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Conventional holography proves this is possible. Portions of the image of a hologram can appear at points both closer and farther than the plane of the hologram itself. Furthermore…

"Most of us who went to American grade schools can remember long hours of copying articles out of encyclopedias. 'The abode of the penguin is a hard and difficult one.' It was call…

I forget when and why I started putting honey in the middle of KFC biscuits, but it's also surprisingly tasty.

Down now for TOS violation, but +1 anyway for the effort. Any chance of summarizing the infographic textually somewhere?

To crawl Google URLs of the form google.com?q=x would be to disregard http://www.google.com/robots.txt , which seems like bad netiquette to me.

The page contents are being crawled and added to the index, but by Bing Toolbar users, not a computer program. I consider that to be an underhanded way to circumvent robots.txt, bu…

Other claims that the author has previously made have allegedly been reproduced/explained by a group from Sharif University in Iran.

15/19; missed JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, and Erlang.

If you're willing to shell out a few bucks, I highly recommend mekentosj's Papers over Mendeley. Among the free options, I prefer CiteULike (web-based; http://www.citeulike.org ) o…

Another notable book missing from that list is "Topology" by Munkres.

For real analysis, I'd recommend that you pick up a copy of "baby Rudin" regardless, but for learning real analysis, I'd recommend a book like "A First Course in Mathematical Analy…

You're hardly the first person with this idea. There are many corporations already working in this sector--they're called government contractors.

I believe that the budget proposal on which this chart is based is only for the executive branch.

1. The Department of Energy appears in at least three places in the chart: once under "National defense", once under "General science", and once under "Energy". I assume the amount…

A few of my favorites, chosen from computer science and from physics: D. E. Knuth, "An empirical study of FORTRAN programs," Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 1…

I remember that chapter from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman quite well. One of my favorite passages is the following, which is the source of the title of the chapter: We came to…

Another Papers user here, and I also use a combination of CiteULike ( http://www.citeulike.org ) and Bibdesk ( http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net ). I find either system both easier an…

Here's an independent MATLAB implementation of the Shazam algorithm: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/matlab/fingerprint/

Your answers to questions 1 and 2 contradict each other.

Am I the only person who looks at the first table and wonders who was the lone first-year student in 2008 who didn't own a computer?