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  1. Nanoseconds for dummies

    March 1, 2012 by sshadmand

    a nanosecond

    One of our talented engineers Aseem sent this out over email this morning to the group. I really enjoyed it for a few reasons, and figured I would share it as well. First, it is a lecture from the inventor of the compiler; second, it is a lecture from someone in the military; third, she ( Grace Hopper) is very old and I find that inspirational and cute (as offensive as that feeling if mine may be to others – it’s true); lastly, and most importantly, it gives a great visual example about space, time, speed, and badnwidth.

    Check-id-ouuuut…..


  2. Pictures that are literally worth over a million words

    October 28, 2011 by sshadmand

    Words makes pictures

    Check out this cool little tool: Google N-Grams

    It shows a graphical representation of the frequency words used in books over a rangeof years. It is based on on all the books google has scanned into their database to date.

    This TED talk is what turned me on to the project.

    The project, the tool and the lecture are all quite entertaining.
    Here are some graphs I created playing with the tool. Graphic data, especially that which is based on sentiment represented by our societies authors,  gives us amazing clues into how perception and reality intersect.

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

  3. Songs from Geekend Boston Presentation

    October 4, 2011 by sshadmand

    geekend
    1. In the Garage – Weezer
    2. The Legend of Zelda – RMaster
    3. Nerd Versus Jock – MC Frontalot
    4. The neverending Story – The Hitsingers
    5. Ramble On – Led Zepagain