Self-Driving Cars Gaining Speed
Two interesting reports I’d like to mention: Firstly, Nevada has legalized self-driving cars! (Hat-tip to wildcat2030)
Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone, Eugene Aubry and Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas, 1964-71. Via ArchDaily.
(via cosmonautjones)
slide racks (Taken with Instagram at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)
“The MinIon is an array of nanopores – 512 to be precise – and circuitry housed in a USB stick. Why a USB stick? “The form factor is determined by the requirements” – as there are no fluidics you don’t need a big machine. There are no fluidics. “Your fluidics is a Gilson”, said Brown. The prototype version has an ugly battery pack attached to it but it will eventually use USB power. The USB stick is disposable. “Why do you need an instrument?” he says.” — Oxford Nanopore megaton announcement: “Why do you need a machine?” – exclusive interview for this blog!
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For complex socio-technical systems (web engineering and operations) there is a myth that deserves to be busted, and that is the assumption that for outages and accidents, there is a single unifying event that triggers a chain of events that led to an outage.
This is actually a fallacy, because for complex systems:
there is no root cause.
” — Each necessary, but only jointly sufficientIllegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -
An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information that it is forbidden to possess or distribute. One of the first illegal primes was discovered in 2001. When interpreted in a particular way, it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[1] An illegal prime is a kind of illegal number.
(and don’t even get me started on the binary representation of Pi)
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
tape in a lab (Taken with Instagram at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)
the fixit mobiles are always so handmade ;) (Taken with instagram)
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wow, it’s amazing to read policies about mobile payment that are actually nice. If you go over, they just charge you the amount they should for what you used, if you go under they credit you the difference!