Monthly Archives: October 2008

Music Generation

A few weeks ago I read an article in the New York Times about a computer program that can “optimize” faces for beauty. It measures and alters symmetry, shape and average distance between different facial features. The program is really … Continue reading

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Senior Year

It’s senior year. The previous year the instructors warned us about “senior malaise”, when all the seniors suffer a marked drop in performance, supposedly due to the realization that college is a year away. I really don’t think it’s simple … Continue reading

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One Year of Windows Live

I have been using Windows Live for a little over a year now. Windows Live offers a phenomenal suite of services and applications that are quite underrated. Here are the services I use the most on a daily basis. Windows … Continue reading

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Cradle To Cradle

It’s time for one of my infamous badly worded book reviews. I recently finished reading Cradle To Cradle, a superb book about “remaking the way we make things“. It outlines a completely new way of looking at reducing and reusing … Continue reading

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Going Back

Going back to this comic. The title is Take the Tightrope. The question is, what is courage? How can the person taking the tightrope know whether it is courage or stupid or insanity? Or is it that courage is having … Continue reading

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