I highlighted a really cool article from the latest Wired Magazine on compressive sensing in my previous post. But there are three other cool items that are worth catching your eyes on:
G. “These go to ____.” (from wired.com)
- If you dig movies (I mean, you doesn’t!?), then this is kinda fun to fill in the blanks on some famous movie lines. Here’s the article called Bit Parts (my favorites – G and H).
- Google has the corner on the world’s search market by developing the world’s best search engine. But they’ve won their dominant position by constantly improving their algorithms. Here’s an exclusive article describing their technology and their key advances over the years…
- What’s the smallest number n such that n and 2n end in the same digit (turns out it’s 14)? Wired points us to NumberGossip.com for interesting facts about every number from 1 to 9,999 (the website only likes to talk about “positive” things)…
- Bonus: Wired has a picture of Harry Hamlin from Clash of the Titans!
The Mandelbrot Set, Developed by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1980 (from bareinboots.com)
- Double Bonus: I never really heard (nor thought about) what the next advance in fractal geometries would be beyond the Mendelbrot set. However, in reading through Wired yesterday, I ran across the term “Mendelbulb“, which stands for the 3D representation of the 2D Mendelbrot set. Here’s a website with amazing 3D pictures (from artist Daniel White) of what the Mendelbulbs look like. Really cool…
(C) 2009 Daniel White from skytopia.com
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