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		<title>A farewell of sorts&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a very long hiatus I have decided to make this break permanent.   Grad school has taken over to the point where I get little enough time off these days and the last thing I have been wanting to do if to spend that time writing publicly about work and school.
Aside from being busy I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>After a very long hiatus I have decided to make this break permanent.   Grad school has taken over to the point where I get little enough time off these days and the last thing I have been wanting to do if to spend that time writing publicly about work and school.</p>
<p>Aside from being busy I am doing well and finally have a little bit of data giving me a light at the end of the grad student tunnel.</p>
<p>I want to thank those of you who took the time to read my blog while it was active.  And wish all of you the best in your endevours</p>
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		<title>Of parrots and palindromes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics fame has been teaching herself Calculus.  The result has been several intersting posts but the one most pertenant here: Zeno&#8217;s hypothesis and Phi.
Because my brain doesn&#8217;t always work in a linear fashion I got to thinking about Square One, the best math show ever (at least to an [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Jennifer Ouellette of <a href="http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/">Cocktail Party Physics</a> fame has been teaching herself Calculus.  The result has been several intersting posts but the one most pertenant here: <a href="http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2006/10/derive_this.html">Zeno&#8217;s hypothesis and Phi</a>.</p>
<p>Because my brain doesn&#8217;t always work in a linear fashion I got to thinking about <i>Square One</i>, the <i>best math show ever</i> (at least to an elementary school student at the turn of the 90s).  With some time to kill this weekend and the reminder that just about <u>anything</u> can be found on <a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a> I have tracked down several awesome clips for all the math lovers out there.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to find clips of the Parrot reciting the Fibonacci sequence or the Palindrome tango but here are:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM">Nine, Nine, Nine</a> - country song about the &#8220;amazing number nine&#8221;
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsz0VST1N48">8% of my heart</a> - A Meat Loaf parody
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sIkxjPO-WU">Combo Jumbo</a> - Soooo 80&#8217;s.  But manages to work in the term <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Combinatorics.html">combinatorics</a>
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAD91MjvvEk">The Mathematics of Love</a> - one of my all time favorites and one recommended for all you people who come here from a google search asking about Roman Numerals
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD0dTegoows">Angle Dance</a> - again, <i>very</i> 80&#8217;s.  </li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6D0pNmAIBg">Mathman</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yd3tA4wMPI&amp;NR">Mathman</a>
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<li> And finally, for your viewing pleasure, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXiehPXhy5g">A Whole Episode</a>, mathnet segment and all!</li>
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<p>Enjoy, I know I sure did.</p>
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