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Subscription Review: New Scientist

Larry — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:53:28 +0000

Throughout 2011 I have been loyal subscription holder to the scientific magazine New Scientist. I love it how each week I’m presented with the latest scientific discoveries that blow my mind. So, what is New Scientist? New Scientist reports on …

Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic

Larry — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:58:11 +0000

Book Review: Desirable Future: Consumer Electronics in Tomorrow’s World

Larry — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:38:55 +0000

Here’s a review I did on amazon.com for Desirable Future: Consumer Electronics in Tomorrow’s World. Review This is a thought provoking book that explores advances in complementary science, technology, medicine and engineering and how consumer electronics will change our society, …

jQuizMe Example: Simple Math Quiz

Larry — Wed, 04 May 2011 04:28:10 +0000

Here’s an example of jQuizMe. Goal: Make a quiz for Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication for two digit numbers. Steps: Make a random number generator. Make a function to form a question and answers. Form the quiz. Call jQuizMe Step 1: …

Learn Sig Figs in No Time

Larry — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:14:47 +0000

Hey Everybody, I made a video for one of my old post, What are Sig Figs? Tutorial Enjoy.

Code of the Day: Javascript Significant Figures

Larry — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:59:18 +0000

Did you know that JavaScript automatically trims off trailing zeros on numbers with decimals? Well now you do, and in order to save precision you must wrap the number inside a string. Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 var …

Book Review: Computers Ltd: What They Really Can’t Do

Larry — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:43:04 +0000

Hey everybody, I would like to share a book review that I wrote on amazon.com. Book: “Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can’t Do (Popular Science)” (2003) Author: David Harel “This book sets the record straight. Computers can’t fix all of …

Find equations within chaos.

Larry — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:17:39 +0000

While I was reading my weekly edition of New Scientist, I found an article that was truly amazing. In 2009, two Phd scientist at Cornell University developed software that could generate an accurate formula describing an unknown dataset using evolutionary …

JavaScript Binary Operations – the easy way

Larry — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:32:59 +0000

Intro: “There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don’t” – Author Unknown Javascript is loaded with hidden features that can that be used for more than DOM manipulation and event handling. …

Javascript Standard Deviation, Variance, Average functions.

Larry — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:40:01 +0000

Hey everyone, I just installed WP-Syntax for the WordPress and I want to test it out by posting javascript code for finding Standard Deviation, Variance, Average among numbers. Without WP-Syntax var str = 'This is a string.'; console.log( str ); …