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The crazy, true-life adventures of Norway’s most radical billionaire

Fred Olsen is both the owner of Timex and its most successful watch designer. He’s also a world-class sailor and an oil industry pioneer, and was rumored to have inspired a Simpsons character. Now he’s leading a revolution in offshore wind.

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Using Named Pipes and Process Substitution in Bioinformatics

It’s hard not to fall in love with Unix as a bioinformatician. In a past post I mentioned how Unix pipes are an extremely elegant way to interface bioinformatics programs (and do inter-process communication in general). In exploring other ways of interfacing programs in Unix, I’ve discovered two gre…

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Bill Watterson talks: This is why you must read the new ‘Exploring Calvin and Hobbes’ book

Coming out tomorrow, the bound catalog for OSU's Bill Watterson retrospective offers a rarity of a revealing, in-depth interview.

Click to view the original at www.washingtonpost.com

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Raytracing a Black Hole

It's now clear I'm on a Black Hole binge (I can stop when I want, by the way). They're endlessly fascinating. My recent interest was in particular focused on simulating visualizations of the Schwarzschild geometry. I was preoccupied by the problem of generating a decent accurate representation of ho…

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Announcing Starfighter

Thomas Ptacek, Erin Ptacek, and I are pleased to announce Starfighter, a company that will publish CTFs (games) that are designed to develop, improve, and assess rare, extremely valuable programmin...

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Hasnain says:

This is awesome! A great approach to hiring, from some really well known people. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out

Posted on 2015-03-10T01:15:01+0000