a woman whose body said you’ve had your last burrito for a while
The Bulwer-Lytton winners have been announced. The winner? Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to...
View ArticleReads 2007 No. 1
I used to write a lot about each book I read but of course I don’t have the time. And besides, I haven’t been reading as quickly as I used to. Unfortunately my dream of more theory/nonfiction hasn’t...
View Articlepaper a day : last encounter routing with EASE
Locating Mobile Nodes with EASE : Learning Efficient Routes from Encounter Histories Alone M. Grossglauser and M. Vetterli IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 14(3), p. 457- 469 This paper deals with...
View Articlewell, it happened again
Only this time, I am taking square to another dimension. Two baker’s dozen may have been the cat’s meow, but my new cubic nature will yield many sparkling treasures, I am sure.
View ArticleActing Like a Thief
I finally watched this documentary that was sent to me a few weeks ago called Acting Like a Thief. It is about the a street theatre organization in India from the Chhara community, a group that was...
View Articlepaper a day : approximating high-dimensional pdfs by low-dimensional ones
Asymptotically Optimal Approximation of Multidimensional pdf’s by Lower Dimensional pdf’s Steven Kay IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, V. 55 No. 2, Feb. 2007, p. 725–729 The title kind of says it...
View ArticleConcert Announcement : A Flowering Tree
Sometime if I have time I’ll write about our first rehearsal with Adams and Sellars. I have also written a small note on some of the religious poetry used in the libretto. A Flowering Tree by John...
View ArticleA first rehearsal with Adams and Sellars
On Monday the SF Symphony Chorus had their first rehearsal with John Adams and Peter Sellars for A Flowering Tree. The opera, which received its premiere at the New Crowned Hope festival, is adapted...
View Articlea little puzzle
Prasad brought work to a halt earlier this week by issuing the following little conundrum. One indepdenent fair 6-sided die is rolled for each of n people. Each person’s number is written on a card and...
View ArticleConditional growth charts
The Annals of Statistics published a “discussion paper” on Conditional growth charts by Y. Wei and and X. He, with 4 comment papers and a rejoinder from the authors. It’s reminiscent of the Crooked...
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