April 2010
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“As the sun rises, you can tell that we here at CERN have failed yet again to end...”
– naturalnumber (via fuckyeahphysics)
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Counting Peanuts
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Named for the comic strip above, the Linus Sequence is defined as follows:
The sequence composed of 1s and 2s obtained by starting with the number 1, and picking subsequent elements to avoid repeating the longest possible substring. The first few terms are 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, …
The sequence’s sister set, the Sally Sequence gives “gives the sequence of...
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“Design is a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.”
– Erik Adigard
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“Good design at the front-end suggests that everything is in order at the...”
– Dmitry Fadeyev | Quotes on Design
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Eye Computer: Turning Vision Into A Programmable... →
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“Mathematics is a means of mapping and maps become tools of manipulation as well...”
– j. tracy on the pynchon listserv (via cloois)
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“Obliquity describes the process of achieving objectives indirectly… Surely...”
– Obliquity: the roundabout route to success - Management Today (via interestingsnippets)
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This Too Is Hypermississippian...
Rube Goldberg machines have long fascinated us not only because they’re always eye-poppingly fun to watch but also because they’re marvelous abstractions of monumental water infrastructure. If you think of those metallic balls and bowling balls as singular droplets or even molecules of water, and those swinging golf clubs and falling dominos as energy transiting through a system, then...
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“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been...”
– Richard C. Trench | Quotes on Design
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“I learned a long time ago to only work for or with people with whom you have...”
– Merlin Mann (via soupsoup) (via un) 