Monthly Archives: September 2005

Binary Encoding

On Wednesday, I prematurely aborted the discussion of coding. I’ve gotten a couple of emails on this now, the one most recent from Richard. To remind you, we had a four-symbol code, consisting of H, A, L, and _. If these symbols were equally distributed, we the number of bits required is 2. We know [...]
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Job blogging

I just erased a long entry about why I was leaving UB, and what I am looking for in a new job. It took a while to write, and it was probably good for me to write it out. But it was also probably also too honest to do me any good. Transparency has its [...]
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Blogs/Wiki Workshop

Not a lot of people are local readers, but if you happen to be one, I’m doing a workshop for the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo on Weblogs and Wikis this coming Wednesday (9/28) from 10am to noon. Register (for free!) at the ETC site. I’ll post related materials as soon as… [...]
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Generalized Video

As I got on my short Jet Blue flight home Wednesday night, nearly every monitor was re-(re-re-) playing the landing of the stuck-gear jet at LAX. I had been in class, and not following the event. I mentioned to the flight-crew that having a “crash landing” Jet Blue jet on the displays was probably not [...]
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Avast, Waisters!

Ahoy, me buckos! I be a mite late on the orders for the weeks to come. Arrrrrr… Here be a few tales, to be followed by more come high water, or to be sure I’ll be feeling rope’s end from the lot of ye’. (Aye, it is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.) September 28: [...]
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Next couple weeks

I‘ll have a few more weeks up later in the week. This coming week provides an example of why I wanted some flexibility. While we will talk about Baeyer’s definition of information and its place in science and society this week, we are going to put off the idea of information more common to information [...]
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It’s too damn hot.

Weather.com says it is only 85 degrees out, but whether because I am tired or because of the heat, I can’t seem to think. When we moved into our place, we didn’t put in air conditioners (the building is c. 1928, so no central air) because, (a) it’s September (!); (b) having paid to move, [...]
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