Come on, you know you want to watch it, “How It’s Made: Bacon”:
That’s some awesome background music, I must say. Good to know they check for pieces of metal which might have fallen onto the pork bellies.
Seattle Has the World's First Quantum Computer
The ads on scienceblogs today lead me to find out that, apparently, I can buy a quantum computer right here from Seattle based REI:
And only $70 bucks! Jeez, those D-wave investors overpaid. I wonder how you use it to factor? But the number in the bag and wait?
Nunchuck Demo
I’m not sure what this is good for, and yet I found it amazingly responsive:
Der Took Our Science N Engineering Jerbs!
Whatever you do, Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Mary America, make sure to tell everyone you know not to go into science and engineering! You see those who major in science and engineering are certain to not get jobs, because, as many commenters love to point out, all those jobs are being exported overseas! But wait, what is this:
The overall unemployment rate of scientists and engineers in the United States dropped from 3.2% in 2003 to 2.5% in 2006…according to data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT). This is the lowest unemployment rate measured by SESTAT since the early 1990s. It continues a trend of lower unemployment rates for scientists and engineers compared with unemployment rates in the rest of the U.S. economy.
Who knew? A degree in science and engineering actually appears to help your employment chances 🙂
Factoid of the Day
Who knew: Jello is best paired with Moscato D’asti.
Monte Hall and Cognitive Dissonance
Quake3 on iTouch
One of the reasons I signed up to develop for the iPhone:
Accelerometers are so cool. And I don’t just say that because I’m a physicist.
Stephen Hawking at TED
The Hawkman Speaketh at TED:
No alien quiz shows? Certainly Professor Hawking did not see Alex Trebek last week, when, for half the show, Alex Trebek had a really alien looking mustache.
CSE 322 Spring 2008, Week 1
This quarter I am teaching CSE 322: Introduction to Formal Models in Computer Science. Good fun. As part of my teaching I am LaTeXing up lecture notes from the class, which follow closely the book we are using, Sipser’s “Introduction to the Theory of Computation.” Here are the first three lectures for those with nothing better to do during their weekend:
- Lecture 1: Welcome and Introduction
- Lecture 2: Formal Definition of Deterministic Finite Automata
- Lecture 3: Regular Operations on Languages
The notes are certainly full of many typos and such, but maybe there is a young teenager who isn’t in college, but who is bright, and wants to learn something cool about theory, and thus might actually click on those links. Comments and criticisms by others are also greatly appreciated.
AP Computer Science AB Cut
The very first AP class I took in high school was the Computer Science AB test. Today, I learn from the Washington Post, that the Computer Science AB test is on the chopping block (along with Italian, Latin literature, and French literature.)
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