Posts Tagged ‘x57s’

The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft’s Xbox Empire—And Went Too Far | WIRED

May 14, 2018

https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-underground-videogame-hackers/

LEGO

May 13, 2018

Lego exhibit

SAT—April 28, 2018 THROUGH SAT—August 4, 2018
GALLERY HOURS:
TUE-SAT—12–6 PM, free
WED—12–7 PM, free
(Not Sun.)
LEGO® PLAY ZONE HOURS:
TUE-FRI—3-6 PM
SAT—12-6 PM

http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/lego-bricks/

The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back | The New Yorker

May 11, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-digital-vigilantes-who-hack-back

The Best Mac Time Tracking Apps in 2017

May 5, 2018

https://blog.hubstaff.com/best-mac-time-tracking-apps/

The Best Mac Time Tracking Apps in 2017

May 5, 2018

https://blog.hubstaff.com/best-mac-time-tracking-apps/

Augmented reality for macromolecule viewing

April 22, 2018

Incredible Android app for AR viewing of macromolecules http://CIRC.Rutgers.edu/new-dimension-poster-presentation Especially neat when pointed at another phone or tablet. Shows the molecule literally coming out of the screen HT @gamzeandgursoy

an app that might be interesting: When you look at the molecule pictures that are called triggers through this
app, it shows them three dimensional in different angles. You can even
create movie type augmented realities.

How to sail smoothly from academia to industry

April 21, 2018

How to sail smoothly from academia to industry
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03306-1 Teamwork is key. Perhaps this should be emphasized more in graduate training? #Jobs QT:{{”
“When immuno-oncologist Martijn Bijker decided to move from academia to industry, he asked a friend to review his CV. His friend — who had worked in the pharmaceutical sector for two decades — told him to relegate his lists of publications, posters and presentations to the back of the document. The focus, he said, should be on teamwork skills and the ability to perform the job requirements.”
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Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet

April 21, 2018

QT:{{”
Toward the end, the square was a dense, colorful tapestry, chaotic and strangely captivating. It was a collage of hundreds of incongruous images: logos of colleges, sports teams, bands, and video-game companies; a transcribed monologue from “Star Wars”; likenesses of He-Man, David Bowie, the “Mona Lisa,” and a former Prime Minister of Finland. In the final hours, shortly before the experiment ended and the image was frozen for posterity, BlackVoid launched a surprise attack on the American flag. A dark fissure tore at the bottom of the flag, then overtook the whole thing. For a few minutes, the center was engulfed in darkness. Then a broad coalition rallied to beat back the Void; the stars and stripes regained their form, and, in the end, the flag was still there.
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Reddit & the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
https://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-struggle-to-detoxify-the-internet Describes an interesting expt: users compete & collaborate to determine the content of white square. “Toward the end, the square was…a collage…logos of colleges…teams… [&] likenesses of the Mona Lisa”

Opinion | Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature

March 25, 2018

Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature
https://www.NYTimes.com/2018/03/14/opinion/stephen-hawking-death-.html Interesting obit, for a most noteable passing on #piday2018. How to learn from conversing with someone at 6 words per min.

QT:{{”
“Stephen could compose his sentences at a rate of only about six words a minute. At first I would sit impatiently, daydreaming on and off as I waited for him to finish his composition. But then one day I was looking over his shoulder at his computer screen, where the sentence he was constructing was visible, and I started thinking about his evolving reply. By the time he had completed it, I had had several minutes to ponder the ideas he was expressing.

This was a great help. It allowed me to more profoundly consider his remarks, and it enabled my own ideas, and my reactions to his, to percolate as they never could have in an ordinary conversation.” “}}

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program – The New York Times

March 5, 2018

Glowing Auras & Black Money: The Pentagon’s Mysterious #UFO Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html Rather incredible that this exists. I’m sure it’ll spawn many movies…