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visualizingmath: Cubes fall through “Flatland”. On the left is a view of the cube in perspective; on the right is a view from directly above which represents what a two-dimensional person viewing the cube from within the plane would be able to perceive. The top animation shows a square falling through flatland on its face. The slices…
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txchnologist: Meet The CHIMP Carnegie Mellon University’s Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform took third place in last December’s DARPA Robotics Challenge. The team behind the four-limbed highly capable bot will compete against others during this December’s Finals. DARPA is sponsoring the challenge to develop robots that can help humans respond to natural and man-made disasters in human-built…
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masterworksinteractive: caramelzappa: We we keep seeing AAA games getting bigger and bigger budgets fail, and now we hear that Destiny has a budget of 500 million. At this point this kind of thing is just the most expensive joke. Hopefully 100M of that goes directly to marketing, in which case I think it will do…
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Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach, since only it dances as an uncontained splendour around the double constellation of the true and the good and their inseparable relation to one another. Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both…
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The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT) Institute
The Humanities Intensive Teaching and Learning (HILT) Institute will be held August 4-8, 2014 on the campus of the University of Maryland. We’ve got an exciting slate of classes taught by incredible instructors. Courses for 2014 include: Project Developmentled by Simon Appleford, Clemson University and Jennifer Guiliano, MITH This course will explore the fundamentals of…
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It was the same old pattern: when caught red-handed, countersue, claiming Samsung actually owned the patent or another one that the plaintiff company had used. Then, as the litigation dragged on, snap up a greater share of the market and settle when Samsung imports were about to be barred. Sharp had filed its lawsuit in…
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I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process of establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity. Neoteny, one of my favorite words, means the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood: idealism, experimentation and wonder. In this new world, not only must we behave more…