Author Archives: Anton

cinema 1966

Posted on Friday, 2006 May 12 by Anton

大菩薩峠 (Dai-Bosatsu Pass aka Sword of Doom) (dir. 岡本 喜八,). The fight scenes are more preposterous than average: not only do the red shirts attack the champion one by one rather than rushing him, they seem to be aiming to … Continue reading →

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QotD

Posted on Thursday, 2006 May 11 by Anton

Solutions to this [public goods] problem in the context of basic research are discussed at some length by Terence Kealey. (The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996) Knowledge of current cutting edge research – Kealey’s … Continue reading →

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easy diagnosis

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 May 10 by Anton

Google Mail does a good job of catching spam, but a mediocre job of flagging “phishing” fraud within the spam trap. One very simple clue: if it contains <a href=”http://scamhost.ru/paypal/”>http://www.paypal.com/</a> it’s not likely to be kosher.

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King Numbers

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 May 10 by Anton

You may have heard me advocate abolition of the US judiciary, as a way to restore some of the tension between Federal and State authorities that Publius considered so important. Failing that, I’ve also proposed to eliminate the “jackpot” effect … Continue reading →

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moods

Posted on Monday, 2006 May 08 by Anton

When the FDA banned tryptophan in 1990, it did not get around to restricting tryptophan’s metabolite 5-hydroxy-tryptophan. Since learning that a few weeks ago, I’ve been experimentally taking it; it seems to give my mood a floor. Today, though, I … Continue reading →

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nothing’s perfect

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

Since moving back to MacOS from Red Hat, I do miss a few features: ability to resize a window by dragging any edge, not only the bottom right corner ability to send the current window to the back with a … Continue reading →

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when grown-ups play with blocks

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

I’ve redone the Wikipedia page on convex uniform tilings of Euclidean 3-space. It occurs to me that one could enumerate the convex uniform tilings of flat, spherical and hyperbolic 3-spaces by an approach similar to what I’ve used to find … Continue reading →

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