Sunday, November 9, 2014

How do computers work?

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Motivation If you do a google search for " how do computers work? " you'll find that it's a pretty common question.  You...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The Starship Enterprise

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I had to make an animation for a Matlab class a while ago, and never posted the result here. Code I promise I'm not just posting t...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Gay rights vs national prosperity

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The other day I saw a post on reddit via /r/bestof that was a counter to the claim that " Every civilization that has accepted homosex...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Odds of dying in shark attack vs driving to ocean

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I've long held that there is a greater chance of dying in a car accident on the way to the ocean than there is of dying from a shark att...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Grain of sand sized piece of neutron star matter

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http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2ggcai/how_small_can_an_astronomical_body_eg_an_asteroid/ckj9xav So the realistic scenario wo...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Cost of Living

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Recently, someone posted a map of the cost of living for states in the US .  The issue was that the state level is way too high to look a...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Droughts

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After hearing about this California drought nonstop, I made this quick perl script to make a gif from the pngs on this site . I made one ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

History of Pizza

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http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2dr8fv/when_did_pizza_become_fairly_standardized_in/
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Learn X in Y minutes

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http://learnxinyminutes.com/ This site is a great reference for people that already know how to program but switch between languages frequ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Tax Brackets

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I saw a post where someone was advocating a sliding tax scale instead of tax brackets.  The thing is I think many people misunderstand that ...