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Gosh. When I was doing my reading on standards, identity, and highly skewed distributions one of the many places they all come together is around names. Names powerlaw distributed, and there are some amusing stories of about extreme cases. For example at one point in England so many males came to be named after the [...]
Asked what the earliest known joke is Robert Mankoff, here in this long geeky video on cartoon humor, spins a tail saying: Shortly after the Civil War. He tells a two awful early proto-jokes, one from the Greeks along with another from the century before the Civil War. He’s wrong about this as you can [...]
Brett Porter wrote up a nice summary of his first impressions of that new search engine, Cuil. He had exactly the same experience I had, and my wife had. You ego surf only to discover they have a very odd model of your internet presence. Feeling disappointed you then wander off. We learn from this is [...]
What are you worth? The Bush EPA thinks we are worth worth $6.9 Million each. 10% less than the Clinton EPA. No doubt that makes lots of regulations less, ah, necessary. I want to assure you; I think you are worth a lot more than that. Meanwhile I gather that boffins think that a [...]
Sitting in the small Vietnamese restaurant in Western Massachusetts an ominous dark cloud slowly delivered one of those marvelous downpours that sometimes end hot summer days. For the woman at the next table the sky was bright one moment; the next the windows were sheeted with water. A young man walked across the square, hood [...]
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There is a delightful state just before sleep, but it requires a certain absence of anxiety. A place where threads in your head can intermingle in amusing ways. Last night I spent some moments there and cloud servers became entangled with the density of energy storage. I’m liking the idea that server farms in isolated [...]
Delightful: The term “controversy” amuses me. It seems like it’s a holdout from the pre-internet era when there might actually have been something that no one felt strongly about. – Floppy, Hoppy Bunnies
I’ve been musing recently that there are a few words which you can use to kill most any software project: Safe – As in “What could possibly go wrong?” Scalable – As in, “How do you plan to make that approach scale?” Social – “Shouldn’t the account management include a social network?” Socialize – As [...]
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