Archive for May 2010

got a system that’ll beat and knock your wall off

May 29th

Posted by and one fine morning... in Tech

Last night I finished Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex which falls nicely into cyberpunk anime, but has so many nice threads and connections to Singularity theory. In fact, I thought Stand Alone Complex’s treatment of technology in general was really really good. This was a significant contrast to IronMan 2, which as far as I can tell, sees the future of technology as a bunch of hidden hinges in motorized metal parts. I think the IronMan sort of future looks a little bit more macho, but is so far from the mark. In my opinion, the future is at the interface of biology and computer science. Things will get smaller, lighter, and harder to see and detect. Anyway, I would rate Stand Alone Complex very high due to coherence of plot, universe, and exceptional animation. I’d put it up there with Dennō Coil for overall enjoyment in the futurist genre. Watch it!

this old gal rattled, rattled, rattled like a tin can

May 25th

Posted by and one fine morning... in Life

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Time for a little bit of internet management here. I did the standard self-google and decided to brush some things up. Here are links to some of the things that I would like to see more of:

My academic homepage at CU’s applied math department: Daniel B. Larremore
My personal website: tomorrow i will run faster…
Fun stuff, like my contribution to NPR’s Planet Money: Lawnmowing efficiency
My band’s website (recently created! I am pumped): Hot Dude Party

Eventually, it would be nice to get results for some of my publications, but of course, having publications is a necessary condition for them to show up in a search. I would also like Twitter to stop showing up. I disabled the automatic feed from twitter to the blog. If you still want to read twitterbits, just follow from twitter directly.

Meanwhile, life is good. I am running the BolderBoulder this coming Monday, and feeling decent about it. I also picked up a sweet new cycling outfit from Wheat Ridge Cyclery, which makes me feel a lot faster. I assume that it helps when the shorts match the jersey. I would estimate that I now go about 20% faster. “lol”

Research is going well. I am starting work with an undergraduate student named Kevin Murphy, and he seems to be really sharp…and works hard too. This should make for a good summer. Meanwhile, I am still working on a draft of the paper that we hope to submit pretty soon on the dynamic range of excitable networks. Dane and I have also started collaborating on a project about percolation. We’ll see how it goes.