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Comment Sesame Street (Score 1) 188

by bwnunnally on Friday September 30, 2011 @02:15PM (#37570154) Attached to: Ask <em>They Might Be Giants</em> About Almost 30 Years of Music

Sesame Street recently said they planned to focus on math and science as a way to help teach these important topics this season. Is there more room for TMBG / Sesame Street collaboration, or perhaps even a place on Sesame Street for The Avatars of They?

Comment Re:How long until someone spins this as (Score 1) 292

by bwnunnally on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:31PM (#37475956) Attached to: Walmart Goes Solar In California

"In addition to the 500 green jobs the project installations will create or support in California and Arizona, these Walmart projects are also supporting green jobs at facilities in Ohio and California, where the majority of the thin film is manufactured." from the walmart press release http://walmartstores.com/pressroom/news/10303.aspx

Comment The Xon? Pfft (Score 1) 160

by bwnunnally on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:24PM (#37423472) Attached to: Modern Humans Bred With Evolutionary Predecessors In Africa

Doesn't this prove that previously believed-to-be-extinct species of humans aren't extinct at all? They're Grandma?

Comment upload the new patch? (Score 1) 112

by bwnunnally on Friday September 16, 2011 @03:17PM (#37423406) Attached to: Printing a Building

Also a self-monitoring and repairing capability for the building would be nice. Although I suppose it would be alarming if you got a message to reboot the building after NEW Building 3.0 was downloaded.

Comment Hackers (Score 1) 77

by bwnunnally on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:12PM (#37221862) Attached to: Book Review: Ghost In the Wires

Zero Cool? ... yo this is Zero Cool! lol

Comment Re:not getting it here (Score 1) 233

by bwnunnally on Saturday February 20, 2010 @06:39PM (#31213802) Attached to: Students Build 2752 MPG Hypermiling Vehicle

No, they go miles, but consume 0 gallons. So Miles/gallons = Some/0 hence infinity.

Comment Re:Patent? (Score 1) 108

by bwnunnally on Thursday February 18, 2010 @01:21AM (#31180562) Attached to: PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered

They stood on the shoulders of people who tracked sectors of the economy of giants?

PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered 108

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @07:55PM from the oldest-google-juice dept.

KentuckyFC writes "The PageRank algorithm (pdf) behind Google's success was developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998. It famously judges a page to be important if it is linked to by other important pages. This circular definition is the basis of an iterative mechanism for ranking pages. Now a paper tracing the history of iterative ranking algorithms describes a number of earlier examples. It discusses the famous HITS algorithm for ranking web pages as hubs and authorities developed by Jon Kleinberg a few years before PageRank. It also discusses various approaches from the 1960s and 70s for ranking individuals and journals based on the importance of those that endorse them. But the real surprise is the discovery of a PageRank-type algorithm for ranking sectors of an economy based on the importance of the sectors that supply them, a technique that was developed by the Harvard economist Wassily Leontief in 1941."

Comment Re:Porsche... (Score 1) 197

by bwnunnally on Saturday February 13, 2010 @01:43AM (#31124694) Attached to: Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster

Another line from this clip applicable to the article: "Have you always been this quick, or is this something new?"

Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster 197

Posted by timothy on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:10PM from the yeah-well-I-get-better-mileage dept.

MikeChino writes "Porsche has just unveiled its 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a 480 horsepower track vehicle ready to rock the 24-hour Nurburgring race this May. Porsche's latest supercar will use the same 911 production platform available to consumers today, with a few race-ready features including front-wheel hybrid drive and an innovative flywheel system that stores kinetic energy from braking and then uses it to provide a 160 horsepower burst of speed. The setup is sure to offer an advantage when powering out of turns and passing by other racers."

Submission + - Computer Engineer Barbie Unveiled (barbiemedia.com) 2

Submitted by ideonexus on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:02PM

ideonexus writes: At the New York Toy fair, Mattel has announced Computer Engineer Barbie, the doll's 126th career chosen by popular vote. The official announcement (PDF) shows her accessorizing with nerdy glasses, a Bluetooth earpiece, pink laptop, and tee covered in binary digits. The girls-only vote choose "News Anchor Barbie," which became Barbie's 125th career, but Mattel decided to add the Computer Engineer version after a viral outpouring of support from female IT professionals.

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