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The Rationality Boot Camp organizers finally sent me the daily schedule – now I know approximately what each day will look like. 9:30 Meditation 10:00 Breakfast 11:00 Morning session (lectures/coursework essentially) 1:00 Lunch 3:00 Afternoon session 5:00…

I’m doing Rationality Boot Camp in California this summer.

Full disclosure: I was given a review copy of the book.

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My strengths lie in software construction, so that is where I expect to contribute most.

The primary reason I should be convinced to go is that I want to do research.

I brew beer at home.

The Singularity Institute has recognized that nonhuman intelligences can have – or evolve – arbitrary value systems.

I mentioned in a blog post that I had this idea for a project called Break Ideas.

I am compiling links and notes to papers about JIT bytecode techniques.

I love sites like reddit and Hacker News.

Blog was broken because of a server upgrade.

At Newsbrane internally we use Git to manage our repository, Python for much of our Web code, and Django as our framework.

Joe Marshall posted the details of his replication of the Cavendish experiment on his blog.

I've just received a new iPhone (23rd birthday).

Chris Hecker wrote an awesome series of articles on physics simulation in 1996, and they're available on his site.

There's this Facebook virus going around: "Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

I had a long post here, but I moved it over to blog.newsbrane.com instead, our Newsbrane developer blog.

I've been reading The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart.

This essay is still in progress.

I thought of an analogy for our project that seems to fit fairly well.

A major component of our design for a message-passing framework is the idea of a Unit.

You might still be confused by the concept of monads.

I'm in the midst of applying to graduate school.

If one were to examine computation in X, what properties hold?

I recently updated my resume.

Sean, Tara and I are working on a concurrent programming language.

I put Gutsy Gibbon on my new MacBook today.

I've decided I want to give a talk on OLPC at Brown at the beginning of the semester.

Well, if you know me, you may have heard that I've been having wrist problems recently.

It's an education project, not a laptop project.

I've been working this summer on the One Laptop Per Child project.

I participated in the Boston Indie Game Jam this past weekend.

OK, it's been a while.

We at Techhouse have started a cooking coop this semester.

I previously mentioned I was affected by a couple Debian bugs.

Last month I bought a 2.5" laptop hard drive enclosure and an 80GB drive to go with it.

I'm thinking about writing some code for Linux installers if nobody else does it first.

I've turned on subpixel font rendering on my work computer running Linux.

Almost all modern security problems in web browsers are JavaScript holes -- for the most part, Web browsers nowadays don't mis-parse plain HTML or CSS.

So the other day I dropped my Powerbook.

The Habanero Hamburger is shrouded in legend, touted as the "New Century's Hottest" by the bumper stickers you see on co-workers' desks.

I've gotten DVD playback to work under Debian Testing on my Powerbook.

On my Powerbook I'm running into two extremely annoying Debian bugs.

Japantown in San Francisco is a very nice place.

Holy crap, I've gotten bcm43xx (the free Broadcom wireless driver) to work on my Powerbook (g4 17" 1.5GHz) under Debian, and with WPA encryption too!

I've analyzed the relative merits of the various meal plan options at Brown.

I'm in California (and have been here for two weeks now).

I've been working on a little game engine in my spare time this summer.

Yeah, like everyone else who’s tried polyphasic, we’ve given up.