Hi. I’m John, and I Tweet 22 Sep 2009 Yeah, I know, I’m a follower, not a leader these days*. You note that I have given into the Twitterpated Tsunami, in the side bar. My username is john_s_wilkins, because I’m really, really unimaginative. I still don’t know what it’s all about, but I will learn. * I knew that I was getting long in the tooth when my staff started to know more about the technology we used at work than I did. That was 1995. Now I’m a Jurassic relic. Administrative Humor
Administrative Testing Tweet Embedding 1 Oct 201110 Oct 2011 Using a hint from here: http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905993344827394 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905698241978368 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905579950026752 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119765002872827905 Testing LaTeX embedding: [latex]H= -K\sum^{n}_{i=1} p(i) \log p(i)[/latex] [latex]d(x, y) = \alpha f(X – Y) + \beta f(Y – X) – \theta f(X – Y) \quad \alpha, \beta,\theta \geq 0[/latex] Read More
Administrative COSMOS – a cool magazine 1 Jan 2008 Today I received my copy of COSMOS (not Cosmo, you perves!) in which my article appeared. I have to say (and not just because they showed the good taste to print me) that this is one of the better science magazines I have seen. It reminds me of OMNI at… Read More
Administrative Why wasn’t I told? 25 Jan 2008 A passing reference to Language Log has introduced me to an excellent blog. For instance, this well-balanced post on hate speech. Why didn’t someone notify me of it before? Read More
They said to use a good picture. That was the best I could find. Besides, the grumpy ape is getting tired.