March 2011
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In case you need a bazillionth reason to hate the... →
it would cut my lab’s research money :(
Mar 18th
February 2011
1 post
california love
dad: we've heard all week about the weather over there
me: yeah, it's pretty bad
dad: when i think of new york compared to here, i think of hell versus heaven.
me: that's not the same. there are a lot of nice things about new york.
dad: nope. only for rich people. move home. or at least berkeley.
SERIOUSLY lady. it's 70 degrees and sunny here today!
Feb 6th
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January 2011
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Jan 22nd
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November 2010
1 post
cracking jokes in a paper review I'm writing
The authors describe a method based on ad-hoc “exhaustive comparison” to select a threshold … Although the authors may be tired, they ought to have used a statistically justified method to compare these values.
Nov 28th
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October 2010
2 posts
Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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September 2010
2 posts
Sep 24th
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keyholez: The wife made an excellent, excellent point. Apple’s newly announced “social network for music” is called Ping. The Microsoft search engine everyone uses instead of Google (which no one uses anymore because it sucks in comparison lololol j/k) is called Bing. ????? Also, ping is already a computer thing: in nerd land, you can ping your crush’s computer through Unix to see if...
Sep 2nd
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August 2010
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Aug 26th
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Adult Children Abandoning Parents in Hotels →
allcapsornocaps: sexartandpolitics: jasencomstock: what a great way to get revenge on baby boomers! LAKE MARY, Fla. — Investigators in Seminole County say they’ve discovered a bizarre problem: adult children are dropping off their elderly parents at hotels and motels, and abandoning them.”A lot of the local hotels seem to be getting seniors that are just dropped off by their kids,”...
Aug 23rd
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Moore's Law, speeding along
Bayesian processors are here (in 2013)! Lyric Semiconductor, a spinout from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced on Tuesday a new approach to a technology called “probability processing” … Conventional processors are based on Boolean logic, whose bits have only two possible values. These are represented in various ways, one being “on” and...
Aug 20th
Aug 16th
“Hi everyone. I’m sorry I left earlier :( This time around will be better...”
– the Tumblr formerly known as Ms Mandrake
Aug 10th
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