COVID-19: Pas de camps de vacances pour les jeunes de la DPJ

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?

Des chercheurs expliquent que, généralement, les pupilles d'animaux sont :
– verticales chez les prédateurs, améliorant leur vue lointaine,
– horizontales chez les proies, offrant une vision panoramique pour se protéger des prédateurs.

🔎 https://t.co/JFtexwRd14 pic.twitter.com/ay7ejHvb8b
— Tu sais pas quoi ?! (@tuCpakoa) June 9, 2020

The Small-World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

The Small-World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus

In normal times, connections between students on a college campus are an asset. During a pandemic, they are not.

My paper with Ben Cornwell on the structure of course enrollment networks @Cornell now out @SociologicalSci (#OA): https://t.co/tMFhLhCX8V

1/n pic.twitter.com/4Ly5HSO06S
— Kim Weeden (@WeedenKim) May 27, 2020

Why Helicopter Airlines Failed

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

Map of the Mediterranean but tilted by 90 degrees

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

Just a map of the Mediterranean but tilted by 90 degrees. It somehow makes the Mediterranean Sea look even smaller. So confusing to look at! Source: https://t.co/vMQlQXzQoW pic.twitter.com/fIPR7kkok3
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) October 27, 2019

La meilleure histoire de pêche de Montréal

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

La meilleure histoire de pêche de Montréal

“La baleine de 2020 ne deviendra jamais aussi populaire que celle de 1901. C’est une bonne chose. Parfois, mieux vaut partir dans l’ombre que de périr sous les projecteurs.”

Dice to help with imagination for an autistic child

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

Tiny personal thread.
My 10 year old son has high functioning autism. Home schooling has been pretty straight forward for almost every single thing we've done with him with one very profound exception…
— Ed Southall (@edsouthall.bsky.social) (@edsouthall) June 9, 2020

Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count

The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago today, so I made a high-res die photo. The 10-kilobit microcode ROM is visible in the lower-right corner. The 8086 started the x86 architecture that still dominates computing. The original IBM PC used the related 8088 chip pic.twitter.com/H5pkotbOnQ
— Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) June 8, 2020

The first photo is 4K×4K, so you should be able to zoom in. But I've attached some detail photos of that section, which I think is the data path and registers. Let me know if there's anything specific you want to see. pic.twitter.com/4wKkrHDS83
— Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) June 9, 2020

This bot hunts software bugs for the Pentagon

Posted on 2020/06/09 by Carl Robitaille

This bot hunts software bugs for the Pentagon

Blog.CarlRobitaille.org

Indiscriminate laziness

COVID-19: Pas de camps de vacances pour les jeunes de la DPJ

Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes?

The Small-World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus

Why Helicopter Airlines Failed

Map of the Mediterranean but tilted by 90 degrees

La meilleure histoire de pêche de Montréal

Dice to help with imagination for an autistic child

Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count

The Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago

This bot hunts software bugs for the Pentagon