12 May
Neil deGrasse Tyson – The Amazing Meeting 6
Neil speaking at TAM6, on a wide variety of topics. Fascinating and entertaining, as always.
Archive for May, 2012
12 May
Neil deGrasse Tyson & Richard Dawkins – The Poetry of Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins discuss biology and physics, on Jan 27, 2012. Fascinating.
12 May
US Patent 8,171,351 Collecting information from user devices
USPTO approved patent 8,171,351 “Collecting information from user devices” on May 1, 2012. First filed in April 30, 2009 (application number 12/433,753), so only<sic> 3 years for approval. This was the patent I was involved with during Kindle development at Amazon.
04 May
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
To sum it up (emphasis mine): …it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in neuropsychology and topology. Fascinating article.
