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Sometimes technical folks get passionate about an idea.  If they get totally carried away they might write a magazine article, peer-reviewed paper, or start a PhD.  Or, they can invade unsuspecting internet forums and try to convince people by force.  As reported in a blog post: Fix Your Timestep: Crazy Internet Stalker!

Sometimes it’s necessary to destroy the village, in order to save it.

Be warned – if you get your numerical integration wrong, you’re going to hear about it!

Digg this story to add more fuel to the fire.

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A “facebook friend” of mine has an interesting blog entry about shallow networks:

Shallow networks where we know tidbits and some trivia about 100s of people, but don’t share anything meaningful with them. We sit in front of our monitor, checking our emails, blogs we follow, status of friends for the next piece of trivia to come. Maybe we will even write a comment this time, that is if they have been truly witty or controversial, more likely we will just skim it as we skip to the next piece of trivia.

My two cents is that the day-to-day trivia is what keeps the world turning.  Enthusiasm about a new movie, venting about the boss, worry about the news headlines.  It’s a way of nurturing a connection in between face-to-face meetings.

For my part, it is the main way that I can maintain contact with Yusuf – and I’m glad I came across his blog entry via the “shallow network”.

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