A tidbit: A couple months ago, I wrote some scripts to grab all my Facebook friends and their Facebook friends, and graph it. From my 256 Facebook friends and their Facebook friends, I get 76,538 different people. These degrees of separation explode quickly. And they make pretty graphs: Nifty Things: Facebook Friends Graph
Question: Knowing the diameter of the observable universe, how many digits of Pi are needed to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, accurate to within 1 plank length? Answer: 62 digits. Here they are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459
They used elevation and colors to indicate gravity strength. Are the radii supposed to be linearly comparable? The differences look too big.
I was wondering that too, and I found an answer: "The differences have been magnified nearly 10,000 times to show up as they do in the new model.": BBC News - Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view. The article also gives further explanation of what the model represents.
The article implies that part of the reason for headaches is the 3D video causing your brain to believe you're moving about, while your inner ear does not agree. However, the source the article cites says that this causes nausea, not headaches. I would think this is similar to getting car sick.
Knowing what I know through common sense, I think that headaches from 3D video are caused by your eyes crossing in order to line up the disparate images, as they do in a true 3D world, yet not changing their focus, since all objects on the screen are at the same distance and therefore same focus.
Apparently, he did have something on the graphing calculator. To quote Mr. Hotz in a declaration to the court in April,
The impounded hard drives and calculator were and are the only storage devices in my possession, custody or control, containing the Code that achieves interoperability between computer programs at the time of the the impoundment order.
For a long time, I've wondered if the suggestion "think outside the box" would be easier to follow if you were not aware of where the box was. Could a child prodigy, or any person who is very intelligent yet not highly 'educated', have an easier time of coming up with strange ideas out of right field? Ideas and theories that most educated people would not come up with because at a glance they seem to ignore the facts of the universe that have been ingrained in the educated, but upon further investigation the theory is actually plausible?
All the time, over and over again, the TV series NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the worst. I understand the goal is to express mood and plot and not to be technically accurate, but still, it's painful.
Jaw dropping graphs indeed, especially the Cost per Megabase one. Extend the graph further to the right, and it appears that Moore's law will reach $0 some time in 2033.
They mislabeled the graph. That should be $0.1 in the lower left, not $0. Of course, you could say they are rounding, but then they are rounding to a number more granular than what their chosen Y axis range calls for.
Yeah, I saw that too. So, if this Telegraph article's summary text "Internet providers were shut down... across Algeria" is shown to be completely incorrect, then the accuracy of the of text in the summary, "Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria," can be taken into question, assuming both statements were investigated the same amount by the summary writer.
IT World needs to sanitize their comments. The only comment on the page currently refreshes the page to http://swift-cars-insurance.blogspot.com/. It looks like it's a harmless enough advertizement, though I'm on Google Chrome on Linux, so I'm not sure if it's hosting malware. The comment section source code on IT World is as such:
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I might try reporting the comment to It World and the blog to Blogspot.
I've been told... actually, that's not good enough. I'm going to look it up.
OK, in Maine, under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A: Maine Criminal Code, Part 2: Substantive Offenses, Chapter 18: Computer Crimes, unauthorized access is a Class D crime, and unauthorized copying, computer resource damaging, and virus introduction is a Class C crime. The classes are defined as such:
Class D: Crimes punishable by up to 364 days incarceration and a $2,000 fine
Class C: Crimes punishable by up to 5 years incarceration and a $5,000 fine
If I recall correctly, beating up a small child is also a Class C crime. By printing or forwarding these emails, this person in the article could be accused of a Class C crime in Maine.
So yeah, the courts may actually try and be reasonable, but be bound and restricted by the unreasonableness and especially the vagueness of the law.
While we are well along into solar cycle 24, there remains a significant gap between the predictions of where we should be, and where we actually are in the progression of the cycle.
It took me a while to figure out what "solar cycle" meant. I thought it was talking about the 24th day of December. Then with all that talk of predictions of where we are in respect to the day, I had no idea what was going on.
The 200 character limit in the input box is annoying, and it seems that you can't get around it by creating a URL manually. Managed to get it from 220 characters to under 200 by using valid shortened stuff like "integ" instead of "integral", and removing * and () where possible.
It sounds like this is a combination of the Kinect and the Google Street View or yellowBird camera. It had to read the article and watch the video twice, because initially it sounded like they were promising more than this could do. Turning a town or campus into a 3D model for a game sounds quite doable; you just need to move the camera around a ton as it records. As for getting a different perspective at a concert, he said you need several cameras. If you have a lot, then yeah, I can see a smooth perspective transition in real time being possible, but you would need a lot of these in the area.
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A tidbit: A couple months ago, I wrote some scripts to grab all my Facebook friends and their Facebook friends, and graph it. From my 256 Facebook friends and their Facebook friends, I get 76,538 different people. These degrees of separation explode quickly. And they make pretty graphs: Nifty Things: Facebook Friends Graph
xkcd: Supported Features
Question: Knowing the diameter of the observable universe, how many digits of Pi are needed to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, accurate to within 1 plank length?
Answer: 62 digits. Here they are: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459
Calculated this one myself.
Here are the high resolution versions of the photos in the article: All images for Severe Tornado Outbreak in the Southern United States : Natural Hazards. The article uses the second one and the fourth one.
Instead of linking to the Official Google Blog homepage, it would be better to link to the relevant blog post: Official Google Blog: Add your local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for the United States
Here's what 25x25 pixel faces look like, using the example from the article: Picasa Web Albums - Paul Nickerson
They used elevation and colors to indicate gravity strength. Are the radii supposed to be linearly comparable? The differences look too big.
I was wondering that too, and I found an answer: "The differences have been magnified nearly 10,000 times to show up as they do in the new model.": BBC News - Gravity satellite yields 'Potato Earth' view. The article also gives further explanation of what the model represents.
Massive SQL Injection Attack Compromises 380K URLs - Slashdot
The article implies that part of the reason for headaches is the 3D video causing your brain to believe you're moving about, while your inner ear does not agree. However, the source the article cites says that this causes nausea, not headaches. I would think this is similar to getting car sick.
Knowing what I know through common sense, I think that headaches from 3D video are caused by your eyes crossing in order to line up the disparate images, as they do in a true 3D world, yet not changing their focus, since all objects on the screen are at the same distance and therefore same focus.
I stumbled across even larger versions of the images, which don't seem to be linked to from the FBI site: note1_large.jpg, note2_large.jpg
For a long time, I've wondered if the suggestion "think outside the box" would be easier to follow if you were not aware of where the box was. Could a child prodigy, or any person who is very intelligent yet not highly 'educated', have an easier time of coming up with strange ideas out of right field? Ideas and theories that most educated people would not come up with because at a glance they seem to ignore the facts of the universe that have been ingrained in the educated, but upon further investigation the theory is actually plausible?
Linking to page 1 of the article would probably be nice. Better yet, the print version.
This is like when the Chinese military used Top Gun footage, except that really happened, and this didn't.
I've had an Asteroids one on my bookmarks bar for a while now: Hello, want to kill some time?
All the time, over and over again, the TV series NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the worst. I understand the goal is to express mood and plot and not to be technically accurate, but still, it's painful.
Jaw dropping graphs indeed, especially the Cost per Megabase one. Extend the graph further to the right, and it appears that Moore's law will reach $0 some time in 2033.
They mislabeled the graph. That should be $0.1 in the lower left, not $0. Of course, you could say they are rounding, but then they are rounding to a number more granular than what their chosen Y axis range calls for.
Yeah, I saw that too. So, if this Telegraph article's summary text "Internet providers were shut down ... across Algeria" is shown to be completely incorrect, then the accuracy of the of text in the summary, "Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria," can be taken into question, assuming both statements were investigated the same amount by the summary writer.
Here is the full statement from Blizzard: www.GameInformer.com - Blizzard Responds To World Of StarCraft Mod
IT World needs to sanitize their comments. The only comment on the page currently refreshes the page to http://swift-cars-insurance.blogspot.com/. It looks like it's a harmless enough advertizement, though I'm on Google Chrome on Linux, so I'm not sure if it's hosting malware. The comment section source code on IT World is as such:
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I might try reporting the comment to It World and the blog to Blogspot.
I've been told... actually, that's not good enough. I'm going to look it up.
OK, in Maine, under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A: Maine Criminal Code, Part 2: Substantive Offenses, Chapter 18: Computer Crimes, unauthorized access is a Class D crime, and unauthorized copying, computer resource damaging, and virus introduction is a Class C crime. The classes are defined as such:
If I recall correctly, beating up a small child is also a Class C crime. By printing or forwarding these emails, this person in the article could be accused of a Class C crime in Maine.
So yeah, the courts may actually try and be reasonable, but be bound and restricted by the unreasonableness and especially the vagueness of the law.
While we are well along into solar cycle 24, there remains a significant gap between the predictions of where we should be, and where we actually are in the progression of the cycle.
It took me a while to figure out what "solar cycle" meant. I thought it was talking about the 24th day of December. Then with all that talk of predictions of where we are in respect to the day, I had no idea what was going on.
If you would like to play with similar data in similar charting abilities, you might want to check out Google Public Data Explorer
Here is a quick similar chart I made: World Development Indicators (subset) - Google Public Data Explorer If you explore other data sets, don't forget to click the Bubble Chart button at the top of the graphics page to be able to change the X axis.
Here's what the whole thing looks like in Wolfram Alpha all at once: (9*10^4+3^4+10)/100/((2^8-10+4*6!+17^4+11!/5+integ(3x^5,x,1,9))(2*23^6-((2^28+4)/10-(22^4+3*70-sqrt(81))))(3*17^4-(sqrt(256)+31*30^2))(17*8!+93^2-10)(12*(11^2-6)/(5*pi)integ(4sin(x)/x,x,0,inf))-3) - Wolfram|Alpha
The 200 character limit in the input box is annoying, and it seems that you can't get around it by creating a URL manually. Managed to get it from 220 characters to under 200 by using valid shortened stuff like "integ" instead of "integral", and removing * and () where possible.
It sounds like this is a combination of the Kinect and the Google Street View or yellowBird camera. It had to read the article and watch the video twice, because initially it sounded like they were promising more than this could do. Turning a town or campus into a 3D model for a game sounds quite doable; you just need to move the camera around a ton as it records. As for getting a different perspective at a concert, he said you need several cameras. If you have a lot, then yeah, I can see a smooth perspective transition in real time being possible, but you would need a lot of these in the area.