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1. The nosebleed re-erupted about twenty minutes after I posted, and I was still not sure it had been vanquished when I went to bed. It seems to be under fragile control now, but I'm being very careful with my breathing. (It would be very embarrassing if it started up again while I was on the bus to work....)
2. The math problem I was wrestling with, about computer backgrounds, turns out (thanks to one of my colleagues, a statistician) to be a variant on a known problem. There's a simpler expression for the number of days: with k pictures, it's k(1+1/2+1/3+...+1/k). That second factor is well understood; it grows at the same rate as ln k.
3. The Padres have actually won three in a row; Ludwick, Hawpe, and Cantu are finally starting to hit, if only away from Petco Park, and Maybin continues to sparkle.
4. I'm reading Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and wondering if he actually has a coherent alternate history in the background. Some of the little bits he's dropped - the length of WWII and the number of deaths in the Holocaust, for example - don't seem entirely consistent.
5. I'm still struggling with the pictures for the prisms paper; progress is being made, but I'm not entirely happy with it. I'm also rewriting some bits; I just added the proof of a claim that I passed off as obvious in the previous draft. I'm still hopeful that I can send it off by the end of the month.
6. I'm close to finishing my rewatch of Farscape. I find Season Four kind of offputting; there's some excellent storytelling going on, but I have an aversion to Sikozu and Noranti. Neither of them really gells as a character for me; Noranti makes too many mistakes for me to trust her as a font of wisdom (despite the efforts in some episodes to present her as such), and Sikozu... well, for example, I simply can't account for her behavior in "A Prefect Murder" - it just isn't in keeping with how she behaves in any other episode.
2. The math problem I was wrestling with, about computer backgrounds, turns out (thanks to one of my colleagues, a statistician) to be a variant on a known problem. There's a simpler expression for the number of days: with k pictures, it's k(1+1/2+1/3+...+1/k). That second factor is well understood; it grows at the same rate as ln k.
3. The Padres have actually won three in a row; Ludwick, Hawpe, and Cantu are finally starting to hit, if only away from Petco Park, and Maybin continues to sparkle.
4. I'm reading Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and wondering if he actually has a coherent alternate history in the background. Some of the little bits he's dropped - the length of WWII and the number of deaths in the Holocaust, for example - don't seem entirely consistent.
5. I'm still struggling with the pictures for the prisms paper; progress is being made, but I'm not entirely happy with it. I'm also rewriting some bits; I just added the proof of a claim that I passed off as obvious in the previous draft. I'm still hopeful that I can send it off by the end of the month.
6. I'm close to finishing my rewatch of Farscape. I find Season Four kind of offputting; there's some excellent storytelling going on, but I have an aversion to Sikozu and Noranti. Neither of them really gells as a character for me; Noranti makes too many mistakes for me to trust her as a font of wisdom (despite the efforts in some episodes to present her as such), and Sikozu... well, for example, I simply can't account for her behavior in "A Prefect Murder" - it just isn't in keeping with how she behaves in any other episode.
