Interesting Stuff

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"You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun" - Chris Anderson 7 min TED talk on how flutes connect to the development of computers. [thanks to Harsh Patel]

51% of respondents in a recent survey indicated that bad weather affects cloud computing. [Dale Reed, passed on by Dan Garcia]

Dance + Technology = iLuminate. Don't miss the comments at 2:55 [Dale Reed, passed on by Tanya Berger-Wolf]

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Check out this quantum computer video by Google! (Rafael Robles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdHDHEuOUE

Programmers nightmare:

[Sok Bunny Cheng]

Flight of the concords, Binary solo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

[Rafael Robles]

Here is a cool clip visualizing various sorting algorithms [Filip Radzikowski]

Check out how robotic arms and large screens and projection can be used together to make moving virtual spaces.

[Dale Reed, passed on by Jeff Solin]

This is similar to what we were talking about in class involving high resolution photos. It's a pretty neat game, shows you a random place in the world using panoramic photos, and you have to guess where you are!

http://geoguessr.com/

[Kara Easlick]

Cool Kara! I got 9263 points when I tried it. [Dale Reed]

Click to watch one of the most awesome or informative videos on video games.

[Osamudiamen Okundaye]

See this article in Slate about parents who have elected to post nothing about their daughter online, so she can choose her own identity in the future and not have a long trail of digital footprints.

[Dale Reed]

Give this Youtube Channel a Try. Vsauce takes random questions and really researches deep to answer the question.

For example:

Where Do Deleted Files Go?

Their other channels Vsauce2 and Vsauce3 talks more about video games and other random Tech stuff.

[Tricia Dacpano]

[Osamudiamen Okundaye]

[Adrian Hernandez] found this funny cartoon that relates to giving precise instructions: