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Stuart Immonen on Computers and Art
After beginning work in comics in the late 80s, Stuart Immonen broke into the mainstream comic world in the early 1990s for DC, working on Legion of Superheroes before moving on to a long tenure drawing Superman. More recently, he has worked for Marvel Co
Computational Complexity: Confessions of a Quantum Computing Skeptic
Will we ever have useful quantum computers? Despite the "breakthroughs" we seem to have nearly every month, we are a long way off from controlling even a handful of quantum bits certainly not the tens of thousands of qbits one needs for any meaningful com
Geospatial Semantic Web Blog - GIS Data Integration, Geo Ontology, Geo Tagging & Geo Web 2.0 News » Blog Archive » MetaCarta GeoParser API & Other Tools
MetaCarta GeoParser API is an experimental web service that provides a unified RESTful interface to the MetaCarta LocationFinder and GeoTagger. It takes a document or query string as input and extracts locations referenced in the text.
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Spiritual Machines
On Ray Kurzweil's The Age Of Spiritual Machines a dialog between Robert J. Sawyer and A. K. Dewdney First published in The Ottawa Citizen, Sunday, April 4, 1999.
dublish.com - Download PI
Pi has an infinite expansion which for as much as we know seems to be totally random. This means that all combinations of numbers is inside pi.
Junk Charts: Google trends
Google Trends is both fascinating science and a dangerous tool.
Thing-ology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Tagging meets Subject Headings
An interesting discusion on tagging and folksonomies vs. subject headings.
Omega and why maths has no TOEs
Over the millennia, many mathematicians have hoped that mathematics would one day produce a Theory of Everything (TOE); a finite set of axioms and rules from which every mathematical truth could be derived. But in 1931 this hope received a serious blow: K
Something about Interactive Fiction - Apology and Introduction
Interactive fiction is not a gaming genre, it is a format. Although “text adventure” is commonly used to describe this type of game, interactive fiction has grown from its Adventure roots to incorporate a variety of game types, and some interactive fi
TechCrunch » Comparing the Mapping Services
Online mapping has come a long way in the last year.
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: A Next-Generation Collaborative Programming Language
Computer programming is seldom a solitary effort--many projects are just too big for one person to implement, and even smaller projects can often be done faster with multiple developers. The usual approach to multi-developer programming is to use collabor
Chaitin / Paradoxes of Randomness
I'll discuss how Gödel's paradox "This statement is false/unprovable" yields his famous result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning. I'll contrast that with my work, which is based on the paradox of "The first uninteresting positive whole number", which
Science, Pseudo-science, and Falsifiability
The problem which troubled me at the time was neither, "When is a theory true?" nor, "When is a theory acceptable?" My problem was different. I wished to distinguish between science and pseudo-science; knowing very well that science often errs, and that p
Criada agência de blogues para fornecer conteúdos para jornais
O serviço vai funcionar assim: os blogues inscrevem-se na agência e sujeitam-se a uma avaliação prévia que vai definir quais têm qualidade para pertencer ao serviço; depois, a lista dos domínios aprovados vai ser fornecida aos jornais, que só tê
STEVE'S BLOG
Um blog da autoria do colorista do Bone.
Secrets of Scientology: The TRs
The Scientology Training Routines, or TRs, are done on what Scientologists call "the gradient". The claim is that information should not be presented until the student is ready to understand the information. In this way, knowledge is presented in bite-siz
What programmers do
Let me give you one more definition of what computer programmers do: they design, build, and maintain complex systems. In many cases computer programs are more complex than "Hello, world!" examples. Way more complex.
How I Write by Bertrand Russell
I cannot pretend to know how writing ought to be done, or what a wise critic would advise me to do with a view to improving my own writing. The most that I can do is to relate some things about my own attempts.
A NEW GENERATION OF JAPANESE SF WRITERS
Neophilia has been, and still is, the key element in Japabese culture.
Seed: Prime Numbers Get Hitched
In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the illusive nature of the primes?
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