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Tuesday, November 26, 2002
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Per Bak and self-organized criticality -- Comment()
Seb's Open Research writes about self-organization: "A nice introduction to self-organization by a physicist, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi." Incidentally, I just noticed today in Nature that Per Bak, one of the most cited physicists, died on October 16, 2002. In 1991, I organized a workshop on cellular automata, and Per Bak was one of the invited speakers. His work on self-organized criticality is well-known today, and influences current physics research.
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Feedback and insults -- Comment()
I wrote earlier: "By the way, it may be a singularly Finnish trait that when giving positive feedback we tend to insult the recipient a bit." I received a comment from Bjarne Tveskov: "Maybe it's a Nordic/Scandinavian thing, in my experience, danes do that all the time as well." This is good to hear, now I'll feel less out-of-place in Scandinavian meetings.
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Can't stomach Microsoft? -- Comment()
If you can't stomach Microsoft, the help is near: LIINUS (the text is in Finnish) will help your stomach to cope with the daily stress. LIINUS is a dietary supplement (functional food), marketed by Orion Pharma, for making your stomach behave. It may also prevent you from getting cancer. My food-related English vocabulary is a bit rusty, but I believe FLAXSEED as Functional Food for People tells of the same benefits as the Finnish discription of LIINUS. Here is a slogan for the product: "Can't Stomach Microsoft? Use LIINUS!" Could I make a career in advertising?
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