Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Chad Orzel has put the Bohr-Einstein debates on quantum mechanics into puppet form.

By Thoreau
So this is what we get with a Nobel Peace Laureate in charge: an escalation of an unwinnable war. Was the ghost of LBJ not available to run last year?
The LA Times reports that opium traffickers will be a target of the surge. I can think of a much simpler [...]

Greenwald on the New Surge.

By Thoreau
My best student has spent a year and a half learning lots of techniques, reading lots of papers, and writing lots of code.  I have spent that time deriving a bunch of theoretical results.  The product of all of this thus far is an algorithm that is mathematically naive and only gets the same [...]

If the Republican Party played chess, it would never resign. There’s no formal rule governing resignations in chess. You resign a losing position to signal you’re not a dick and to demonstrate that you may not know the game well enough to win, but you know it well enough to recognize a lost cause when [...]