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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang

Professor of mathematics at Oral Roberts University
Benitez backs placenta treatment - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2...
Does this make any sense? - Andrew Lang
not to me - Jean-Claude Bradley
blathering nonsense based on the report but you know that's what the world works on these days. - Cameron Neylon
Mathematics: To Everywhere in 42 Minutes - http://www.time.com/time...
<p>Although he is now 36, and a mathematician for Sylvania, Paul Cooper has never lost his boyhood enthusiasm for the fanciful science-fiction stories of Jules Verne. While musing about... - Andrew Lang
and students say math isn't fun - it reminds me of the space elevator in terms of exciting concepts - I wonder which is more likely to be built - Jean-Claude Bradley
Solvents clustered by Abraham solvation parameters using happieclust. ref: http://friendfeed.com/danielm...
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This should help us pick sets of diverse solvents. - Andrew Lang
Is there a reason to use approximate clustering over an exact method? The dataset isn't very large if I recall. Is there a big difference with say standard hierarchical clustering methods? - Rajarshi Guha from iPhone
For small datasets it should do exact. Just to make sure I used the the flag --all-pairwise. Didn't seem to change but you're right - I needed to make sure. - Andrew Lang
[Book Removed from Oswald's Home] The Portal to Texas History - http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:...
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http://www.pcworld.com/busines... Google acquires Gizmo5
"The Gizmo5 purchase is just the latest in a string of acquisitions for Google. The purchase of On2, reCAPTCHA, and now Gizmo5 are overshadowed by the mammoth $750 million purchase of AdMob, but each adds a new dimension to what Google has to offer. The Gizmo5 purchase offers Skype some formidable competition in the short term, but the bigger picture will be what Gizmo5 allows Google to do in developing Google Wave into a more complete unified communications platform." - Andrew Lang
EXCLUSIVE: 'Independence Day' Sequel To Be Two Movies, Possibly Called 'ID4-Ever' - http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009...
Integrate Wolfram Alpha Into Google's Search Result Page | Universe Firefox - http://www.universefirefox.com/add-ons...
Sortase A Inhibition By Ugi Products (Complex) - http://www.slideshare.net/AndrewL...
Sortase A Inhibition By Ugi Products (Complex)
I wouldn't say Ugi products form within minutes or seconds - at least the ones we do take hours or even days - Jean-Claude Bradley
I took that from a quote, "The exothermic U-4CR usually proceeds fast, within seconds or a few minutes at room temperature or below." from an article: Alexander Dömling, Ivor Ugi. Multicomponent Reactions with Isocyanides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 3181. I do agree with you that it does take longer than that for the product to precipitate. - David Bulger
interesting David - I don't think we are using unusual reactants - Jean-Claude Bradley
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
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Second Life Duty Is Now Required for Penn State's Online Advisers - http://chronicle.com/blogPos...
I wonder how much backlash they will get from students who really don't want to do it. - Jean-Claude Bradley
It is mandatory for the advisors - optional for the students. - Andrew Lang
thanks Andy - I didn't catch that - Jean-Claude Bradley
Google now indexing thumbs. Final page of solubility book: Solubilities of inorganic and organic compounds: a compilation of ..., Volume 1 By Atherton Seidell
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it actually looks like a toe - Jean-Claude Bradley
Correct. Tis pink, looks like a form of shoewear with desert like background to me so, might this be "Toe in the Sahara, with shoe" Featuring Sting and @cromercrox :- http://www.last.fm/music... - Graham Steel
or does this prove Megan Fox made this scan http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip... - Jean-Claude Bradley
Is this already be digitized by typing monkeys? - Egon Willighagen
it is automatically generated Egon - just waiting for me to get the preface done.... - Jean-Claude Bradley
Jean-Claude... you mean, you are getting the data rescued already? - Egon Willighagen
no sure what you mean by rescued Egon - Jean-Claude Bradley
@JC I think Egon is talking about people transcribing the Seidell's solubility book. @Egon I think JC is talking about the ONS solubility book. :) - Andrew Lang
thanks for the clarification Andy - Marshall already uploaded most of the carboxylic acids and aldehydes - yes I was referring to our own book Egon - Jean-Claude Bradley
Ah... JC, sorry... I did not realized you were compiling an own book :) @Andrew... yes, I was talking about transcribing values from the Seidell book... I might know someone who wants to help with that (or at least try it; he's not a chemist)... - Egon Willighagen
My mistake Egon about the confusion with the book - yes we have one coming out soon. As for help with adding data from the Seidell book I think we have most of the relevant compounds. And it would require a chemist to translate the way names were done back then - also much of it requires conversion between g/100g solvent or g/100g solution to molar, etc - Jean-Claude Bradley
Unemployment Visualization http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
3.9% for white male college graduates ages 25-44. - Andrew Lang
48.5% for black males without high school diplomas ages 15-24. - Andrew Lang
Ubiquitous information technology fields - http://futurememes.blogspot.com/2009...
"...once any area becomes an information technology, it starts conforming to the exponential curves of Moore’s Law..." - Andrew Lang
great post - if we can figure out a way to automate the execution of the DoSol sheet it should go exponential - that is our bottleneck right now - Jean-Claude Bradley
Invisibility Uncloaked - http://www.sciencenews.org/view...
Didn't know about this part of the story "But it was another PRL reviewer’s rebuke that opened Leonhardt’s eyes wide. It said he was not alone. The assessment, routinely shared with Leonhardt, indicated that the reviewer had been to two meetings in the previous months “in which John Pendry discussed his group’s efforts on the same issue, calling it a cloaking device or their Hogwarts project in reference to the cloak of invisibility associated with the Harry Potter series.” Pendry and his colleagues, the assessment added, “supposedly have filed a patent related to this work.” Hence, the anonymous reviewer declared, the work was not new and did not merit publication in PRL." - Andrew Lang
Flickr as a paintbrush - http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog...
Cool visualization. - Andrew Lang
let the remixing never end - Jean-Claude Bradley
I don't think he knows what 'not yet' means.
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So Bad It's Worse - http://xkcd.com/653/
so where do you put the recent Star Trek movie? I know you had some problems with the physics :) - Jean-Claude Bradley
Red Matter?! It really disturbed my English prof. colleague when I told him the implications - that everything, TOS, STNG, DS9, all the previous movies, etc now effectively took place in a parallel universe. - Andrew Lang
aren't the previous shows in an alternate (now extinguished) timeline, not a parallel universe? - Richard Akerman from BuddyFeed
You're right Richard. They're not going to 'fix' things like they did in the City on the Edge of Forever, for example, that is what disturbed my colleague - he has invested a lot of time in Star Trek. :) "The first one did what it was required to do, which was bring the family together and reset," Abrams explained in an interview with MTV News. - Andrew Lang
the pace of a planet being consumed by a black hole was amazingly (and dramatically!) gradual - Mike Chelen
yes, but it was overall much better than the Star Wars Holiday Special. I'm glad they didn't broadcast it in the UK or my life may have gone in a different direction. - Andrew Lang
Data visualization in Second Life - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Data visualization in Second Life
is the latest version available through xstreet or only drexel island? - Mike Chelen
'Hiro's molecule rezzer' is stable and is on xstreet. Orac is perpetual beta and is available from Hiro (er... me). - Andrew Lang
Bing Interactive Periodic Table: http://www.bing.com/visuals...
Google acquires ReCaptcha as book-scanning aid - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30...
Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight - http://science.slashdot.org/story...
Should contraception qualify for climate funds? - http://news.cnet.com/8301-11...
NASA Can Now Create Objects Using Electron Beams [Manufacturing] - http://gizmodo.com/5370586...
Science Discovers 32 New Planets... And Monty Python's Seen Them All - http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009...
Searching for Earth-like planets explained by Eric Idle. - Andrew Lang
What a Response to the Wolfram|Alpha iPhone App! - http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009...
The mobile browser works just fine for most needs. - Andrew Lang
cool - are they still thinking about including some of our solubility data? - Jean-Claude Bradley
£29.99? Seriously? - Simon Cockell
I haven't heard back from them regarding the solubility data. I'll follow up later this week if I don't hear anything. - Andrew Lang
@Simon. I was disappointed that they're going to charge for their API too but it is the business model they're going for right now - can't blame them - I'm sure it has cost them a lot of money to get as far as they are now. - Andrew Lang
@Andrew - It is disappointing. I do get why, but I'm not sure £30 is the price point that's going to maximise their return. Especially given the pretty rigorous environment of the App Store (and the fact a free version of essentially the same tool is sitting behind the icon labelled 'Safari'). Charge £2.99, sell 20x as many copies... (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...) - Simon Cockell
The Open Dinosaur Project - http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php...
I helped some of my students enter some data. - Andrew Lang
what a great project - Jean-Claude Bradley
Mentions my latest ORU blog post. - Andrew Lang
New ring detected around Saturn - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Iapetus' two-tone appearance has a possible explanation. "... like bugs on a windshield." - Andrew Lang
Stargate Universe - s1 | e1 - Air, Parts 1 and 2 - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
A bit of a cross between the previous stargate series and battlestar galactica. I prefer with a bit more of comedy but it was a nice start. - Pedro Beltrao
so Andy you didn't have a problem with the life support system happening to fail just as they boarded after several hundred thousand years? :) - Jean-Claude Bradley
I would say it's more like Star Trek: Voyager with a Stargate. Didn't do much for me. - Richard Akerman
I think the life-support turned on when the gate connected - at least the lights did. It was a little formulaic though wasn't it. - Andrew Lang
1-octadecylamine on W|A. Looks like they included gravity in the minimization algorithm? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...
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