eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
Many of you know we’ve been expecting a baby. Number five for our family, in case you were keeping score at home. Well, he arrived today safe and sound! A great blessing to our family. One pic below; more available on my Flickr site. Metadata Name: Lorenzo K Chung-Chien Wiley Arrival Date: Oct 27, 2007 … Read more
Ok, I know I’m too much of a geek for my own good, but this open course about Problem Solving on Large Scale Clusters looked pretty interesting, until I saw the description for Lab 3, at which point it became too interesting: Lab 3. The Goal — Implement PageRank, turn Wikipedia into a giant graph, … Read more
A rare Sunday post for me. Today in the semi-annual LDS General Conference, Elder Oaks quoted research from a recent study at Columbia’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse about the relationship between teens’ academic achievement and how frequently they eat dinner with their family. BusinessWeek summarized the findings as follows: Their research has … Read more