June 2011
30 posts
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“I believe there are...”
– Arthur S. Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science (1939), 170
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사과를 한 입 베어물면?
이동진의 언제나 영화처럼 블로그에서 (ㅈㅁ이 보내줬음)
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사과를 한 입 베어물면? 파인애플
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깨소금이 경찰에 끌려간 이유는? 참기름이 고소해서
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아이스크림이 교통사고가 났어요. 왜 그랬을까요? 차가와서
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OMG. :D
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“I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but...”
– Paul R. Halmos, I want to be a mathematician
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Im europäischen Süden arbeitet man zu wenig......
Interessante Statistik in FAZ vom Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Urlaube + Feiertage (Durchschnitt im Jahr 2009 in Tagen)
Deutschland: 30 + 10,5
Italien: 28 + 11
Frankreich: 25 + 11
Spanien: 22 + 14
Portugal: 22 + 13
Griechenland: 23 + 10
Rentenalter (Durchschnitt 2004-09, tatsächliches Eintrittsalter, Männer)
Portugal: 67,0
Griechenland: 61,9
Deutschland: 61,8
Spanien: 61,8
Italien: 61,1
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“The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical...”
– Jean B. J. Fourier, The Analytical Theory of Heat
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“Everything popular is wrong.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“I cannot give their proof here because I do not understand it. Nevertheless,...”
– Sidney R. Coleman, Aspects of Symmetry
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“Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of...”
– Oliver Heaviside, replying to criticism over use of operators [before justified formally]
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Copying Podcasts episodes from iTunes to Samsung...
My mobile phone, Samsung Galaxy S, is just terrible. This is what I did and what happened: I like to hear some Podcasts episodes on my way to work. Since I am managing my music and Podcasts files via iTunes, I manually copied the whole Podcasts folder to the phone’s storage. Well, the built-in Music Player of Galaxy S is not smart enough to show the Podcasts in a separate list, i.e. the...
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“Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann...”
– Richard W. Hamming, paraphrased from American Mathematics Monthly (1998) 105, 640-50
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싱글 탈출, 결혼도전페스티벌
ㅈㅁ이 보내준 한겨레 기사.
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개정안은 △아이낳기 좋은세상 운동본부 설치 및 예산 법제화 △매년 7월11일을 ‘인구의 날’로 지정 △저출산 극복에 기여한 개인과 기관에 대한 훈·포상 등을 주요 내용으로 담고 있다. 이 법이 6월 임시국회에서 통과되면 현재 한시적 민간기구인 아이낳기는 매년 18억원 이상 안정적으로 정부 지원을 받게 된다. 그러나 진보적 여성단체들은 홍보에 치우친 점, 홍보 활동 내용에 문제가 있는 점을 모두 지적하며 비판하고 있다.
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아이낳기의 출산장려 캠페인에는 불특정 다수에 대한 홍보와 대학생 등 ‘타깃집단별 교육’이 망라됐다. ‘한자녀 더갖기 운동연합’은 아이낳기에서 1억3천만원을 받아 저출산 극복 국민 참여 거리 캠페인과 아버지 육아학교 등을...
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Kommentar von Peter-Philipp Schmitt, FAZ
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Dabei war Homosexualität bis 1990 noch im Diagnoseschlüssel der Weltgesundheitsorganisation aufgeführt und galt somit als „Krankheit“.
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Was sagt man denn dazu? OTL
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“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is...”
– Niels Bohr, to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg’s and Pauli’s nonlinear field theory of elementary particles
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“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”
– Réne Descartes, Discourse on the Method
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“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign...”
– Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
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“In particular, Theorem 6.5 is ineffective in explaining […]. Nevertheless,...”
– Kunihiko Kodaira, Complex Manifolds and Deformation of Complex Structures
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“Geometry is magic that works.”
– René Thom, Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
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Jede Menge Heuchelei
Kommentar von Jens Borchers, tagesschau.de
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Die zweite Heuchelei besteht darin zu suggerieren, wir armen Deutschen müssten dauernd für die finanzpolitischen Chaoten in Griechenland zahlen. Wenigstens Wolfgang Schäuble hatte die Ehrlichkeit darauf hinzuweisen, dass gerade wir, die Export-Vizeweltmeister, unter anderem enorm davon profitiert haben, dass Griechenland viel zu viel...
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“I am your father.”
– Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (read this Wikipedia article to understand why I quoted this in my diploma)
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“[…] I was initiated into the mysteries of distributions by being told by a...”
– Karen Uhlenbeck, Responses to “Theoretical Mathematics: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics”, by A. Jaffe and F. Quinn
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“There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are...”
– Mark Kac
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“Probably the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new...”
– Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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“Algebra is generous: she often gives more than is asked for.”
– Jean d’Alembert
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Es fehlt die Glaubwürdigkeit
Kommentar von Kerstin Steinbrecher, tagesschau.de
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Das war Schmeichelei, Überzeugungsrhetorik vom Feinsten. Aber sie perlte am Zuhörer ab. Denn es fehlte ein simples Eingeständnis, was etwa so hätte klingen können: “Die Laufzeitverlängerung, im letzten Jahr, die war ein Fehler. Und der tut mir leid.” Immer wieder, auch heute, wiederholt die Kanzlerin nebulös, Fukushima habe...
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“A world without string is chaos.”
– Lars Smuntz, quoting his father in Mousehunt; BTW, I did my diploma and Ph.D. in string theory… :D
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“The beginner […] should not be discouraged if […] he finds he does...”
– Paul R. Halmos
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TheobromaCacao, TBCacao
TBCacao (http://www.github.org/qvacua/tbcacao) is a small open-source framework trying to mimic the most basic feature of the Spring framework for Java. Spring has vast list of features and I do not even imagine to implement all of them. It’s kind of Spring atto for Objective-C or rather Cocoa, if you like. :)
Recently, I started a small private Cocoa project which extensively use CoreData...
“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the...”
– Robert Lynd
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New "About me" page
Yesterday I started to create a new “About me” page. Here’s a screenshot:
Well, that’s just the timeline using the <ol> tag and CSS. I’ll add some other information as well.
Hello, world!
From today on, I’ll try out Tumblr. I’ll gradually move entries from my old log to this place. If you see entries older than this, then they are from my old log.
