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I am currently too much on the move for blogging, hope to catch up at a higher pace in some weeks.
But I’ll try to answer comments. (e.g. like this one about the storage of genetic information)
An amazing Multi-Touch interface for audio applications by Randy Jones:
It is actually a master thesis. Here is his project page.
(via cdm)
randform wishes a happy new year to everybody!
just be careful – in particular given the rather bleak economic outlooks it will get even more easy to loose oneself in dreamworlds, so I wouldn’t wonder if the boom of the game industry is going to continue. In this TED video (via serious games) David Perry describes the evolution of video games, however of special interest in this video may be an -what he calls opinion of a student- which is a (realistic?) documentary about a self acclaimed video game addict (second part of the talk, the whole talk is about 20 min). The documentary describes the cognitive changes which are due to excessive video gaming.
Last friday I attended a talk, which was organized by the munich center for nanoscience. The talk was given by Tim Liedl from the Shih Laboratory.
The extremely giant Quantum Information Theory Group at the LMU Munich has now a new homepage, cited at the LMU theoretical physics website. Here the long list of its group members.
Since my postdoc ends end of march and there are no more open postdoc positions currently available and given the not so easy website handling, I am not so sure it was worth the effort to mention me.
A reader was asking in a preceding post:
Thank you for interesting explanation. So you say that high-rank officials who does not like to be critized should better take the pills you mentioned, since they probably have this sickness you describe?
The following post is in part an answer to a question in a randform comment.
This will be a post about cars, nuclear power and economic stimulus programs.