Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Math. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2022

A liquid computer

Above is a video of a digital adder that uses water instead of electrons. I know Boolean logic and binary math so I understood how the binary addition worked. I'm not sure how easy it would be to understand if you didn't know that stuff, but it is interesting.

 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Linkage


Why we dream.

The joy of mephedrone.

Vix doesn't seem to be worth much.

Electromagnetic armor.

Where's the missing oil?

Why we're fat.

Cold Fusion still coming back.

What you can do with all that data.

Statistics isn't so good. The experts should take a look at this.

The top prospects in energy stocks.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Occasional Links

Real lives in North Korea.

Quark soup at 4 trillion degrees Celsius.

Japan's Mengele experiments.

The mathematical formula for movie shots.

How to watch the Olympics live.

How to deal with the recalcitrant public-sector unions.

Don't even think about having an abortion.

Finding the lowest fares.

The scale of the universe.

Europe is made in the USA.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Friday Links


The proud and sad history of the Detroit oligopoly.

Now we know: almost all matter is nothing but quantum fluctuations in the vacuum.

Massive glaciers have been discovered on Mars.

Chicago is on a roll.

Bad cars can live almost forever.

Google axes 3D.

Why worry about a little trillion dollar deficit?

A new Ebola virus has broken out in Africa.

China's expanding sphere of influence in Latin America.

Learning math causes massive reorganization of the brain.

Shades of Stalin: Iranian blogger "confesses" to spying for Israel.

Introducing GlassDoor.

Is the universe teeming with aliens?

Japan is itching to take on the pirates.

Limitless clean energy for the taking.

Is the US going down the tubes in the next two decades?

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Sunday Links



(Apologies for today's tardiness.)

Which Obama will we get?

Dubhe is not in the moving group.

Iran's new naval base.

The end of economic progress?

Dimensions.

Why Windows 7 will smash Vista.

Germany's richest woman in a sex-blackmail scandal.

Your new speakers will be made of carbon nanotubes.

Russia wants to help Venezuela get the bomb.

Where Caesar landed.

If it quacks like redistribution....

Red on women drives men wild.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Wednesday Links



Democracy won.

Rescuing children from forced marriage—in England.

Carbon nanotubes was the secret of Damascus steel.

China's secret African slave empire.

Rich men are more likely to find mates, sire children.

The newest prime number.

Iran is more important than Wall Street.

Fourth time's a charm.

Mortgage brochures from hell.

Search Flickr by color.

Things you can get for free.

The warrior and the priest.

The social threat of naked long-buyers.

Learning from mistakes only works after age 12.

Study a little history, lest you relive it.

How government went wrong with mortgages.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Wednesday Links


Can Betz's Law be broken with cleverer technology?

Hitchcock redux.

Incarceration reduces crime.

What is it doing with all that information about us?

Can the French be put back to work?

The sea of trash.

Predicting where you'll go.

The despised President.

Watering down the math standards. Again.

The secret code hidden in the Sistine Chapel.

How to see a parallel universe.

From the "let's not report this" department. 4,000 dead in drug wars in Mexico in two years.

The mystery of glass, solved at last.

Don't check the boxes.

The mystery of the Voorwerp.

Can we trust his promises?

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Sunday Links



Introducing Bored.

Tuning out news of American success.

Eight years of wrongness.

Their time has almost come.

More human feet washing onshore in British Columbia.

Let's kill two birds with one stoning.

Introducing Texter.

The Solstice Cyclists.

Paying off a debt with a daughter.

Pi as a crop circle.

The world's new cultural capital?

The growing danger of political segregation.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Sunday Links


The rise of the rest.

Women to avoid.

Paul Nylander's differential equations blog.

Robobugs coming to a war near you.

More women to avoid.

Young FrankenSteve.

Introducing the smell phone.

Talking with ultraviolet.

A pathetic, impotent, washed-up old giant.

Taking pictures of things you can't see.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

And kids think math doesn't have real-world applications


For 10 pts:
If Ling-Ling is wearing a short skirt, and Bao Yu is sitting 160cms from her,
then how long must her skirt be to prevent a Britney Spears moment from developing?


Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Weekly Links


The year in robots.

The shrinking of the Chinese economy.

Why knots are so common.

The rebirth of Timisoara.

Fashions of the future, as seen from the '30's.

Outsourcing birth to India.

Gizmodo's greatest hits of 2007.

The underground Chinese church.

Censoring the Internet in the name of helping children.

Effort is the secret of intelligence.

N.B. I will no longer be providing the Weekly Links feature on a regular weekly basis. In future, the Links column, when it appears, will continue to be published on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Sunday Links


Invisible solar nano-cells to the rescue?

55 must-see movies for 2008.

The most expensive college coach in America.

North Atlantic cod might be on the mend.

The 5 most reliable cars.

Time for "C" to be laid to rest.

Why the Russian computers failed.

Chimps crying "wolf".

7 underground wonders of the world.

Curiosities.

How elephants tell the good guys from the bad.

Predicting the unpredictable.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Sunday Links


Bacteria like space.

The Minneapolis of southeast Asia.

Ambisinistral's and Skookumchuk's piracy and maritime links.

The end of the space station before it even begins?

How they deal with protesters in Burma.

The 50 best stocks in the world.

Where vehicles are left to die.

Western civilization continues to poke its head into every corner.

Oliver Sacks speaks.

A maglev railway outside of China.

What US cities used to look like.

Moebius transformations revealed.

Friday, September 28, 2007

Friday Links


Software radio.

Simpson's movie scenes.


Happiness is a warm electrode.

Mashups for the masses.

Birth of a sunspot. 6 days are shown.

Faces in places.

10 brilliant free movies online.

Parallel universes may be the right answer after all. Original paper, for the extremely intrepid.

Is this the dawning of the age of solar panels.

Norway doubts NATO reliability.

Introducing snoopr deals.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Either this proves the existence of God...



... or it proves the universe is sufficiently wonderful on its own.

Either way, watch.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

A New Comrade


I've just added a new blog to our blogroll, Kings and Cabbages, run by "moscowgrumbler" (Sergey). He claims to be a mathematician (how bad can that be?) and writes like a Russian, so a very smart guy living in Moscow seems to fit the evidence.

Chuck mentioned him back in January, but for some inexplicable reason I never had a chance to visit and he never got put into the blogroll.

Here, for example, is a post which could have been written in spirit by Truepeers:

It is amusing that humans, it seems, unable to devise anything really new in such realms as world-view, ethics or religion, they only unknowingly reproduce the old ones with some modifications. For example, Leftist world-view for last 200 years (Marxism, Communism, Trotskyism, Stalinism and all varieties of Socialism) was and still is a combination of the two many-centuries-old heresies: Pelagianism and Manichean. Even the most zealous neocon, Christopher Hitchens, still follows this combination, replacing the original sin (capitalism) of his previous Trotskyist faith by a new enemy - Islam. He wants us to wage a Crusade against it, but not in the name of God, but in the name of secular New Enlightenment. A ridicule proposition: where can he hope to find enough true believers for that? To win an all-out religious war, one needs to be no less religion motivated and fanatical than his opponent. Atheism is not a weapon, but a fatal weakness in such a battle.
Islam, too, is a Manichean delusion, but combined not with Pelagianism, but with Calvinism in its most pessimistic and antihuman form.


I believe you'll find a perusal of his blog to be time well spent.

Update: He was already on the blog roll but this idiot couldn't find him! Check him out anyway.