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{Friday, September 26, 2003}

 
There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road
While you're traveling with me

Hey now, hey now . . .


- Crowded House

posted by Miles 10:26 AM

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{Thursday, September 25, 2003}

 
This is cool. Rank ordering everything in the world.

What's better? "Quarks" or "Lauren Graham"

posted by Miles 8:45 AM
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What are conservatives everywhere wondering?

posted by Miles 8:24 AM

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{Tuesday, September 23, 2003}

 
Oh, this is so amazing! It's the best thing ever! Someone has remastered my absolute favorite game from my childhood, Digger. That link is to a java version that I've been playing for the last hour; there are also DOS and windows playable versions (no OS X release, for now.)

posted by Miles 6:43 PM
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"That mortality is unbearable or makes human existence intrinsically pointless is a culture-specific speculation and by no means provides universal motivation."

- Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

posted by Miles 12:21 PM

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{Friday, September 19, 2003}

 
I scored Red Sox playoff tickets! No ways, dude! Unbelievable. Four of us manned all the PC's on the 15th floor at the 6:00 pm starting line, and with about an hour of effort managed to get through - a couple times. Now the Sox just need to not blow their 2.5 game lead in the Wildcard. :-)

posted by Miles 7:04 PM
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My computer's back! With a brand new motherboard inside, apparently. It died nine days ago, now; started doing screen fireworks, crashing, and then simply not coming up at all. I thought, at first, that I might lose a month and a half's work; all the data, analysis, and code for my latest experiment. I was about ready to shoot myself for not having backed it up more recently; in the end, though, I managed to get it to come on and stay up long enough to get my data off. Even then, though, and even with a pretty similar lab-laptop to use as a backup, it was a tough week not having my machine. It's got a pretty integral role in my life. :-)

School's starting up, and I'm taking a class I'm decently psyched about. It's about computational theories of conceptual development: bayesian models for learning, that kind of thing. Heavy on Philosophy, heavy on AI, which is to say heavy on lots of stuff that I don't have much of a clue about. Good.

My AR study is wrapping up, or should be soon; I'm not sure exactly where to move next, but I've got a ton of possibilities, and a newly hired R.A. coming to work for me (& just me!). I was at Harvard for about 17 hours on Tuesday, and worked maybe 11 yesterday. I feel pressured, like there's tons to do, but I'm not feeling weighed down by it, for once, just pushed forward.

The Eagles are absolutely terrible. That's depressing.

But I'm not letting them weigh me down, either; after all, the Phillies are in a penant race, the Red Sox are winning one, and my fantasy baseball team is kickin' butt in the playoffs.

I need a nap.

And I need to examine two analyses, analyze three subjects, write code for four new experiments, write two essays, one grant and one paper, and . . . eat.

Thai. That's what I want.

posted by Miles 4:05 PM

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{Wednesday, September 17, 2003}

 
I dig it: a streaming audio hijacking program for macs. Next we need a hardware-software combo that converts a line-in signal to, say, firewire, & turns the datastream into mp3 audio (maybe even intelligently splitting tracks). Then the RIAA is even more completely toast. :-)

posted by Miles 11:41 AM

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{Tuesday, September 09, 2003}

 
Much more later on; yes, I know I've been massively negligent. I was off on vacation.

But here and now, I think this is pretty fascinating: Diamonds for Semiconductors.

Yes it's a Wired article, and yes they're sensationalistic and silly. But.

A link to one of the mentioned companies (seemingly less secretive than described in the article) : Apollo Diamond, Inc.

posted by Miles 10:37 AM

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