engineering on S Anand

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 02:05:52 +0000

Bad Apple in #Minecraft?

Turns out it can be done. At 20 fps on the original resolution (512x384).

This is the most mind-blowing piece of engineering I’ve seen in some time!

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/we-built-the-best-bad-apple-in-minecraft/

Kinetic sculptures

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Wooden sculptures that move with the wind. These look more like huge insects than scuptures, really. Catch the videos of Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures on YouTube.

Apollo 13 rescue

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

An incredibly detailed look into the rescue of the Apollo 13 mission.

What follows is a little known story, even to many involved in the Apollo 13 mission. While they have been complimented on rapidly getting the lunar module into lifeboat mode, stretching its resources to keep the crew alive for the journey back to Earth, few realize the lunar module controllers first had to overcome a basic problem: how to get the lunar module to turn on at all.

Final Frontier of Science

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:00:00 +0000

We are the final frontier. The Guardian asks leading scientists what they think will be the next revolution in science. (It’s almost a trend, spawning books like The Next Fifty Years.)

First came the Copernican revolution in the 16th century. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus argued that the Earth was not at the centre of the solar system. Charles Darwin got personal more than 300 years later by implying that humans weren’t special either. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin promoted his theory of evolution via natural selection. Nearly a century later, two Cambridge-based scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, unravelled the structure of DNA. So what’s next? What will be the fourth revolution?

‘We will invent our successors’ – Seth Shostak
‘We will understand the human mind’ – John Sulston
‘The existence of parallel universes’ – Michio Kaku
‘We will change our genetic makeup’ – Norbert Gleicher
‘We will find out if we are alone’ – Colin Pillinger
‘Humans become a collective intelligence’ – John Barrow
‘We’ll understand thoughts and feelings’ – Steven Pinker
‘The end of the individual’ – Susan Greenfield
‘What if God lives in a part of our brain?’ – Nancy Rothwell
‘What it means to be a person’ – V S Ramachandran
‘Conscious machines’ – Igor Aleksander
‘Higher dimensions’ – Lisa Randall
‘Humans are less miraculous than we thought’ – Stephen Wolfram

Important innovation by Guinness

Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:00:00 +0000

An important innovation by Guinness (the beer, not the book of records)

Inventions of the year

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Time: Inventions of the year.