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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Blackberry Storm Bluetooth DUN Ubuntu Update
As a follow up to my other Blackberry Storm Bluetooth DUN post, here’s the more involved process for getting the storm tethered to Ubuntu. I’m using Ubuntu Intrepid / 8.10. The main Bluetooth Dial Up instructions The more specific Verizon … Continue reading
Posted in Gadgets, Tech Support
Tagged blackberry dialup, blackberry storm, bluetooth, bluetooth DUN, storm
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Outliers Book Review
Malcom Gladwell’s latest book, Outliers, is an unintentional layman’s version of the main points of behaviorism. The book’s thesis states that successful people are “grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, Book Reviews, media
Tagged blink, book review, malcom gladwell, outliers, outliers review, tipping point
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Behavior at / around the First Thanksgiving
I’ve gathered a few accounts of behavior at the “first” Thanksgiving. I can imagine most of this social behavior wasn’t particular to just the Thanksgiving celebration – it’s probably general 17th century eating and social customs. Approach to serving the … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, religion
Tagged 17th century, puritan, thanksgiving, turkey
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Bailouts support bad behavior… Don’t do it!
By engaging in bailout after bailout, government bureaucrats in both parties perpetuate the system that is not working: special interest groups getting special treatment. Follow the consequences! By subsidizing failed but well-connected losers with a bailout we collectively are confiscating … Continue reading
Consciousness Explained?
This is just about the best dialogue I’ve read on consciousness. Alva Noë’s model is plausible and falsifiable. And it correctly rejects the notion of internal motive events and the good ol’ mind/body duality. In many ways, the new thinking … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, brain, intelligent agent, philosophy, research, science
Tagged alva noe, consciousness, philosophy
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Natural laws give way to probability
This is somewhat of a follow up to my playful post on Absolute Truth. (read the comment there too for a nice follow up). Here I explore the validity of “laws of nature” as a concept. It appears more and … Continue reading
Why The Speed of Light is Finite
I do wonder why the speed of light is 299 792 458 m/s instead of 400 000 000 m/s or 50 billion m/s. I know it’s constant and like other constants the universe just sort of has them and299 792 … Continue reading
Posted in information theory, science
Tagged e=mc^2, einstein, mathematics, relativity, science, speed of light, theoretical physics
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Page 56 – The Book Meme
There’s a new (but old meme) making it’s way around the web via Facebook Notes/status, Forums, Blog posts and comments. See how far it’s burrowed into the web. Or try technorati if you like. The game is nothing more than … Continue reading
Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, media, social networks, traffic
Tagged book meme, internet meme, page 56, page 56 meme, viral
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Moebius Transformations and the Usefulness of Visualization
Here’s an amazing video on YouTube (this will be old news to many people, as the video got popular last year at this time). I got the back story on this bad boy from American Mathematical Society monthly mag, Notices. … Continue reading
Posted in mathematics, media
Tagged data visualization, math, mathematica, mathematics, mobius, moebius, transformations, visualization
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Blackberry Storm Bluetooth DUN configuration and Speeds
I just jammed that speed test out here inside a big metal gym in Culver City, CA. Not bad. Setting up bluetooth DUN with the new storm is as easy as it was with Blackberry 8830 on Mac OS X. … Continue reading
