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[A]rticles like this ... trivialize the difficulty of learning two extremely different languages. - FoxFox blogged about yet another holier-than-thou article in the Straits Times written by an English-speaking Singaporean, Lee Seng Giap (currently on the NTU faculty), who wrote about how he grew up speaking only (mostly) Hokkien, but strove really hard to learn ...
The first time you do something, it’s science. The second time, it’s engineering. A third time - it’s just being a technician.- Clifford Stoll
I’m sitting on the north courtyard overlooking the main university quad on an absolutely gorgeous summer afternoon. The sun is absolutely exuberant, but it’s perhaps a few degrees cooler than it would be in Singapore, and most definitely sans the cloying, impermeable humidity.It’s been a long time since I sat here under an old aspen ...
Why am I not surprised that the VueStar patent trolling made it to one of my favorite geek comic strips, User Friendly?IANAL, but the thing that worries me most is not that VueStar is gonna grab millions from Google - there’s no way they could successfully prosecute anything in the US - but what’s gonna ...
A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and AlgebraOptimal Stopping and applications
Thanks to twasher who noticed that my RSS feed hadn’t been updating recently. I don’t know what exactly caused it, but it should be fixed now. If you’ve missed any of the posts in the last month, now might be a good time to visit the blog site, catch up via the archives, and help ...
Telling these truths is your job. You have nothing else to tell us. But needless to say, you can’t tell them in a sentence or a paragraph; the truth doesn’t come out in bumper stickers. There may be a flickering moment of insight in a one-liner, in a sound bite, but everyday meat-and-potato truth is ...
Telling these truths is your job. You have nothing else to tell us. But needless to say, you can’t tell them in a sentence or a paragraph; the truth doesn’t come out in bumper stickers. There may be a flickering moment of insight in a one-liner, in a sound bite, but everyday meat-and-potato truth is ...
I was going to keep quiet about this, but I changed my mind. Alex Au at Yawning Bread recently wrote an article questioning Singapore’s push into biomedical research. (Yes, the title …
I was going to keep quiet about this, but I changed my mind. Alex Au at Yawning Bread recently wrote an article questioning Singapore’s push into biomedical research. (Yes, the title …
Fox told me yesterday that the engineers in his building were routinely and wantonly disposing of liters of hydrofluoric acid down the sink after using them for etching.Although a quirk of …
Fox told me yesterday that the engineers in his building were routinely and wantonly disposing of liters of hydrofluoric acid down the sink after using them for etching.Although a quirk of …
The Gulf Stream will flow through a straw provided the straw is aligned to the Gulf Stream, and not at cross purposes with it. - Ann Lamont, Bird by Bird, p 121
The Gulf Stream will flow through a straw provided the straw is aligned to the Gulf Stream, and not at cross purposes with it. - Ann Lamont, Bird by Bird, p 121
So the other day at the local supermarket, I got a coupon for a gallon of free milk. “Was it any brand?” I asked. “Of course”, the cashier said. “It just says …
So the other day at the local supermarket, I got a coupon for a gallon of free milk. “Was it any brand?” I asked. “Of course”, the cashier said. “It just says …
I’m willing to bet ten bucks that the [LHC physicists] don’t see supersymmetry. Then string theory will be dead. What a wonderful thing that would be, it’s back to the philosophy department for them. Don’t get me wrong; string theory is a wonderful thing for geometry, but I think it has absolutely nothing to do ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Weeping sakura, originally uploaded by Elia Diodati. After a long, cold, snowy winter, spring is finally, unequivocally, radiantly in season.
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