Friday, January 31, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Fwd: 3 cylinder
Nissan has a new small 1.5-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine.
‘Holding the lightweight engine (at right) is Nismo president Shoichi Miyatani, and he's likely smiling because that 40-kilogram (88-pound) engine packs quite a punch with 400 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque. Nissan would like to take a moment to point out this engine's power-to-weight is better than the engines currently used in Formula One racecars.’
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Introducing Bengal cat to a new kitten for first time
This is a series of about 6 videos that I like.
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/EhRuG0D-WsU
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/EhRuG0D-WsU
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
What to do if you get in an accident.
Today I interviewed with a police officer over an accident that happened in March where someone rear ended me and then took off. The license plate number that I was able to recall at the time of the accident might not have been valid according to the police. If you get in an accident, the first thing you should do is use your camera phone to take pictures.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Re: For the Chess player with everything
I saw this. I think that it is gross...
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM, mikgri wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57615154-1/taxidermy-chess-play-with-rooks-and-dead-rodents/
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Monday, November 4, 2013
No calculator nor computer can do this without special software. It is too many digits.
- In 1977 at the Southern Methodist University she was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds.[1][4] Her answer—546,372,891—was confirmed by calculations done at the U.S. Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.[11]
- On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers — 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 — picked at random by the Computer Department ofImperial College, London. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds.[2][3] This event is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of Records.[2][3]
Such feats are well beyond any remotely normal human brain. One has to wonder how different her brain had to be?
The only reasonable way to imagine that she could take a 23rd root of an extremely large number is to be able to accurately convert the number to a logarithm, do a division and then calculate an exponent in her head. This is the process that people used slide rules to calculate much smaller numbers. Doing this on paper could take hours. The software on your computer couldn't handle this. There probably are special programs that can handle it.
If that was her method, then she would have to have extremely large tables of logarithms memorized. However, if she was this brilliant, maybe she came up with other ways of solving math problems.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Scott McCloud: Understanding comics
I am not sure that this video presents anything new, but I love listening to intelligent people speak ...
Friday, October 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Sunday, August 18, 2013
I did not know the difference ... Warrantee vs. warranty
http://grammarist.com/spelling/warrantee-warranty/
Saturday, August 10, 2013
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