Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
As Leonard noted, last night I went to the Pinker lecture. Steven Pinker said, to paraphrase, "here's my hypothesis of how our memory of words and our computation using rules gets us to speak the …
More Khayyam madness: Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit. You know, …
I am one of those people who have let Omar Khayyam's poetic works overshadow his amazing work as a mathematician. First Lewis Carroll, now Omar Khayyam. What next? A thousand years ago, Andrew Wiles will …
Shweta Narayan and I had lunch together. Thank goodness that she Has Been There with regards to having Indian parents. My parents and even my sister make me want to make some major life decision, …
A short synopsis of my attempts to stay awake during Logic lectures. I've written letters to friends and family. This works. I've done homework for other classes, most notably Music. This works. I've tried to …
Stephen Pinker, author of The Language Instinct, will be giving a linguistics talk for the UC Berkeley cognitive science students' association at 105 North Gate at 6pm on Tuesday, April 16. That's tomorrow.
I took several nice walks over the past three days. I recommend all of them. On Friday afternoon, on a whim, I walked from campus to Woolsey and Shattuck. I walked south from Bancroft and …
If you've already been depressed and drained by, say, looking at a LiveJournal "random user," or googling for some failed eighties sitcom, then maybe you're in the mood to search Roger Ebert's archive of film …
Some SF Chronicle headline said that lawmakers "rapped" something. Ethanol legislation is in the hizouse! and the sizenate!
"I Agree With Barbara Lee," or "I Agree With Barbarella"?