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Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort… "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20…

March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments
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Twitter Links “The Shannon and Weaver Model”
The genius of Shanon’s original paper from 1948 and its subsequent popularization by Weaver lies in many things, among them, their having formulated a…

February 20 2012, 7:51am | Comments
Link Earth project aims to 'simulate everything'
It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists is aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth…

January 8 2011, 8:50am | Comments
Link The Limits of Science
Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration…

September 16 2010, 7:12am | Comments
Link Myriahedral projection maps of the world
A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out…

December 23 2009, 3:50am | Comments
Link Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily The Next Great Discontinuity: Part One

May 4 2009, 7:17am | Comments

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