Author Archives: Anton

do me no favors

Argh. In the newest version of Firefox, Gmail puts its content in popups, and I can’t find a way to turn off that behavior. Later: It only did that once, the first time I loaded Gmail after updating Firefox.

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a pretty thing

I eventually got around to ordering my poster from Zazzle. I feared that the colors might be dull, or that JPEG compression would spoil the detail, but it’s even more crisp and gorgeous than I imagined.

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fun with eigenvectors

After installing that matrix math library, I spent a week’s evenings pushing several abstract graphs through my “topological coordinates” program and finding, to my lack of complete shock, that none of them had any neat three-dimensional embedding. Then I tried … Continue reading

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what, if anything, were you thinking?

I hear some surprising things in this job. I trust I’m not violating confidence if I repeat this doozy from a discharge report: At this point the etiology of the [symptom] is still unclear to me; it could possibly be … Continue reading

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hoist a glass

Madhu is getting married in a few weeks — in India. I wish I could go! If each of my readers were to drop a nickel in the tip jar, that should be enough to buy him a drink when … Continue reading

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AI humor

Technopagans; Freefall

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my bad

Last Sunday we found evidence that Pillow had accidentally been locked out the night before (though I thought he could get in by another way). He hid under the bed all that day. Monday he emerged, still nervous. Wednesday I … Continue reading

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