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Posted on June 18, 2012August 13, 2019 by: Leona

Prometheus: over-promise much?

It is with great regret that I inform anyone who gives a toss about my opinion on anything (let alone movies)… that Prometheus, the movie I …

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Posted on April 29, 2012June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Mercator Schmercator: stick to street view on google maps!

Just realized that Google maps uses the Mercator projection*. Good LORD. I only found this out because I was looking for taiwan (my geography sucks), …

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Posted on April 28, 2012August 13, 2019 by: Leona

The Generalist Manifesto (version 001)

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, …

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Posted on April 8, 2012June 16, 2019 by: Leona

…”dan jangan lupa bersenang-senang”…

That’s right. I’m telling you to go see THE RAID: redemption. <= R / 18A. Wah! A movie in MALAY makes it to hollywood… and it …

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Posted on April 3, 2012July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Absurcracy

I’ve learned some fascinating things reading news headlines over the last year or so. This is mostly thanks(?!) to an app on my phone, which …

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Posted on April 2, 2012July 11, 2019 by: Leona

rubix rhymes

That’s the state of my rubix 4-cube, which I recently re-noticed, hiding behind a vase. The core was not too bad, but the edges were …

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Posted on April 1, 2012August 13, 2019 by: Leona

The nihilist’s way out

Nihilism seems to have undertones of apathy, doesn’t it? There’s something about it like a big sigh. A world-weary, ‘ho hum’ sort of way of …

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Posted on November 15, 2011June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Quantifying Occupy

In the ‘Supporting Occupy Toronto‘ segment tonight, Steve Paikin grilled – as nicely as pie – the young, well-meaning pinstriped lawyer dude who spoke in …

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Posted on October 20, 2011July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Umbilicus

There’s an organisation (whose name I’ve forgotten) doing the rounds with research-backed TED talks and whatever else… (can’t find ’em, my google-fu is weak today) …

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Posted on July 24, 2011June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Computations with a big ‘C’, vs little ‘c’ computations

In the computing / computable universe worldview, the universe is akin to a giant computation. This inevitably leads to anthropic questions like, ‘what solution is …

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