The Ansari X Prize has been won by the SpaceShip One team. Civilian space flight is coming, slowly but surely. I expect that it will be several decades before it really comes into its own, but this is wonderful news. I wonder how many centuries it’ll be before we figure out some form of faster-than-light travel.
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Grace is a cool little graphing tool. It can’t do 3D plots like gnuplot can, but its 2D plots appear a bit nicer.
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Grace is a cool little graphing tool. It can’t do 3D plots like gnuplot can, but its 2D plots appear a bit nicer.
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Help encourage use of the best web browser out there. Firefox: in your heart, you know it’s right.
06 February 2018: updated URL
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Help encourage use of the best web browser out there. Firefox: in your heart, you know it’s right.
06 February 2018: updated URL
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R is a language for manipulating statistical data, and is very useful for folks in fields where this matters. It’s free software, which is important: it means that one has the freedoms to run it; to study it; to copy it; and to improve it. For those familiar with statistics, R is similar to S (which was developed at Bell Labs).
IBM developerWorks have a good Introduction to Statistical Programming with R available.
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R is a language for manipulating statistical data, and is very useful for folks in fields where this matters. It’s free software, which is important: it means that one has the freedoms to run it; to study it; to copy it; and to improve it. For those familiar with statistics, R is similar to S (which was developed at Bell Labs).
IBM developerWorks have a good Introduction to Statistical Programming with R available.
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GNU Octave is a cool numerical package which is more-or-less compatible with MATLAB. It’s very cool if one has need of that kind of thing.
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GNU Octave is a cool numerical package which is more-or-less compatible with MATLAB. It’s very cool if one has need of that kind of thing.
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Anyone who follows energy prices knows that they’re not going down; in fact, natural gas prices have doubled over the last two years (and due to political opposition to nuclear and practical opposition to coal, almost every new power plant is powered by, you guessed it, natural gas).
Years ago environmentalists were trumpeting the advantages of fluorescent light bulbs which were bulky, didn’t fit every lamp, didn’t produce enough light and which were economically unsound (spending $20 to save $5 is stupid).
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Anyone who follows energy prices knows that they’re not going down; in fact, natural gas prices have doubled over the last two years (and due to political opposition to nuclear and practical opposition to coal, almost every new power plant is powered by, you guessed it, natural gas).
Years ago environmentalists were trumpeting the advantages of fluorescent light bulbs which were bulky, didn’t fit every lamp, didn’t produce enough light and which were economically unsound (spending $20 to save $5 is stupid).
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There’s a new search engine out there: Vivisimo. It seems to have a bit more intelligence about figuring out what one is looking for, and has a nice feature whereby it displays a selection of possible sub-categories. It is somewhat slower than Google.
07 February 2018: updated URL to point to information about the defunct company
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