links for 2008-02-20
February 20th, 2008 2:26:25 am pst by 
Sterling Camden
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“It always takes me 10 times longer than I thought,” he admits. “On the last world record I figured it would take a month, and it was about two years.” Maybe it would be easier if he stopped calculating in base 24.
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“Liberty and justice for all” is sounding even more like thoughtcrime.
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More disturbing news from the land of the free
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Scrap SQL. Heck, scrap disk storage altogether. And here I thought the H-Store was just a guy on a street corner.
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In the style of Rembrandt. Thanks, Jason.
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Great post, but self-inflicted complexity may not always be accidental. Sometimes it’s political.
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Have at it, Stu!
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“Simple tricks for doing arithmetic in your head”.
Trivial!
BTW: The rules for testing for divisibility by all numbers up to 50 are on my site at http://www.savory.de/maths1.htm
And yes, I DO know how to take cube roots in my head. Beat that!
(FWIW I’ll do a blog article explaining how to take cube roots in your head at the end of the month,OK?)
Sounds great, Stu! Can’t wait.
re: autism
Have you seen these?
Autism Breakthrough: Girl’s Writings Explain Her Behavior and Feelings
Carly’s Writings — Carly being the girl from the last link
Judging by her writings, it almost sounds like some of her symptoms are just a really severe case of “Restless Leg Syndrome”, except not just in her legs.
Yes, I did see those. It’s truly amazing to get a glimpse inside the mind of someone with autism, because many cannot communicate effectively at all.
I’ve never heard autism compared to RLS before, but I wonder if there could be a connection, The more I learn, the more I believe autism to be closely tied to allergies, asthma, and other disorders. I believe that the sharp increase in recent years means that it can’t be merely a genetic disorder, but must also be triggered by some environmental insult (using environment in the broadest possible sense of “anything that happens after conception”).