Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy – Lawrence Lessig
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Posted April 5, 2010 By Landis VEngineering Math, by Stroud From /. A refresher on math designed for self-study, poster used it as a prep for classes requiring Calc 3 as a prereq.
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” Thomas Jefferson. Interesting quote.
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Posted April 2, 2010 By Landis V3/24
Posted March 24, 2010 By Landis Vhttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/24/1214239/Full-ACTA-Leak-Online Full text of ACTA.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yhoE4n4Idxs/Drunk-Histoy-Presents-Nikola-Tesla-NSFW Looks interesting. Worth checking out sometime.
“Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest. Scoff at none although they give Occasion.” — The Papers of George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour Something to work on.
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1596654&cid=31626326 Superb.
http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/61.html How Fibre Lasers Work, includes a layman’s explanation of excited electron decay.
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Posted March 19, 2010 By Landis Vhttp://www.predictioneersgame.com/ Cool. I was just thinking about something like this this morning, modeling real-world events on game theory to see where they might lead. Very interesting.
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Posted March 18, 2010 By Landis Vhttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong The problems scientists have with statistics.
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Posted March 12, 2010 By Landis Vhttp://solarstormwatch.com/ Help scientists analyze images of the sun in hope of recognizing solar flares to provide advance warning of possible solar EMF storms.