Unsolved (math) problems…

Man, I love unsolved problems in any field of science or philosophy. This does not mean I don’t enjoy reading the elegant solutions or re-derivations of solutions to problems solved long ago (I’m looking at my grad studies Galois Theory prof and his re-derivation of everything in…

The joys of cardinality — part 1

So, here’s an article I’ve been meaning to write for a while. I love Cantor’s diagonal proof of how there are as many rational numbers (of the form a/b, for example 1/5 or 1/2 or 3/5) and yet there are more real numbers (this is the numbers with an infinite expansion of…

Exponential Growth == Good!

One of the pet things that excite me every day is the possibility of exponential growth from renewable power sources. This isn’t because I’m a hippy trying to save the planet, it’s because the more I do the numbers, the more it just makes good economic sense. (I’m simply a…

Abstract from an unfinished paper

Going through my old computer files and ran across this paper that I have 95% written, but just cannot seem to get myself to finish:

An economy is a complex flow system with the conserved quantity “value” moving either between agents in the…

Correlation v. Causation

For many many years, I’ve been told that if I just go and work out more, I’ll be happier, or at least I’ll be less depressed. There is study after study that shows that people who work out more are happier in life.

Texas Sharpshooter fallacy made large

Academia has a fascinating issue I’ve been pondering about recently. In essence, the fact that almost all journals have a clear and obvious bias towards positive results, there is almost a guaranteed texas sharpshooter fallacy that will occur over time when many…

Cars, tires, blowouts, and the Gardiner

This is my exciting story of wildness and madness today. It’s not really that exciting, but I’m having so much fun refining it and repeating it, that I will repeat it one last time here.

It’s not pretty, but here’s the code for the badgeduino Modem

From the 24 Hours of mad hacking, here’s the two repositories for the Badgeduino-Modem + iPhone controller:

My dream for PR.

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I’ve had a few very interesting conversations and the organizations I’ve managed have had to make a very difficult decisions this last week.