{"id":507,"date":"2012-02-25T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2012-02-25T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:58:00","slug":"a-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"A Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No day is typical.  The last two Fridays represented the proto-climaxes of weeks of curating after months of research, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/winfdp49vsdn\/the-call-of-the-complex\/\">Prezi on Complexity<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/floodpres2.pdf\">Update on Melt-Flooding<\/a>.  This Friday was an opportunity to skype to Paris to discuss paper topics with our professor of Global Governance.  I said &#8220;institutional change&#8221;, and she said, &#8220;Cross-scale dynamics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Then to a sustainability career fair.  The African Wildlife Foundation and the EPA&#8217;s oversight branch recognized the potential for software skillz plus sustainable development knowledge.  Or they just had nicer folk at their tables.<\/p>\n<p>After Information Theory (English text has 1.34 bits of information per letter; learning how to compress data from arbitrary discrete distributions to &#8220;fair bits&#8221;; wondering if it could be used to make continuous distributions Gaussian), a wonderful dinner with Prodigal.  We went to the oldest tavern in NYC, from 1793, with the largest collection of whiskies.  And apparently I really do like Rye liquor&#8211; the 21 y.o. Vintage Rye was delicious.  For mixed drinks, give me something girly and sweet, with a cherry if possible, but in liquor I guess I run manlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No day is typical. The last two Fridays represented the proto-climaxes of weeks of curating after months of research, with a Prezi on Complexity and a Update on Melt-Flooding. This Friday was an opportunity to skype to Paris to discuss paper topics with our professor of Global Governance. I said &#8220;institutional change&#8221;, and she said, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Friday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}