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I’d love a set!

As computation becomes smaller and cheaper and more powerful, the big question remains “What are we going to do with all that?”. Cell phones and iPhones are one answer to that question, but in some sense a boring one because they’re mostly just littler laptops. Siftables, on the other hand, are representative of some of the genuinely new possibilities that these technologies enable, and are therefore much, much cooler :-). Continue reading

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Nerds on parade

A wonderfully nerdly performance of mental arithmetic. I found his use of word mnemonics to remember large numbers quite cool. Tags: Mathematics, performance, TED, Video

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