People love control. Yet in an age of automation, this is being lost. The placebo keeps people happy, providing an idea of control where there is none.

Using a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip, engineers have built a quantum random number generator capable of generating truly random numbers for hacking-impervious encryption.

I can’t remember exactly what I was doing with my spare time as a 17-year-old teenager, but it sure wasn’t finding flaws in T-Mobile’s system. But I guess that’s why I had t…

Quick, what’s the difference between these two C/C++ definitions of initialized local variables? char buffer[32] = { 0 };char buffer[32] = {}; One difference is that the first is legal in C a…

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IDIOTS is a great Apple iPhone Parody, that makes you think.

In the video you can see robots, they should be people just as each of us and they buy the Iphone 4.
They play with it and share things with their friends.
But then, a big robot comes and makes…

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This is a philosophical talk. It deals with ideals, aims, and ways of approximating those. It deals with practical…

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A while back a friend of mine hosted a programming competition where you were
given 9 random numbers one at a time and you had to guess the rank (the sorted
position amongst the 9) of each as they are coming in. The goal was to submit a
strategy in Java that…