The GADM database contains geographical data for administrative regions, e.g. countries, regions and municipalities. As always, once you have the data in the right format, it is easy to import it into a database. The data is available from GADM…
I teach children how to programm and do other things with technology in an organisation called Coding Pirates in Denmark, which aims to be a kind of scout movement for geeks. A best seller among the kids is learning how…
Airbag sensors There is a small amount of gold inside the Airbag sensor. The sensor contains a small gold-plated marble, which amounts to some tiny amount of gold. Integrated Chips One kilogram of chips contains 1-8 grams of gold (according…
At Spark Summit Europe 2015, several presenters made use of Apache Zeppeling, which is a notebook (a la IPython) for Spark. I immediately wanted to try it out myself. I also highly recommend you to download and try it out…
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Take a look at this Chomsky presentation, time it around 46:30. It seems that the most rational prediction would be that we are heading for another financial crisis, since financial systems are running a quote “Doom Loop”: Make huge gambles,…
In the following Google video, Noam Chomsky raises and answers the interesting question: what amazing insights into language have linguistics revealed, which the public does not know about?. He answers that human natural language was propably developed to support the…
Today I read the What Goes Around Comes Around chapter from the “Red Book” by Michael Stonebraker and Joseph M. Hellerstein. The chapter (or paper if you will) is a summary of 35 years of data model proposals, grouped into…
This on from Harvard looks nice: I’ll add more as I find them…
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