Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Dr. Krissoff Goes to War
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
People Familiar
Everyone catch the Eph in the lead story in the Wall Street Journal today on Citadel’s investment in E*Trade?
On Monday, Nov. 12, Kenneth Griffin was boarding a plane to New York when he received an urgent call from Joe Russell, a lieutenant at Mr. Griffin’s big hedge fund, Citadel Investment Group. Shares of online [...]
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Panty Raid
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Debating Class Requirements and Public Speaking
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I think my individual supervisor (as opposed to my group supervisor, both of whom I meet with each week) and I have philosophical differences. She comes from the school of exploring and identifying feelings in order to emphathize and noting where they …
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
My paper:The Cultural Struggles of Those Living with High Functioning Autism and Asperger SyndromeI may proofread it again soon.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Written 16 years ago, but still so true today.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
How To Get Into Williams
There are many “chances” posts on College Confidential, requests from potential applicants for comments on their chances of getting into Williams and advice on how to do so. See here, here and here for recent examples. I am often tempted to reply: “Take a genetic genealogy test and, if it comes back black, join the [...]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Gaudino Wikipedia Page
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Getting E-mail
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Williams Cameo on the Sports Guy’s Chat
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Details and History for WNY
Many thanks to Professor Robert Jackall for providing these documents and history on the Williams in New York program in response to this post.
1. The WNY program is still officially a PILOT program, limited to eight (8) spaces a semester. But it is offered in both fall and spring and the College is committed [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Google open-source programming contest
Are you a high school student? Are you interested in computer programming? You should participate in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest! The idea is that students compete to contribute features to various open source projects. You’re guaranteed to get a t-shirt, and you’re also guaranteed to win some money if you [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The central libertarian thesis
People ask me what’s distinctive about libertarianism. (Ok. I’m lying, they don’t, but sometimes they ask me questions about it)
I think what stands out is a relatively simple thesis: “you don’t own me.” Libertarians don’t deny that we have obligations to family, church, or even communities, but they reject the idea that these collectives have a right to dispose of their time or persons as they
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Professor Peter Lipton, RIP
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Tutorial Training
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Perfect numbers, part III
This is the last in a series of posts about perfect numbers. A quick recap of the series so far: in part I, I defined perfect numbers as positive integers n for which , where denotes the sum of the divisors of n. I also revealed that if n is factored into [...]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
After the Wedding
Danish director Susanne Bier had stylistic roots in the Dogme 95 movement, and still relies on a handheld camera, fractured editing, and super-close-ups of eyes or lips, but she’s definitely a distinctive filmmaker in her own right. This story is so…
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Amazing Grace
Whether or not this is “a Sunday-school version of one of history’s great social movements,” financed by a shadowy benefactor of the Religious Right, as alleged by the New York Review of Books, it’s still a pretty good movie with its heart in t…
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Choose Education’s End
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
W@NY
The website for Williams in New York is extremely slick. Kudos to all involved. W@NYC (is that acronym still in use?) seems like an amazing program. Can any readers provide more details? For example, how many people apply? Are syllabi available on-line?
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Video: The Story of Pi
A fun video about , including a nice visual explanation of the formula for the area of a circle, and some interesting places that shows up where you might not expect it to. The video was made by Tom M. Apostol and Jim Blinn as part of Project MATHEMATICS!.
Also, don’t forget to [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Eph ‘75 canopy walk connections in Florida
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
zen and the art
i so want to be zen.i remember reading pirsig’s zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance in 12th grade. most of my classmates mocked it for its new-age (yet outdated) cheesiness, but i ate that 1970s-best-seller up like a plate of MJ-laced brownies. …
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Labor
I find myself a little annoyed at students who argue that, because one must work for a capitalist in a capitalist society, all labor is forced. At some level this is trivially true, but let us consider the alternatives.
There is no social formation worth having where everyone does not work for a living. Unless one is very fortunate, one must work to live under any form of social organization.
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Shepard at National Book Awards
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
an alien landscape
the NICU is crazy. seriously. we throw parties when the babies reach the 1-kilo mark. these kiddies are SMALL. and wrinkly, helpless, delicate, and kind of ugly. in general, i have no idea what i’m doing, and that doesn’t feel so good. i’ve never…
