Holy crud, you're supposed to know this stuff going in to a course on complexity theory?

A Course on Complexity Theory « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP.

[Update:]{style="color: #ff0000;"} Ah, I read it wrong -- when he said "What they should know," he meant at the end of …

• Star Trek uniform wetsuits. Give your least favorite "buddy" the red one: http://bit.ly/8k1bfy #
• Microsoft Research Paper describes algorithm for maximizing viral marketing: http://bit.ly/4JMjls #
• Microsoft released the Tablet PC in 2003 and everyone is going gah-gah over _prospect_ of Apple Tablet. #squandered_opportunity #
• ♫ I am going …

My latest column for SD Times discusses my experience programming an astronomy application in Silverlight 4.

• Using RAMDisk to Speed Build Times (And it's not an article written in 1988!): http://bit.ly/4nClj0 #
• Writing a geotag-reading Twitter Silverlight app #
• Can everyone who follows me DM @mlbtraderumors and tell them that I should develop their iPhone app? I'm totally serious. I WANT THAT JOB. #
• Full moon …

2009 was definitely a mixed bag for us, as was, I suppose, the "aughts."In other words, life.

Out with the old:

in with the new!

• Disassembled Webcam, removed lens, Dremeled film canister and enclosure, and voila! Planetary astrophotography cam! Feeling like Macgyver. #
• Hubble just flew between Moon and Jupiter!!!!! Wow!!!! (right place, right time) #
• Photo of Hubble passing between Jupiter and Moon (bad exposure, blurry, but what can you do?) http://bit.ly/5ds9G9 #
• Just …

Cool presentation.

It's a tooth-chattering 62 degrees in Hawaii this morning as the Sun reaches its lowest latitude of the year.

Yesterday was a wild one, beginning with a waterspout:

and ending with a beautiful crescent moon near Jupiter.

As I was looking at Jupiter and the Moon in the twilight, I …