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 out that the only [...]

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 and bulletin board [...]

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 two different [...]

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 something being [...]

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 or [...]