I wish I had more time to enjoy topics related to beauty and truth in
physics.
But, no: instead, I've been mucking about in the bowls of an old, hoary code
named EpiSims.
Why?
Because we offered to do an influenza study of New York City using EpiSims,
and then when the data came my way it contained long HouseHold Ids, and the
code was only designed to handle int HouseHold Ids.
What a joy it's been mucking about in ~30K lines of code for the past couple
of days that at *least* ten people have touched over the past 15 years,
including one person with definite pathological tendencies.
The prosaic, vs. beauty and truth....
Thanks for the link to the talk Owen. It reminds us that some people do
indeed lead a better life.
--Doug
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On Feb 9, 2008 6:18 PM, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> Just in case you missed Murray's TED chat:
>
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194>
> I like in particular his notion that the Theory of Everything isn't ..
> it has to have the history of all quantum mechanical "accidents"
> leading up to an event as well. Rather nicely said.
>
> BTW: TED is becoming rather central to several conversations in Santa
> Fe as we attempt to build The Complex .. a non-profit for fascinating
> new multi-discipline projects. Stephen sent Sir Ken's TED around a
> while back:
>
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66>
> -- Owen
>
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