UC Berkeley: Virtual exhibition: Visionary Designs in Transportation Engineering.
Monthly Archives: July 2004
An intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Bayes’s Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction. Why does a mathematical concept generate this strange enthusiasm in its students? What is the so-called Bayesian Revolution now sweeping through the sciences, which claims to subsume even the experimental method itself as a special case? What is the secret that the adherents of Bayes know? What is the light that they have seen? Soon you will know. Soon you will be one of us.
Researchers create authentic sculpting software
CBC News — July 14, 2004. “Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed the new system, in which a user wearing a special glove sculpts a block of clay or other malleable material. The glove records the force exerted by and the position of the hand, as well as the speed of fingertip motion. This information is then communicated — exactly, in real time and in 3D — to a corresponding computer program, in which a virtual block of clay is sculpted using the same criteria.”
Words: Woe and Wonder
CBC — Essays on word usage.
Zapato Productions intradimensional
Zapato Productions —
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