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		<title>Realtime Map of US Shoe Purchases from Zappos.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This map is really clever.
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		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/04/07/realtime-map-of-us-shoe-purchases-from-zappos/</link>
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		<title>Reloading a File in Adobe Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When working on document in LaTeX that is going to wind up as a PDF (e.g. my thesis), I prefer to look at it in Adobe Reader.  Acroread seems to give the best impression of what the document will actually look like.  In practice, though, I use xpdf, because it has a &#8220;reload&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/04/02/reloading-a-file-in-adobe-reader/</link>
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		<title>Len Adleman&#8217;s Sneakers Anecdotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer scientists and mathematicians like the movie Sneakers not only because it is about cryptography, but also because the jargon about factoring used in the movie is authentic.  The reason it is authentic is because the directory brought Leonard Adleman (the &#8220;A&#8221; in &#8220;RSA&#8221;) in to help them.  He&#8217;s written up some memories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/03/02/len-adlemans-sneakers-anecdotes/</link>
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		<title>The Best Credit Crisis Explanation Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is absolutely the best explanation of the credit crisis I have seen to date:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/02/20/the-best-credit-crisis-explanation-video/</link>
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		<title>Preventing Line Breaks of Equations in Latex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I learned a new Latex trick today.  Sometimes you have math notation inline with text, like when you use $&#8230;$.  Sometimes with long equations, however, you get line breaks.  Like if you have $a+b+c+d+e$, it might happily break it into $a+b+c$ and $+d+e$ on the next line.  This is ugly, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/02/19/preventing-line-breaks-of-equations-in-latex/</link>
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		<title>Cambridge Annoyances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of neat things about being a grad student in Cambridge, but one thing that gets on my nerves is that I&#8217;m on the &#8220;Junior Members&#8221; mailing list at St. John&#8217;s College and cannot remove myself.  The Junior Members are basically everyone who&#8217;s not faculty, but the SJC admins feel the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/02/19/cambridge-annoyances/</link>
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		<title>Metric Intuition from XKCD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[XKCD has a great comic about building metric intuition.  Even having lived in the UK quite a bit, I still have a hard time thinking about Celsius.  The little chart is both hilarious and useful.
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		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2009/01/05/metric-intuition-from-xkcd/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating Amazon EC2 for Scientific Computation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written some fairly heavy Markov chain Monte Carlo code in Java and would like to let it run for a while.  The cluster in the Inference Group is not terribly up-to-date and it&#8217;s obnoxious to run computationally-significant jobs on colleagues&#8217; desktops anyway.  This seemed like a good opportunity to try out Amazone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2008/11/06/evaluating-amazon-ec2-for-scientific-computation/</link>
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		<title>The $700B Bailout in Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proposed bailout of the financial services sector is a &#8220;loan&#8221; of $700 billion.  I put quotes around &#8220;loan&#8221; because the whole point is for the government to buy bad debt, so it&#8217;s really a handout.  We all will buy our little share of these bad mortgages, regardless of whether we took out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2008/09/24/the-700b-bailout-in-perspective/</link>
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		<title>The Dangerous Sarah Palin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Newseek article presents a fantastic case as to why Sarah Palin is actually a dangerous choice to govern the United States.  The author goes on to discuss the bizarre situation in US politics where qualifications for office are actually a detriment:

Ask yourself: how has &#8220;elitism&#8221; become a bad word in American politics? There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nonperiodic.net/blog/2008/09/21/the-dangerous-sarah-palin/</link>
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