2010 – codeXgalactic

Wikileaks Research Project–Final Report: Background and Methods

Posted onDecember 31, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

The Motivation https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/11049922849673216 https://twitter.com/#!/corbett_inc/status/11050551278051330 https://twitter.com/#!/ario/status/11053875767279616 Check my Wikileaks Research Project midpoint report out for more details but a bite sized background piece quoting from the blog post is as follows: A week ago I hatched a plan to educate myself in a more structured manner on what exactly Wikileaks stands for, its history, and its Read More …

Double Graet Coffee Cake recipe

Posted onDecember 25, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

Legend has it that Graeter’s bakery in Cincinnati, Ohio has the gooiest delectable coffee cake available for purchase and years ago my mother’s aunt wrote the Cincinnati Enquirer for the recipe. A recipe called “Double Butter Coffee Cake” was soon published in the paper and my immediate family has since prepared it on Christmas and Read More …

Kliq app field testing in Columbus, Ohio

Posted onDecember 25, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

The Kliq beta application has recently been submitted to the iPhone app store. Kliq allows you to schedule a meetup with nearby facebook friends or a friend-of-friend at a nearby location in three thumb taps. A tech nugget and anecdote: Kliq uses SimpleGeo to go from the user’s GPS location to a set of possible Read More …

Wikileaks Research Project, midpoint report

Posted onDecember 11, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

A week ago I hatched a plan to educate myself in a more structured manner on what exactly Wikileaks stands for, its history, and its possible futures with the idea of developing a more concrete and informed opinion (and since I have a habit of taking action with respect to my opinions, thereby guiding my Read More …

Book eggs

Posted onNovember 11, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

I’ve been intending on making a full writeup of recently read books, but have not gotten around to it as I tend to start a new book right after I finish the last (one of the many great things about being a Kindle user, more fangirling to come) and think “well… I’ll just wait until Read More …

Phygg featured on MIT Technology Review

Posted onOctober 12, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

Phygg featured on MIT Technology Review. Phygg was down for a bit today due to overload, upgrading my hosting and starting to do some analytics. Having your site go down is a tangy bitter shot of success and failure in the same glass. Here’s to steady uptime and a great phygg community to come! Read More …

The future of the internet

Posted onSeptember 30, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

It may not yet be a widely known fact but computer chips have stopped getting faster. But what if the average user doesn’t need all that performance? If desktop chipmakers are going to stay afloat there’s got to be a huge market for chips which scream. So what’s going to drive the CPU market? Read More …

Introducing phygg

Posted onSeptember 26, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

My Sunday afternoon recover-from-jetlag hack was creating http://www.phygg.com. Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org in the style of digg.com, initially focusing on astrophysics. I’m going to be using phygg to track papers I find interesting, so feel free to follow the rss feed. In addition, I’m hoping to convince a few of my astrophysicist colleagues to join in on the posting and voting, so stay tuned. Read More …

"Our stability is but balance" — Freeman Dyson on how to imagine quantum fields (via Gravity and Levity)

Posted onAugust 31, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

My introduction to QFT was incidentally very similar to http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/so-is-the-universe-made-of-tiny-springs-or-isnt-it/. In the last post I told the story of my own struggles with quantum field theory and what it is supposed to mean. In this post (as promised), I want to let someone much more intelligent and eloquent tell the story of quantum fields. The Read More …

Foo Camp 2010 Redux

Posted onJuly 13, 2010AuthorCorbettLeave a comment

Tim O’Reilly describes it better, but I’ll do my best: Foo Camp is an invite only free event at tech publishing mogul O’Reilly’s corporate headquarters. Being invited meant a great deal to me. My biggest source of inspiration has always come from people, and a new friendship with someone who has an infectious spirit and story to tell can give me fuel–literally–for years. I’ve tried to do my best to give back some of the inspiration I stole from the pool to others while stocking up on protein packed chunks for exciting new projects. Foo was the perfect venue for this. Definitely life changing! Read More …