Eternally Confuzzled - Red Black Tree Tutorial
Welcome back! Or if this is your first experience with my tutorials, get ready for a good time. But first, why another red black tree tutorial? Anyone who searches for red black trees on Google will be rewarded with a slew of resources that include tutorials, general descriptions, Jav
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - The Long Now
One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, "That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard." For Richard a crazy idea was
Hasnain says:
This is definitely worth reading for everyone. (not only the physicists)
Posted on 2011-03-11T11:09:57+0000
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience
Analysis and Commentary on High Technology User Experience Research and Design
Hasnain says:
This is a really long post but very insightful - covers the psychology of a good user experience.
Posted on 2011-03-08T06:30:32+0000
Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father
Phillip Toledano Photography.
Hasnain says:
This made me shed a tear or two. Incredibly moving.
Posted on 2011-02-25T12:40:16+0000
Reality touchscreen University of Groningen
This is the curved (!) screen in our reality center of the University of Groningen. We just finished building our own touch detection for it. We used six Optitrack v120 slim camera's which have a good sensitivity for infrared light. We used 16 cheap infrared emitters (the kind used for security syst
Wow, Microsoft And Google Are Punching Each Other In The Face In Front Of Us!
By now, you've undoubtedly heard the news. Google set up a sting operation (how cool is that?) in an attempt to catch Microsoft red-handed stealing their search results. And according to them, they did just that — and made it known. Microsoft has seemingly both sidestepped and denied the claim — and
Finite formula found for partition numbers | The Language of Bad Physics
So this isn’t physics*, but if you squint hard enough, you can probably make a connection. The hot topic today is Ken Ono‘s latest work on the partition function:
Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
Part of Twitter's appeal is that people can 'connect' and engage with celebrities online, even if most of them consider it to be, and treat it like, just another push marketing channel rather than a multi-dimensional communication system. Be that as it may, but Twitter owes a lot of its populari
Hasnain says:
This is why software patents need to .. (insert ton of words here that aren't safe for public posting).
Posted on 2011-01-20T19:39:46+0000
Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition
StarCraft, one of the most popular games ever made, also serves as the perfect proving ground for artificial intelligence. Here's the inside story of how a Berkeley team won the world's first StarCraft AI competition with code that can beat even pro-level human players.
Lenore Skenazy: Eek! A Male! - WSJ.com
In The Wall Street Journal, Lenore Skenazy writes that treating all men as potential predators doesn't make our kids safer.