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		<title>Mandoline my ass&#8230;</title>
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...all you need is a sharp knife.
I just got The French Laundry Cookbook. It's awesome.
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		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/02/mandoline-my-ass/</link>
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		<title>Unleash the power of the atom&#8230; to boil water?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to go off on a limb and blog about something I know absolutely nothing about. Power generation.
So I'm reading the news recently and I read that the U.S. is going to invest in building a couple of nuclear power plants. Now, I don't know much about nuclear power plants or power generation in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/02/unleash-the-power-of-the-atom-to-boil-water/</link>
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		<title>Enjoying Life (a little more)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about a simple trick you can use to enjoy the things you like a little more and/or make them enjoyable to others. But first, let's try a little experiment. Please listen to this piece of classical music. It's only 47 seconds long.
Now write down some measure of how much you enjoyed it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2010/01/enjoying-life-a-little-more/</link>
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		<title>Proof that P=NP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was browsing Concrete Mathematics by Don Knuth et al, and I found a proof that P=NP for small N[1]. However if you make P=0, the size of N doesn't matter. So if P=0, then P = NP. Where is my money?
Specifically for N=1. It's in the margin of the book]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/10/proof-that-pnp/</link>
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		<title>The Two Envelopes Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent thread in reddit about the two envelopes problem reminded me of how unintuitive probabilities can be. There is a fundamental flaw with how the original post worded the problem:
You and I both have envelopes filled with money. My envelope contains either double or half the amount of money that’s in yours. If you want, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/10/the-two-envelopes-problem/</link>
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		<title>The Monty Hall problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After all the positive feedback I got from Visualizing Bayes' theorem, I thought I'd post my explanation of the Monty Hall problem. I was fascinated for a while with this problem because at first it doesn't seem to make any sense. And most of the explanations I've seen have a magic feel to them. I've [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/the-monty-hall-problem/</link>
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		<title>Visualizing Bayes&#8217; theorem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently came up with what I think is an intuitive way to explain Bayes' Theorem. I searched in google for a while and could not find any article that explains it in this particular way.
Of course there's the wikipedia page, that long article by Yudkowsky, and a bunch of other explanations and tutorials. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theorem/</link>
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		<title>Is that possible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally read the good math bad math blog, where Mark Chu-Carroll debunks crackpots that try to hide their crazyness behind bad math. A while ago, he posted an article called "Why Math?", where he discusses how math allows you to "without ambiguity, prove that something is true or false".
While I agree with Mark, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/12/is-that-possible/</link>
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		<title>Simple Guide to Complexity Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading Jeff's terribly misguided post about NP-completeness I thought to myself: "If Jeff, who seems to be completely clueless about complexity theory, can write a blog post about it then so can I."
So without further ado, here's ob's complex guide to simplifying complexity theory.
First of all let's get the definitions out of the way.
Turing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/11/simple-guide-to-complexity-theory/</link>
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		<title>The case against snippets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when TextMate was relatively new and that famous video of ruby on rails was making the rounds. I watched in amazement with the rest of the nerds as code flew around the screen. I had caught Snippet Fever.
After using TextMate for a while I became addicted to snippets. The basic idea of a snippet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/08/the-case-against-snippets/</link>
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		<title>Another useless C99 tidbit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another useless C99 tidbit: trigraphs.]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/04/another-useless-c99-tidbit/</link>
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		<title>Hidden Gems in C99 (1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After some late night reading of the C99 spec, I've found quite a few hidden gems. I'm going to start posting some of these. Since it's late, I'll just post a teaser.
On page 64 of the C99 standard it says:

In all aspects of the language, the six tokens

  %: %:%:

behave,respectively,the same as the six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/04/hidden-gems-in-c99-1/</link>
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		<title>Haskell</title>
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		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/04/haskell/</link>
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		<title>Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Schneier linked to an interesting article on techniques for reading the DRAM contents of a machine after it has been powered off. 

We show that disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by using them to defeat three popular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/02/cold-boot-attacks-against-disk-encryption/</link>
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		<title>Tête de Moine and&#8230; Challah?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I was surprised by an invite from a friend to have dinner at his house. I was even more surprised when he gifted me a Girolle and a Tête de Moine. Wow! What a present!

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any Zopf to eat my cheese with. If anyone knows of a Swiss bakery in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oscarbonilla.com/2008/01/tete-de-moine-and-challah/</link>
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