What a mess the UK has made of tidal prediction: two different agencies, each charging us for information that we paid for in our taxes.
Category Archive: General
WSJ headline: “Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%”. Is it a “profit monopoly”?
Lobotomy may not be mandatory in corporate growth, but there comes a point beyond which companies become more ponderous, less imaginative, and more stultified.
Zipf’s law seems very deeply embedded in language, and pervades many utterly non-linguistic data. We still do not understand why.
For a few years, I managed to get along without wasting any more money on PDAs and their ilk. Then came the Zaurus, and Dana. But none compared with the Z88.
The commercial mower of lawns does not pay a royalty for each lawn that they mow. So why should a user of H.264 video encoding be expected to pay royalties?
I needed a one-way method of generating a unique key for each subject name that would not permit the reverse process, of working out the name for a given key: something known as a ‘one-way hash key’.
Calendars, Mathematica, and the Mac: a curious but productive union.
Even though images of you may not be as sought after as those of celebrities, we all need to sharpen up our Cloud security.
Barry Salt analysed film shot structure using a stop-watch and film viewer. The late TOKI Shot did this semi-automatically.
The Eclectic Light Company 