Three hundred years ago today, Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler) was born. Happy birthday to the master, one of the true titans of mathematics, and likely the most prolific mathematician of all time.
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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My esteemed music columnist Dr Paco Malo recently sent me a link to a Washington Post article on the complete lack of privacy in email, as email is commonly handled.
The problem is that a given piece of email visits various computers on the way from its origin to its destination. Each of these computers [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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Sometimes people threaten to sue bloggers in an effort to make sure something does not become known. Frequently that backfires (look up Streisand effect), as other bloggers put up bunches of links so that google takes note. Here is a case in point, courtesy of Bob Krumm who writes:
Katherine Coble and her husband are [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2007 by pwyll
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Posted on April 11th, 2007 by pwyll
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(Simul-post)
Thanks to Benson Williams for inspiring this post.
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My job here is to get you to go to the library and check out [...]
Posted on April 11th, 2007 by Paco Malo
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One of my favorite new bloggers is David Thompson. In a post called Peddling Stupidity, Mr Thompson considers the writings of “radical cyber-feminist” Carolyn Guertin.
Guertin’s work speaks for itself; Thompson provides examples.
Within quantum mechanics, the science of the body in motion, the intricacies of the interiorities of mnemonic time - no longer an [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2007 by pwyll
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