Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Because my new poster gets to go to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's EvoStar Evolutionary Computation conference without me. I just shipped it off this morning.
Combining puzzle-making with biologically-inspired computer algorithms. Because life isn't already crazy enough.
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
"One of the strongest motives that lead persons to art or science is a flight from the everyday life. With this negative motive goes a positive one. Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
"I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight – conceived in the cauldron of nationalistic rivalries and hatreds – brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply ingrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
You enter a contest. A million dollars is at stake. Forty-one thousand teams from 186 different countries are clamoring for the prize and the glory. You edge into the top 5 contestants, but there is only one prize, and one winner. Second place is the first ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
You're sitting at your computer, writing your next awesome computer program. You think, "I want to run my new program. But the computer I have is too slow and too boring to run it on."
You glance over at the petri dish in your biology lab. "What if ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
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This impressive augmented reality demo from GE inserts computer-generated 3D objects into live video. First, watch the short video. Then, try it yourself.
Israeli musician "Kutiman" took a big pile of seemingly random YouTube video clips and used them as instruments ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Here are some interesting tidbits of evolutionary computing to honor Darwin's birthday yesterday:
Evolution of Mona Lisa
(youtube link)
Roger Alsing's idea is to start with a random pile of polygons. Random mutations are applied to the polygons. The result is compared to the Mona Lisa source image, and mutations resulting ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
A fun nugget from my new favorite blog, Futility Closet:
Show this bold Prussian that praises slaughter, slaughter brings rout. Teach this slaughter-lover his fall nears.
Grim, no? But remove the first letter of each word and the mood changes:
How his old Russian hat raises laughter — laughter rings out! Each, his ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
MTV Music - huge archive of linkable and embeddable music videos. Finally! MTV does something music-related!
Roanoke Robotics Society and Club - We actually have a Robotics club in little ol' Roanoke? Very surprising! In fact, they are hosting a robotics competition event at our science museum ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
My del.icio.us auto-posting doodad no longer works. Automation has failed me. *Cry*.
So, here are some hand-cranked, slow-cooked links for today.
X-rays detected from Scotch tape. Incredible. Maybe somebody will exploit this to take a peek inside of Christmas presents.
How the Weird Mars Science Laboratory Floating Sky Crane ...
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