It’s a bit hard for those of us at Blog Wyrm to believe, but baseball’s opening day has come. Once again, the Boys of Summer are taking the field, tempting us with a lazy day spent in the park, watching America’s past time. Memories of Harry Carey and ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ have come flooding back. The only fly in this all-American ointment is the prospect of snow in various baseball-playing regions. Perhaps we should wait a bit longer before calling them the Boys of Summer.
But you, dear reader, need not wait any longer for this week’s columns.
Can 11 lines of code really bring down computing on a global scale? Surprisingly the answer is yes. Even more surprising is the notion that it isn’t at all clear who really owned those 11 lines and who should. Come read about digital economics in the real world in this week’s Common Cents.
Death Face Ginny to some, daughter of Death to others, Ginny can be quite deadly. About Comics reviews the good and the bad of the ongoing Image series Pretty Deadly.
Expressing the angular velocity in the principal axis frame is one of the central elements of analyzing the motion of a rigid body. However the computation is complex and the usual presentations are confusing. Under the Hood offers a straightforward way that is conceptually clean and understandable.
Sometimes quite a lot can be packed into a small space. This week’s column in Aristotle to Digital, brief though it is, offers some profound thoughts on the question of knowing and uncertainty.
Enjoy!