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Planets in the Fourth Dimension | Azimuth
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/planets_in_the_4th_dimension
Planets in the Fourth Dimension. You probably that planets go around the sun in elliptical orbits. But do you know why? In fact, they’re moving in circles in 4 dimensions. But when these circles are projected down to 3-dimensional space, they become ellipses! This animation by Greg Egan. What’s this fourth dimension I’m talking about here? It’s a lot like time. But it’s not exactly time. It’s the difference. Some parts of the story are much older. A lot of papers have been written about it. Bull; Jesper ...
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Sound Ideas: Piano 3 - Towards the piano sound
http://sound-ideas.blogspot.com/2006/09/from-scratch-part-3.html
Piano 3 - Towards the piano sound. You can have the smallest music in the world, all compressed down into mere bytes, but if the instrument playing it sounds rubbish then what’s the point? We need a virtual Pianola, a (small) piece of code that responds to commands and makes a noise like a piano should. We need a piano synthesizer. First things first, what does a piano actually sound like? Piano note A3 forte. The first thing you notice when you listen to them all is that the notes all sound different to...
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Benchology
http://benchology.com/post/24985934169
Only humans make benches //. 12 June, 2012. Benchology by The Buckmaster Institute, Inc. Thanks to Dan Peterson for permission for one of the photos.
blog.carlschmidt.ca
Carl's rants and more...: One hour from now...
http://blog.carlschmidt.ca/2010/10/one-hour-from-now.html
Carl's rants and more. Thursday, October 21, 2010. One hour from now. So, I'm a long-time Java guy, wading into Ruby/Rails and really liking it so far. I know most of you who have made the transition are already aware of how much nicer many things in RoR-land are, but I thought I'd start just collecting a series of posts on my own personal findings. Just 'cause. Date now = new Date();. Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();. Calendar.add(Calendar.HOUR, 1);. References in my tests. Now = Time.now.
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Features — logging it – the blog
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Logging it – the blog. Updates and Announcements about the logging it service. Entries Tagged 'Features' ↓. October 4th, 2010 — Features. You can now download your logbooks in CSV format. Look for a download link next to the logbook title. Really simple, but very useful. For a trial account, or I if you already have, sign in. Now, to check it out! Sign up for the Logging It Newsletter. Receive news and useful tips about log books and the Logging It service every two weeks! Avoiding the ‘Idiot Light’.
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2010 September — logging it – the blog
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Logging it – the blog. Updates and Announcements about the logging it service. Entries from September 2010 ↓. Totally private blogging II: encryption. September 15th, 2010 — Privacy. A while after starting the Logging It service, I realized you might like to use it to log truly private information, like a dream journal, or your finances, bills, etc. In a previous post. 8220;Inside” Access. One simple way to resolve this is to encrypt all messages! Nowadays, there is a lot of software available to solve m...
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2012 August — logging it – the blog
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Logging it – the blog. Updates and Announcements about the logging it service. Entries from August 2012 ↓. The power of logging. August 20th, 2012 — Books. In his recent book The Power of Habit. But what surprises most of Duhigg’s readers is that anyone can perform such feats as long as they have a good system in place for building mental habits. Depending on how much complexity you want to deal with, you can use Logging It in at least two different ways when building new habits. The simpler way is t...
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2012 September — logging it – the blog
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Logging it – the blog. Updates and Announcements about the logging it service. Entries from September 2012 ↓. Avoiding the ‘Idiot Light’. September 6th, 2012 — Uncategorized. When I was first learning to drive, my dad told me that the check oil light, what he called the idiot light, should never come on. If I ever saw that light it meant I had been neglecting the basic maintenance of my car, and I should expect to have other problems start to creep up. That’s where LoggingIt comes in. For anything that n...
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