Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
CodeXgalactic hosts writings by polymath Christine Corbett Moran on a variety of topics including: science, science fiction, productivity, philosophy, humanities, motherhood, culture, sports, politics, music, quantum computing, programming, physics, AI, biology, art, and more.
Hi! I’m Christine. My mother called me “Dr. Moran”, the internet knows me as “corbett”, my colleagues call me “Chris”, and my kids call me “mom”. I like collecting projects and experiences which I hope will one day render me able to solve any problem I find interesting or important. My portfolio of projects is Read More ...
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2010. That’s about Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …