The depiction of mathematics in popular science often falls woefully short of reality. Authors tend to prance around the “beauty” of numbers like e, π, and the golden ratio φ, but in all honesty numbers are only one part of mathematics, and they’re not even the best part. In a series of short vignettes, I want to take a quick dip into some

Ando por tierras inglesas. Los que me conocen bien saben que estas islas tienen un magnetismo que no puedo evitar. Me atraen, me hacen sentir bien, tengo que venir por aquí con frecuencia. El amor de los británicos por la libertad, su tradición democrática, los parques, su especial sentimiento deportivo, la literatura, los musicales, todo suma

I often talk to prospective entrepreneurs and startup founders who are on the edge of taking the plunge to work on a startup. But most of them never do because of a variety of reasons. I hear excuses like “Im not technical”, “I can t find a co-founder”, “I don’t have time” or “I don’t have the money”. I could address each of tho

Sorry for the late post on Day 17, folks. I was at Outside Lands, which is like foggy Coachella without the camping part. Heres a shot from 2014: And one from 2013: The difference? Not much, except for hair length. And this year, we wanted to sit down a lot more. Not being a teenager at a music festival is fun: you get to buy beer legally, spend ha

Video games and I grew up together. We blew up spaceships, head-butted bricks full of coins, and jump-kicked multicolored ninjas who disappeared when they were defeated. Now I wonder if games will grow old with me. My first video game was Super Mario Bros. of course. Others that stand out from my childhood include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcad

Kembali bromo tour and travel di tahun 2014 – 2015 ini mempersembahkan paket hemat untuk para wisatawan yang ingin menikmati keindahan dan kesejukan di gunung Bromo. Setelah sebelumnya kami hadir dengan paket wisata bromo midnight 12 jam, kini kami memberikan satu pilihan yang lain yang kami namakan paket wisata bromo untuk semalam. Jika pada pak

I’ve been thinking about how consumers (of which I am one) are typically characterised by a hunger for information. This state of starvation (or perhaps overfed addiction) is more than apparent in the huge, scale-toppling success of mobile apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. It’s not enough to watch the Kardashians celebrate a family

Suppose we define a word “tax” as the involuntary confiscation of anothers justly acquired property. Suppose further a world in which their are two classes of people: tax-collectors and tax-victims. Next, suppose that both tax-collectors and tax-victims desire to better their human condition, mainly by acquiring material wealth. Social Justice,

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 is scheduled to start from 14th February 2015 in Australia. Though most of cricket lovers would want to go to Australia to watch the live matches, but not everyone can. But now, you can watch the live matches right at your home on your TV screen. You can watch the ICC World Cup Score 2015 TV broadcasters in India and all

ODR stands for On Demand Resources and it’s a new API introduced in iOS 9. It allows developers to host static assets that their apps need on Apple’s servers, and load them dynamically when required. This will turn all apps using ODR into network apps. ODR is an element of their App Thinning initiative, which also includes App Slicing and Bitco