Some amazing videos created by artist Aaron Koblin which show flight traffic over the USA. What may at fist appear a dull subject is transformed by these magical videos, with streaks of colour dancing across the screen. Patterns emerge, including the shape of the continent, and the onset of daybreak across the country. Definitely [...]

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Posted on Monday 1st January 2007 in Computers, Engineering tagged , , , , , , , with no comments.

Google have posted an interesting video of a talk by Sebastian Thrun (who was part of the winning team from Stanford) about their entry into the DARPA grand challenge 2005. See Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge – Google Video – which is almost an hour long.

The DARPA grand challenge was a competition to drive [...]

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Posted on Sunday 19th November 2006 in Computers, Engineering tagged , , , , , , with no comments.

A book describing a multitude of seemingly random interconnected ideas, and how these relate to the society we live in. Although Philip Ball uses a lot of mathematical and statistical analyses, it is not a book about maths—rather it is a book about how individuals interact with each other to form a coherent society [...]

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Posted on Monday 11th September 2006 in Blog tagged , , , , , with no comments.

With the recent No votes in France and Holand on the European Union, the news headlines are proclaiming these are “Overwhelming”.

In France, 54.68% of voters voted No, with a turnout of 69.34%. Significantly less than half of the population (37.9%) voted No. [Wikipedia]

Later, in the Netherlands, the No vote was 61.6% on a turnout of [...]

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Posted on Thursday 2nd June 2005 in Blog tagged , , , , with no comments.