Category: Essays and posts
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Education Snapshot … Overheard
My daughter today (high schooler, Colorado): “In Science we’re doing exactly what we did in middle school, but at a more basic level” My niece (middle school, California) is having…
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Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
Well, it doesn’t run in the browser, but it keeps itself to a single directory and runs from the command line, which is the next best thing. The GIMPS project…
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Casual Grid Computing in the Browser?
Let’s say you just got a brand spanking new 8-core computer. Let’s also say you can’t run Mathematica because Wolfram’s registration process sucks so much (seriously, it’s the worst I’ve…
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Spolsky: Windows Live, Marimba Phenomenon
Joel Spolsky had a similarly disappointing experience with Windows Live as I did. He calls it the Marimba Phenomenon: The Marimba Phenomenon is what happens when you spend more on…
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Windows Half-Live?
Windows Live looks like Microsoft’s tardy and half-baked answer to My Yahoo! It’s a customizable portal, with placeholders for weather and news and feed subscriptions etc. According to Bill Gates’…
Martin Remy 