Playing around with the Mandelbrot Set
What does a geek do when he’s given a little downtime during a week of conference talks and meetings? He plays with the Mandelbrot set. I’ve been getting into vector programming – the nitty-gritty...
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“The Cinema Craze” as seen in the UK circa 1917
The New Age was a weekly British magazine that covered modernist topics in the arts and society, most active in the years 1907-1922. It featured several notable contributors during that time, among them George...
On The Effects Of Ballpark Altitude On The Number Of Home Runs
The other day a friend of mine commented that he witnessed quite a few home runs during a Cubs vs. Rockies game at Coors Field in Denver. There was a total of 4 home runs,...
The 2014 Ebola Outbreak – Playing with the numbers
My flight was delayed for and hour and a half getting out of Chicago tonight so I’ve started playing around with numbers, something I am wont to do when I have free time. This...
That instant in time was really 15 seconds in the making
It may turn out that the instant you are now experiencing – really, any instant you experience – is an amalgamation of the previous 15 seconds of consciousness. This is the conclusion of a...
We’ve been flipping coins wrong
Actually, the title is a bit misleading. We have been using our coin flips incorrectly. A paper entitled, Dynamical Bias In The Coin Toss [PDF] came out in 2009 by a group from Stanford...
A flash of light, perhaps a puff of smoke… but teleportation shall remain nothing but a dream
Every year the University of Leicester publishes a Journal of Physics Special Topics in which fourth year physics students are encouraged to publish papers on physics and tangential subjects of interest to them. It’s...
A Geek Takes A Look At The Fibonacci Pigeons
A few days ago the following photo was the subject of a Facebook post from Science Is Awesome. It purports to show a group of pigeons perched atop a train station platform roof in...
Neutrinos that travel faster than light
Since I have been asked about this twice now, I’ve decided to write up this note about what’s going on lately in the world of neutrino physics. What is a neutrino? A neutrino is...
The Hackintosh, Part 2: Build And Install
I assume if you’re reading this post then you’ve decided to build your own Hackintosh, or perhaps you’re still considering it. Maybe you just want to get a rough idea of how difficult an...
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