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Goodbye Wordpress, Hello Hakyll!
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Hakyll!
I’m moving this site to http://holdenlee.github.io/blog. All posts on this blog will remain here, but the site will no longer be updated. I describe some of my reasons for the move in my first post. I’ve enjoyed blogging with WordPress, but it’s come time for me to graduate and manage my own blog, built using Hakyll. I’ve prioritized functionality over design, and am still in the midst of setting…
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December Links and Activities
December Links and Activities
New: I created a shared workflowy for sharing notes that I take. (I put in some notes on linguistics and neural nets.) (h) means personal highlights. Books I read this year Don’t let the energy escape A beautiful implementation of Conway’s Game of Life and variants Hitchhiking robot meets its end in Philadelphia. I’ve started using Feedly to get all the blogs, etc. I subscribe to in one place.…
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A friendship lost at sea (poem)
A friendship lost at sea (poem)
1 You’ll be captain, you said, and I’ll be first mate. I’ll ask you questions, you give me answers, and I’ll be the devil’s advocate. (more…)
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The Saskiad, Brian Hall
The Saskiad, Brian Hall
(goodreads, detailed notes) Saskia thinks of Thomas, walking inland with his oar on his shoulder. He walked until no one knew him or his people, until he was so much a stranger in a strange land that the man at the gate mistook his oar for a winnowing fan. What would Saskia’s “oar” be? The Saskiad is a rite-of-passage story written in stream-of-consciousness. It’s about imagination, the desire to…
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Computer Science for the Masses, Robert Sedgewick
Computer Science for the Masses, Robert Sedgewick
Robert Sedgewick, professor of computer science at Princeton, gave a talk on Thursday on “Computer Science for the Masses,” outlining his vision for education in the future. He used as example his experience in turning the introductory CS course and algorithms course at Princeton into a MOOC and a “blended” course at Princeton. You can browse his courses on Coursera. Notes I took during the talk…
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November links and activities
November links and activities
I moved my website to http://holdenlee.github.io. I’m using tiddlywiki, which has many cool features like filtering and transclusion. Math and computer science What’s a mathematician to do? (If you can’t make a “significant” contribution, what’s the point?) Mathematical microagressions, Francis Su We should be mindful of the language we use when teaching mathematics. Here, microagressions refer…
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October Links and Activities
October Links and Activities
Links (*found especially interesting, [h] personal highlights) It’s decorative gourd season, motherfuckers! http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers *Winnowing Oar – some penetrating posts: http://celandine13.livejournal.com [h] Some links followed from Winnowing Oar Ivy League’s Failure Is Wall Street’s…
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Wymar, the city of wind
Wymar, the city of wind
Wymar was the city of wind. It was nestled between hills. Each house had a weathervane, with some icon that glinted in the sun: a silver lark, a spinning solar system, a blue-and-white teacup that crawled with Sina-style dragons, a whale, a bionic dancer in heels. They swiveled and creaked. Laundry fluttered on lines that were weighed down with round, golden ornaments in the shape of fruit.…
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The LLL lattice basis reduction algorithm
The LLL lattice basis reduction algorithm
I gave a talk on Tuesday at the “Gems of Theoretical Computer Science” seminar on the LLL algorithm. Abstract: The LLL (Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász) algorithm is a lattice reduction algorithm that can approximate the shortest vector in a lattice, and has numerous applications (which I’ll cover as time permits), including polynomial-time algorithms to factor polynomials over the rationals given an…
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Links and Activities, 9/2015
Links and Activities, 9/2015
*Found particularly interesting. Links and readings Podcasts *Sexistential (Strangers) – An eye-opening documentary, and probably not what you are expecting – Main idea: with society’s contradictory attitudes on sexuality, there is no safe space for people to learn about sex. This is where Kendra Holliday, sex surrogate, steps in. *Darkode (RadioLab) – Large-scale organized Internet crime. Enjoy…
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Media consumption, 8/23-9/5
*denotes something I found particular interesting. [h] is a highlighted page (I’m in the habit of using scrible to highlight web pages I read – these are for my own convenience and I don’t expect others to find them useful). Science fiction (or reality?) Seasteading (*n+1 [h], valleywag [h]), A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace *On the singularity [h] Science Fiction and Fantasy…
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Media consumption, 8/9-22
Podcasts Science Friday The Moth (itunes) *Camp, Cars, Cockroaches, and the Kremlin. I really liked Meg Wolitzer’s story. Some things it’s about: enjoying an experience rather than caring about achievement; becoming best friends with someone you’re jealous of (which seems really hard! but it’s something you can just do. it’s a powerful moment in the story), with curiosity helping? Snow White and…
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Media consumption, 8/2-8
Podcasts State of the Re:Union (“Telling the story of America, one community at a time.”) – only found this after it had ended… They’ve collected some of their favorite stories in travelogue: *Travelogue Volume 1 – a radio show that connects family with inmates, “Dear Baltimore”, friars bringing joy to the Bronx, an Alaskan artist (“I don’t do tradition. Tradition is surviving. I create.”), final…
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Media consumption, 7/26-8/1
* = found particularly interesting Podcasts 99% Invisible Automation paradox*: 2-part series on automation. 170 Children of the magenta – How automation has changed airplane safety (no question it increases safety, but automation can lead to incompetence – pilots being too reliant) 171 Johnnycab: A world with self-driving cars. How would cities change? 172 On location: on the Bradbury building,…
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Media consumption, 7/19-25
To keep track of some of the stuff I read/watch/listen to/play. Perhaps I’ll post one of these every week or two. Podcasts Mau Mau (Radiolab) – uncovering dark secrets of Britain’s colonial past in Kenya The teacher who couldn’t read (Strangers) NUMMI 2015 (This American Life) – a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota – how GM learned/failed to learn from Japanese business practices…
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Inside Out
I saw Inside Out recently and I loved it! Some ramblings. I’m fascinated with the whole “society of mind” idea – the idea that what constitutes our consciousness or our intelligence isn’t just one central entity (oneness is an illusion) – but rather a large collection of agents – feelings, methods of reasoning, etc. – cooperating/competing in our minds. To turn this into a story – portray all…
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Namba.elm: A fast-paced arithmetic game
Namba.elm
Play me at http://bit.ly/playnamba. Source code is available at http://www.github.com/holdenlee/Namba. This is the minimal playable version (v0.1) – leave me some comments so I can make the next version better. Detailed instructions (plus thoughts on making the game, and directions to go from here) follow. But see if you can figure it out by yourself first. If you get a score >10, let me know in…
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