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	<title>John Ramey</title>
	<link>http://www.johnramey.net</link>
	<description>Don&#039;t think...compute.</description>
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		<title>Premature Optimization Is the Root of All Evil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;so says the famous quote, my current mantra.  This leads to my primary mission (or possibly, it would be more appropriate to call this my Prime Directive) is to code and get it all out. Brainstorm in code quicker and faster.
I have this extremely bad habit of writing 10 lines of code before shelling out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/05/28/premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evil/</link>
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		<title>A Little Bit About Data Frames in R</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Data frames in R are much like DataSets in SAS, SPSS, .NET, etc.  Really, they are just spreadsheets that feel like a matrices. We can use these to look at numerical data along with any meta data or characteristics associated with the numbers though numbers are not required.  From the R Documentation, &#8220;a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/03/14/a-little-bit-about-data-frames-in-r/</link>
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		<title>New Blog Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I loved my old theme featuring one of my favorite books, The Hobbit, I needed more display options.  The previous theme only showed my different posts and ignored categories among many other things.
My new theme is as shown&#8230;let me know if you like it.
It doesn&#8217;t handle my LaTeX plugin very well. I&#8217;ll have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/03/09/new-blog-theme/</link>
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		<title>My Poor Toe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday night, the lights were out, and I was feeling my around the bed as I do every night.  Something had changed just enough to throw off my plans.  Our bedside stool that was not in its normal position, impeding my path; rather than going around it, I could not see it, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/03/02/my-poor-toe/</link>
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		<title>A Woman&#8217;s Week at the Gym</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is yet another forward that I did not wish to forward, but rather I thought I&#8217;d post it. Here it is&#8230;
Dear Diary,
For my birthday this year, my daughter (the dear) purchased a week of personal training at the local health club for me.  Although I am still in great shape since being a high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/02/24/a-womans-week-at-the-gym/</link>
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		<title>Zero Factorial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must have had this epiphany several times in the last few years, but I had it again this evening while being introduced to the dark side.  Many students are taught that

and that 0! is defined as 1.  But is there some higher level mathematics in which this factorial idea is just a corollary as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/02/11/zero-factorial/</link>
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		<title>Installing a Husband</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally, I do not forward emails along no matter how funny they are, and I thought this one required repeating&#8230;just not via email.
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/02/08/installing-a-husband/</link>
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		<title>WTB [Probability Distribution Charts] PST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent goal is to surround myself with things in my cubicle that will remind me of my work, so that when I inevitably become distracted, many &#8220;get back to work&#8221; signs act as a sometimes much needed slavedriver.  Among these signs are charts of probability distributions and their properties, but first, I needed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2009/01/31/wtb-probability-distribution-charts-pst/</link>
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		<title>Project Euler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony turned me onto this new project called Project Euler.  On the site, there are currently 202 computational math problems ranging from easy to extremely difficult.  Several of the problems can be brute-forced in order to find a solution, but there are some that are just not possible to solve in this manner in this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2008/08/24/project-euler/</link>
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		<title>Revitalizing My Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea why I am doing this because the last time I tried to go through with this, the lame programming references just got old.  I deleted all of my posts except for one, and  I&#8217;ve moved on and am no longer aspiring to be a code monkey.  On August [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnramey.net/2008/07/28/revitalizing-my-blog/</link>
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