Archive for April, 2005
Saturday, April 30th, 2005
I saw an article on Slashdot the other day that piqued my interest. The article links to, among other things, a PDF version of a draft of the language specification for a new programming language that is meant to succeed Fortran. I don't have a great deal of time to ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I read this article today, and I must admit I was excited. The author tells me that Adobe has released a new version of Acrobat Reader for Linux. That's great news, for several reasons. Reading PDF documents in Linux has never been a pain, but reading PDFs on Windows can ...
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Sunday, April 24th, 2005
The teams: Greg, Suvir, and Ariele versus Mike, Paul, and myself. Six nerds. No question about it. For those who haven't played, Taboo is a game that pits two teams against each other with the goal of trying to get your teammate to say a particular word. The catch? The ...
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
With the NBA playoffs starting on Saturday, I decided to throw together some picks for how they will play out.
Western Conference
First Round
Phoenix over Memphis (4-1)
Dallas over Houston (4-2)
Seattle over Sacramento (4-3)
San Antonio over Denver (4-2)
Second Round
Phoenix over Dallas (4-3)
San Antonio over Seattle (4-2)
Conference Finals
San Antonio over Phoenix (4-3)
Eastern Conference
First Round
Miami ...
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
Following the lead of Paul and Mike, I have decided to write a little bit about what I work on at Caltech. But, instead of writing about my research, I have decided to say a little bit about a class project I am working on.
I am taking the third ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
The candidacy exam for mechanical engineering students is divided into two parts: one part to test the student's knowledge of the course material and one part to test the student's research competence. I took the coursework component in the fall, and I have until the end of this term (Friday, ...
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