February 2012
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Feb 3rd
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January 2012
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Jan 22nd
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“Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My...”
– Freeman Dyson giving advice to people at the beginning of their careers.
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Littlewood Dragons by Greg Egan (via John Baez’s Google+)
Jan 7th
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“I guess giving advice is easy compared to taking it. Know your fundamentals...”
– Bjarne Stroustrup’s advice to young programmers
Jan 5th
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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curiositycounts: Robot Wars – fascinating and thought-provoking Al Jazeera Faultlines segment on robot ethics and war  (via)
Dec 27th
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Dec 11th
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“Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated...”
– What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics (via lispmeister)
Dec 8th
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge about to collapse (by cheetah)
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
The Debunking Handbook →
found: … should be mandatory in every school curricula (PDF link). (via Boing Boing)
Dec 3rd
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Nov 20th
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Nov 12th
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October 2011
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Oct 28th
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“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I...”
– Excerpt from The Pleasure of Finding Things out by Richard P. Feynman
Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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“[L]et me make the bold suggestion that perhaps in a few decades we shall see...”
– Excerpt from Is our Mathematics Natural? The Case of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics by David Ruelle.
Oct 26th
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Oct 24th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 3rd
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25 prepared dc-motors, wire isolated 1.0mm, 2009 (by Zimoun)
Oct 1st
September 2011
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Sep 28th
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ListenAngelo Badalamenti - The Pink Room
Sep 25th
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“We have now launched a cluster 3 times the size of Tanuki, or 30,000 cores,...”
– Compute Cycles. Adventures in Computing with Condor, Hadoop, SGE, and the Cloud.
Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 3rd
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Sep 3rd
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August 2011
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New Scientist TV: Time-lapse Tuesday: Human-sized Möbius wave
Aug 30th
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ListenNeil Young - Computer Cowboy (AKA Syscrusher)
Aug 29th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Aug 12th
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10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos |... →
“But there’s more to harnessing an army of computers than testing a hypothesis or extrapolating real-world observations. Simulations contextualize and clarify mountains of data into striking graphics that play to human strengths.”
Aug 9th
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Droplets levitating above a liquid surface show unusual motion
Aug 8th
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“[W]e are at a period where past demons have disappeared. There was a time where...”
– Interview with Cédric Villani
Aug 3rd
July 2011
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