This is actually more of a free speech case. It’s disappointing on both levels. I just found out that Ms. Chris Comer was forced to resign as the director of the Texas Education Agency. (I wished she would have forced a firing – but everyone much choose their own battles.) She was forced to step … Read more
Knock, knock. Hello? Anyone home at the AP? Weather improving for tomorrow’s shuttle launch Associated Press Aug. 7, 2007, 4:40PM CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The weather is improving for Wednesday’s planned launch of Endeavour on a space station delivery mission featuring NASA’s first educator-astronaut. … Seven astronauts are assigned to the mission, but the spotlight … Read more
Ahh, jokes about non-deterministic polynomial time complexity problems. Doesn’t get much better than that! Thank you xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. (If you don’t Get It, you’re not a computer scientist.) If you want to know more: np-complete, knapsack problem, traveling salesman, xkcd.
There was one of these at the national arboretum a year or two ago. There were huge lines to get in to see it. I’ve always wanted to experience one, but still haven’t. I do think I can pass on planting one in my yard, though. An Amorphophallus titanum, known locally as … Read more