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Does Google think your advisor is important?
Talking about Google funs, this is a must read. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/funny-google.txt From: John Byers To: michaelm@eecs.harvard.edu Delivery-Date: Tue Jan 6 16:33:16 2004 Subject:...
View ArticleP != NP
Proof of P != NP: Proof by contradiction. Assume P = NP. Let y be a proof that P = NP. The proof y can be verified in polynomial time by a competent computer scientist, the existence of which we...
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“This is an ethical question. I am not the right person to ask about it.”
Today Sam Greenfield, Manager of System Development of the Sports Illustrated Magazine, gave a talk on the photographic technology behind SI. During the Q&A section, there was a great conversation:...
View ArticleHigher Cohomology is inevitable?
An old but classic column by Bill Gasarch: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.ps Inspite of Luis’s “proof” this poll still seems as relevant as ever.
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Mark Stehlik Poster
Today our undergrads put up a really huge poster in the NSH Atrium in honor of their beloved adviser Mark Stehlik. Kudos! Click on the image to see it at its original size (6MP/2MB).
View ArticleGreek Food Festival 2005
The 44th Annual Greek Food Festival is coming! The is one event that all is at CMU shouldn’t miss. It’s just a 5 minutes walk away from campus and you get really high quality Greek food. From May 8 to...
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PowerPoint Remix
Edward R. Tufte is an expert in information design. Some of you may have read his pamphlet The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (mostly bashing PowerPoint). Here we have his essential ideas in that...
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Emacs “Hello Kitty” Colour Theme Request
Just saw this at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/ColorTheme: “Hello Kitty” Colour Theme Request After a discussion on #emacs, it was found that we could attract more women and young children...
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foo bar
No, I am not going to admit it. I’ve never used these geeky terms like foo and bar. There is no evidence of this. All we’ve got are just rumors on the Internets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snafu
View ArticlePeekaboom Slashdotted
Luis officially launched Peekaboom a couple days back, but the even more “real” launch is actually today. Here is the story on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and this is the presentation Roy has made on it....
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Adversarial Tetris
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/24/1259241 Unlike normal Tetris(R), however, Bastet does not choose your next brick at random. Instead, Bastet uses a special algorithm designed to choose...
View ArticleArchitects, Chefs and Academic Research Scientists
According to this article in CNN Money, these three jobs have at least one thing in common. Since I am not yet interested in being an architect and I can’t stand the heat in the kitchen, my perspective...
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Anonymnity vs. Anonynmity
I have to decide how this should be spelt. I guess since there is no dispute on how to spell “anonymous”, it should be “anonymnity”. Google agrees, as of this morning: 787 for anonymnity vs. 564 for...
View ArticleInvited Speaker
Imagine what can happen at the US border when you invite a speaker from a foreign country… [T]he customs agents concluded that because Microsoft was covering my flight and accommodation, I was being...
View ArticleHP Calculators
I don’t know how, but my 15-year-old HP 20S calculator just “died” a week ago. As I am looking for a replacement, I learned that the legendary keyboard on HP calculators is now history, at least in the...
View ArticleProfessor of Billiards
Some days ago I was walking in the University Center (a social activity building on our campus) and I saw Mike Shamos. For those of us who studied Computational Geometry, Mike probably needs no...
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How long should your thesis be?
(A legend has been passed to me in verbal form, and it just occurs to me that I have read it before, except I have completely forgotten about it until this morning. The exact quantities below do not...
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