October 2011
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“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom,...”
– Bill Gates, 2011 * Dick’s: Seattle-area fast-food chain.
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5 things my 4 year old taught me about technology →
Janko Roettgers en GigaOm nos comparte una fresca mirada a las tecnologías actuales: a través de los ojos de su hija de 4 años. Gracias a @arboldetuolvido por el link.
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Experimental mathematics: Computing power leads to... →
cab1729: In his 1989 book “The Emperor’s New Mind”, Roger Penrose commented on the limitations on human knowledge with a striking example: He conjectured that we would most likely never know whether a string of 10 consecutive 7s appears in the digital expansion of the number pi. Just 8 years later, Yasumasa Kanada used a computer to find exactly that string, starting at the 22869046249th digit...
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Steve Jobs: descansa en paz
Hoy no voy a despotricar sobre Apple. Hace tiempo que reconozco públicamente la importancia de esta empresa creada, rescatada y consagrada por Jobs. Ahora que ha partido, qué mejor que un recuento. Desde la prehistoria de la PC y hasta Mac OS 9, Apple caminó en paralelo a la hegemónica PC como una computadora de nicho, muy querida por sus adeptos, y siempre con el aura de “es más...
Oct 6th
“Apollo moon landings were communism’s greatest achievement.”
– NASA veteran, quoted by Neal Stephenson on Innovation Starvation
Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
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The finger, geek style
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