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Category Archives: Potpourri
London Underground in 3D
November 17, 2003 – 5:53 pm
Corey Clark produced this fabulous 3D map of the London tube system. Having spent a month with that twisty maze of stations (all alike) as my only means of transportation, the Underground holds a special place in my heart.
It’s very interesting to see the network in three dimensions. The top-down, simplified, two-dimensional view produced by [...]
Gender Genie
October 27, 2003 – 1:59 pm
The Gender Genie is a fascinating Web tool/toy that uses an algorithm to determine the gender of an author, based on a sample of that author’s writing. So far, it’s been spot on in detecting that I’m male.
It’s interesting to note that there is more statistical “maleness” in samples I plugged in from my book [...]
Black holes sing
September 15, 2003 – 4:03 pm
The Chandra X-ray observatory has detected sound waves coming from a black hole in the Perseus cluster. It’s a constant B flat, 57 octaves lower than middle-C, which has been sounding for around 2.5 billion years.
Black holes sing. Simple things like this just make me happy. Today has been worth living, simply because it brought [...]