tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134301802011-11-12T21:47:11.351-08:00Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-67717900704355761932008-05-04T06:59:00.000-07:002008-12-13T00:20:16.457-08:00

I almost expect this kind of stuff from The Washington Post, but a Time story on the front page of CNN? Who the hell proofreads this stuff? The article ain't any better, either.In other news, I'm feeling slightly more purple than €17.46.

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As far as coding goes, I'm used to using 8x13 in Emacs, since it'll let me fit two windows with 115 lines of 155 characters each on my Samsung 305T. This is important to me because it lets me see a lot of code at once, and the less moving around I have to do the more productive I am. However, there's no question that this is an ugly font:Since I'm using Emacs 23 anyways, I'd much rather have an

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Me at Metaverse U: http://youtube.com/watch?v=02hUCDH1Ztw.I need a haircut.Also, here's an excellent talk my advisor gave at the conference on the subject of my most recent research, the collaborative exploration of design spaces.

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Why no more Computer Science AB AP exams? "Mr. Packer said the decision was made principally because of demographic considerations.Only a tiny fraction of the members of underrepresented minority groups who take AP exams take the tests in one of those four affected subject areas, he said."Fuck them in the ear.[Edit: Lest anyone think that I'm insensitive, let me remind you that I've published on

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...articles about my work at:MIT Technology Reviewars technicaThe Chronicle of Higher EducationZDNetComputerworld Slashdot...and many other places. What's more, the server hasn't even crashed yet!P.S.: This work is not about trees, no matter what anybody tells you.[Edit: I should also add this.]

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...for the first time in the 25 years that I've been alive, I played video games with my mom.Thanks, Nintendo!

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After months of toil and sleepless nights (this time, before this SIGGRAPH deadline), my most recent research project has been released. Dryad is an intuitive tool for collaborative tree modeling, intended to allow even the most casual of users to produce beautiful 3D models of trees for games or virtual worlds. Check it out!

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Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-82444358522971496742007-07-28T12:26:00.001-07:002008-01-30T11:41:38.012-08:00

My Grandfather, James Winston Milam, used to sum up his philosophy on living with one simple sentence: everywhere you go ought to end up a little better for your having been there.In his case, everywhere did.

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It's that time of year again, so if you're waiting on an email response from me, you're going to keep waiting until after the 24th. If you don't get a response thereafter, it's probably because I found something better to do with my time.

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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning--"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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One of my favorite poems:The worm drives helically through the woodAnd does not know the dust left in the boreOnce made the table integral and good;And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;The names of lovers, light of other days --Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke.The universe winds down. That's how it's

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The "Series of Tubes, Not Dump Truck" party really needs to go...

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Since I'm back in Virginia for about 36 hours, earlier this evening I found myself watching cable television for the first time in months. My viewing experience prompts me to offer the following comment:If, one day, I have a daughter, and she in any way resembles this girl when she turns sixteen, please feel free to go ahead and call the police, because I will have fucking murdered her.

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Just for the record, Snakes on a Plane is the best motherfucking movie I've seen all motherfucking year.[Edit 8/20/06]: It was even better the second time.[Edit 8/25/06]: The third time, however, was by far the best.

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There's been a lot of buzz recently in the popular news media over this article (which was just published in Science) on the public acceptance of evolution throughout the world. On a list of 34 countries, the United States, somewhat unsurprisingly, comes in second to last (thank God for Turkey) in terms of the percentage of the population (40%) that believes "human beings, as we know them,

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...is out. Go buy it. Now.

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This past quarter, I had the good fortune to teach CMPS 160: Introduction to Computer Graphics as a visiting lecturer at UC Santa Cruz. Since this was my first actual teaching gig I was slightly apprehensive at the start, but it ended up being a wonderful experience. In particular, I think it's worth publicly mentioning that the Baskin School of Engineering treats its temporary faculty incredibly

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If you only see one movie this summer, it should be this one.

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Complete instructions on how to be musically unappreciated in the style of Seth Cohen from The OC:Refuse to allow anyone to take pictures of your band.Suck.

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Dear Graduate Student [Dear Mark], If you plan to pursue a Ph. D. Degree, Wright State University in Dayton, OH offers great opportunites. [Our program is so pathetic we have to advertise it by sending the same, tired spam email out once a month. Also, we misspelled "opportunities" intentionally because we didn't want to get sued for false advertising.] I have atttached [sic] a letter

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...there's just nothing you can say.

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It appears that my little exposé on the inimitable Prof. Callaos has caused a significant jump in this blog's daily readership. So, to the two or three hundred of you who have been directed to this page today via Google, um...hi. Come here...often?Now that we've dispensed with the formalities, I'm going to do something obnoxious (for the record, meeting me in real life follows basically this

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Dear colleagues [Dear marks]:As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing Committee of WMSCI 2006 (The 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics) has decided to extend the deadline for papers and abstracts submission to April 4, 2006. If you have not already done so, please submit your abstract or your paper through the Conference web site. [No

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If you're ever in the office late at night and a quiet, deferential Chinese graduate student walks up to you and asks if he can take your picture, say "No!" and run the hell away.

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Recently, I've been thinking a lot about grades. This is at least mildly ironic, seeing as how this is the first year since 1987 that my primary purpose in life hasn't been the biannual production of a piece of paper containing a list of course names followed by the letter 'A'. Graduating from the rather plebeian class of people who exist only to be graded feels pretty good...or at least it did

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1139698324644010882006-02-11T14:47:00.000-08:002008-01-30T11:43:32.160-08:00

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...

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And now, for a little whining...My Mom teaches Advanced Placement U.S. History at Oakton High School, in Vienna VA. In order to fight the Washington Area traffic and be ready to go when the first bell rings at the God-Awful hour of 7:20 AM, it's necessary for her to wake up each morning no later than 5:00. Assuming an average of 8 hours of sleep each night, this means she must be in bed, eyes

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1137086142156366682006-01-12T09:12:00.000-08:002006-01-12T09:15:42.176-08:00

There are now less than two weeks left until this year's SIGGRAPH deadline. I will resume posting (and sleeping) shortly thereafter.Really.I mean it this time.Look, an Eagle!

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"You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest man that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1133164994816686432005-11-27T23:54:00.000-08:002008-01-30T11:44:57.612-08:00

Recently, my friend Yisong blogged about The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, a proof of which made up my favorite chapter in An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers by Niven, Zuckerman, and Montgomery. The result isn't particularly inspiring (although it is rather miraculous), but the proof Niven gives is so elegant and wonderful that it has been my favorite mathematical proof ever since I first

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1133053715671545572005-11-26T17:07:00.000-08:002008-01-30T11:45:41.297-08:00

Dressing your friends up in tinfoil beforehand can be both enjoyable and rewarding.All joking aside, it was really great to see everyone again. If any of you stumble across this blog in the days to come, please drop me a line!

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I don't want to start ranting about politics on this blog, but today's Whitehouse Press Briefing was just too good not to link to. It'd be funny, if it wasn't, you know, the Whitehouse.

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1131263498539940142005-11-05T23:33:00.000-08:002005-11-06T00:57:05.483-08:00

Apparently I'm on a short blog posting rampage. A few notes:Farther relates to distance. Further is a definition of degree. (Cue "You're The Man Now, Dawg!" voice.)Relatedly, what Isaac Newton actually wrote in his letter to Robert Hooke on February 5th, 1676 was "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." Misquotations abound.Freshman is both a singular noun

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1131150583143560672005-11-04T16:20:00.000-08:002005-11-04T16:51:14.726-08:00

So I was excited today at the prospect of potentially lowering my Erdös number (my previous least upper bound was 4, from John C. Hart ⇒ Louis H. Kauffman ⇒ Frank Harary ⇒ Paul Erdös), but upon further reflection it appears that I've only gained another path of the same length (Sam Kamin ⇒ Edward M. Reingold ⇒ Aviezri S. Fraenkel ⇒ Paul Erdös). Four isn't terrible, given that I'm just getting

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Well, I'd certainly like to be out dressed like something really scary right now and engaging in Questionable Activities, but I couldn't figure out how exactly to make a costume that conveyed the impression of a Catholic majority Supreme Court or a conservative group opposed to mandatory cervical cancer vaccinations (on the grounds that they condone teen sex), so it looks like I'm staying in

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As some of you may have guessed by my sudden inability to answer email in a timely fashion, my internship at NVIDIA is over and school has started. The first order of business seems to be learning how to type all over again, which is sort of a pain in the ass but will probably be worth it in the long run.To say things are busy would be a rather pronounced understatement, so updates to this space

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I know I'm supposed to be talking like a pirate today (Arrrrr...), but instead I wanted to touch on a topic inspired by the recent passing of prolific blogger and general rabble-rouser Bitch PhD's Grandmother.Dead Grandmother Syndrome is well-documented and frequently discussed in academic circles (that link right there is the second hit on Google for "college grandmother"). Invariably, whenever

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I went in to work on Friday at the butt-crack of dawn so that I could leave a little after lunch and make the five-hour drive south to Santa Barbara to see The Dirty Knobs at SOhO. For those of you unaware, The Dirty Knobs is the side-band of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lead guitarist Mike Campbell.Prior to the start of the show I was in the bathroom washing my hands, and when I looked over

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1126475821201715372005-09-11T14:17:00.000-07:002005-09-11T17:10:16.736-07:00

From /., an incredibly entertaining piece of foul smelling tripe written by Dan Zamboni on the utility of theoretical and scientific courses in computer science curricula. Dan says that all the computer science graduates he knows went into software engineering, and therefore it doesn't make sense to teach computer science students about science, when the time could be better spent making them

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1125820058568180802005-09-03T23:46:00.000-07:002005-09-04T00:49:25.086-07:00

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1125475431734476672005-08-31T01:00:00.000-07:002005-08-31T01:12:19.926-07:00

From this article in The Washington Post.

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In an age rife with selling out, it's nice to see that someone still has his head on straight. I first read John Densmore's book in the fourth grade[1], and thought he had an interesting voice for a rock and roll star. The aforementioned article is from 2002, but I stumbled over it for the first time this past weekend. I particularly like the letter Tom Waits wrote in response.[1] It's worth

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From Mark Kleiman, a truly disturbing press release from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University discussing the effects of the California High School Exit Exam on statewide graduation rates.For those of you unlucky enough to live in one of the other 45 states (sorry folks, Virginia, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania are commonwealths), the CAHSEE is a two-part exam administered to

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1124736009175192242005-08-22T11:36:00.000-07:002005-08-22T11:40:09.183-07:00

...but Liz Phair is awesome live, redwood trees are really big, and The Aristocrats is freakin' hilarious.

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Since way too much happened at this year's SIGGRAPH to even begin to write about it all, here are some highlights and statistics:Number of Sea Lions encountered on the drive down: Many.Number of times the phrase "If you want to see more..." was used suggestively during the fast-forwards: Two.Number of fast-forwards presented sans shirt: One.Number of pairs of shoes lost in a drunken rage by

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I've been using instant messaging for about as long as I've been using computers. One of my best friends (who apparently doesn't have a web presence anymore, thus preventing me from easily outing him) hauled me on the ICQ bandwagon my freshman year of high school, and I migrated to AIM about a year later when it became apparent that marketing trumps feature set and usability when it comes to

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From Bitch. Ph.D., a Chronicle of Higher Education article about, essentially, the planting of one's foot securely in one's mouth via blogging. I already briefly alluded to this phenomenon in my inaugural post, but it's worth mentioning again.People seem to be slightly pissed about the content of the article for what they claim are a myriad of different reasons, but really they're just indignant

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...but this is the coolest optical illusion I've ever seen. Just goes to show, when you're dealing with perception, what looks right is way more important than what's actually right.Yeah, I didn't believe it either. Use your favorite image editing program to check.

Jerry Taltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302032999354307623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430180.post-1120549099727737062005-07-04T23:37:00.000-07:002008-01-30T11:47:42.873-08:00

"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of

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Well, after two more days in Long Island than I would have preferred (read: two days), the 2nd Annual Eurographics Symposium on Point-Based Graphics is over. Didn't get to see much of SUNY Stony Brook, but the Wang Center where the conference was held was pretty nice.There were some interesting papers, but with only 30 submissions for 15 slots and a pretty dismal overall turnout (I counted 41

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Get into top-ranked Ph.D. program.Move to California.Purchase Sex on Wheels.Pass quals.Write dissertation.Land professorship.Get tenure.Torture students Make the world a better place.Crap! I think I forgot "Make obnoxiously self-indulgent blog post" between 3 and 4.Edited (6/23/05): Non-standards compliant browsers suck.

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Just so I don't forget about this: if you're ever forced to write a paper using ACM's incredibly ugly LaTeX style file, you must download Jeff Erickson's fixacm. For bonus points, you can imminentize the eschaton...but that might be more of a commitment than some of us are willing to make.

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Like most male middle-class American children born in the early 1980s, I became enamored with video games shortly after leaving the womb. In elementary school, I can vividly remember accepting play-date invitations offered by children I would have otherwise avoided like syphilis in order to secure a few precious minutes of frenetic button-mashing. Christmas of 1988 saw my father finally

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So, bowing to the ever-increasing pressure from the world at large and in a (probably futile) attempt to emulate some people who do it well, I've decided to start blogging.A little.Generically speaking, I'm not a big fan of blogs. As with most forms of electronic communication, people are apt to blog things they would never even think of writing down on paper and nailing to the door of Castle

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