Information overload?

New data says there’s lots of new data. Great headline, bizarre research that says new data (whatever that means) stored in 2002 is 500,000 times the Library of Congress’ entire collection. Which is a lot. However we transmitted four times this amount of...

Eigenradio

Eigenradio – The top 20 singular values all day, every day!. Students with too much time on their hands?

Getting nearer an eBook

Hi-tech tome takes on paperbacks looks at HPs new eBook prototype. I like the touch strip navigation concept, but the screen still looks too computer-like. And 1cm thick seems too much to me, despite many books being much thicker.

Strong argument against Shuttle design

“Not Culture but Perhaps a Cult”, Op Ed on NASA and the Shuttle by Homer Hickam argues that the current Shuttle design is pretty dumb in placing the spaceplane right in the middle of the launch stack. I must say, it seems pretty telling to me.