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emmineb — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:06:34 GMT

Low Cost and Portable GPS Jammer

emmineb — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:53:49 GMT

Maps, Weather, and Airports of the World

emmineb — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:43:12 GMT

temperature precipitation cloud cover meteo meteorology climate

Recipe for Disaster The Formula That Killed Wall Street - by Felix Salmon | Wired Tech Biz

emmineb — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:38:59 GMT

For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before. With his brilliant spark of mathematical legerdemain, Li made it possible for traders to sell vast quantities of new securities, expanding financial markets to unimaginable levels.

Severn Barrage Lagoons (pdf)

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:17:00 GMT

Tidal lagoons in the Severn Estuary could both produce more electricity cheapier and be more environmtment friendly than a conventional barrage

The Anatomy of a Search Engine

emmineb — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:33:17 GMT

The New Yorker:The Interpreter Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language? by John Colapinto Apr 16 07

emmineb — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:05:09 GMT

The Pirahã, Everett wrote, have no numbers, no fixed color terms, no perfect tense, no deep memory, no tradition of art or drawing, and no words for “all,” “each,” “every,” “most,” or “few”—terms of quantification believed by some linguists to be among the common building blocks of human cognition. Everett’s most explosive claim, however, was that Pirahã displays no evidence of recursion, a linguistic operation that consists of inserting one phrase inside another of the same type, as when a speaker combines discrete thoughts (“the man is walking down the street,” “the man is wearing a top hat”) into a single sentence (“The man who is wearing a top hat is walking down the street”). Noam Chomsky,

The Six-Stroke Engine

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:57:17 GMT

extra water injection and exhaust cycles

The Ten Coolest Numbers

emmineb — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:50:42 GMT

<> This is an attempt to give a count-down of the top ten coolest numbers. Let's first concede that this is a highly subjective ordering -- one person's 14.38 is another's $ \frac{\pi^2}{6}$ . The astute (or probably simply ``awake'') reader will notice, for example, a definite bias toward numbers interesting to a number theorist in the below list. (On the other hand, who better to gauge the coolness of numbers than a number-theorist...) But who knows? Maybe I can be convinced that I've left something out, or that my ordering should be switched in some cases. But let's first set down some ground rules. What's in the list? What makes a number cool? I think a word that sums up the key characteristic of cool numbers is ``canonicality.''

The Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteorite?

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:54:25 GMT

Documents Show Significant Disagreement with Presidential Panel Concerning Cause of Sep. 22, 1979 Vela "Double-Flash" Detection [among the usual suspects: Israel, S. Africa, Dr. No, some rock in space, a mini-black hole, the Gamma and Xray Burst brothers and a gang of exotic mysterious particles]