The ultrasound shows he's a healthy 13-ounce boy.

I should be going to bed, but for some reason I'm still awake, so I should note something I found a few days ago ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago I realized the following (which I'm sure has already been well enumerated by mathematicians before):

( cut for math... )

One thing that hurt the Linux experience for me (until just now) was that Adobe's Flash plugin for Firefox on Linux couldn't produce audio.

To remedy this (assuming Ubuntu), go to System-Administration-Synaptic Package Manager, select "libflashsupport" for installation, and click "Apply". Tada!

When we say that a tool is "easy to use", we could mean a few different things. We could mean "knowing nothing beforehand, I can pick up this tool and figure out quickly how to make it do what I want". Let's call that kind of ease "discoverability". We could also mean "if you know what you're doing, accomplishing what you want is made much ( Read more... )

Wisconsinites, check your weather soon. Tornado warnings are in effect for southern Wisconsin.

Each layer in this image was generated by the same method.

A graph (to a computer scientist) is a set of nodes and arcs connecting them. A tree is one kind of graph- a network with no loops in it. A "rooted tree" makes one node special- it's the "root"; for any node, the nodes connected to it that are farther from the root are called the " ( Read more... )

( For new parents or parents-to-be... )

My computer has spent an hour and a quarter parsing 11 billion tokens in its quest to finish a very large simulation. I'm just hoping it doesn't crap out with an out-of-memory error before the render begins in earnest. I'm thinking I should've installed the RAM upgrade before starting this render ( Read more... )

The Wisconsin Vote FAQ and a polling place finder.