Kyle Matthew Oliver

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  • Fade to Uninterestingness

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    Its overly reductive headline notwithstanding, this article from yesterday’s New York Times basically sums up why I’m no longer so jazzed about a career in academia. I think the overarching theme emerging from these observations is less about a shift from liberal to conservative (or politically driven to “less explicitly political”), but rather from theoretical…

  • You Don’t Mess With A.O.

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    A couple of friends and I have been engaged in a little conversation (and email follow-up) about the New York Times movie critics. It’s funny, I see very few movies, but I’m a voracious review reader, especially from the Times and The Onion (though not the latter so much lately because I get sucked into…

  • RIP HOFG

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    Well, in its 69-year history, the Baseball Hall of Fame Game has been rained out five times. My dad and I have now had tickets to two of those rain outs (including one back in the ’90s when I was a little boy). The “good” news: we won’t miss another. The bad news: that’s because…

  • Missing, Presumed Fed

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    It may appear that I’ve pulled a succession of Lig Lury, Jr.’s these last two weeks’ worth of evenings. However, this editor hasn’t been out grabbing food every night. I’ve actually just been trying to recover and catch up a bit from the semester, to get moving on summer research, and to take care of…

  • code thing

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    void Material::updateCommod(Commodity newType){ if (newType == myType) { throw MatException( “Attempted to change Material’s Commodity type to its current type”); } myType = newType;} void Material::changeCommod(Commodity newCommod){ if (newCommod == myType) throw MatException(“Tried to change Commodity type to the current type.”); myType = newCommod;}

  • Toy Story — Or — A Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Code From Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed

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    A few days ago, I handed in my last paper of the semester, a report on my development of TOLSTOY: Treatment Optimization with Linear Scoring TOY. I figure we need more codes named after famous writers (see, for example, CAFCA). TOLSTOY’s not going to answer any pressing research questions. It’s a toy code for performing…

  • Triple Take

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    In case you haven’t heard, there was an unassisted triple play in the Cleveland-Toronto game last night. These have always been really, really exciting to me; I remember watching highlights of one when I was a seven-ish-year-old baseball nut living in Bradenton, FL (where the Pirates spring train, incidentally). I have the nagging sense that…

  • Cleaning House

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    I’m trying to clean up my del.icio.us tags a bit. Here are a couple links I’ve been meaning to pass along: CO2 Saver — I’m in firm agreement with those who believe guilt isn’t going to get us anywhere in solving environmental problems. I think the truth of the matter is that we start to…

  • Cleaning House

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    I’m trying to clean up my del.icio.us tags a bit. Here are a couple of items I wanted to pass along here:

  • Poor Union South

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    Hehe, those of you familiar with the UW-Madison campus may find this amusing: “For 37 years, Union South has turned a cold shoulder to the campus. And the feeling, unfortunately, has been mutual. Unloved and underutilized, Union South’s quirky design, and uninviting Soviet-style architecture will give way to a new South Campus Union that planners…