January 2012
21 posts
“Somehow, blacking out the ‘crawl to protest SOPA/PIPA just doesn’t...”
– Peter Watts
Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter -... →
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.)
“Such a mixed bag of tools is an inadequate solution for a variety of reasons....”
– Open writing projects/Python all a scientist needs - OpenWetWare
“the machine learners got their Bayes from astronomers Gauss and Laplace. Now the...”
– Hogg’s Research
Truth and consequences: FRONTLINE's brilliant... →
“The biggest problem with water is the waste of water through lack of charging.”
– 2000 Cochabamba protests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Our galaxy, as Mr Bressert put it, “is basically like champagne, there are...”
– BBC News - Bubble-blowing stars seen in the thousands by public
“In April 2009 it was reported from Saudi Arabia that rumors that Singer sewing...”
– Red mercury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“At 0.1c, Orion thermonuclear starships would require a flight time of at least...”
– Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Often the world’s tallest buildings are simply the edifice of a broader...”
– BBC News - Skyscrapers ‘linked with impending financial crashes’
“Bijoma paties miesto ir jo istorijos. Nuo Vilniaus yra bėgama, nes jo istorija...”
– Laimonas Briedis. „Vilniaus istorijos tiesiog bijoma“ - Bernardinai.lt
“The red Ampelmännchen appeared in dangerous moments”
– Ampelmännchen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freakonomics » When Radio Kills →
“Calendricists have a word for a day and a night, namely,...”
– Julian Day Numbers
“As usual, astronomers have taken a simple concept like “years” and...”
– Another orbit? Why, you don’t look a rotation older than 4.56 billion years! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
“He couldn’t work in the mornings at all. As far as that goes, it went that way...”
– Oral History Transcript — Mrs. Annemarie Schrodinger