Monthly Archives: March 2011

I went to “grand rounds” (that’s what they call medical lectures at the hospital) today. The topic was “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury”. This is apparently standard terminology in the field, to the point that it even has a standard mixed-caps … Continue reading →

Those parties Friday and Saturday must have been really good, because I woke up today with a classic case of laryngitis. I’m going to bed before 11 PM for the first time in memory. Hopefully I’ll be able to speak … Continue reading →

I have a lot of deeply nerdy friends; it would be hugely surprising if it were otherwise. Our parties always tended to turn into detailed discussions of topics of academic interest. One of us recently had the keen insight to … Continue reading →

Whenever anyone references Rule 34 of the internet, my first reaction is to parse it as a reference to binary automata from A New Kind of Science. I decided to find out for myself what that would look like, so … Continue reading →

Biking to work this morning, it was hard to imagine the snowy mountains that lined the streets. It felt like a distant memory from years ago, not the less than two months that has actually passed. Biking home tonight felt … Continue reading →

On tonight’s supermoon, I have only one comment. We like the moon, coz it is close to us.

I got to work this morning in time for our 11 AM meeting. I had scan time in the evening, and a lot of new things to try, so I didn’t leave until after midnight. I guess this is how … Continue reading →

My motion compensation code in lab spends most of its CPU time doing length-8192 iFFTs using FFTW 3.2.2. Specifically, each motion-update event corresponds to a cross-correlation comparison of the input with 20-160 reference vectors. Each of these comparisons is totally … Continue reading →

Over the last 25 years I’ve seen plenty of disasters, natural and otherwise, reported in the news, so I’ve had some time to get used to the way the reporting flows. Usually there’s a newsflash, a period of confusion as … Continue reading →

Last night I went out to “Murder Cafe” on Biophysics’ dime (part of the department recruiting weekend). I was hesitant. We had done this once before, maybe two years ago at the “Mobfather” interactive murder-mystery in Back Bay, and it … Continue reading →