Pretty much every cyclist I passed today on my ride along the riverside trail had the same silly grin on their face, a cross between “Jeez this is fun” and “You’re as much of a fucking idiot as I am.” Something about the shared adventure…. The weather was snarky, spitting a mix of snow and …
With further assistance from Hallski, my RSS feed now should have a “read more” liink for those really long posts.
I see on Footnotes that a new free software package, LiarLiar, has been released that claims to use “Voiice Stress Analysis” to detect lying. The blurb is carefully written to suggest that it’s something short of a lie detector – “Stress can be one indicator of whether or not a person is being truthful in …
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I missed this paper (Nature, subscription required) when it came out last month. It’s pretty interesting. Ruth Curry, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and her colleagues measured changes in salt and fresh water in the Atlantic: The oceans are a global reservoir and redistribution agent for several important constituents of the Earth’s climate system, …
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Prodded by Glynn and aided by the fact that Dave Camp was smart enough to write it down and publish it when he figured out how to do it, I changed my RSS feed so the whole entry now shows up, meaning the whole entry is now published on the planet. This is a good …
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