Glass Tardis

A good friend of mine and his wife just had a beautiful baby girl, and I wanted to give them something different. Turns out, the mom is a big fan of Dr Who and so I had the idea of making a stain-glass Tardis nightlight.

So I looked around the interwebs to find a couple of pictures of the Tardis to get the scale/ratio right, and set to cut glass:

Bad Graphs!

One of the good things of the peer review process is that if you publish, you’re eventually going to have to review papers for conferences or journal in your (perceived) area of expertise. Sometimes you get pearls such as “the resulting results of algorithm X are resulted” (true story), or “the dynamics of the attorney of yes no plasmodium” (also true), but sometimes bad science comes from the bad presentation of results.

This is also a (essentially true) story. So I’m reviewing a paper that proposes some kind of method for predicting the value of (some) parameter that minimizes some error function. The method is fast, but not analytic. The graph in the paper looks something like:

Artsy Recycling: follow-up

A while ago I wrote to my mayor to ask for better recycling of electronics and other technological items in my home town. The mayor responded rapidly with good news!

Les Anciens

Contrairement à ce que croyaient les Anciens Grecs, le rôle de la science n’est pas de fignoler des représentations délectables, mais de prendre l’Univers comme elle le trouve.

Marcel Boll

Histoire des mathématiques

Herding Cats

I’m sure you’ve heard the expression herding cats before. When you’re trying to manage programmers, the expression certainly comes to mind. What if programmers were cats, which one would you be?

Wallpaper: The Color of NOT having Backups

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Wallpaper: Frontières imaginées

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Wallpaper: Sibérie minimaliste

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Wallpaper: Split Time

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Wallpaper: 5:59

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