2005.11.16 23:37:41 EST Modifications/testing post I am rewriting part of the blogOhm engine. I've noticed that only with the small number (70 or so) of entries, my bash based blogOhm system is running into some bottlenecks. One of the things that is
2005.11.16 23:11:47 EST Folding Paper: beyond Conventional Wisdom The conventional wisdom: It is impossible to fold any piece of paper, no matter how big, small, thin, or thick, more than 8 times. It has been cited by many sources and quoted often in kids' programs.
2005.11.15 21:35:51 EST How spaghetti break Science News carries a report on How Spaghetti Breaks. The breaking of Spaghetti is a curious phenomenon. For a casual cook like me, the passing notice that the handful of spaghetti used to make dinne
2005.11.07 21:43:25 EST Cow-tipping: Fact or myth? I smell an Ig Nobel in the making. Link to TimesOnline article. Apparently Margo Lillie, Ph.D. research associate of zoology at UBC (the same department that gave us a study of Herring Farts, which wo
2005.11.05 22:10:34 EST A big political mess in Taiwan A summary of what happened thus far, courtesy of Mom: The Taiwanese government has been involved in construction projects. One of which is the High Speed Rail system (高速鐵路
2005.11.03 13:38:50 EST Cover's Game In response to my recent post about Monty Hall problems, DJP send me a link to Cover's Game(*). (Courtesy of Harvard CS department CS220r: Cryptography taught by Professor Michael Rabin. For the 2005
2005.11.03 13:12:12 EST Some elementary thoughts on Littlewood-Paley theory Man, do I feel stupid for taking this long to figure it out. Since Qian asked me to look over her paper on the equivalence of Besov norms defined relative to Klainerman-Rodnianski's Geometric-Littlewo