You can either know where you are, or how much you’ve drunk, but not both…
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
opit
Jan 19
Jan 18
“ Somehow, blacking out the ‘crawl to protest SOPA/PIPA just doesn’t seem like enough of a gesture. It only seems right that my entire work day should go dark. In solidarity. Yes. In solidarity. Fortunately there is Skyrim to help me through the long empty aching hours. Yes, I know. It is a sacrifice. But someone has to make it.
— Peter Watts
(Source: facebook.com)
Jan 17
» S&S: Please help me understand the convolution!
Here is the continuous (dirac) impulse function (formally, this stuff about the dirac delta is disputed by mathematicians whom do not like the neanderthal engineering way of looking at it.)
Morph chandelier (via alicja wasielewska)
“ Such a mixed bag of tools is an inadequate solution for a variety of reasons. From a computational perspective, most of these tools cannot be pipelined easily which necessitates many manual steps or excessive glue code that most scientists are not trained to write. Far more important than just an inconvenience associated with gluing these tools together is the extreme burden placed on the scientist in terms of data management
“ the machine learners got their Bayes from astronomers Gauss and Laplace. Now the astronomers are asking for it back.
Jan 15
Part 1 out of 4 of a 1989 German documentary on Hong Kong’s fabled Kowloon Walled City. English Subtitles included.
“ The biggest problem with water is the waste of water through lack of charging.
Jan 14
Jan 13
“ Our galaxy, as Mr Bressert put it, “is basically like champagne, there are so many bubbles”.
Jan 11
“ In April 2009 it was reported from Saudi Arabia that rumors that Singer sewing machines contained “red mercury” had caused the prices of such machines to massively increase in the Kingdom, with some paying up to SR 200,000 for a single machine which could previously have been bought for SR 200.
“ At 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships would require a flight time of at least 44 years to reach Alpha Centauri, not counting time needed to reach that speed (about 36 days at constant acceleration of 1g or 9.8 m/s2). At 0.1c, an Orion starship would require 100 years to travel 10 light years. The late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that this would be an excellent use for current stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
“ Often the world’s tallest buildings are simply the edifice of a broader skyscraper building boom, reflecting a widespread misallocation of capital and an impending economic correction,” Barclays Capital analysts said.
