was founded as the Physical Society in 1874 and it now has over 36,000 members worldwide.”

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Physics


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Feb
20th
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Funes.

Funes.


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Feb
17th
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A Seattle spring miracle!

A Seattle spring miracle!


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Jan
30th
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Banjo anatomy

Banjo anatomy


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Jan
25th
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What sort of reformers and workers are you, that work only on the rotten material? That never think of meddling with the material while it continues sound; that stress it and strain it with new rates and assessments, till once it has given way and declared itself rotten; whereupon you snatch greedily at it, and say, Now let us try to do some good upon it!
— Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets

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Jan
23rd
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Momento just got a place on my iPhone homescreen. Can’t wait for Tumblr support!

Momento just got a place on my iPhone homescreen. Can’t wait for Tumblr support!


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Jan
22nd
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Jan
7th
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A riddle from about 960 AD

Swings by his thigh, a thing most magical!
Below the belt, beneath the folds
Of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end,
stiff-set and stout, it swivels about.
Levelling the head of this hanging tool, 
its wielder hoists his hem above his knee;
it is his will to fill a well-known hole
that it fits fully when at full length
He’s oft filled it before. Now he fills it again.

From the Exeter Book, probably written by Monks

ʎǝʞ ɐ :ɹǝʍsuɐ


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Dec
16th
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I love Seattle.

I love Seattle.


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Dec
15th
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Hemmingway in For Whom The Bell Tolls

Hemmingway in For Whom The Bell Tolls


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Dec
4th
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grep ack rak grin

Searching for a string over Android’s source code:

grin (python)
real    1m3.039s
user    0m54.023s
sys     0m8.983s

rak (ruby)
real    1m19.087s
user    1m11.303s
sys     0m4.863s

ack (perl)
real    1m28.422s
user    0m17.359s
sys     0m7.343s

grep
real    4m23.916s
user    0m4.029s
sys     0m10.108s

Grin is fastest, but doesn’t format results as nicely as rak and ack. Grep, using the default options (grep -r myString ./) produces a ton of useless “No such file or directory” lines making the results almost impossible to read.

I ran these on an 8 core Mac Pro.


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Nov
24th
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I spent about an hour teaching Max Logo today. Fun first programming experience for him, sweet nostalgia for me.


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Nov
23rd
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Node.js and CouchDB and simliar are the way things are going. I can see a framework built on something like that combination becoming the next Ruby on Rails.


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Mondays and School…

Mondays and School…


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Nov
21st
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After years of using Quicksilver, I retired it in favor of QSB. Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!

After years of using Quicksilver, I retired it in favor of QSB. Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!


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