An Enigma Machine combined with a Rubik's Cube makes an encryption device with unprecedented power.ContentsRubik's CubeEnigma MachineEnigma QubeKeyboardRotorsPlugboardPowerRubik's CubeI have made several posts recently about various cubes, including the Rubik's Cube. Enigma MachineIn 2015, MathWorks...
In the post-COVID era of online assessments, “homework help” sites have been accused of becoming industrialised cheating factories — and it's making them rich.
This wearable air conditioner is a huge hit in Japan!
In the classic era of word processing, text was born between MS Word and a printer. Today, it is written and edited on multiple devices and apps, then mailed, printed, copied, pasted, annotated, published, RSSed, shared and re-shared, using all kinds of tools and platforms. Stubborn proprietary file...
Far from being a touchstone of the truth, knowledge is a stone-age concept that harms our dealings with the modern world
Neal Stephenson might be the most influential novelist among business tycoons since Ayn Rand. What does he believe?
On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson
Note: some of this post has been incorporated into a paper in Journal of Vision.
Early-life exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas reduced the IQ of around 170 million Americans, a new study reports.
Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. This is how to design for a right to repair.
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The wealthy Silicon Valley suburb of Woodside is trying to block a new state law allowing duplexes on single-family home lots by declaring itself a mountain-lion habitat.
History of Mathematics Project virtual exhibition
Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that happen? The human hand is a marvel. Whether by design or
Making an electric car is more carbon intensive, but lower emissions when driving soon makes up the difference
The tricky part is that only outside of Japan does 'anime' have the meaning of 'Japanese animation' specifically. In Japan itself 'anime' is a catch-all term for everything animated, regardless of style or origin.
I think 日本語のアニメ is actually the right way to say "anime in Japanese", not "日本語でアニメ", while "日本のアニメ" could be understood as "anime of Japan"
I believe this tastes fantastic, but you could work on the appearance