July 2011
1 post
Stem-Cell Gamble - Technology Review →
April 2009
1 post
“Quantum Computing is about what we can’t do with computers we don’t...”
– Scott Aaronson
March 2009
2 posts
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s...”
– Richard P. Feynman
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
August 2008
1 post
“nobody shits a masterpiece”
– Merlin Mann
July 2008
3 posts
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the...”
– Douglas Adams
April 2008
1 post
Ooh, That Smell
I’m waiting on my take-out order at Jake’s Hamburgers. The aroma here takes me back to my days working in bars. Stale smoke and old beer. Bon appetit!
March 2008
9 posts
“A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar”
– André Simon
“Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex”
– Frank Zappa
“I have been through some terrible times in my life, some of which actually...”
– Mark Twain
“A good cook is a craftsman, not an artist”
– Anthony Bourdain
“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. ‘I think...”
– Bill Hicks
Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
The dates were announced yesterday: Thu-Fri, May 8-9, 2008
Glencairn Glass
The Glencairn glass truly is the best vessel for whisky http://www.glencairn.co.uk/glass
Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
I’ll be making a decision this week about taking CS-6363 (Algorithms) or CS-6364 (Aritificial Intelligence)
Irony
Isn’t it ironic that in an age where communication has become so text-based, that the average literacy level would be so abysmal?
January 2008
1 post
PhD Qualifiers
The UTD graduate admin told me that results should be coming in by Jan 15.
December 2007
3 posts
The Glenlivet
Nàdurra Cask strength and non-chill filtered
The Wait Is On
Now that quals are over, I just need to find out the results to move on to hardcore research.
Quals
Tomorrow is the last day to study
November 2007
3 posts
PhD qualifying exam
7 days left to study
This is a subject
This is a body
September 2007
6 posts
Lots of PowerBooks and MacBooks here at the Singularity Summit. We are in the bay area.
Post-edit Title
I wish that subject lines were posted from email posting!
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the...”
– Edsger Dijkstra
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
– Edsger Dijkstra
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about...”
– Stephen W. Hawking
August 2007
3 posts
“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I...”
– M. Cartmill
My first tumblr post...
….from my iPhone!!!
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
– Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)