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Alien Radio

I gave an oral exam in my graduate theory seminar yesterday, which included a very simple question (that most of the class, shockingly, got wrong) asking students to figure out how many bits were required to represent a particular piece of information. At lunch today, I asked my wife (the law student) what the answer [...]
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Cerulean blue

It was important to me, at a young age, to have a favorite color. Like most young children, I labored under the belief that I was unique. As such, I found unsatisfying the idea that my favorite color was primary, and shared by millions of other children. If someone else liked “blue,” and I did [...]
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Viral π

Amazon is again playing with viral marketing. If you try their A9 search engine, then buy something at Amazon, they apply a π/2% discount. They then hope that users will pass along this information, as I have here. (I’m not the only one: e.g., here.) The π/2% bit? Someone’s busy memecrafting. I wonder if anyone [...]
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Incitement

I wonder how far the Alabama ban extends.
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My TTCI

My Terry Teachout Cultural Index is 68. (See jump for breakout.)
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Remaindered Links

* Find Your Inner Republican – Since a bi-partisan group of high-level diplomats and military commanders has come forward to promote “regime change” at home due to the incompetence (their word) of the current administration, it may be worth noting that Republicans can promote good policies. (via Gothamist) * Life Switch is a very compelling, [...]
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Remaindered Links

* Short but delightful flash narrative puzzle. * While we’re at it: flash mini-golf, and flash railroad. * House fabbing allows for the roboticized construction of concrete homes from an architect’s drawings. * Creating agent-based -secre- administrative assistants.
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  • Tweets

    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
    • This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
    • @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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