According to the many-worlds interpretation, every time a quantum event happens the universe splits into many universes, each of which observes the result of the quantum interaction as something different. Recently, I have felt like most of these universes exhibited what is known in the machine translation literature as "spurious ambiguity." This ( Read more... )

Sorry, Batman fans.


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I am officially staying at Hopkins, where I will enter into third-year PhD status.

If you're a scientist, I need your scientist-sympathy tonight ( Read more... )

Okay, USC, you redeemed yourself ( Read more... )

USC: Try our Master's programs ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Yom Kippur. Tonight was the first time I had been to a Kol Nidre service. It seemed about the same as tomorrow's service, probably ( Read more... )

My grandfather died Thursday night. Here is an article about that ( Read more... )

My other post got eaten, so I'm rewriting at least part of it. Without any further introduction, the tasting menu from an excellent restaurant that I went to near San Sebastian in the Basque region of Spain. (I'm in Bordeaux right now.)

The Best of Martin Berasategui's Cuisine ( Read more... )

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