June 2012
17 posts
“This film delves into a trippy topic — that is, a mathematician who believes...”
– A bizarre student film about the hidden number that exists between 3 and 4
1) Use databases for what they're good at: managing meta-data and relations.
2) Use programming languages for what they're good at: analysis.
3) Use file systems for what they're good at: storing raw data.
““With that hammer in hand, we started looking around for nails,” he said.
...”
– Amateur Astrophotographers Unwittingly Help Scientists Track Comet | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Planetary nebulae are among the very few classes of celestial objects that...”
– Planetary nebulae - Scholarpedia
“Lack of oxygen is your main concern in space. You’d quickly lose...”
– ghoste net
“Dvasininkas prie karsto tauškė nesąmones apie premjerą Andrių Kubilių ir Drąsių...”
– Į paskutinę kelionę žmogų lydėjo kryžiumi pasiramstydamas girtas kunigas - DELFI Žinios
“Pep, The Cat-Murdering Dog” was a black Labrador Retriever admitted to...”
– Child mugshots of the 1800s were like a depressing episode of The Little Rascals
“Yuri Pavlov and Andrey Grib at the Alexander Friedmann Laboratory for...”
– Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Pasak Uosto priežiūros tarnybos viršininko Arvydo Narmonto, į stovintį Estijos...”
– Prie Klaipėdos susidūrė du laivai - Naujienų portalas Alfa.lt
“In other words, I do not see open source as some big goody-goody...”
– BBC News - Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust
“There’s something curiously compelling about watching various felines taking...”
– No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded)
“In the Russian Arctic lies buried an unfinished railway built by prisoners of...”
– Kai Iron Council!
BBC News - Joseph Stalin’s deadly railway to nowhere
“Ghost Cats — When the prison closed in 1971, a colony of cats lived inside. When...”
– Eastern State Penitentiary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The presence of purely random data is easy and cheap to detect, and raises the...”
– ubuntu - How to wipe free disk space in Linux? - Super User
