#Vermeer’s paintings might be 350 year-old color #photographs http://boingboing.net/2014/06/10/vermeers-paintings-might-be.html #NewTek founder’s quest to replicate works w/ mirrors
Archive for the 'tech' Category
Wired 12.06: Cracking the Code to Romance
June 15, 2014Interesting mention of bioinformatics
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/dating.html
Monitor: Yours to cut out and keep | The Economist
June 14, 2014Yours to cut out & keep. Foldoscope, the $1 #microscope made from paper, cheap glass lens, LED, watch batt. & Cu tape
http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21603183-one-made-largely-paper-and-could-help-diagnosis-tropical
Information Fiduciary: Solution to Facebook digital gerrymandering | New Republic
June 14, 2014Facebook Could Decide an Election—Without You Ever Finding Out. @zittrain advocates regulating digital gerrymandering
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117878/information-fiduciary-solution-facebook-digital-gerrymandering
The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World
June 8, 201410 #Algorithms That Dominate Our World
http://io9.com/the-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-1580110464 Unfortunately, not making the cut: Metropolis Monte-Carlo, Quicksort & the FFT
Grocery Deliveries in Sharing Economy – NYTimes.com
June 2, 2014No Exit | Business | WIRED
May 25, 2014No Exit: Apparently real #Startup hardships of boomtrain. Perhaps it’s not such a good thing to get micro funding
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/no-exit
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com
April 29, 2014How the #NSA Almost Killed the #Internet: Will personal data need to be stored in country of origin?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-internet HT @fpine (1/2)
Good qt from Myhrvold: considering… threat of terrorists with bio.. degrees… tough surveillance measures might not be so bad. (2/2)
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There are others who argue that we may regret even modest constraints on the NSA. Former Microsoft research head Nathan Myhrvold recently wrote a hair-raising treatise arguing that, considering the threat of terrorists with biology degrees who could wipe out a good portion of humanity, tough surveillance measures might not be so bad. Myhrvold calls out the tech companies for hypoc-risy. They argue that the NSA should stop exploiting information in the name of national security, he says, but they are more than happy to do the same thing in pursuit of their bottom lines. “The cost is going to be lower efficiency in finding terrorist plots–and that cost means blood,” he says. “}}
A Degree Where Techie Meets Business Smarts – NYTimes.com
April 27, 2014Degree Where #Techie Meets #Business Smarts
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/education/a-degree-where-techie-meets-business-smarts.html QT: Now we’re called technicians. With a masters we’re called scientists.
The Citicorp tower design flaw that could have wiped out the skyscraper: 99% Invisible by Roman Mars.
April 25, 2014Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC #Skyscraper: “corner” winds on Citicorp building require reinforcement
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_have_wiped_out_the_skyscraper.html
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