Here we see SteelyKid modeling the very latest in baby fashion: It’s important to start the cult indoctrination early… The fuzzy white thing over the purple cow onesie is her warm fuzzy hooded outfit, seen in more detail in this week’s Appa picture:
Month: November 2008
Many-Worlds and Decoherence: There Are No Other Universes
I seem to have been sucked into a universe in which I’m talking about the Many-Worlds Interpretation all the time, and Neil B keeps dropping subtle hints, so let me return to the whole question of decoherence and Many-Worlds. The following explanation is a recap of the argument of Chapter 4 of the book-in-progress, which […]
Leave the Swans Alone
I flagged this Matt Yglesias post about post-mortem examinations of the financial crisis as something to respond to. Matt writes: I was at an interesting discussion with an ideologically diverse group of people last night of the future of financial regulations. One thing that there was broad agreement on that hadn’t really snapped into focus […]
links for 2008-11-20
Swans on Tea » How (not) to Cook the Books Fun with Benford’s Law, one of those cool mathematical principles whose name I can never remeber. (tags: science math blogs youtube statistics) Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy | The A.V. Club "Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn. […]
Parallel Universes and Morality
A little while back, when I complained about the treatment of the multiverse in Anathem, a number of people commented to say that it wasn’t all that bad. And, indeed, they were right. Compared to last night’s History Channel program on “Parallel Universes,” Stephenson’s book is a miracle of subtle nuance, teasing out the crucial […]
Athletes and Academia, part II
I got a bunch of really good comments to yesterday’s post about athletes and attitudes toward education. Unfortunately, yesterday was also a stay-at-home-with-SteelyKid day, and she spent a lot of time demanding to be held or otherwise catered to, so I didn’t have a chance to respond. I’d like to correct that today by responding […]
links for 2008-11-19
Is getting takeout that much worse for the planet than cooking at home? – By Jacob Leibenluft – Slate Magazine Probably not. (tags: environment science society social-science slate) Michael Nielsen » Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “Outliers”, and the 10,000 hour rule "One of the main claims of Outliers is that putting in 10,000 hours of […]
Baby Quantization Update
In this post we present an update to our earlier measurement of the Baby Feeding Correlation Function: The figure above shows a histogram of the interval between feedings for SteelyKid in the 14 weeks since birth. Error bars represent 1-σ statistical uncertainties. As you can see, we have added a great deal of data since […]
Athletes Aren’t Different
It’s a great time of year if you’re a sports fan. The NFL is in full swing, and college football is coming to the inconclusive end of its season (save for the weird six-weeks-later coda of the bowl games). The NBA and NHL are just starting up, and most importantly, college basketball season has just […]
Einstein and Millikan
In the previous post, I promised to say something more about Einstein and the photoelectric effect. It turns out that I already wrote about this, back in 2005. That post is the end of a long chain of links about the history of photons. This is a good thing, because it frees me from having […]