It's like a golb, just backwards

Slashdot | Scientific Brain Linked to Autism: "It is far more than lying and bullshitting. In a social situation, most people can talk naturally. They simply say what comes to mind. For someone with autism, they have little to no intuation. They literally have no concept of what to say or do. If it is severe enough, the only way they can perform in social situations is to observe how others act and react and mimic them when they are in similar situations. This is much more analytical than intuitive to do. If they can't choose a reaction they can't create one on the fly and will just freeze and say very little ('ah, i see') or nothing at all.

They also generally have a difficult time understanding and picking up on more subtle forms of communication. They only hear the words. They don't hear the emotion or inflection or notice the facial expressions, and they have a difficult time reading (or listening as it were) between the lines. Furthermore, they have a difficult time extrapolating the thoughts and feelings of another person. They can't 'put themselves in the other person's shoes.' Basically, if something isn't said, it doesn't exist to them. That is a crippling disadvantage in social situations."

Slashdot | Practical Mono: "'Once, I thought I had mono for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored'"

Autism Research Centre - ARC Staff : 33

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Keeping Secrets - A simple prescription for keeping Google's records out of government hands. By Tim Wu

Pyromania - Definition, Description, Causes and symptoms, Demographics, Diagnosis, Treatments, Prognosis, Prevention: "The 1940 study is important also because it introduced the notion of an 'ego triad' of firesetting, enuresis(bed-wetting), and cruelty to animals as a predictor of violent behavior in adult life. Subsequent studies have found that a combination of firesetting and cruelty to animals is a significant predictor of violent behavior in adult life, but that the third member of the triad (bed-wetting) is not."

Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds: "The study points to a total lack of reason in political decision-making."

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Visual Leak Detector - Enhanced Memory Leak Detection for Visual C - The Code Project - Free Tools

How to Do What You Love

t r u t h o u t - Democrats: Get Up and Walk Out

Friday, January 20, 2006

CNN.com - 25 words that hurt your resume - Jan 20, 2006

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Phylotaxis

Unqualified Offerings

Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Ripgut brome

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

UHH : Zentrum für Bioinformatik : Forschung

schaik93_4D.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Hoagies' Gifted Education: Plateauing

Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Achievement Goals among Hong Kong Secondary School Students: "The feeling of boredom can be partly explained by the adoption of the work avoidance goal by the students. Usually, the boredom feeling of the students during the lesson is believed to be induced by the ineffective and boring instructional method employed by the teachers. This study shows that individual factors such as the adoption of the work avoidance goal are also influential on the feeling of boredom. With the same class environment, students adopting the learning goal do not feel that their classes are dull whereas students adopting the work avoidance goal feel that their classes are dull."

Larry Doesn't Work Here Anymore

About Management - business management - people management - and more

Zeldman: Designing With Web Standards

Monday, January 16, 2006

Langeweile - Wikipedia

Sriram Krishnan : Lisp is sin

Torrey Pines State Reserve

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

sudoku symmetry - Google Search

Mathematics of Sudoku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sudoku enumeration: the symmetry group

TCS Daily - Who Wants Health Insurance?

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

The Panda's Thumb

Home page for Robert E. Tuzun

Publications by Dr. Robert E. Tuzun: "Robert E. Tuzun, Donald W. Noid, and Bobby G. Sumpter, 'Computation of internal coordinates, derivatives, and gradient expressions: torsion and improper torsion', Journal of Computational Chemistry 21 553-561 (2000)."