Project for Existential Risk - Huw Price 15 Quirky Gadgets and Accessories to Buy Today (May) It’s time for us to take another look at a bunch of quirky, imaginative and downright useful gadgets and accessories that you can buy today. Which one takes your fancy the most? For more inspiration, check out our 2013 holiday gift guide, our previous collection of gadgets and accessories for geeks and 15 quirky gadgets and accessories to buy today. You can view all 15 of these gadgets and accessories listed on one page here. Nixie Epoch Clock This eye-catching clock is crafted from maple hardwood, and includes easily replaceable display tubes. Click the image for more information
Home | Palantir mark's blog window: Panorama This is just a run through of how I stitched my panoramic together. I saved all my sequences to individual folders. I employed this method for all of the panoramic. The steps layed out here presuppose you have some understanding of Photoshop. Step 1 Open all the images from a sequence in Photoshop, compile them into stacked and layered image. Step 2 Using the crop tool extend the background. Step 3 Create a layer on the bottom and fill it with white. Step.4 Turn off the visibility on all the layers except the bottom white layer and the top two.Turn the uppermost layer to opacity 50%. Step 5. Step 6. Step 7. Step 8. Step 9. Repeat until all layers are in place. If you need to adjust the colour, density you can insert adjustment layer acting only on that layer.
PhD in temporality 10 Fabulous German Words With No English Equivalent This past week, I journeyed to Berlin, Germany with one of my best friends in an effort to avoid the utter sadness that comes with the impending conclusion of my study abroad experience. Despite not knowing a lick of German (my apologies to every person that had to endure my not-so-impressive hand gestures and aggressive pointing), the trip was a success and we both left feeling more cultured and a little more appreciative of our English-speaking countries. That’s not to say the German language is unpleasant. In fact, there are a handful of fantastic German words that describe life more perfectly than any English word could. For example: 1) Weltschmerz (n.): mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state They say that the grass is greener on the other side, but it’s that kind of mindset that causes the grass on your side of the picket fence to look gray and infested with earwigs. Picture this: you’re 26 years old. - Hitler.
The Arrow of Time We are all aware of an intuitive "flow" of time from past to future. Not only do we feel this flow of time, but we also see it manifested in the behaviour of objects which change over time. Many objects seem to behave differently in the forward time direction when compared to the backward time direction. However, this "arrow of time" is something of a mystery to physicists because, at the microscopic level, all fundamental physical processes appear to be time-reversible (we'll consider this later). So on this page we will investigate the cause of this mysterious "Arrow of Time". Entropy Entropy can be considered the amount of disorder in a system. As has just been just discussed, all microscopic processes appear to be time-reversible. While the second "law" of thermodynamics is "just" a statistical principle, it is a mightily powerful statistical principle! One of the most inexplicable features of the early universe is that it had an incredibly low value of entropy. Causality
Huddersfield firm fall foul of Civil Aviation Authority rules after helping customer out with drone flight They are stunning images of Huddersfield from on high. But the shots from a remote-controlled model aircraft have landed a Huddersfield company with a headache. Staff at Maplin, the electrical retailer on the Leeds Road Retail Park, wanted to help out a customer interested in buying one of their remote-controlled quadcopters, fitted with a camera. The aircraft was flown over the car park and filmed scenes including the busy Leeds Road and the nearby John Smith’s Stadium But when they posted the film on the internet, they discovered they were possibly breaching strict Civil Aviation Authority restrictions governing unmanned aircraft. Click below to watch the video “We removed the film as soon as we were aware it could be a problem”, said the store’s assistant manager Trevor Sheldon. “We had taken the quadcopter out of the box to show a customer and flew it over the car park. The firm sells remote-controlled helicopters and several quadcopters, which are fitted with rotors at all four corners.
Time and the Block Universe Time and the Block Universe This page considers the nature of time itself. Using a purely logical argument - involving no physics or mathematics whatsoever - we shall see that time must behave in a way which is completely at odds with our usual mental conception of the passage of time. As Einstein himself said, the flow of time is only a "stubbornly persistent illusion". This page might very well shake the way you view the nature of time. "There is nothing outside the universe" On the previous page, Reality Is Relative , we were introduced to Lee Smolin's simple maxim: "There is nothing outside the universe" which he described as the "first principle of cosmology". This is an incredibly profound and important result - it is the principle underyling Einstein's theory of relativity - and, as we will see, it has staggering implications for our conception of how time operates in our universe. Two Theories of Time So what is the alternative? The Astounding Implications of the Block Universe
15 of the best music streaming platforms online today. Which one is best for you? With a seemingly ever-growing number of streaming music services available via the Web and dedicated mobile and tablet apps, choosing the one that best fits your need is an increasingly difficult task. Obviously, there are some big names that you might already be aware of, but there are also some newer services that launched in the last 12 months, and some of the existing ones have changed features, so we thought it well worth putting together a roundup to give you some insight into what each offers before you hand over any hard-earned cash. Perhaps paying for one that lets you download tracks for offline listening, or upload your entire music library for playback anywhere could be worthwhile in the long run, even if it seems more expensive at first. Or perhaps you don’t listen that often, so you don’t really need to pay for one at all. There are lots of options out there, but here are some of the biggest and most notable that are worth checking out. Spotify Pandora
Time: Is time a human invention/construct to help us organize our lives or does it really exist outside ourselves Guide to Projectors for Interactive Installations / by @laserpilot Video projectors are one of the most important tools for creators of interactive installations. The information for projectors is available on various websites, but this 2 part guide will focus on their use in production and interactive environments. Part 1 will focus on the projector as hardware(lenses, lumens, surfaces etc), and part 2 will go into more details on the software and calibration considerations. They vary in scale from pocket-sized (or smaller) pico’s to refrigerator sized large-venue projectors. A checklist for planning your installationsOverview of projector typesDifferent classes of projectorsHow to calculate projector intrinsics/How to read and interpret a spec sheetHow to calculate proper brightnessDiscussion of video signal quality and cable lengthsMaintenance, Miscellaneous caveats and tricks of the tradeExperimental tech and the futureReferences and Thanks What is the surface or object you’ll be projecting on? LCD Projector Teardown Video: LCoS Hybrid Laser Diode Image
Time: Why is the concept of time so dependent on the constant speed of light c? What relevance does light have in a theory of time