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Notes on “Moral Letters to Lucilius” – Seneca – I
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands … Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend
Notes on “Moral Letters to Lucilius” – Seneca – I
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands … Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend
Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity – Communications
If we think about all the details a vision of a unmanned landing rover on Mars entails, one should be more astonished than that vision itself.
Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity – Communications
If we think about all the details a vision of a unmanned landing rover on Mars entails, one should be more astonished than that vision itself.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Thirteen years younger, Boltzmann followed in Maxwell’s footsteps to help shore up the kinetic theory of gases. In the 1870s he went one step further and developed a statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics by linking entropy with disorder. According to what became known as Boltzmann’s principle, entropy is a measure of the probability of finding a system in a particular state.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Thirteen years younger, Boltzmann followed in Maxwell’s footsteps to help shore up the kinetic theory of gases. In the 1870s he went one step further and developed a statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics by linking entropy with disorder. According to what became known as Boltzmann’s principle, entropy is a measure of the probability of finding a system in a particular state.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
That evening Planck decided to have a go at constructing the formula that would reproduce the energy spectrum of blackbody radiation. He now had three crucial pieces of information to help him. First, Wien’s law accounted for the intensity of radiation at short wavelengths.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
That evening Planck decided to have a go at constructing the formula that would reproduce the energy spectrum of blackbody radiation. He now had three crucial pieces of information to help him. First, Wien’s law accounted for the intensity of radiation at short wavelengths.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
According to Clausius, entropy was the price for whether something happened or not. In any isolated system only those processes, transactions, in which entropy either stayed the same or increased were allowed. Any that led to a decrease of entropy were strictly forbidden.
Notes on Quantum: the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
According to Clausius, entropy was the price for whether something happened or not. In any isolated system only those processes, transactions, in which entropy either stayed the same or increased were allowed. Any that led to a decrease of entropy were strictly forbidden.
Notes on “What technology wants”
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes” – Kevin Kelly
Notes on “What technology wants”
“Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes” – Kevin Kelly
Notes on “What Technology Wants”
“Do you think technology is making things better or worse?” Lucas’s [George] answer: If you watch the curve of science and everything we know, it shoots up like a rocket. We’re on this rocket and we’re going perfectly vertical into
Notes on “What Technology Wants”
“Do you think technology is making things better or worse?” Lucas’s [George] answer: If you watch the curve of science and everything we know, it shoots up like a rocket. We’re on this rocket and we’re going perfectly vertical into
P2P Social Networking?
Reading last month “@IEEESpectrum” magazine article about Top 11 Technologies of the decade I found an interesting graphics illustrating the no.2 Top tecnhology – Social Networking. This illustration represents a peer-to-peer graph, a peer-to-peer social network. I don’t know if
P2P Social Networking?
Reading last month “@IEEESpectrum” magazine article about Top 11 Technologies of the decade I found an interesting graphics illustrating the no.2 Top tecnhology – Social Networking. This illustration represents a peer-to-peer graph, a peer-to-peer social network. I don’t know if
Notes on “What technology wants”
“The philosopher Martin Heidegger suggested that technology was an “unhiding” – revealing – of an inner reality. That inner reality is the immaterial nature of anything manufactured.”
Notes on “What technology wants”
“The philosopher Martin Heidegger suggested that technology was an “unhiding” – revealing – of an inner reality. That inner reality is the immaterial nature of anything manufactured.”
Free mind on "free space" 