Archive for the tag 'internet'

Apr 06 2009

Human Sorting Algorithms Video

Published by Chris Rebert at 9:24 PM

A while back in high school (Menlo School to be precise), myself and some other members of The Neighborhood (the math & comp sci club), suggested we try acting out the various sorting algorithms with humans and videotaping it. Unfortunately, we never were able to make the necessary arrangements to actually carry out the project, [...]

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Mar 02 2009

ALL CAPS Laws

Published by Chris Rebert at 3:05 AM

My friend does email customer service for a computer company; I worked with him for while. When you work in customer service long enough, you see just how unreasonable people can get (and how little the average person knows about computers). In particular, both angry people and computer-illiterate people tend to use ALL CAPS in [...]

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Feb 01 2009

Amateur Fiction FTW!

Published by Chris Rebert at 10:57 AM

My friend recently started publishing a serialized short science fiction story on his group blog, and it’s terrific so far. It’s intriguingly titled “Cities of Bronze and Glass”. It’s about a “device” that seeks to find the mysterious “Creator”. In doing so, it buries itself only after making a backup of itself, which it names [...]

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