The most advanced VR experience
I’ll just throw a bunch of words that come to mind while you watch this: Buy, Mine, Want, Give, Need, When, Where, Here, Now… Developed at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
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UCLA physicists map atoms in 3D
Have you ever tried those magical pieces of software that merge multiple pictures of an object from different angles to produce a 3D model of it? Good. Now think about upgrading your equipment, because those guys at UCLA do the same with atoms. Seriously. Using a scanning transmission electron microscope at the Lawrence Berkeley National … Read more
Best images of an exoplanet 63 light years away
Beta Pictoris is a star located 63.4 light years from our solar system. Featuring a big debris disk orbiting around itself, the star is supposed to be 8 to 20 million years old. On November 21, 2008, the Very Large Telescope revealed the presence of an exoplanet orbiting Beta Pictoris. On that day, this image was published by … Read more
Google’s Codebase Insight: great for small businesses?
The 2015 edition of @Scale featured an extremely interesting insight on how Google handles its codebase. I won’t repeat what is so clearly explained in the video. Instead, I would like to focus on its potential viability for very small companies. Indeed, sky high numbers like Google’s require a huge effort in tooling, standardization and … Read more
Toolkit: The Size Of The Universe
The Universe is big…yes, we know that. But the Universe is REALLY big…and we know that as well. And it is so big that you can’t even, omg, we’re insignificant!!1!1! and so on… Since we all have a hard time imagining the immense size of what lies above the thin gas layer that prevents us … Read more
The best picture of Pluto so far
Here’s the original post from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama
Whenyou want to copy/paste…
…and then realize typing it would have taken you half the time. Source: reddit/r/mildlyinfuriating
First images from New Horizon’s downlink released!
When I was around 8 years old, I asked my parents to buy a big book called “Planet’s Atlas”. Since then, I’ve always been extremely fascinated by the mysteries of the Universe. However, I was a bit disappointed by the fact Pluto didn’t have pictures as beautiful as the other planets. For almost 20 years … Read more
The Sound of Sorting Algorithms
Take a look at this extremely interesting visualization and audio transposition of the most common sorting algorithms.
An easy and maintainable implementation of IsolatedStorageSettings
Recently I’ve been working on a Windows Phone app that comes with a good number of settings to implement. The official examples that anyone can find online report a simple procedure. Let’s say I want to implement the UserToken setting, then I would have to do something like this: [code language=”csharp”] // Access the settings … Read more