Stephen Wolfram recently gave a talk about his efforts to understand the universe around us through computation. He’s the CEO and founder of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. Wolfram recently launches his computational knowledge engine, Wolfram|Alpha (I wrote a post about its launch some time back…). Here’s the video
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Just in case you didn’t have enough geeky devices to help you with gaming strategies, here’s a glove that allows you to play rock-paper-scissors against a computerized opponent. Also called ro-sham-bo (the phonetic French expression of “rock-paper-scissors”), there are some people who take this WAY too seriously. There are actually roshambo tournaments, and it even
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Last week, Nancy Atkinson posted on Universe Today that astronomers are now understanding why they’ve missed 90% of the observable galaxies, and, with new tools, are now able to see them. Here’s a paragraph from Atkinson’s article: “Astronomers have long known that many surveys of distant galaxies miss 90% of their targets, but they didn’t
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