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		<title>More on Leopard</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/31/more-on-leopard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about Leopard than I told you in my last post, head over to John Siracusa&#8217;s 17-page review at Ars Technica.
One nice tidbit from the review is that you can replace Leopard&#8217;s new reflective Dock with a more functional one by entering the following commands at your terminal:
&#62; defaults write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/27/developing-on-mac-os-x-105-leopard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, numbered 10.5 and called &#8220;Leopard,&#8221; was released last night. I went out and bought it and upgraded the iMac that I&#8217;m writing this post on. It&#8217;s a nice upgrade, with all sorts of little features. Here&#8217;s Apple&#8217;s detailed list of features, here&#8217;s a mainstream review, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connect6</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/23/connect6/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/23/connect6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Game Theory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Go]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Connect6]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[game AI]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[turn-based strategy games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve been enjoying playing the game Connect6 with my son Adam. The game was invented and introduced by Professor I-Chen Wu, from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Connect6 is played with a Go board and stones. The object is to place six stones in a row, diagonally, horizontally, or vertically. On the first turn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 SIAM Annual Meeting</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/22/2008-siam-annual-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lenore Cowen (a co-chair of the 2008 SIAM annual meeting) asked if I might write a post here to help publicize that conference, and I&#8217;m very happy to do so. The conference will be held in San Diego from July 7-11, and it looks like it will cover a wider spectrum of topics than is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Unambiguous Notation</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/19/understanding-physics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned their book the &#8220;Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics&#8221; a couple times already; today I&#8217;d like to recommend that you read a wonderful short paper by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, called &#8220;The Role of Programming in the Formulation of Ideas,&#8221; which helps explain why understanding physics and the other mathematical sciences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SICM on Mac OS X</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/17/sicm-on-mac-os-x/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/17/sicm-on-mac-os-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics,&#8221; (SICM) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom, with Meinhard Mayer, is a fascinating book, revisiting classical mechanics from the point of view that everything must be computationally explicit. I already mentioned the book in a previous post.
The book is available online, and all the software is freely available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NobelPrize.org</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/16/nobelprizeorg/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/16/nobelprizeorg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
It&#8217;s Nobel season, as you&#8217;ve certainly noticed. What you might be less aware of is that the Nobel Foundation maintains an interesting web-site at http://nobelprize.org/. Since 2001, all the Nobel lectures have been video-taped, and the videos are all available at the site. Each of the Nobel Laureates since 2001 has also been interviewed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDPC Decoders and PyCodes</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/15/ldpc-decoders-and-pycodes/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/15/ldpc-decoders-and-pycodes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algorithms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Error-correcting Codes]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[belief propagation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hamming codes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I already wrote about Gallager&#8217;s LDPC error-correcting codes, but I didn&#8217;t explain very much about how they work, aside from pointing you to some good references. I want to use this post to say a little about their decoders, which use the belief propagation algorithm, and also to make you aware of some freely available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Blogs and Books</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/12/on-blogs-and-books/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/12/on-blogs-and-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Atwood has a great blog, called &#8220;Coding Horror,&#8221; about software development. He&#8217;s been blogging continuously and very actively since 2004, which I find impressive; check out his archives.
 
One of his most recent posts is about the book that he&#8217;s just completed, on ASP.NET. I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m interested in the subject of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes U</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/11/itunes-u/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/11/itunes-u/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I bought one of the new iPod Nanos last week. One of the main reasons that I wanted one was to be able to  listen to and watch the video lectures available at iTunes U while walking or traveling. There&#8217;s quite a bit of interesting material available for free download. For example, I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Conferencing Using iChat</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/10/video-conferencing-using-ichat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientific collaboration is really difficult when you cannot talk directly with the person you&#8217;re working with. This has long made collaboration with distant colleagues cumbersome, to say the least. Fortunately, we live in the 21st century, and video conferencing technology now exists that is simple to set up, and works extremely well.
For the last few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enhanced Chess</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/08/enhanced-chess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, Chess was considered the &#8220;ultimate test of cerebral fitness,&#8221; as the 1980&#8217;s song &#8220;One Night in Bangkok&#8221; proclaimed. Its popularity probably peaked in 1972, during the Fischer-Spassky world championship match which seemed to capture the interest of the entire world. Lately, however, its popularity has seriously declined, because of a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock-Paper-Scissors Without the Luck</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/06/rock-paper-scissors-without-the-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before (click here for his &#8220;Duke and Pawn&#8221; game, or click here for a more game-theoretical type of game), my son Adam enjoys designing games. Here&#8217;s a game he designed, with very simple rules but complex play, on the theme of Rock-Paper-Scissors.

 
1. The two players are White and Black, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Princeton Companion to Mathematics</title>
		<link>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/05/princeton-companion-to-mathematics/</link>
		<comments>http://nerdwisdom.com/2007/10/05/princeton-companion-to-mathematics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Yedidia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Terence Tao&#8217;s excellent blog, I learned about the upcoming Princeton Companion to Mathematics (PCM), a roughly 1000-page survey of and introduction to mathematics at the undergraduate level. It looks like the PCM editors have lined up a distinguished cast of mathematicians to write comprehensible articles covering all of mathematics. The editor-in-chief is Timothy Gowers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Free Energies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I discussed phase transitions, and how computing the free energy for a model would let you work out the phase diagram. Today, I want to discuss in more detail some methods for computing free energies.
 
The most popular tool physicists use for computing free energies is &#8220;mean-field theory.&#8221; There seems to [...]]]></description>
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