(article that was linked to on Slashdot - reading previously unlegible scrolls)
What a witty /.er came up with:
Archimedes helps invent modern mathematics,
Modern math (after surviving the Dark Ages) enables modern science,
Modern science gives us nifty toys like particle accelerators…
…which we’re using to read Archimedes’ writings.
I can’t help but think the guy would really get […]
Yet another fun test result…
Amun
Indeed, you are 83% erudite, 75% sensual, 58% martial, and 45% saturnine.
Amun was a mysterious God indeed. His very name basically means “what is hidden”, “what is not seen”, “what cannot be seen”, and though even his form was said to be “unknown”, he was depicted as a man with the […]
Pretty cool. I’ll comment on it later…After I finish my 10 page psych paper, PageRank data mining assignment, and Math Structures homework. Gahh.
Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Cringely says this was a week for inflection points. I’d buy that. But I believe Google has less in mind for the short term with its Web Accelerator than Cringely proposes. I think Google is moving towards individualized searches. After all, how much could you improve search results for a given user after observing which […]
Haha. I watched all of Next Generation…but I was in elementary school. It was fun at the time, and doubtless increased my interest in proper science fiction books. Like Ender’s Game.