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by celias 14y ago
Thomas Stevens rode a penny-farthing bicycle west-to-east around the world in 1884-86, followed by Frank Lenz's east-to-west attempt on a two-wheeled bicycle in the early 1890's - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stevens_(cyclist) htt
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Why Companies Use Software To Scan Resumes(npr.org)
3 points by celias 14y ago|1 comments
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by celias 14y ago
matplotlib: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1329
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by celias 14y ago
One word - Mothra ( http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Mothra )
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by celias 14y ago
It is built on java instead of python, but Processing seems to be similar to Nodebox - http://processing.org/
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by celias 14y ago
Mr. Rothbart's Neighborhood from This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=184&a...
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by celias 14y ago
Maybe twice in a lifetime. The last one was in 2004. From Wikipedia, "Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years a
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Before 'Watergate' Could be Googled(online.wsj.com)
3 points by celias 15y ago|0 comments
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by celias 15y ago
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6592
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Flame Challenge - explaining science to 11-year-olds(flamechallenge.org)
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by celias 15y ago
This reminds me of a This American Life story in 2008 about scam baiters conning a 419 scammer and whether they went too far http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=363&a...
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by celias 15y ago
Sheldon: You realize, Penny, that the technology that went into this arm will one day make unskilled food servers such as yourself obsolete. Penny: Really? They’re going to make a robot that spits on your hamburger?
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by celias 15y ago
The "mindless" paper from William Kahan has a nice discussion of roundoff errors: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf The ~wkahan path has more papers.
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by celias 15y ago
Discussed on the Diane Rehm show on NPR today http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-22/new-development...
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by celias 15y ago
Wired had an article a couple of years ago about a similar sounding black material made by Japanese nanotechnologists. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/ultrablack/
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by celias 15y ago
The Mac Kung Fu book from Pragmatic Bookshelf describes lots of hidden defaults settings. http://pragprog.com/book/ktmack/mac-kung-fu
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by celias 16y ago
From the revisions list: PROCESSING 1.5 (REV 0196) - 17 April 2011 A lot has changed in the nine months since 1.2.1 was released, the biggest being the introduction of "modes" for the editor, allowing you to switch between Android developme
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Processing 1.5 released(processing.org)
1 points by celias 16y ago|1 comments
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How Bikes Steer Themselves(sciencefriday.com)
38 points by celias 16y ago|14 comments
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by celias 16y ago
Reminds me of this Moth Radio Hour episode http://www.themoth.org/radio_205 You can listen to the piece on the prx site after signing up for an account http://www.prx.org/pieces/47406-moth-radio-hour-205
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by celias 16y ago
I tried a similar experiment this summer. I put an empty SunChips bag on top of my compost heap for 3 weeks and didn't notice any degradation.
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by celias 16y ago
The program is actually named GraphClick. I am a happy user. One nice feature is the ability to adjust the coordinate frame to work with graph images that are distorted.
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by celias 16y ago
For some reason it reminds me of this dialog from an episode of Futurama Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century? Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on
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by celias 16y ago
Have you tried xquartz from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ ? I am able to copy/paste between WingIDE and GIMP and native OS X apps using xquartz. There are issues such as switching between X11 and native apps, but it works better than t
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by celias 16y ago
Here's a nice Radiolab piece on pushing past limits http://www.radiolab.org/2010/apr/05/