Comments for The Unapologetic Mathematician

Comment on HEY YOU GUYS! by John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:13:27 +0000

I noticed the same thing happen on Stuff White People Like. Loading up the “recent posts” feed shows what it should, so I think it’s in Google Reader.

Comment on HEY YOU GUYS! by Vishal Lama

Vishal Lama — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:11:32 +0000

I have subscribed to your blog through Google blog reader and for some strange reason, posts that do not belong to your blog have started showing up now in my blog reader. I have nine posts (which actually belong to the WordPress.com guys) that are being shown as if they belong to your blog. I wonder if you noticed it. Is there some problem with Google reader or is there a problem with WordPress itself?

Comment on Oh, Flock by Michael McCliment

Michael McCliment — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:07:48 +0000

The really tricky part with offline previewing is setting up the LaTeX rendering process. That’s set up on the web server side, so you’d need to be running local installations of a web server, database, and WordPress before even starting to set up the LaTeX plugin.

Comment on 60 Second Science? by John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:21:16 +0000

lylebot: First, as I quoted, the article insists that foreknowledge makes no difference. Second, I said that I asked my mother to watch the video without telling her what was supposed to happen, so she actually had no foreknowledge.

Comment on 60 Second Science? by lylebot

lylebot — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:18:16 +0000

It’s likely that you’d get a different result if you watched the video without foreknowledge of the effect. It’s my experience that knowing the “trick” to audio effects in particular makes them much easier to detect—for example, knowing how some of the audio effects in Lord of the Rings were done completely ruins certain scenes for me (I can’t watch the Balrog scene without imagining a cinderblock being dragged across asphalt, for instance), while knowing how visual effects were done never does.

Comment on Oh, Flock by John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:08:16 +0000

Yeah, most extensions are pretty pointless. Safari opens up a lot of real estate for me and then gets the hell out of my way, which I like. I thought I’d give Flock a try, based on some reviews, but it didn’t live up to the hype.

Comment on Oh, Flock by Katie Fellows

Katie Fellows — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:47:39 +0000

Eh. I gave Flock a try awhile ago, but I moved back to Firefox, and then to Camino (now that I have a Mac). Flock is Mozilla-based, so it’s pretty much Firefox with a zillion extensions, in my eyes.

By the way, hi. Haha.

Comment on HEY YOU GUYS! by billy hudson

billy hudson — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:30:48 +0000

YES! We just returned the first of the “Best of the Electric Company” disks to Netflix. My recently-turned-8-year-old is hooked!

Comment on 60 Second Science? by hilbertthm90

hilbertthm90 — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:49:14 +0000

I without a doubt hear “ba ba” even though that is not what it looks like he is saying. I think that they should run this again and pay attention to whether or not the people have studied other languages excessively.

I may have picked up the ability to distinguish, since I have learned from other languages that actual sounds leaving the mouth don’t always match up with what I think they should sound like.

Comment on Oh, Flock by musesusan

musesusan — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:20:33 +0000

Ah, good point. I hadn’t even thought about that.