Archive for December, 2008
Light bulbs
02Dec08
The Huntington has a cool new history of science exhibit. One of the displays consists of about a hundred historical light bulbs, including three test bulbs labeled by Edison himself. They constructed a case filled with Nitrogen (in case the seals on the bulbs were broken) and put a few watts through some of the […]
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Bayesian top title learner
02Dec08
I finished my wordpress plugin, and, after fixing a few bugs, I think it’s at a usable version. Here is the plugin page, including source code and theory. The basic gist is that it creates a sidebar in your blog with links to some of your posts. At first, it experiments by displaying random posts, […]
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Throne
02Dec08
I’ve been combing craigslist for a throne to complete my office. Today was the day of anointing.
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