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Author Archives: Dan Gezelter
Complex networks, robustness, and attacks
László Barabási’s office is down the hall from my own, and he’s an amazing scientist who works on the statistical mechanics of complex networks. I’ve never heard him speak before yesterday, but at yesterday’s talk he gave a great introduction … Continue reading
The Guardian’s Bad Science Column
The weekly Bad Science column in the Guardian looks like fun. The latest one is about strange ideas on dietary supplements being used as anti-bacterial agents, but my favorite by far is the request for the most stupid thing anyone … Continue reading
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Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
This paragraph is from Daniel Dennett’s 1995 book, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life: "Now if you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason-responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief … Continue reading
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Raining Perseids
The August 6th Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a large number of superimposed 30-second exposures of the Perseid meteor shower. The perseid shower peaked last Friday, but this is a great picture.
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Breaking Visual CAPTCHA
I just ran across this wonderful article by Mori and Malik on a technique to break the EZ-Gimpy visual CAPTCHA images that attempt to distinguish between human and automated blog commenters. (Comment, memberlist, trackback and forum spam are a huge … Continue reading
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Kung Fu Science
Kung Fu Science, the physics of Kung Fu! When I first heard about the site, I thought that physical combat would be an odd way to settle scientific disputes, although it would make comment-response sections in the journals a much … Continue reading
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A History of Science on Stamps
I just ran across this wonderful Science Stamp exhibit. It is a real time-wasting collection (the best kind) but I’m struck by how few science and mathematics stamps the US has produced, and how many scientists have been placed on … Continue reading
Online article submission systems
So we just submitted a new article to Biophys. J. I’ve done online article submission through five different sites now; the ACS paragon system is probably the nicest of the bunch and the Biophysical Journal system, well, it needs some … Continue reading
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The Light Bulb Problem
Found another fun web comic called Bug Bash. The June 13th strip brings up a silly interview technique: ask the candidate a thought problem that tells you nothing about the candidate other than his/her ability to rehearse the answers to … Continue reading
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Software Carpentry
Geoff Davis pointed me to the Software Carpentry site, which looks like an intensive web-based course on good software development practices for scientists and engineers. It has been assembled by Greg Wilson and covers topics like Version Control, Automated Builds, … Continue reading
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