Category Archives: Science & Technology

2012 Feb 05 Sunday

Lytro Light Field Camera first look with Ren Ng: Digital Photography Review

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Interesting technology, but the test images I’ve seen from this camera are not sharp enough to make this camera worthwhile… Lytro Light Field Camera first look with Ren Ng: Digital Photography Review

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:20 pm

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2012 Jan 02 Monday

How Google’s Self-Driving Car Works

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Google seems to be the leader in achieving one of humanity’s remaining sci-fi dreams: the self-driving car. According to an article on the IEEE’s Spectrum blog: [Stanford University professor Sebastian] Thrun and his Google colleagues, including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are convinced that smarter vehicles could help make transportation safer and more efficient: [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:28 am

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2011 Oct 31 Monday

Lytro Light Field Camera revolutionizes depth of field

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A new camera from a company called Lytro has been getting a ton of hype in the photography media for a few months. Their “Light Field Camera” is now available in 2 memory sizes (8 and 16 GB). The concept is that the camera is a true point-and-shoot in that “the lens of the camera [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:24 pm

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2011 Oct 27 Thursday

Population rapidly nearing 7 billion…like, soon!

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On Monday, a baby will be born somewhere and demographers will proclaim that the world’s population has reached 7 billion… Wow. Didn’t realize it would happen so quick. How does one celebrate an occasion like this? With chocolate, of course. But what kind???? Bittersweet. It’s a good thing because it’s proof we’re healthier, living longer, [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:04 pm

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2011 Oct 26 Wednesday

Centuries-old secret society encryption finally cracked

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There are plenty of suggestive details in the recently decrypted minutes of an 18th Century German secret society, but the highest value to historians maybe in determining if and how a secret society like this shaped political events: …there are plenty more unbroken codes out there to be attacked. The team hopes to tackle the [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:53 pm

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2011 Oct 17 Monday

William Gibson, interviewed

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My brother and I just went to a William Gibson interview (Chicago Humanities Festival: Technology’s Tomorrow: Sci-Fi with William Gibson) at Northwestern University. Through no fault of Gibson’s it was a near disaster: the microphones didn’t work properly and the interviewer was a pretentious mess. Gibson was asked questions about his writing process (something like, [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:30 am

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2011 Oct 14 Friday

Now with comments!

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I just reactivated the comments feature on this blog. Enjoy!

by Dr. Agonize @ 4:07 am

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2011 Oct 13 Thursday

True computer genius, Dennis Ritchie

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Dennis Ritchie‘s work, though invisible to us laymen, is a fundamental building block of every computer system we use today. Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:29 pm

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2011 Oct 12 Wednesday

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – YouTube

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Very interesting talk on what motivates us… RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – YouTube

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:35 am

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2011 Oct 11 Tuesday

Will Jobs’ influence continue?

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Seeing people mourn Steve Jobs in public is making me uneasy. Was he a hero? Was he even a humanitarian? Richard Stallman, leader of the free software movement, has an alternative take on Steve Jobs’ life and passing… As one can surmise from that sendoff, Stallman’s and Jobs’ views on software as a business are [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:03 pm

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