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Tag Archives: Science
Breeding Pictures – Genetic Algorithms Can be Fun :)
PicBreeder is an ongoing effort at UCF (where I study/work) to create images using Genetic Algorithms. It is a community-based website where you can create an account and breed your pictures. I saw Mutating Pictures doing the rounds, and thought … Continue reading
Creating and Patenting Life Forms
Craig Venter, the guy who paid to sequence the genome, is at it again. This time, a team of 20 scientists including a Nobel Laureate have created an artificial chromosome from first principles, using artificial chemicals. They intend to introduce … Continue reading
An Article about Donald Knuth
Knuth, Up Close – it is so hard to find anything resembling a closer look into the lives of the great. Knuth is one of the greats still alive. I enjoyed the article immensely.
Conceptualists and Experimentalists – Two Types of Genius
My new roommate, who shares my first name, subscribes to the Wired magazine. Nice magazine, really. I never thought I’d use visually stunning to describe a magazine, but it is that, and much more. There were very few articles that … Continue reading
Science Catches Up With Grandma
When I was a little boy, I used to get frequent stomach aches. Almost everytime, my grand mother used to heat a dosa kallu (a flat, heavy non-non-stick frying pan). Then she’d roll up a long piece of cotton cloth, … Continue reading
sleep position
How you sleep and what it says about you. I sleep in either the foetus, log, or freefall position, in that order of frequency.
Wringing Fuel from Plastic
This is so deserving of WorldChanging.com attention. Alka Zadgaonkar wrings plastic waste for profit. A Ph.D. in organic chemistry in Nagpur, India has put into practice a plant that converts all sorts of waste plastic into fuel oil, petroleum gas … Continue reading
Tagged India, Science
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Benford’s Law
I read up on Benford’s Law recently, which explains one of the many things that I have always wondered about. You see, my apartment number is 15029, and a lot of the apartments in my complex have a number starting … Continue reading
Tagged Science
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Space Trip
The rocket will be inspired by SpaceShipOne – something created in part with the money from Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The launch pad will be in the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 25 miles south of the … Continue reading
Tagged Science
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Sonic Hedgehod is a what?
It is a protein, belonging to the “hedgehog” family. Who would’ve thought.
Tagged Science
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