Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Jan 31 2005

Adventures in Home Furnishings

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Our Home

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Jan 24 2005

On Grammatical Structures

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General

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Transferring meaning is what communication is for. The words are a means to an end. I have a thought, I wish to convey it to you. I construct a sentence which, to me, evokes this thought, and transfer it to you. Assuming reasonable fidelity in the method of transfer (normally ok, but questionable in, say, …

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Jan 09 2005

MathML

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Computing

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I recently became interested, again, in how far along displaying math for the web has come. This was something I investigated awhile back, mainly in relation to how TeX could be converted to html. The answer, then, was that it could only be done very poorly. The solutions for converting directly from TeX to html …

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Jan 04 2005

Stop Using Chopsticks

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The thing that is most frustrating about humankind is that individuals among us are very clever, and we invent many things, but our progress is nonetheless held back. The obstacles are internal. We stupidly cling to outdated ideas; many of us believe in a spooky being living in the clouds, omniscient and often petty; some …

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Dec 22 2004

RIP Suprnova.org

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Computing

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Sunday morning was the start of an odd feeling, one that I still have. It's one of being disconnected, of having your way of life pulled out from under you, and not anymore knowing quite what to do. For over a year now we've had one single source of multimedia content, and while it did …

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