January 2008
2008.01.24 17:05:22 EST News in the HTML front A few announcements were made recently regarding HTML, the language that websites are built of. First, the w3c (the organization that develops standards for the internet) released a Working Draft of t
2008.01.15 12:46:16 EST Mathematica stupiditiy Goshdarnit! I just did something very stupid. I asked Mathematica to compute a Riemann curvature tensor and print out the out put. But I forgot to tell it to simplify. The result was ... ginormous. I
2008.01.03 14:41:12 EST Walk or Wait? In the paper "Walk versus Wait: The Lazy Mathematician Wins", the authors Chen and Kominers examined the following problem A wants to get from the point 0 to the point d. A has two choices: either it

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