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Special Agent Arch Stanton is the lead investigator

I would like to think that in 10 years I'll be buying a used 64-qubit card on Ebay, like a 2GB video card. What will be the equivalent to gaming which drives this tech to ever-high…

This feels like guerilla marketing for a mystery movi

Anyone here ever try ironCAD? I've thought about buying a personal license of a professional CAD package. Solidworks (my most familiar) is too expensive for personal use. OnShape I…

I first read these books in high school and loved the zany humor. The deeper satire took a bit longer for me to appreciate - especially the "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" …

God bless those kids

I guess I admire the author's restraint but I sure would have spun this as "strange object from outside our solar system has mysterious source of acceleration"

I think there was a radiology journal dedicated to stereoscopic X-rays 100 years ago.

I recently passed a happy milestone with my ongoing transition from Matlab to Julia in that now I'm more likely to get an error in Matlab for using Julia syntax than the other way …

From Much Ado About Nothing: "The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."

Something similar happened with my alma mater (Franklin & Marshall College) when an Italian designer gave a clothing line the same name. Students started coming home from travel ab…

Funny, I agree with the structure of what his argument and the limitations of Matlab but disagree with the pedagogical conclusions. I learned to drive on automatic transmission car…

Point of fact, "that Dyson" is Freeman Dyson

FreeCAD has some advanced capabilities but is not a great package to start on. I've created some weird shapes in it but would never have been able to do it if it were not for a fai…

Hi @sama. Are there any technologies that you would not consider funding?

About 15 years ago I saw Paul Kwiat at UIUC give a talk on "Interaction Free Measurements" which seems to be effectively the same thing as here. (cf http://physics.illinois.edu/peo…