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My Birthday
Another decade ends and begins. Nice cake!
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The Lord of the Rings Symphony at the Sydney Opera House
Howard Shore has taken his very popular compositions for the movie version of The Lord of the Rings and put them together as a concert symphony. Beatrice and I attended the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s performance, conducted by the composer, of the symphony at the Sydney Opera House on Friday night. The performance included the talents…
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Finished the semester
That’s it! Submitted my final project for the semester. I can now enjoy the last day of the long weekend. Disappointed, though, especially with that project. My program didn’t work well and really ran out of time. Nothing to do about now, but relax.
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Do they just choose to ignore us?
A paper by Kaminski et al. in the June 11 issue of Science (also the Sydney Morning Herald) is reporting on evidence that dogs, like children, are able to infer the meanings of new words after a single exposure in a process known as "fast mapping". This knowledge can be retained for at least a…
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The Virial Theorem
In a recent colloquium that I attended mention was made about the virial theorem with relation to star formation. John Baez seems to have a good explanation of the virial theorem.
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Beauty analysis
I have seen something on a documentary about the mathematical basis of beauty. I’m not going to vouch for the Marquardt Beauty Analysis (I suspect there’s some vanity in the website), but it looks like some fun to download the beauty mask and try it out for yourself on images of people you think are…
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