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Sydney Padua's List: Science and Math for L&B
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Aug 23, 09
An animation shows how the world's oldest computer helped the Ancient Greeks simulate planetary motions and predict lunar eclipses\n
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Jun 27, 09
PROFILE of Gregory Volfovich Chudnovsky and David Volfovich Chudnovsky, who are mathematicians. They designed and built a supercomputer in the living room of Gregory's apartment near Columbia, called m zero. They used this computer to establish pi to over
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Jun 27, 09
Eccentric 18th century scientist profile
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Jul 16, 09
Arguing that software's increasing abstraction from hardware has defined computer programming practices for the last half-century, this dissertation shows how that abstraction has shaped the aesthetics, politics, and professional culture of programming. Specifically, the dissertation examines how some programmers have adopted a literary approach to coding, describing carefully crafted code as "beautiful," "elegant," "expressive," and "poetic"; writing and reading programs as literary texts; and even producing hybrid artifacts that are at once poems and programs.
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Nov 12, 09
Idea: fractal Difference Engine for Ghost in the Machine
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Apr 27, 09
A Difference Engine Built With LEGO® Technic Pieces.\n
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