Eugene Mandel

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"I was stunned," Schipke says. "It was like finding a picture of Bill Gates in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about more...

Check out this fragment from the documentary "General Idi Amin Dada - An Autoportait". This is Idi Amin speaking to his cabinet ministers.

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What Consumer Price Index is made of?

"I Want You to Want Me" installation by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar at the NY Museum of Modern Art. "The system searches dating sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken more...

A man has been charged with assaulting a teenage boy by throwing a hedgehog at him. Police said William Singalargh, 27, from Whakatane, in New Zealand's North Island, allegedly picked up the hedgehog and threw it about 5m at the more...

“"fast multipole method" developed for computational physics to rapidly estimate (to arbitrary precision) the conjugate gradient of an error function. (In other words, they tweak the parameters and "get a little better" the next time through the training data.)”

A very interesting theory on why we dream

“Douglas Engelbart's whirling vision of the future; it was the first public use of a mouse, as well as examples of cutting, copying, pasting, teleconferencing, video conferencing, email, and... hypertext.”

After a long weekend of debugging our app turned philosophical on us - see the error message. A kind of message you expect to find in a fortune cookie.

Last fall, Hiyam Hijazi-Omari and Rivka Ribak presented a paper called "Playing With Fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel" at AOIR. They studied teen girls who received their mobile phones from their more...

“evolutionary software that can gradually evolve and mutate to carry out a task efficiently, or hone the design of a wing, robot or whatever, without the need for a programmer to get involved.”