 r is for rPost Source: ananelson.com Posted: Nov 11 2007 17:31:39
n i accidentally typed n into google the other day. i meant to type n into my address bar to bring up news.google.ie but i typed it into the search box instead and found myself staring at the first entry on the results page before i realised my mistake. it had the enigmatic title n puzzleplatformer with physics and style so i had to click. n turned out to be a nifty little game written in actions... [Show More] |
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 new physics old computingPost Source: phys.wordpress.com Posted: Apr 21 2006 00:16:51
i was reading about the recent black hole mergers simulations performed by the people at goddard more thoroughly described here and in this forthcoming article. these are undoubtedly beautiful results and a testament to the complexity of einsteins equations when it comes to obtain realistic results according to the reports above thousands of lines of code plus an impressive array of supercomputers... [Show More] |
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 what we see is not what we get character codes and computersPost Source: orcmid.com Posted: Mar 09 2006 04:57:00
i was swimming around in the unicode 4.0 specification yesterday.it reminded of the amazing changes of abstractioninvolved inrepresenting humanreadable characters in computers. and that had me think about the difficulties we create for ourselves too. heres a peculiarpractice around computational abstractions that began withearly programming languages on binary computers and continues to this day50... [Show More] |
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