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 to hack and I see this as a unique opportunity to convey some basic human […]
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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 to Archimedes Channel on YouTube). Judging from the video they look for gold in the
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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 if you like Spark. But one note: download Zeppelin from GitHub rather than from the
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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, make huge gains or fail. In the case of failure, get bailed out. This pattern
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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 human thinking process, not to serve as a means of communication. He believes that language
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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 9 different eras. This post is a kind of cheat sheet to the lessons learned
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This on from Harvard looks nice: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~ahb/thesis/format.html I’ll add more as I find them…
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