Monthly Archives: April 2007

fun with eigenvectors

Posted on Saturday, 2007 April 28 by Anton

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?

Posted on Friday, 2007 April 20 by Anton

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

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 April 03 by Anton

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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