one of the "fun" things about academia is that no matter what one actually plans on doing with the precious few spare hours that may appear, reality will cheerfully ignore such plans and provide a surprise
I am so overdue for some karmic restitution
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Joey Bernard, who writes about science under Linux, has just started a multi (as in two?) part series on GSL, the GNU Scientific Library. It is here. Just browsing through the files of GSL is fun.
Remember a while back, I wrote about a crackpot who pestered me both about
converting to Christianity, and his wonderful, miraculous compression system? He
Here's an odd little bit of math for you this Sunday. It's defined in terms of recurrence. Recurrence happens when a function is defined in terms of itself.
Quiet weekend on the whole, volcano-wise, beyond the articles about the latest eruption at
Hey, who snuck the camera into the faculty meeting.
"Uff da", for those who have never been to Minnesota (or, presumably, Scandinavia) means...
Well, actually, the best definition I've heard for the term is "when you drop your gum in the chickenyard, and after three tries you still haven't found it."
I'm surprised the term doesn't get more use in academic settings...
Thanks for reminding me that I've been meaning to watch The Prisoner. It has been netflixed.