Impromptus

The term “hacks” has been getting more and more abused. It really bothers me when I see some article on “Moleskine Hacks” when they mean “How I use my Moleskine” with an implicit subtitle of (because I have drunk the Getting Things Done kool-aid) or (because I have severe undiagnosed OCD).
Don’t even get me [...]

I thought it might be cool to make some sort of idea bin. It would keep all of my thoughts crosslinked. Sort of like a wiki, but more textfileish, and only for me. This was originally an idea I got when I read something on Misuba’s blog – where he pointed [...]

It would seem that RSS is the new Usenet in a lot of ways. That’s a pretty interesting thing. Brad Templeton posted an insightful analysis on interesting-people where he pointed out that usenet is (was?) like a town square – everyone can post anything to a common bulletin board. Of course, post [...]

Robustness means that things keep working even after parts break down. In graph theory terms, for a network to be robust we need to make sure that as many people as possible can still communicate once an edge or vertex drops off the network. I suppose that means that we can talk about [...]

I’ve found that a lot of people in the sciences tend to look askance at the humanities. This probably at least partially a product of them not being able to apply the same tools (that they have refined and are good at) in the problem domain of english comp etc. But there’s still [...]

Someone who wants to have some nerdy fun should get a bunch of iMotes to individually act like neurons in a neural net, but use each one’s processing power to act as much like a neuron as possible. Then they could treat the sensor net like a neural net and have it output one [...]