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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: [...]
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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 [...]
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I just reactivated the comments feature on this blog. Enjoy!
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has died. In 1996, it was on the brink of irrelevance, but Jobs retook the reigns as CEO and turned Apple into a multi-disciplinary powerhouse of a company, even (briefly) to the level of most highly valued company on Earth. I’ve been an Apple customer and advocate from the age [...]
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The American Police State is the ‘New Normal’ – Yahoo! News
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I was searching for some free data visualization software (to create “mind maps” of my hair-brained schemes), and I found tableau software. One of the demos of their software is a data visualization of graffiti incidents and resolution actions in NYC. This is obviously intended as a tool for the city to track crime and [...]
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Creator Doug McCune has 3D topographical maps of seven more types of San Francisco crime, from assault to vandalism. The View From Prostitution Mountain
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