Sanjeev Singh

It seems like this would be the inevitable outcome if you just let insolvent banks go bust. - Sanjeev Singh

Fed's assets, including loan to AIG and misc bear sterns investments more than doubled to $1.77 trillion last week from a year-earlier total of $873 billion that consisted mostly of treasuries. Fed balance sheet is above 10% of gdp and climbing..... - david A

On the difficulty EPA scientists face when they try to publicize politically unpopular truths. - Sanjeev Singh

I want to get a better feel for that use case. Expect me back in a few weeks :). - Sanjeev Singh

Any chance you can leave me on your feed? I enjoy reading your science related posts. - GS 2Go

"When I got a hold of the contractor report and reviewed it very carefully, not only was it reporting cancers in the animals, [it was reporting] osteosarcomas which bothered me a lot because I've been trying to produce osteosarcomas in animals for almost 20 years and the only luck I ever had was with an experiment in dogs and monkeys, and the osteosarcomas took nearly the lifetime of the animals, and we were using radium which specifically produces that in bones. And here we have a compound commonly available - fluoride - that did it in rats in two years or less." - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

"Due to his criticisms of the tumor downgradings, Dr. Marcus was fired by the EPA. The US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, later ruled that EPA fired Marcus out of "retaliation" for Marcus' stance on fluoride, and ordered EPA to reinstate Marcus with full back pay and compensation." - Sanjeev Singh

'cos it means the code is super tricky. - Sanjeev Singh

assert false - Chris Lamprecht

Silicoflourides are commonly used to flouridate municipal drinking water. Unfortunately they are associated with higher levels of substance abuse, crime and learning abilities, possibly as a result of increased lead absorption in the body :(. - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

Mona, if you're worried about flouride, some water filters can get it out of your water. Brita doesn't, but some others might. - Sanjeev Singh

Neither can the private suppliers of anthrax medication / countermeasures. This just passed on Oct 1, 2008. I wonder if the government knows something we don't. - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

from Joshua Schacter. The blade retracts instantly, causing very minor damage to the sausage. - Sanjeev Singh

I guess I'd have to go back to cutting hotdogs on the bandsaw - Andrew Smith

"This proposal would exempt from the excise tax any shaft consisting of all natural wood with no laminations or artificial means to enhance the spine of the shaft used in the manufacture of an arrow that measures 5/16 of an inch or less and is unsuited for use with a bow with a peak draw weight of 30 pounds or more" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

Count me among the "Likes" who don't like. Man, has our government always been this dysfunctional, or is it getting worse? - Keith Pelczarski

"Join us for our very first Member Spotlight where featured member Dr. Michael Pinneo will share his method for creating real diamonds with a DIY diamond deposition machine. Yes, we're serious!" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

hopefully they will post a video of the event or a webpage about their technique - bob

Via an article from Nivi. A fast good read. - Sanjeev Singh

There is a lot of good software that is delivered at crunch mode rates, but that may have more to do with the quality of the people than anything else. A 10:1 productivity difference easily swamps a 30% hit, especially when you take into account the smaller teams better people allow you to have. - Sanjeev Singh

"Although the principles of aperture synthesis have been known for many years, and are used regularly in radio astronomy, astronomers had thought that building an optical telescope using this principle was just too difficult. Light waves are about a million times shorter than radio waves, so the precision required in building such a telescope is a million times more challenging than for radio synthesis instruments." - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

He still has 2 more volumes of TAOCP to finish first! - Chris Lamprecht

Is that all? - Scott Cederberg

I have first edition Vol. 1 and 2.....the TOC lists 12 volumes... - SnakeDoc from Alert Thingy

"Many networks of interest in the sciences, including social networks, computer networks, and metabolic and regulatory networks, are found to divide naturally into communities or modules. The problem of detecting and characterizing this community structure is one of the outstanding issues in the study of networked systems. One highly effective approach is the optimization of the quality function known as “modularity” over the possible divisions of a network. Here I show that the modularity can be expressed in terms of the eigenvectors of a characteristic matrix for the network, which I call the modularity matrix, and that this expression leads to a spectral algorithm for community detection that returns results of demonstrably higher quality than competing methods in shorter running times. I illustrate the method with applications to several published network data sets." - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

ha ha thanks Aviv! - Sanjeev Singh

A wonderfully evocative sentence: "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go?" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

Sanjeev - yeah, that was my favorite line too ... awful! - Susan Beebe

"The above images show a direct comparison between the Lucky image (left) and the Hubble image from the ACS (right). The Hubble picture goes fainter because the exposure is longer and the wavelength shorter (where CCDs have a much higher sensitivity). The ACS image has been "drizzled" to improve its appearance. The Lucky image is as taken. The markedly better resolution of the Lucky image is clear. This is exactly what is predicted purely because the Palomar 5.1 m telescope is twice the size of the 2.5m Hubble." - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

from JMS - Sanjeev Singh

yum - Rose

Friendfeeding just for the pic. - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

Benjamin Fulford was a journalist for Forbes Asia for several years, covering finance and corruption, afaict. He now lives under the protection of the Red and Blue Asian secret society, and has a ton of interesting stories to tell. This interview is UFO-free. - Sanjeev Singh

found the transcript: http://www.projectcamelot.org/benjami... - Sanjeev Singh

Everyone talks about bringing change to Washington, but it turns out D.C has the highest "openness to new ideas" score in the entire country. What gives? [my personal theory is that the problem isn't the people, but the power structures and procedures of gov't] - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

Love the explosion of yellow when day breaks. - Benjamin Golub

If you click on the link (instead of playing inline), you can select the high quality version of this video. - Sanjeev Singh

"A century ago, Lim writes, presidential speeches were pitched at a college reading level; today, they’re down to eighth grade, and if the trend continues, next century’s State of the Union addresses will be conducted at the level of “a comic strip or a fifth-grade textbook.” (“Iran’s crawling with bad guys: BAP!”) Since 1913, the length of the average presidential sentence has fallen from 35 words to 22. Between Nixon and the second Bush, the average presidential sound bite shrank from 42 seconds to 7. Today’s State of the Unions inspire roughly 30 seconds of applause for every 60 seconds of speech" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

I was listening to King's "I have a dream" speech over the weekend and was amazed by the verbosity of it. People these days will tune of those delicately worded, but complex sentences. I wonder if part of the reason for the dumbening (heh!) is that speeches these days are aimed at wider audiences. - Thaths

Did anyone at Caltech go to this talk? It doesn't appear to be on youtube. - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

"When you've just been decelerating at 200 g's for 1.5 msec, you've excited every vibration mode that the actuator knows about. The whole thing wants to ring like a bell. And despite the attempts of us mechanical men to make everything stiff, it's in the nature of metals to ring!" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

A very interesting article on hard disk design that I will read fully some day. :) - Sanjeev Singh

1.2B reads / sec from a hash map in a single JVM on a machine with several hundred CPUs. That aggregate throughput is probably a record for any hash table running anywhere on any hardware. - Sanjeev Singh

I watched this talk twice by video and once live at JavaOne. I still didn't understand one component until speaking with Cliff at the conclusion of his live talk. I'm not surprised it's not yet part of the JDK; I suspect it requires a significant acceptance prior to its inclusion, given that it's so new. Of course, I don't claim to understand JCP, nor have I followed updates to this hash map since J1 '07. - Robert Konigsberg

"On average, there was an 85 percent increase in the amount of free radicals for all the subjects in the study. Free radicals have been linked to a variety of diseases in humans including cancer," said Agarwal. Free radicals have been linked to decreased sperm quality in previous studies." - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

jeev, but i don't want risk getting testicular cancer, cos there is a study that suspect prolong use of phone causes cancer "According to a study by the Swedish National Institute for Working Life, heavy cellphone users face an increased risk, especially on the side of the head where the phone is held" - Lim, Kok Kim

The interactive graphs are really nice http://www.gapminder.org/world... - Sanjeev Singh

"Conclusion: The debt markets are so out of whack that we are now at a point where credit risk is being rewarded more than equity risk, something that should never happen in a world where equity investors own only the residual rights to earnings. This cannot last for very long: either spreads will tighten rapidly, equity prices will fall rapidly, or both. (Or, chortle, earnings will grow more rapidly.)" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet

"Will the inevitable economic rise of China and India mean that these dynamic markets will produce outsized returns for those brave enough to brave their markets? A very good question, but I’m betting no. Remember, equity prices are based on per-share metrics, and in nations with inadequate shareholder protection, outstanding equity gets diluted faster than iced tea on a hot day. Despite China’s ten percent annual economic growth and the recent torrid performance of its stock market, its real long-term returns over the past fifteen years have been negative. (And forget Russia: its ascent is linked directly to the buoyancy of the commodities markets. Not only is this unlikely to persist, but natural resources are a well-known developmental curse.)" - Sanjeev Singh from Bookmarklet