Andrew Lang

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

<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

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

1984 - Andrew Lang

"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

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

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

it actually looks like a toe - Jean-Claude Bradley

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

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

"...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

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

Cool visualization. - Andrew Lang

let the remixing never end - Jean-Claude Bradley

so where do you put the recent Star Trek movie? I know you had some problems with the physics :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

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

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

Searching for Earth-like planets explained by Eric Idle. - Andrew Lang

The mobile browser works just fine for most needs. - 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

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

nice! - Jean-Claude Bradley

Iapetus' two-tone appearance has a possible explanation. "... like bugs on a windshield." - Andrew Lang

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

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