Category Archives: Science and Engineering

The Stem Cell Hubbub

Posted on August 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

President Shrub decided to take the easy way out by compromising on stem cell research today. Not surprisingly this news drove down biotech stocks and for the past few months some researchers have left the US for the UK where … Continue reading →

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As a Nerd, Of Course I HAD to Go to This.

Posted on August 9, 2001 by Pace Arko

Just yesterday I went to the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence to see the RoboCup competitions. There I met some friends and spent eight or so hours gawking at the robots, browsing dense technical literature, making bad jokes … Continue reading →

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Explaining my linking policy

Posted on August 1, 2001 by Pace Arko

Perhaps some of you have noticed that when I link to stories on the big media sites like Ziff-Davis, the BBC or the New York Times I tend to link to the printer-friendly, single-page low-bandwidth versions. I do this for … Continue reading →

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A fairly rare thing

Posted on July 31, 2001 by Pace Arko

While browsing the Greymatter site, I found a link to web log about mathematics! So I just had to link to it.

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Tweaks and hacks for Greymatter

Posted on July 31, 2001 by Pace Arko

So now there is a repository for Greymatter tweaks. For example, now there is a way to fix the unescaped ampersands Greymatter generates. Since I know perl, I fixed the ampersand thing on my own but it is good to … Continue reading →

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My tiny contribution to open-source

Posted on July 31, 2001 by Pace Arko

I just posted my first bug to Bugzilla!

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Smart Tags Revisited

Posted on July 30, 2001 by Pace Arko

A growing number of software companies are making web tools that use something very similar to Microsoft’s recently removed smart tag technology. All these things, since the now defunct Flyswat and Third Voice onwards, seem to use JavaScript or JScript … Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Articles about Cluster Computing

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Pace Arko

Your old 486 has the potential rival the big iron of supercomputers. You just need the right sort of software or coding skills and a whole bunch of old 486s hooked together via ethernet. The idea is called distributed computing. … Continue reading →

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The Battles that Remain.

Posted on July 12, 2001 by Pace Arko

For over 3 years the Web Standards Project harped, cajoled and harangued browser makers to build stuff that supported W3C recommendations of HTML, DOM and CSS. Finally, nearly 5 years after the CSS1 recommendation, browsers that support standards are coming … Continue reading →

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Ex-physics majors are dangerous

Posted on July 10, 2001 by Pace Arko

There’s this guy who invented a safety device to prevent injuries from rotory saws. It all relies on the electrical field generated by human skin, which is different from that of wood, to stop the saw blade within one hundredth … Continue reading →

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