Extremely interesting quote from the paper on small-world phenomenon:
This we see that minimizing the transmission rate of a network is not necessarily the same as minimizing its diameter... in addition to having short paths, a network should contain latent structural cues that can be used to guide a message towards a target.
I finished the paper today (ignoring all the complicated math stuff that went right over my head and into the wall behind me. I hope I don't get fined for the mark that it left).
CorporateTime may be nice, but it certainly has an interface that rivals that of a blind baboon's arrangement of sock drawer. I can't tell you how many times I made incorrect appointments in ctime last night because it put pm when I was expecting am, or when it put am when I was expecting pm, or, even worse, when it put pm when I really meant pm, but I changed it to am on general principle (or vice versa). I'm guessing that the ctime interface designers were in the Southern hemisphere, where all this makes sense.
I should mention that I went to see Arun's room in Stanford Hall last week. I promised him that I'd put it in my journal, but thought better of it so as not to ruin the surprise for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. So all I'll say is: it's FABULOUS. If you haven't been yet, I strongly urge you to go see it. It's much better than Cats; I'll go see it, again and again.
I'm helping proof a book that Jeremy is writing -- spent much of the day doing that. Hats off to Jeremy for a great use of the word "esoterica". To celebrate, everyone should use the word "esoterica" in a sentence today. Together, we can form a secret personhood of politically-correct dictionaphobics who use big words just for the pure art of it.
Also started Dog doing some LAM development. Yet another reason why LAM will take over the world -- when you have programmers like Dog, who in their right mind will refuse?