So things are getting bad again and I’ve started to track my blood glucose with this little glucose monitor thing to see if I can learn anything. What I really want to track is insulin but you can’t track insulin without a lab test so glucose will have to do. You can mostly infer insulin [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Electric Boogaloo. I got it. Five hundred thousand dollars, bitches. Well, okay. Twenty-one thousand dollars. Even so.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
for repeatedly quoting shit from this series of essays. But I read a couple of them every day, for a break, and I keep being struck by them. So here’s another: For instance, the other day I recalled a famous passage from Adam Smith that I wanted to cite: something about an earthquake in China. [...]
From this article by Jonah Lehrer about some uber-prodigy 13 year old Swedish chess grandmaster: And this is why we shouldn’t be surprised that a chess prodigy raised on chess computer programs would be even more intuitive than traditional grandmasters. The software allows him to play more chess, which allows him to make more mistakes, [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
I wrote my first grant proposal the other day, for funding for next year. It would be a pretty big deal to get it, not because it’s super prestigious or anything (it isn’t) but because it would mean that instead of essentially working three jobs, I’d only have to work 1.5 jobs. Here it is, [...]
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I just wrote a long, rambly post on evolutionary anthropology and the cultural ratchet, then deleted it all except for this line, which I will keep because it really says everything: If your girlfriend lights your hair on fire and the police ask you what happened and you launch into a chemistry lesson on oxidation [...]
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I’m sitting here with my cat Arthur purring on my chest, which he likes to do when I’m laying on the futon, which I like to do because it’s the only working position I can assume for extended periods that does not hurt. The purring is responsible for me loving him; if he didn’t jump [...]
There’s a great post on Ars Technica on the history of the noosphere. The ‘noosphere’ is the term people use for the network as an ethereal communications medium – a place of pure thought, in other words, that transcends whatever physical manifestation that instantiates the medium. If you were online in 1996, you remember some [...]
The response to Ardi’s unearthing was not surprising. According to surveys, barely a third of Egyptian adults have ever heard of Charles Darwin and just 8% think there is any evidence to back his famous theory. Teachers, who might be expected to know better, seem equally sceptical. In a survey of nine Egyptian state schools, [...]
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Back when me and Peaches planned to be big shot Hollywood movie writers I read an interview with Quentin Tarantino where he explained why he thought it was important for him to live in Los Angeles. “Even if I come in last, I’m still running with the big dogs,” he said. Or something like that. [...]
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