Michele's wiki/blog

I can never find this online.

JPL → CIT → JPL

- 7:45 a.m. → 8:05 a.m → 8:30 a.m.

- 8:37 a.m. → 8:57 a.m. → 9:17 a.m.

- 9:37 a.m. → 9:57 a.m. → 10:17 a.m.

- 10:24 a.m. → 10:44 a.m. → 11:04 a.m.

- 11:11 a.m. → 11:31 a.m. → 11:51 a.m.

- 11:58 a.m. → 12:18 p.m. → 12:38 p.m.

- 12:45 p.m. → 1:05 p.m. → 1:25 p.m.

- 1:32 p.m. → 1:52 p.m. → 2:12 p.m.

- 2:32 p.m. → 2:52 p.m. → 3:12 p.m.

- 3:19 p.m. → 3:39 p.m. → 3:59 p.m.

Also: the MTA 177 bus (fare $1.25, useful JPL departures at 3:22 p.m., 4:12 p.m., 5:02 p.m., 5:52 p.m., 6:42 p.m.; useful Colorado and Hill departures at 8:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m.).

Type…

→ 20 best free fonts

→ Great font collection (follow the "designers" link)

→ CSS for print

→ Georgia and Verdana, typefaces for the screen

→ A nice presentation on web typography

…and plots

→ Interactive display of gaps in world statistics

link

→ Mathematica GuideBooks: Application to classic and current science, computer science, and visualization problems, by Michael Trott

→ John Baez's favorite books

→ Online physics tutorials, Online physics book

→ J.E. Gentle, W. Härdle, Y. Mori, Handbook of Computational Statistics

→ The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steven W. Smith, Ph.D.

→ Back to the wiki root

Science as art

→ Art of Science competition at Princeton

→ Man vs Magnet art

→ Newton's notebooks

→ Curiosity and ingenuity at University of Padova

Visualizing the world

→ BabyNameWizard NameVoyager

→ Cabspotting at the Exploratorium

→ Mapping complex networks

→ Artnatomy

Fractals, flash, et al.

→ A fractal-generating language

→ Generative art

→ Beautiful Flash art. Much more at generative.net.

More

→ The Long Now foundation

→ Physiology of perception (Laboratory of Dale Purves, DUMC)

→ Back to the wiki root

Book images

→ The Fantastic in Art and Fiction at Cornell

→ Back to the wiki root

Mathematics:

→ Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Mathematical Functions

→ Gradshteyn and Ryzhik: Table of integrals, series, and products (at Amazon)

→ Orear's Notes on statistics for physicists

Statistics:

→ Persi Diaconis' review of Jaynes' book, with pointers to updated literature.

Physics:

→ Visual Quantum Mechanics

→ Albert Tarantola's books

link

→ Back to the wiki root

Who said what:

→ Stephenson on thinking

→ Agassi on opinions

One thing about opinions is you don't need to know anything to have one. [Andre Agassi, press conference in January 2004]

Then he got a look on his face as if he were thinking. Daniel had learned, in his almost seventy years, not to expect much of people who got such looks, because thinking really was something one ought to do all the time. [N. Stephenson, The System of the World, p. 168]

→ A9 Block View

→ Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Moon, Google Maps Mania (blog)

→ Google Maps + Census Data

→ WorldProcessor

→ Building Google Maps applications

→ Zip code maps

Good practices:

→ Always check the synchronization of workfiles at the beginning and end of work sessions.

→ Always update the time card at the end of days.

→ Always preface documents that are not CVSed with a history list.

→ Periodically refactor work items for the next few weeks (in notepad).

→ Take the shuttle.

→ Use powerful e-mail techniques.

→ Write a new blog item.

Also:

→ Follow 43folders and perhaps adopt KGTD

→ Tree of life

→ James Randi's Encyclopedia

→ Group Theory in the Bedroom (American Scientist Online)

→ Los Alamos Computer and Computational Sciences

→ A centenary survey of single things scientists would teach the world.

→ Tangled Bank 29 (collaborative, itinerant science-journalism weblog)

→ NPR on Einstein's Miracolous Year

→ DTV Internet TV

→ Hollywood Math and Science Film Consulting will ensure that the technical details and jargon in your script sound believable, whether they be mathematical, scientific, or medical."

→ Spectrum Anywhere, GameBase 64

→ Remakes

→ The First Place (videogame theory)

A considerable speck

(Microscopic)

A speck that would have been beneath my sight
On any but a paper sheet so white
Set off across what I had written there.
And I had idly poised my pen in air
To stop it with a period of ink,
When something strange about it made me think.
This was no dust speck by my breathing blown,
But unmistakably a living mite
With inclinations it could call its own.
It paused as with suspicion of my pen,
And then came racing wildly on again
To where my manuscript was not yet dry;
Then paused again and either drank or smelt --
With loathing, for again it turned to fly.
Plainly with an intelligence I dealt.
It seemed too tiny to have room for feet,
Yet must have had a set of the complete
To express how much it didn't want to die.
It ran with terror and with cunning crept.
It faltered: I could see it hesitate;
Then in the middle of the open sheet
Cower down in desperation to accept
Whatever I accorded it of fate.
I have none of the tenderer-than-thou
Collectivistic regimenting love
With which the modern world is being swept.
But this poor microscopic item now!
Since it was nothing I knew evil of
I let it lie there till I hope it slept.

I have a mind myself and recognize
Mind when I meet with it in any guise.
No one can know how glad I am to find
On any sheet the least display of mind.

(Robert Frost; ‘A Witness Tree’, 1942)

Portraits of MV for astronomy magazine "Tahdet ja avaruus"…

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→ Digital prints: Excite.it, PhotoWorks

→ Tutorials: editing digital images at Ars Technica