lecture by prof. Chris J. K. Williams - University of Bath February 17, 2017 Università di Bologna, Scuola di Ingegneria e Architettura Within th

Learning to code is almost always taught with math examples. This can work well for people who are excited about math, but it makes it more of a challenge for visual people. Programming is also often taught from the point of view that everyone in the class is an aspiring computer scientist. When code is seen as a general way of thinking that can apply to many areas of activity, the instruction also transforms, as does the context.Code is a new language, and when a language is taught we need something to talk about. Will we talk about math, architecture, or economics with code? Will we talk about biology, painting, or statistics? When we think about code in a general way, we can move past the technical domains to enter into the domains of culture and the humanities. We can discuss the same set of ideas covered in computer science education like variables, conditionals, and loops, but they are approached in an alternate way.

Time_lapse of cell division from second cleavage. The animal pole is clearly visible in the upper half of the image.

Sliperiet, Umeå Arts Campus has developed a new type of 3D printer that features increased printing flexibility at a lower cost

Adam Savage gets up close with the one-of-a-kind 3D-printed endoskeleton Weta Workshop made for the upcoming Ghost in the Shell. Chatting with Weta Worksho

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Bone grafting could eventually become obsolete.

A new kind of matter – dubbed a “time crystal” – has been created by two teams of scientists in a feat once considered theoretically impossible. Normal crystals, anything from diamonds to snowflakes, have atoms arranged in a repeating three-dimensional lattice. However the atoms in time crystals – the existence of which was first suggested in 2012 – repeat a pattern across the fourth dimension, time. This essentially means they should oscillate forever without any external influence.

A look at solidThinking's 2017 software updates with a case study from Sintavia on optimising the design of a replacement aerospace part.

Christopher Wolfram explains how he created the code that analysed the language of the aliens in Arrival. The Mathematica notebook and all materials use

‘In inventing new things’, he wrote, ‘one cannot receive the fruit of one’s labour except later.’ Bernini said, after his rival’s death, ‘only Borromini understood this profession, but he was never content and wanted to hollow out one thing inside another, and another inside that without ever getting to the end.’

NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees.

Future geologists will find thousands of human-made minerals in the ruins of our civilization

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our brains have evolved to color correct. It allows the colors we see to look the same no matter the lighting.

"In this picture, someone has very cleverly manipulated the image so that the objects you're looking at are reflecting what would otherwise be achromatic or grayscale, but the light source that your brain interprets to be on the scene has got this blueish component," Conway told me. "You brain says, 'the light source that I'm viewing these strawberries under has some blue component to it, so I'm going to subtract that automatically from every pixel.' And when you take grey pixels and subtract out this blue bias, you end up with red."

The Robocar was unveiled live on stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Livecoding event with Christopher Wolfram on the process he went through and the code generated in building the alien language for the movie Arrival.

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Metaphysics, consciousness studies and gnostic traps converge in this HBO hit.

Seven Earth-sized planets have been observed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Three o

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