Science & Code

• Nano February 18, 2010

  The singularity is tardy.

  General

  http://www.isthesingularityhereyet.com/

  Step One: Learn the important fact this site teaches us about the time we live in.

  Step Two: Look into the source code.

  You are welcome.

  PS: If you don’t know what the singularity is you are missing on some serious transcendental nerdiness.

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• Felix February 10, 2010

  Random links

  General

  In an attempt to counteract the short-termed-ness of my surfing experience I have started collecting sites or articles I find interesting. Reading through it just recently, I got the idea of sharing those links; int this way I can also force myself to re-read them again.

  • Hyperreal numbers are a very strange and mind-blowing way of extending our number space. Probably not useful for anyone outside of mathematics but nonetheless entertaining.
  • The culprit for face cancer epidemic in Tasmanian Devils is probably a genetic bottleneck which crippled the ability of the Tasmanian devils’ immune system to distinguish between its own and alien cells; thus enabling cancer cells to jump hosts.
  • The cavity of our atmosphere hums with extreme low-frequency standing electromagnetic waves. Predicted by Winfried Otto Schumann, the phenomena is termed Schumann resonances. Finally the waveguide 101 I had to learn for my minor comes in handy!
  • At last, a great talk about using symmetry group detection for a wide range of computer graphics related topics.

  On a side note: I am writing on the vector geometry basics part two, stay tuned.

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• Michael December 31, 2009

  Detexify

  Science

  Decades of research finally come to fruition. There is a pretty handy tool named Detexify out there. What it does is simple but efficient. You draw some symbols on a dedicated area and the systems gives you a ranking of LaTeX-symbols (including the commands that generate them) which are visually related to your input. The most time-saving tool I’ve every used while working with LaTeX and its consorts.

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• Michael August 21, 2009

  Today’s cool thing.

  Culture, design

  There’s no thing in existence that has helped the human race in its quest of procrastenating and delaying the more important things than the internet. Just now I stumbled upon the next cool thing! A japanese designer team took the world’s most important people from the pop-scene and the websites which produce most traffic and arranged them on a nifty looking map that resembles the Tokyo metro plan. In fact, I seem to live near DeviantArt and work (here’s the crux) at Microsoft… Well, it’s “only” art. However, here’s the map.

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• Felix July 19, 2009

  Dude, watch this!

  Culture, General

  
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