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The Dream: Physical books printed on the spot (and recycled on the spot)
In Twitter this morning, @tatteredcover is asking how many people are moving from paper books to electronic ones. I own a Kindle, but about 60% of my book buying is still paper. I love the bookstore experience, and there’s nothing like thumbing through a paper book. But my house is overflowing with the damn things.… Read more ⇢
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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 has been around since 1996 and harnesses the “power of 1000’s of small computers like yours” to discover new Mersenne primes, which are primes of… Read more ⇢
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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 ever seen, and I always end up calling them on the PHONE to register). Now you’re thinking what to do with all those cycles that… Read more ⇢
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AOL
Sphere, the related content company I co-founded three years ago, has been acquired by AOL. I think I logged about 185 hours of sleep and 3 blog posts on remylabs over the last three years, but building Sphere has been really fun, thanks to the best team in the business. We have a small but… Read more ⇢
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Alloy Modeling Language
I stumbled across this profoundly cool tool this week. From the Alloy homepage: Alloy [is] a simple structural modeling language based on first-order logic. The [Alloy Analyzer] can generate instances of invariants, simulate the execution of operations (even those defined implicitly), and check user-specified properties of a model. Alloy and its analyzer have been used… Read more ⇢
