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Takara's dream machine
Takara's dream machine
01/16/2004 10:57 AMTakara, the company behind the Bowlingual and the Meowlingual, says
they have a new gadget that will let people create their own
dreams:Prospective dreamers are...
Build Your Dream Sex Machine
Build Your Dream Sex Machine
06/05/2005 11:14 PMReady to dive into teledildonics? An upstart robotics engineer from
the Midwest shows you how to create your own internet-enabled sex
toys. It's educational. Really. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.
µWEBox Lite GSM/GPRS & GPS Intelligent
M2M (Machine to Machine) Rugged Box
Modem Family Launched by Comtech.
12/17/2004 06:31 PMIntelligent wireless TCP/IP modems, which support application
features including E-mail, FTP and automated I/O & GPS location
reporting. - Part of a Box-to-Module-to-License design philosophy
offering rapid time to market. - Eases integration of legacy equipment
with Central Management applications. [PRWEB Nov 28, 2004]
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
A Turing Machine in Conway's Game of
Life, extendable to a Universal Turing
Machine
08/04/2004 10:03 PMA Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life, extendable to a Universal
Turing Machine
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Dream job
Dream job
04/04/2005 12:36 AMThis news hasn't exactly been a secret up until now, but it hasn't
been official either. Starting tomorrow, I'll be hanging up the
Creative Commons jersey to start work full-time at Google, as a
product advisor and eventually product counsel. Before I go, I have
plenty to say about, and many people to thank for, the amazing
experience Creative Commons has been.
Just over three years ago, I started work at Creative Commons with
little idea of what I was getting into. It involved copyright, I knew,
and it involved Lawrence Lessig, and that alone was enough to ditch my
plans to practice law in New York. (Ok, practicing law wasn't too
tough to pass up, but New York was.) It became clear shortly into the
job that the decision was even better than I'd ever imagined. It was
as if everything I'd done, in school, at work, and through my hobbies,
had culminated in this position working for an embryonic nonprofit
called Creative Commons.
Here are three little anecdotes that give a glimpse into how
winding up at Creative Commons was, for me, like making a brand-new
friend whom I felt I'd known forever.
In college, I played in a band. We weren't particularly good, but
we had a great time, and over two years I learned the single most
important lesson about creativity that I've learned to date: Next to
romance (with which creativity shares a few features), making
something with friends, with everyone contributing different but equal
parts, has got to be the most fun thing in the world. It's also, I
realized, the only way things really get made. I don't care if you're
Bob Dylan -- nothing comes out of your own head and into life without
the influence of others, whether living or dead. (Every time you pick
up a guitar, you're collaborating with the dead.) I started looking
more closely at CD liner notes, at writers' biographies, at the
acknowledgements sections of books, looking for clues into the
real story behind the creation of anything credited to only
one person. I didn't find much, and I didn't understand why.
In law school, I wrote an article about the musical Rent
-- not my favorite piece of art, by a long shot, but one with a great
joint-authorship dispute at its center. The playwright worked closely
with a dramaturge to get the show into Broadway shape, and pretty much
everyone agreed that without the dramaturge's contributions, the final
show would never have existed. Problem was, they had no contract, and
no other paperwork demonstrating an intent to share authorship credit.
So, a federal court gave the full copyright to the playwright. In the
article I argued that it was nonsense to expect artists to begin a jam
session by filling out paperwork. (If you've seen "Get Creative," our
first flash movie, the line "we interrupt this brainstorm to call the
lawyers" comes straight from that experience.) But, as sure I was that
the rules were wrong, I had no idea what to recommend in their
place.
By the time I finished school, and thanks to a lot of people at the
Berkman Center, I was fully infected with the IP bug. I was genuinely
obsessed with the riddle that we're all still trying to figure out:
How will all this stuff work in the future? How can we keep up this
technological progress without giving artists the shaft? I still
didn't have an answer. I remember very well doing my first stab at
public speaking on a panel at a conference in New York. Siva
Vaidhyanathan also spoke, as did the Dead Kennedy's Jello Biafra.
Biafra was railing against the music industry and professing his love
for Napster (which was then at its peak), but also explaining how he
didn't want his songs winding up in Coca-Cola commercials. I remember
saying something like, "Hey, Jello, you can't have it both ways."
That statement ranks right up there with the time in 1995, when I
told a scholarship interview committee that the Internet "was
overrated," as the dumbest thing I've ever said.
It wasn't until I finally wrapped my brain around the idea behind
Creative Commons, cooked up collaboratively by our board of directors,
that I felt someone had begun to crack the riddle. That epiphany was
the first of many in my three years here; over and over again I found
myself the lucky steward of other people's amazing ideas. From our
logo (thank you, Ryan Junell) to our icons (thanks, Molly) to the
vision of iCommons (Lessig, Christiane, Roland) to the Tech Challenges
page (Hal Abelson) to the sampling licenses (Negativland!) to the
WIRED CD (Conde Nast and the whole editorial staff) to CC Mixter
(Neeru) to CC Publisher (Nathan Yergler) to CC Search (Mike, Nutch,
Yahoo!) to our site re-design (Matt, Adaptive Path) -- the list could
go on and on -- I've had the chance to stand at the hub of a giant
collaborative creation without really doing much of the creating. It's
been a bit like being in a band, but I feel more like the guy behind
the soundboard than one of the musicians. And I feel awfully fortunate
to have been there to witness it all.
I'm sure that, in some form or other, I'll carry on with the CC
effort. But in any case, I like to think that like Menudo or Spinal Tap,
we're the kind of band that stays together regardless of the
particular line-up at a given time.
(This is the first of a few posts I'd like to write before
offically signing off. I'm a lame-duck with a few hours of
bully-pulpit left, so bear with me.)
I had a dream...
I had a dream...
12/02/2002 01:17 PMLast night I had the strangest dream I ever dreamed before. Well, not
exactly. But I dreamt that Yahoo bought Google. That's funny for a lot
of reasons. But it was pretty cool in the dream. I'm still on West...
Dream a little dream
Dream a little dream
01/28/2004 02:20 AMUSA Today Jan 28 2004 6:51AM GMT
My dream
My dream
01/28/2004 11:22 AM Last night I had a dream that I was trying to explain to John Kerry
that the Internet is like free speech: Its value comes from its
openness to possibility, and that the government should regulate it as
little as possible. Yes, I actually had this dream....
The dream is over
The dream is over
04/20/2004 01:43 AMMy quest for data comes to an end as the local 7-11 is no longer
giving out iTunes cups and I can't seem to find any iTunes Pepsi
bottles anymore. If you've
been following my progress, the final tally was 5 for 7. Only two
losers in seven outings, putting my winning percentage at 71%. Given
that they claimed 33% would win, I'm either really lucky (doubtful),
they wanted almost everyone to win, or demand wasn't nearly as high as
they thought.
Is this all just a dream?
Is this all just a dream?
09/03/2004 06:17 AM
Did a Boeing
747 really hit the Pentagon? Warning: [flash movie, sound]
The Dream Comes True
The Dream Comes True
11/19/2003 08:05 AM Back in 1995, I was VP of Strategic Marketing at Open Text, which at
the time was 25-person SGML indexing company. The company had
initially built itself on a single lead project in the late '80s:
Indexing the Oxford English Dictionary. Doing a full-text index of
such a massive work was considered impossible. Who could dream of
indexing tens of thousands of pages, hundreds of thousands of words?
But under the technical direction of Tim Bray, breakthroughs were made
and full-text retrieval took an important step forward. Fifteen years
later, Tim Bray and Open Text have moved onto other...
Not Really Satisifed? You Can Still
Dream, Can You?
Not Really Satisifed? You Can Still
Dream, Can You?
09/02/2004 07:21 PMPeter
Rojas, in Engadget: Here's our pet theory/secret dream: Apple
didn't include features such as TV tuner because they don't want the
iMac to cannibalize sales of an even nicer media center Mac they have
int he works.
My Dream Home
My Dream Home
06/24/2005 07:51 PMLike general contractors with a psych degree, the architectural firm
called fathom plumbs the depths of your soul to design the house you
want. Our writer gets the blueprints of his dreams.
American Dream?
American Dream?
11/10/2003 11:15 PM''I lived the American dream,'' says Baglio, 70, whose last workday
was Oct. 30. ''I would have never thought I'd last 45 years here.''
That's Louis Baglio speaking, as reported in an article by Johnny Diaz
in the Boston Globe on Sunday. This guy cut hair for 45 years in
downtown Boston and he thinks he lived the American dream! What a
moron! First, not only did he stay at the same job for his entire
career, he only changed his place of employment twice. Even school
kids know that if you want to ratchet your salary, you move from...
You need a license to say "I have a
dream"
You need a license to say "I have a
dream"
12/17/2003 02:40 AMMartin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech is still in copyright (as
is almost everything else familiar in our lives), and Dr King's heirs
strictly enforce the copyright. Wendy Seltzer points out what this
means for free expression and political commentary.
You can always quote a few lines without asking permission, but that's
likely to be the same few lines that have become cliched with
repetition. Quote the whole speech to make a more substantial point,
and you face thousand-dollar license fee claims from the estate. Quote
them to make a point critical of King, and you may be denied a license
entirely.
LinkWelcome to a narrowcaster's dream
Welcome to a narrowcaster's dream
11/20/2003 12:40 AM But I've never
heard of any of these artists... Say hello to iRATE radio. The
premise is simple: mp3's collected from various free sites are
collected and indexed on a common server. You, through your spiffy
iRATE client, are fed mp3's, which you then rate. Over time, your
musical tastes are matched against others, and you are then fed mp3's
which you will like, ostensibly. [...via Bifurnicated Reinvents]
Acting Out A Dream
Acting Out A Dream
05/25/2004 12:50 AMA few years ago, students used simple video recorders to make their
movies. Now they have access to more sophisticated technology
including green screens, sound recording music and various computer
programs -- including Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Express and
iLife. By Erin Snelgrove, The News-Review (via MyAppleMenu)
A LCD Screen to dream for
A LCD Screen to dream for
06/29/2004 01:00 AMThis is one time in my life when I wished I had a rich family
member who I could beg for some pocket change. Engadget has a review
of a soon to be release 1 billion LCD by NEC. All I can say is wow and
as the reviewer at Engadget is predicting the price will probably be
on the extreme high side. But it's always nice to dream. For those of
you who are design artist and photographers you need to check this bad
boy out. [Engadget]
Dream DRM Receiver
Dream DRM Receiver
12/17/2003 02:32 PMDream 1.0 released
Distant dream?
Distant dream?
07/02/2004 03:04 AMCNET Asia Jul 2 2004 6:55AM GMT
Maitreyas Dream
Maitreyas Dream
07/25/2004 12:39 PMRelease 3.1
An Amateur's Dream
An Amateur's Dream
06/19/2004 01:25 PMDaniel J. Watkin (NY Times): His Moment in the Sun. It was the ultimate in surround-sound,
and not surprisingly, because I was sitting smack in the middle of the
stage at Avery Fisher Hall, an amateur clarinetist embedded in the
clarinet section of the New York Philharmonic.
Some
people wish they could play center field for the San Francisco Giants.
Watkin got his dream, to play with one of the world's
great
orchestras. What a cool story.
Reading his account brought back some memories for me. My first "real"
instrument was clarinet, which I started playing in third grade. I had
to stop playing it (and the sax, which I took up in fifth grade) many
years later when a ruined front tooth, from a bicycle accident, was
replaced with a kind of dental bridge that didn't allow the kind of
pressure you have to exert when playing a reed instrument. But I've
always loved the clarinet's sound, whether it's in classical or jazz
or just about any genre where the instrument makes an appearance.
I never was nearly good enough on clarinet to have dreamed of playing
in a serious orchestra. But in seventh grade, before my voice started
to change, I was selected to join a soprano boys choir that performed
in one of Bach's many masterpieces, the
St. Matthew
Passion, in New York's
Carnegie Hall. I confess I was
a bit bored when we weren't singing, but it was an amazing experience
to stand on that grand stage.
Keep the dream alive
Keep the dream alive
06/14/2004 09:03 PM
Movies for Music From the
press
release:
"Movies for Music" (moviesformusic.org) is
an online film contest with a simple aim: to give the public a clear
and honest look at the music industry. As more people learn how the
music business works, major label CD sales will plummet faster. The
contest launches Monday.
The
short film
contest launched today, and first place is a
ZVue handheld video
player.
Geek Wet Dream
Geek Wet Dream
01/03/2004 12:15 AMMy New power adapter. On the back row are my speakers, phone
charger, printer and lava lamp. The front row has a...
i dream of a man whose hopes never end
i dream of a man whose hopes never end
12/05/2003 09:05 PMCouple of nifty news items that I think are pretty cool -- I get
mentioned in an Los Angeles Times story about blogging, and Reuters
picks up a Hollywood Reporter story about my O'Reilly deal. Even
better, both of the stories aren't framed negatively!
Dream groaners
Dream groaners
06/02/2004 08:44 AMI woke up this morning from a vivid dream. Someone had been talking
about a philosopher who liked to fast before he thought. Not for me, I
replied, or else, Rene a la Carte would have written "I think,
therefore I yam." Look, it was just a dream, ok? At least I didn't
have Jean Paul Sartre writing Being and Muffinness. Nor did Sartre say
"Hell is other Peeps." Nor did Kant issue his Categorical Aperitif. So
just leave me alone....
Maitreya's Dream 3.2
Maitreya's Dream 3.2
12/26/2004 05:09 AMSoftware for Western and Vedic astrology (Jyotish).
Dream Bloat
Dream Bloat
12/26/2004 06:38 PM
Everything's bigger in Toulouse. The
world's biggest plane has started rolling off
assembly lines and is expected to take its first flight in March 2005.
The quarter-billion-dollar, twin-deck, four-aisle plane can carry 555
passengers. Thanks to its design's outsized wings, future versions of
the
economical plane may carry as many as 800
passengers.
With the A380,
Airbus hopes to do to Boeing what Boeing did to
its competitors over 30 years ago with the 747. Already, Airbus
Industrie has
outsold and out-delivered Boeing for the
last two years. But don't boycott just yet! It turns out the A380 is
51% American-made. Parts are so big they don't fit
in this
whale-like record-size
transporter (though this
Russian monster may have a
claim); they are transported to Toulouse on a
barge.
More pics. Let's hope this latest
high-tech aerospace gamble does better than
the last
one.
Europe, of course (troll alert), already makes the world's
biggest truck, the
fastest trains, the
best
cars (sorry Japan), and the
most successful rocket launchers.
On a darker topic,
10 years ago, French commandos
boarded an Airbus and killed Islamic terrorists planning to fly it
into the Eiffel Tower.
Dream deferred
Dream deferred
06/23/2004 05:31 PMUSA Today Jun 23 2004 9:50PM GMT
IndyJunior dream
IndyJunior dream
04/21/2004 03:47 PMI user a neat little application called Indy Junior to map my travels. But apparently something's
gone wrong with the XML file I output with Movable Type, because IJ
still thinks I'm in the Caribbean, where I haven't been since early
March. If only I were still on the beach. Thanks for the nice dream,
Indy!
Dream while being Awake
Dream while being Awake
12/08/2002 03:58 PMOblivio points out
a very interesting fact:
All mammals but platypuses dream.
Also: Dolphins have split brains so that when one brain is
dreaming, the other is awake. Otherwise they'd drown.
Poor platypi, lucky dolphins.
I dream of Gmail
I dream of Gmail
04/12/2004 11:20 AMNOTE TO SERGEY BRIN: stop dressing yourself in drag, fire one of your
PhDs, and use the money to buy yourself a cluestick. Then beat your
developers with it until they start taking accessibility seriously.
(703 words)
To dream of the Turkish Guy
To dream of the Turkish Guy
02/12/2004 10:02 AMAudible Revolution, in The Guardian today, talking about Chris Lydon,
Grant Henninger and Audible. Delayed for ages due to some unforeseen
actual breaking news. Meanwhile, Lydon is now at Minnesota Public
Radio, home of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion. Keillor,...
"zamppas dream"
"zamppas dream"
02/19/2004 06:44 AMDream Mergers
Dream Mergers
03/28/2005 11:15 PMIn this time of wacky M&A, I thought I would start a list of dream
mergers. Please add yours, even if they don't entirely make
sense....
"A Pedophile's Dream"
"A Pedophile's Dream"
02/01/2005 09:08 PMKids'
blogs a 'paedophile's dream': I don't think I'd ever let my kid
have a blog. We've schooled him repeatedly on never giving anyone his
real name on EverQuest.
I think he calls himself Frank on that game.
A forensic psychologist has warned that children's blogs pose new
threat to children online. She said blogs are "a paedophile's dream",
because of the insight they give into a child's life, habits and
movements.
[...] She said: "This [blogging culture] is just a paedophile's
dream because you have children uploading pictures, giving out details
of their everyday life because it's an online journal," BBC Online
reports.
Perchance to dream.
Perchance to dream.
03/13/2003 10:25 AMAll week, I have woken up about 2 hours after I fall asleep. I end up
staring at the ceiling for what seems like an eternity, before sinking
into a restless slumber, waking about once every 90 minutes. I have
had terrible nightmares, from which I awake with a scream somewhere
between my stomach and my lips, depending on the severity of the
terror.
I Dream of Paris (Hilton)
I Dream of Paris (Hilton)
08/27/2004 03:59 PMThe nocturnal mind offers insight into a Fool's investing beliefs.
Dream Mergers - guess which one I put
in?
Dream Mergers - guess which one I put
in?
04/06/2005 09:22 PMSusan Mernit tipped me to this.....
Grok Description matches for dream machine
GrokA matches for dream machine
Brion Gysin Dreamachine on display in SF
Brion Gysin Dreamachine on display in SF
08/04/2004 01:47 PMNext week, on Thursday August 12, West Portal Books (111 West Portal
Ave., San
Francisco) launches a month-long
Bri
on Gysin Dreamachine window display, featuring the psychoactive
gadget in round-the-clock operation.
Though mild entheogenic effects may be felt through the window or
inside the store during business hours, optimum viewing is experienced
after dark with eyes closed. This will be the Bay Area's first ever
Dreamachine exhibit, other than the machine's brief appearance during
a William S. Burroughs memorial service held at the SF Art Institute
in 1999. Currently on display at West Portal Books, through August 11,
is a Wishing Machine. The peculiar devices find literary companionship
through Burroughs' work.
Link (
via Mark Pesce's YESCHATON
list)
Mathematics and Sex
Mathematics and Sex
12/17/2004 06:41 PMMathematics of M&M packing
Mathematics of M&M packing
02/16/2004 02:35 PMAccording to a paper in the new issue of Science, researchers were
surprised to discover that M&Ms randomly dumped into a bowl pack
together much more densely than spheres. Why? Assymetric ellipsoids
like M&Ms can touch eleven neighbors when dumped together while
spheres only saddle up to six. Understanding how particles pack
together can help scientists develop new and denser materials, like
ceramics for heat shields.
LinkWeb Components for Mathematics
Web Components for Mathematics
04/18/2005 04:13 AMwebcompmath.jar in action
The Mathematics of Futurama
The Mathematics of Futurama
06/03/2004 10:32 AMPython in Mathematics
Python in Mathematics
04/21/2004 09:13 PMPython in
the Mathematics Curriculum by Kirby Urner is something of a
sprawling masterpiece. It really comes in four parts: the first is a
history of computer science in education, the second an appraisal of
the impact of open source on education and the world at last, the
third a dive in to the things that make Python so suitable for
enhancing the mathematics curriculum and the fourth a discussion of
how computer science and traditional mathematics are likely to play
off against each other in the field of high school education.
It's a long read, but well worth it. Kirby drops in numerous short
Python code samples, such as this neat little implementation of
Euclid's algorithm for finding the greatest common denominator of two
numbers:
def gcd(a,b):
while b:
a,b = b, a % b
return a
His thoughs on open source and general geek culture are worth
digging out even if the main topic of the paper has no interest for
you. Here's a sample:
Additionally, I think a key cultural phenomenon is the evolving
perception of geek culture as a whole. What many students discover is
a global network of loosely organized, yet talented individuals,
including many free spirits. The network is cosmopolitan and guided by
some newly articulated principles regarding how some forms of
intellectual assets should remain freely accessible and reusable.
While these values might seem another ideological pipe dream, were
they expressed in merely political terms, in this case the lingua
franca of the movement is source code, and licensing agreements
designed to protect it against leaking off into the proprietary
sector. Even though Python may be used in proprietary ways, Python
itself remains free.
Kirby presented the talk at Python DC '04 back in March. I wish I'd
been there, but the conference was too close to SxSW for me to make it
to both.
Internet Mathematics
Internet Mathematics
07/08/2004 05:18 AMInternet Mathematicshttp://www.InternetMathemat
ics.org/This new journal publishes research papers
that address fundamental problems, both conceptual and algorithmic,
that arise in dealing with large complex information networks such as
the Internet. Broad in scope, the journal will allow for flexible
adjustment to the evolving needs that arise in real-life applications
and the theoretical foundations. This has been added to
Bot Research Subject™
Tracer Information Blog.
Women In Science and Mathematics
Women In Science and Mathematics
02/01/2005 09:21 PMWomen in Science and Mathematics
1) Yahoo News: Harvard President Criticized for
Remarks
http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne
ws?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_re_us/harvard_president&e=2&
;ncid=
2) Harvard
University: Letter from President Summers on Women and
Science
ht
tp://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/womensci.html
3) Social Forces: Gender Differences
in Mathematical Trajectories
http://fp.ariz
ona.edu/soc/socforcegendermath.pdf
4) Society
of Women Engineers: To the Editor
http://www.swe.org/stellent/idcp
lg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=swe_001267&ssSourceNodeId=20
5) Engineers Week: MentorNet
Founder Responds to Harvard University President’s Comments on Women
in Science
http://www
.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/mentornet.shtml
6)
Nelson Diversity Surveys
ht
tp://cheminfo.chem.ou.edu/faculty/djn/diversity/top50.html
7) Institute for Mathematics and its Applications:
Career Options for Women in Mathematics
http://
www.ima.umn.edu/cwims/abstracts/2-4abstract.html
Recent comments by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers,
regarding women and mathematics have spurred numerous articles and
responses. The first article from Yahoo News (1) gives an overview of
the event, his comments, and some reactions. The comment most at issue
is whether or not innate sex differences might leave women less
capable of succeeding at the most advanced mathematics. The second
website (2) offers Summers’ apology and clarifies his comments. The
third article (3), although from 2001, reviews some previous research
on gender differences in mathematics and discusses findings from a
study that, based on longitudinal data, found that “gender
differences are slight, late developing, and subject-specific.” This
response from the Society of Women Engineers (4) offers some further
insight on why there are fewer women than men in mathematics and
science careers. This next website from Engineers Week (5) invites
others to join the discussion forum on this issue. This website (7)
posts the Nelson Diversity Survey, which gives 2005 statistics for
diversity in science and engineering facilities at research
universities, while the next website looks to the future (6) and
offers some short abstracts describing some prospective Career Options
for Women in Mathematics.
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1994-2004 Internet Scout Project -
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A Guide for Teaching Mathematics
A Guide for Teaching Mathematics
11/18/2003 06:59 AMgeorgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/teachmath.html
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The Mathematics Genealogy Project
The Mathematics Genealogy Project
12/22/2004 01:57 AM
The
Mathematics Genealogy Project. A service of the
Department of Mathematics
at
North Dakota State University,
the project intends to "compile information about ALL the
mathematicians of the world. [...] It is our goal to list all
individuals who have received a doctorate in mathematics." Seven
generations from one of my recent professors back to
Gauss,
six back to
Felix Klein (of
Erlangen
Program and
bottle
fame), eight back to
Jaco
bi, and nine back to
Poisson<
/a> and Fourier, then
Lagrange, then
Euler, then
the Bernoulli brothers, then
Leibniz
, and then it blew up at infinity.
Study Unravels Mathematics of Wildfires
Study Unravels Mathematics of Wildfires
03/22/2005 03:48 PMFrom Budapest to Los Alamos, a Life in
Mathematics
From Budapest to Los Alamos, a Life in
Mathematics
03/28/2005 11:20 PMIn the world of modern mathematics, Dr. Peter D. Lax, professor
emeritus at New York University, ranks among the giants.
Free Dictionary section on Mathematics
Free Dictionary section on Mathematics
05/11/2004 06:18 AMFree Dictionary section on Mathematicshttp://en
cyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/MathematicsIt's hard
to believe it's all free! This trove of information from
thefreedictionary.com offers all sorts of information on math. From
algebra and integers to derivatives and polynomials, it's all here. By
scrolling over or clicking on a link, the visitor is treated to a
sometimes whopping amount of information about the given topic. For
those simply interested in math, math lovers, or possibly a teacher
who needs to venture into a rusty subject area before next fall, this
site is well worth a look. Note: while it's free, there are some
advertisements. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and
Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
World Conference on 21st Century
Mathematics
World Conference on 21st Century
Mathematics
12/06/2003 04:58 AMNetLib Dec 6 2003 4:33AM ET
Applied mathematics gets seven-figure
federal boost
Applied mathematics gets seven-figure
federal boost
04/11/2004 05:01 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Apr 11 2004 9:12PM GMT
6th WSEAS International Conference on
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
6th WSEAS International Conference on
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
11/25/2003 10:22 PMNetLib Nov 25 2003 8:23AM ET
3rd WSEAS Int. Conf. on APPLIED
MATHEMATICS and COMPUTER
3rd WSEAS Int. Conf. on APPLIED
MATHEMATICS and COMPUTER
11/25/2003 10:22 PMNetLib Nov 25 2003 8:23AM ET
National Conference On Recent Trends In
Computational Mathematics
National Conference On Recent Trends In
Computational Mathematics
01/16/2004 11:03 AMNetLib Jan 14 2004 7:24AM GMT
The American High School Internet
Mathematics Competition
The American High School Internet
Mathematics Competition
06/11/2004 05:00 AMHome-school.com - Fri Jun 11, 07:57 am GMT
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for
Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for
Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)
07/29/2004 06:48 AM
Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education
(ENC) http://www.enc.org/ The
mission of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and
Science Education (ENC) is to identify effective curriculum resources,
create high-quality professional development materials, and
disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12
mathematics and science teaching and learning. This has been added to
Student Research
Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
4th wseas international conference on
mathematics and computers and chemistry
4th wseas international conference on
mathematics and computers and chemistry
11/05/2003 06:03 PMNetLib Nov 5 2003 3:37PM ET
Project Euclid: Mathematics and
Statistics Journals Online
Project Euclid: Mathematics and
Statistics Journals Online
05/19/2004 04:47 AMProject Euclid: Mathematics and Statistics Journals
Onlinehttp://projecteucli
d.org/Dienst/UI/1.0/Home"Project Euclid's
mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of
theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is
designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and
society journals. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement,
these publishers join forces and participate in an online presence
with advanced functionality, without sacrificing their intellectual or
economic independence or commitment to low subscription prices.
Full-text searching, reference linking, interoperability through the
Open Archives Initiative, and long-term retention of data are all
important components of the project." Access to the contents of
several dozen ejournals is provided. This has been added to
Statistics Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
4th WSEAS International Conference on
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS
AND ECONOMICS (MCBC'04)
4th WSEAS International Conference on
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS
AND ECONOMICS (MCBC'04)
11/05/2003 06:03 PMNetLib Nov 5 2003 3:37PM ET
Alex Vincent to Speak on Mathematics and
the Web at O'Reilly Open Source
Convention
Alex Vincent to Speak on Mathematics and
the Web at O'Reilly Open Source
Convention
03/06/2004 01:59 AMThree Mistakes in the Moral Mathematics
of Blogging – Marko's Reply to
Clay
Three Mistakes in the Moral Mathematics
of Blogging – Marko's Reply to
Clay
01/17/2004 10:43 PM
Marko points out three mistakes in the moral mathematics of
blogging that Clay has been writing about and articulates very
clearly some key weaknesses in the arguments.
Marko
The first mistake
– lets call it the “Natural Social Institutions”
view – is the simplistic but widely held view that the patterns
resulting from the operation of freely forming networks are acceptable
because the rules of operation of these networks are in some sense
natural.
[...]
The second mistake – lets call it the
“Links from Nowhere” view – claims that link choices
are made under full information about available options and fully
formed values or preferences over those options. We should also reject
this view. Autonomous linking choices are always informed by
incomplete information and incomplete values and preferences. There
are in fact no links from nowhere.
[...]
The third mistake – lets call it the
“Forced Compensation” view – claims that the only
way to address the unacceptable degree of inequality that results from
the operation of a freely forming network is to “force”
people to change their linking behavior. This is a far too narrow view
of the means available to influence the distributions that
arise.
Marko ends by asking some more questions about
justice.
Marko
What
arrangements of inequality are preferable over others from the point
of view of justice? How do we justify to each other the rules,
architectures and tools we adopt in the blogging world?
In answering these questions we should look back to understand the
present. John Rawls put the task description well: “The task is
to articulate a public conception of justice that all can live with
who regard their person and relation to society in a certain way. And
though doing this may involve settling theoretical difficulties, the
practical social task is primary.”
A public conception of justice for freely forming networks. That
could be our shared goal.
You should
read the entire entry on Marko's blog.
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