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David Bromwich: “Iran Was An Easier Enemy Before We Saw Their Faces.”
September 23, 2009David Bromwich writes in Huffingtonpost.com about the fundamental change brought about to the discourse on Iran by the special coverage of the 2009 Iranian presidential election and its aftermath. The ignorant self-righteousness of the "vicarious politics of liberation" has been challenged perhaps for the first time by the emerging...
Read moreImporting XML dumps into MediaWiki
July 26, 2010I tried to import a large XML dump from Wikipedia and failed. The automatic import feature of MediaWiki failed and gerenated numerous error messages. After Googling around for along time, I came up with this solution: 1. Remove the tags <restrictions>...</restrictions> from your XML file. Some version inconsistencies appear to cause this problem To remove the tags, simply run...
Read moreSanctity: An instrument of political exertion
February 28, 2011Recently, I had a heated exchange with some friends and associates over a subject that in my opinion defines the current struggle towards secular and modern politics in middle eastern societies where religious themes run deep within the political establishment: What is the new status of the religiously sacred in a society aspiring to political freedom and openness? Can an open political system...
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Free Photoshop?
September 18, 2009You do not have to buy Photoshop inorder to use all its functionalities. Yes. There is an absolutely Free software called Gimp that offers an amazing range of...
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Converting Latex Formulas To Images
August 24, 2010If you are preparing a PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress presentation with lots of mathematical formulas, you have probably noticed how clumsy it is to use their built-in formula generators. If...
Read morePhysicist-Mathematician
September 18, 2009Thanks to Charlie's original idea and further insistence, I am taking three graduate level math classes this semester, which is hopefully going to end up in a masters degree in Mathematics. At first, it didn't look like a necessary or even particularly useful move, but now It's very clear to me that I should have done this at least a couple years ago. I would even go so far as to suggest that...
Read moreImporting XML dumps into MediaWiki
July 25, 2010I tried to import a large XML dump from Wikipedia and failed. The automatic import feature of MediaWiki failed and gerenated numerous error messages. After Googling around for along time, I came up with this solution: 1. Remove the tags <restrictions>...</restrictions> from your XML file. Some version inconsistencies appear to cause this problem To remove the tags, simply run...
Read moreInstalling a new package in Latex
January 29, 2010Here's a simple guide to installing new packages or Document classes in Latex
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Mathematica Code For Unit Balls in Lp Norm
November 11, 2009Mathematica has a very convenient method for graphing implicit functions. the function ContourPlot can plot implicit functions as well as contours of surfaces. The following code defines a function...
Read moreThe 22nd of Bahman, and the future of the Green movement(part I).
February 12, 2010The following is an article on the 22nd of Bahman, and some of the lessons I think the Iranian Green movement should learn from the experience. It's gotten a bit too long to be a single post already, so I will post it in installments. Please come back for the rest. The great expectations and the diaspora The demonstrations of the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution of Iran on the 22nd...
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