Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Subject: Madman cuts open Surface 3 Pro to install new 1TB solid state drive...





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Madman cuts open Surface 3 Pro to install new 1TB solid state drive
Madman cuts open Surface 3 Pro to install new 1TB solid state drive
Jose Malagon is a man who knows what he wants, and knows how to get it. When the Surface Pro 3 didn't have enough space, he broke out the drill and gave an upgrade most people thought impossible.
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State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition is out today, so prep your weapons
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition is out today, so prep your weapons
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition is available now on the Xbox One and on Steam, bring improved lighting, textures, and animation as well as additional content and a refined combat system.
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The future on wheels: Best concept cars
The future on wheels: Best concept cars
We've got the best concept cars from the 2014-2015 auto show season right here. From an electric SUV to plug-in hybrid sports cars and a self-driving Mercedes, see what the future holds for cars.
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The Samsung Gear Fit is a stylish pedometer with built-in heart rate monitor, designed to give you a better insight into your your workouts while resisting sweat and water to be worn comfortably throughout your day.
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This phone comes with a massive battery, costs $100, and can be upgraded in the future
This phone comes with a massive battery, costs $100, and can be upgraded in the future
Google's Project Ara isn't the only modular smartphone we can expect to see launch this year. Meet Fonkraft, a new modular phone that's cheap, easily modified, and expected to be ready in September.
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How could they?! The 10 most shocking recent TV character deaths
How could they?! The 10 most shocking recent TV character deaths
A trend these days is to kill off main characters. But in today's TV, there have been some particularly shocking character deaths, both for the fact that the person is killed as well as how.
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These tiny robots can pull over 1,700 times their own weight
These tiny robots can pull over 1,700 times their own weight
A group of mechanical engineers from Stanford University has developed a set of tiny robots capable of lifting/pulling objects hundreds of times their own weight -- including one that can move objects over 1700 times its own weight. That's like you dragging around a blue whale.
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Goodbye Skype? Facebook adds free video calling to Messenger
Goodbye Skype? Facebook adds free video calling to Messenger
Ideal for anyone that's a power user of the Facebook Messenger application, the social network has launched support for a new video calling feature that works on mobile devices as well as desktop computers.
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This wireless charger uses magnets to add a battery to your phone
This wireless charger uses magnets to add a battery to your phone
Charging cases for phones are useful, but they're bulky and often cumbersome. Portable chargers are great too, but carrying them around can be a hassle. The Rubix On, now on Kickstarter, combines these two into one useful gadget.
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This new smartwatch OS will take on Android Wear in China
This new smartwatch OS will take on Android Wear in China
China's Tencent, which owns the WeChat messaging app and the QQ social network, has announced a new mobile operating system called TOS+. It's designed to be used on the coolest new products, from smartwatches to VR headsets.
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That was fast: Valve removes paid mods from Skyrim
That was fast: Valve removes paid mods from Skyrim
In response to user feedback, Valve has turned off paid mods for Skyrim after just a few days, and is issuing refunds to anyone who purchased a mod.
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Digital Trends 2015 Car of the Year Awards
Digital Trends 2015 Car of the Year Awards
Digital Trends scoured the global market of new cars and awarded the best in the world in five different categories, along with the best infotainment system and engine of 2015.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron may get extended cut, alternate ending for home release
Avengers: Age of Ultron may get extended cut, alternate ending for home release
Avengers: Age of Ultron is getting an extended cut and an alternate ending, if a pre-order from Amazon is to be believed. The upcoming superhero movie looks to offer a version that's a little bit longer and slightly different for its home release.
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Calm down! Like dogs, the first Intel RealSense games can sense your fear
Calm down! Like dogs, the first Intel RealSense games can sense your fear
Intel's RealSense system not only senses gestures like Kinect, it can detect your pulse to read your emotions, opening the door for games that know when you're scared -- and respond accordingly.
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Apple kills it again in Q2, exceeds earnings expectations
Apple kills it again in Q2, exceeds earnings expectations
Apple reported its Q2 earnings late Monday and the news was better than expected. Apple beat the market expectations on both iPhone units sold, as well as profit per share.
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Super Troopers sequel lands $4.4 million on Indiegogo, but no live bears
Super Troopers sequel lands $4.4 million on Indiegogo, but no live bears
After the second most-funded campaign for a film ever, it looks like the cult-classic movie Super Troopers is getting a sequel. Broken Lizard will start work on the film this summer.
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Sunday, April 05, 2015

Subject: Researchers have begun circulating beams of protons in the Large Hadron Collider after a two-year shutdown for upgrades

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Big Bang Beam: Large Hadron Collider Restarts After Two-Year Break - nbcnews.com/science

"The LHC is the world's most powerful collider. It's also the most expensive, with an estimated construction cost of $10 billion. Thousands of physicists and engineers are on its experimental teams.
During its first research run, between 2009 and 2013, the collider was used to discover the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle whose existence was predicted in the 1960s but could not be detected until the LHC came along. The Higgs is thought to play a role in imparting the property of mass to other fundamental particles — and it was the last big missing puzzle piece in the Standard Model, the theory that governs particle physics..."



Thursday, April 02, 2015

Subject: Mathematics in Sociology - the math puzzle doodles

Occam's Razor is a line of reasoning that says the simplest answer is often correct. 


A) Fermat's Last Theorem:

In 1630, Fermat wrote in the margin of an old Greek mathematics book that he could demonstrate that no integers (whole numbers) can make the equation x (to the power of n) + y (to the power of n) = z (to the power of n) ... true if n is greater than 2.



     
     
B) P vs NP problem (whether P ='s NP or not):

Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin formulated the P (i.e., easy to find) versus NP (i.e., easy to check) problem independently in 1971.