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The Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day
Editor’s Note: For maximum understandability, please first read this article’s contextual prerequisite: Where The Buffalo Roamed. To me, as a kid, McDonald’s was a monolith: immutable and, barring an act of God, indestructible. After St. Peter let you pass through the Pearly…
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Proximatic Is For Sale
The “elevator pitch“:I’m selling all rights to Proximatic, my fast geospatial search system. Proximatic is: • Fast: Remarkably high performance for many types of searches. • Accurate: Models the earth as an ellipsoid to minimize error. • Flexible: Supports a broad range of…
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Crayon The Grids
“Here!” exclaimed Jebediah as he nosed his schooner onto a fan of fertile loam. Come sundown, a makeshift corral encircled his livestock, and by Sabbath eve, the crown of a crude barn rose above the neighboring hummock. Next spring, a steady procession of ships yielded a healthy…
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Tweet-Bokeh-O-Rama
Transmissions from a new project on the data frontier: 2013-04-29 23:11Z: Three days wandering landscape of one-billion-plus geolocated Tweets. Overstimulated. Devising computer-aided system to generate density fields. Will calm noise, help to answer important questions: How…
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Literally Billions
Last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s population topped seven billion, and now stands at approximately 7,077,490,000 as of noon Eastern, April 8, 2013. Now, google “7 billion” or “all people” and you’ll see some pretty things, like Fathom’s Dencity and…
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Petri Dish
Now, for your amusement, a pure HTML5+Javascript interpretation of computer science classic The Game of Life: afterLoad(function(){start();}); Why? Well… Sixty-some years ago, the first computer operators punched binary machine code into paper tape. Programming was hard. Soon,…
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Above Sea Level
Hurricane Sandy stripped the political haze from one of climate change’s core truths: when the oceans rise, they’ll submerge land, inundate homes, and destroy lives. How high will the seas swell? And how fast? No one knows for certain. Science blasted us to the moon and built…
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Dance, Factors, Dance
Upon first sight of Brent Yorgey’s brilliant Factorization Diagrams, I knew that I should take his lovely little dots and make them dance. Our first tango would be inspired by the digital clock, with a separate diagram for each of hours, minutes, and seconds. For example, we’d…
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His And Hers Redux
For hire, instruct me to throw caution to the wind, and I’ll gleefully tap dance across the bleeding-edge Web for as long as you like. Here, on this site, however, color me conservative. Sure, the haves drive shiny, freshly-updated, triple-headed, dodeca-core Mac Pros that can…
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Beefspace, Revisited
Editor’s Note: This article is a recycled concept from several years ago, updated with a new rendering scheme that made it worth sharing again. A while back, I created two fanciful maps of a hypothetical, earth-penetrating, inverse-squared burger force, as broadcast by the…