the game of life

November 3, 2011

Light posting ahead. D and I will be on vacation / proper-honeymoon-after-five-years for the next couple of weeks. Aloha! Tweet

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Happy Deepavali

October 26, 2011

Apropos of the reason for this Hindu festival: Questions Lit Up, in which Pratap Bhanu Mehta takes on the Delhi University ban on teaching A.K. Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana and chides the Indian left and right for hijacking the culture for political gain. … The Right commits the mistake of assimilating all tradition to [...]

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My Eulogy For Michael Stern Hart

September 14, 2011

I promised I’d see him through to the end. He wasn’t there any more, but being a pallbearer was my way of keeping that promise. In case I tripped and fell while carrying the substantial coffin, I asked our friend Ben Stone to be on standby. Ben, “Surprisingly, they’re not that heavy. The important part [...]

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Michael Hart Remembered Online – UPDATED

September 8, 2011

This post serves as a roundup of good online articles on and tributes to Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg and close friend, who passed away two days ago. If you come across any that are not here, please link to them in the comments. So much love ad respect out there for Michael; [...]

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Michael Stern Hart, 1947-2011

September 7, 2011

Founder of Project Gutenberg, Michael Hart, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Urbana, Illinois yesterday. The world has lost a true renaissance man, the one who first gave us the gift of electronic books (eBooks). I have lost my oldest friend and confidant in these United States. Read Michael’s obituary, wonderfully written by Greg [...]

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On Bayes And Uncertainty Analysis

August 18, 2011

“When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” — Thomas Bayes, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister The New York Times reviews Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. Three [...]

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I’m A Dirty, Dark Tamilian

August 16, 2011

Oh, she actually meant dirty. From IndiaTV: A US diplomat was caught in a row after her remarks of “dirty and dark” Tamilians, prompting the American consulate [in Chennai] to term them as “inappropriate”. “I was on a 24-hour train trip from Delhi to Orissa. But, after 72 hours, the train still did not reach [...]

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“Honest Debate”

July 27, 2011

Juan Williams was on the Bob Edwards show yesterday promoting his new book. He stated again that people in Muslim garb in airports do frighten him (without any caveat this time) and that his saying this is part of Honest Debate. If you’re truly interested in such debate, the first rule is to question the [...]

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Of Addicts And Writers And Doing And Being

July 25, 2011

I’m currently reading two books. (I probably do this in keeping with my Vatul nature; consider it an offering to my ancestors, if you will.) They are Bob Woodward’s Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. The books have nothing to do with one another and [...]

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Québec City Was Founded On A High Cape Of Utica Shale

July 18, 2011

Québec City sits between the Laurentian highlands of the southeastern Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains that were formed during the Taconic and Acadian orogenies. Bedrock here is the Upper Ordovician Utica shale that “overlies the predominantly shallow marine carbonate facies of the Cambrian-Ordovician St. Lawrence Platform” (or St. Lawrence lowlands).The [...]

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