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29 Jun 2012 »

Turns out your brain stores information in 6-bit units.

Turns out your brain stores information in 6-bit units.

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TUCSON, AZ - Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while mem...

Syndicated 2012-06-29 15:53:11 from Plus Public Activity Feed for David Barksdale

22 Jun 2012 »

Yes I'm a fan of clojure.

Yes I'm a fan of clojure.

Clojure-powered Startups
Paul deGrandis examines three startups and their technology needs, risk and tradeoffs, presenting how Clojure did its part in their success.

Syndicated 2012-06-22 19:09:32 from Plus Public Activity Feed for David Barksdale

15 Jun 2012 »

A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem

A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem

Syndicated 2012-06-15 14:34:21 from Plus Public Activity Feed for David Barksdale

8 Jun 2012 »

+Cory Schmitz eat your heart out

+ Cory Schmitz eat your heart out

ISS Star Trails (26)
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit relayed some information about photographic techniques used to achieve the images: “My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”

Syndicated 2012-06-08 20:58:13 from Plus Public Activity Feed for David Barksdale

6 Jun 2012 »

Nice work Rob.

Nice work Rob.

The Tesla Gun | dɸ/dt
A bit of both. When no earth is nearby, it makes a very even fringe of tiny sparks around the toroid, plus a very pretty corona field that is damn near impossible to photograph. This sort of shows it:...