Archives for "October, 2008"

Posted by Cheryl on 15th October 2008
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Fire Drill

I was in a meeting this afternoon when the fire alarm went off. At first, the bright white light blinking confused me, as I thought I was being abducted, but then we realized that they were not going to let us continue to sit there and scrub these ISP issues. So we disconnected from the [...]

Posted by Cheryl on 7th October 2008
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strategic foresight

About three weeks ago, I told someone that our “relationship” was going to end before it even begun. And three weeks later, I was right. Not only was I right, but I realized after we got off the phone that I did it the same way as the last five times, except I wasn’t actually [...]

Posted by Cheryl on 2nd October 2008
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World’s 23 Toughest Math Questions

Here is the full article. Otherwise, here are the questions:

The Mathematics of the Brain: Develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the brain that is mathematically consistent and predictive rather than merely biologically inspired.
The Dynamics of Networks: Develop the high-dimensional mathematics needed to accurately model and predict behavior in large-scale distributed networks [...]