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!
[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:
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:
