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New book.
Liberals and Cannibals: Implications of Diversity
I'm reading this as part of an article I'm writing. I'm trying to re-evaluate the approach a lot of American campuses take on their approach to diversity, which often seems little more than forcing students to consciously acknowledge what makes people different rather than simply letting people make their own goddamned decisions. And at my college, the definition of diversity is particularly warped. The most publicized diversity forums deal with African American issues, which don't actually focus on issues that are pertinent to black college students, but instead are little more than generalized speeches about why the black people in this country are getting fucked so many different ways that society is trying to make new holes.
The book I'm reading right now gives insights into how diversity has been used in this country, and what trends seem to be developing out of it, as well has suggestions for using the topic of diversity as an effective unifying instrument, rather than a dividing one. At least, that is my hope from reading the introduction.
I have not formed my opinion about this book yet, but it looks promising from the first 10 pages I've read.
Liberals and Cannibals: Implications of Diversity
I'm reading this as part of an article I'm writing. I'm trying to re-evaluate the approach a lot of American campuses take on their approach to diversity, which often seems little more than forcing students to consciously acknowledge what makes people different rather than simply letting people make their own goddamned decisions. And at my college, the definition of diversity is particularly warped. The most publicized diversity forums deal with African American issues, which don't actually focus on issues that are pertinent to black college students, but instead are little more than generalized speeches about why the black people in this country are getting fucked so many different ways that society is trying to make new holes.
The book I'm reading right now gives insights into how diversity has been used in this country, and what trends seem to be developing out of it, as well has suggestions for using the topic of diversity as an effective unifying instrument, rather than a dividing one. At least, that is my hope from reading the introduction.
I have not formed my opinion about this book yet, but it looks promising from the first 10 pages I've read.
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Don't diss the FFT 
O(n log n) complexity can't be wrong !
And how would computer do, if they had no computational methods to rely on? No access to the k-space would mean no MP3, no JPG, even no MRI...
BTW, finished "Le Chateau des Carpathes", a few days ago. Nice attempt of Verne at "fantasy" - not Tolkien style, but more along the lines of Edgar Allan Poe stuff (sometimes called "dark fantasy"?).
The genre (which appeared during the XIXe century) is named "fantastique" in french : according to the standard definition, it deals with extraordinary (usually scary/creepy/disturbing) events disrupting the normal flow of reality - and most of the time, the story ends with reality coming back to its normal self. "Fantastique" in its most purest form requires that some possible logical explanation be given in the end for the extraordinary events that took place - but some doubt usually remains (because, for instance, all proofs got destroyed, and all direct witness died/went crazy/etc.)
Verne being more of an SF author, here the scientific explanation does totally prevail at the end. Yet the story manages to deal with ghosts and haunted castles and [spoiler]mad scientists blowing up their maze-like hide-out FTW! :frank[/spoiler]
O(n log n) complexity can't be wrong !
And how would computer do, if they had no computational methods to rely on? No access to the k-space would mean no MP3, no JPG, even no MRI...
BTW, finished "Le Chateau des Carpathes", a few days ago. Nice attempt of Verne at "fantasy" - not Tolkien style, but more along the lines of Edgar Allan Poe stuff (sometimes called "dark fantasy"?).
The genre (which appeared during the XIXe century) is named "fantastique" in french : according to the standard definition, it deals with extraordinary (usually scary/creepy/disturbing) events disrupting the normal flow of reality - and most of the time, the story ends with reality coming back to its normal self. "Fantastique" in its most purest form requires that some possible logical explanation be given in the end for the extraordinary events that took place - but some doubt usually remains (because, for instance, all proofs got destroyed, and all direct witness died/went crazy/etc.)
Verne being more of an SF author, here the scientific explanation does totally prevail at the end. Yet the story manages to deal with ghosts and haunted castles and [spoiler]mad scientists blowing up their maze-like hide-out FTW! :frank[/spoiler]
