Geeks' Corner

The father of Gaia has little faith in humans

admin2 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:26:35 +0000

James Lovelock says that “[h]umans are too stupid to prevent climate change.”

As for what I think… I fear that he’s right. Humans are far too narrow minded and short sighted to deal with a global problem.
We haven’t evolved for this. Maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on our selves, but it sucks to be the organisms that put a whole planet in the toilet.

via The Guardian

//The Dude

Pixels!

admin2 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:25:18 +0000

The revenge of 8bits!

Via feber.se

//The Dude

Rigged for Art

admin2 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:00:12 +0000

V. S. Ramachandran explains the wonders of perception and art.

In essence it takes all of the things that creative people have instinctively known since we started painting on cave walls and carving fetishes and applied science to it. We can indeed explain art!

Via IHC

//The Dude

The answer is 42

admin2 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:05:47 +0000

Readers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide are familiar with the concept of Earth being a giant super computer (sorry ’bout the spoiler).

But now the topper of all toppers have theorized that the whole universe is a quantum computer.

In Decoding Reality, Vedral argues that we should regard the entire universe as a gigantic quantum computer. Wacky as that may sound, it is backed up by hard science. The laws of physics show that it is not only possible for electrons to store and flip bits: it is mandatory. For more than a decade, quantum-information scientists have been working to determine just how the universe processes information at the most microscopic scale.

Via New Scientist

//The Dude

A theory of the net mind

admin2 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:29:15 +0000

I posit that anything that can be used to represent pixels on a screen will automatically generate a Nintendo related image.

Example:

Via IHC

//The Dude