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Seed: “So”

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Seed: “So”“so” is an adverb with many senses. “So, where you been?” “I am so busted.” “So what?” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (24 Apr. 2008). It serves also as a rhetorical operator … [argument, argument ... so [recap] [conclusion].

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Ask E.T.: Sparklines: theory and practice

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Sparklines: theory and practice

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Leuctra

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Sartor resartus

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Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor — Coates and Herbert, 10.1073/pnas.0704025105 — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor — Coates and Herbert, 10.1073/pnas.0704025105 — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Greed/fear, boom/crash, bull/bear

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Ask E.T.: Resolution and dimensional compression

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Ask E.T.: Resolution and dimensional compression: “the human retina transmits data to the brain at the rate of 10 million bits per second, which is close to an Ethernet connection”

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Zillionics

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Zillionics: “Large quantities of something can transform the nature of those somethings.”
(Via The Technium.)

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Bach imagined

Monday, April 14, 2008

Bachhaus Eisenach

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RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service

Sunday, April 13, 2008

RANDOM.ORG - True Random Number Service: “What’s this fuss about true randomness?”

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George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946

Saturday, April 12, 2008

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as [...]

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Bistro

Saturday, April 12, 2008
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