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21 Mar 16:12
Quadrin 21/03/2013 - Garfield (Jim Davis)
by quadrin
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21 Mar 16:12
Quadrin 21/03/2013 - Malvados (André Dahmer)
by quadrin
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21 Mar 16:08
Você precisa ver esse trailer de Além da Escuridão Star Trek
by Mau Faccio
Um pouco mais da trama de Além da Escuridão Star Trek se revela nesse novo trailer fodástico recheado de cenas inéditas. Benedict Cumberbatch é um ex-agente da Federação que por algum motivo ainda desconhecido de rebela contra seus antigos aliados.
Quando a tripulação da Enterprise é chamada de volta para casa, eles descobrem que uma força incontrolável de terror dentro da própria organização destruiu a frota e tudo o que ela significava, deixando nosso mundo em estado de crise.
Com questões pessoais a resolver, Capitão Kirk lidera uma caçada ao homem que representa uma arma de destruição em massa, localizado em uma zona de guerra. Enquanto nossos heróis se veem em um épico e mortal jogo de estratégia, o amor será desafiado, amizades serão desfeitas e sacrifícios serão feitos pela única família de Kirk: sua tripulação.
Além da Escuridão, vai estrear no Brasil dia 14 de junho e conta com o elenco original do primeiro filme: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin e Benedict Cumberbatch como novo vilão.
Mau acha que J.J. Abrams já pode ir começar a filmar Star Wars agora…
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21 Mar 16:05
The Plan Backfired
"Haha! I've got you now you- OH GOD HALP I NEVER ASKED FOR THIS!"
Submitted by: Unknown (via NikNak's Blog)
Tagged: dogs , pets , laundry hamper , g rated , Parenting FAILS Share on Facebook
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21 Mar 15:53
NASA diz que melhor defesa contra asteroides é rezar. Richard Dawkins diz “ops…”
by Carlos Cardoso
Depois que o meteoro russo por um pentelhonésimo de segundo de arco de inclinação não dizimou uma cidade russa, o mundo todo passou a prestar atenção em pedras celestes, com políticos prometendo mundos e fundos para evitar o próximo e inevitável meteoro.
O problema é que um sistema de detecção de asteroides que consiga identificar corpos pequenos custa um mundo de fundos, e na hora de abrir a carteira o papo muda.
Não é que a NASA não tenha feito nada. Em 2005 foi estipulado que ela identificaria até 2020 90% dos asteroides próximos à Terra com mais de 140 metros de diâmetro, mas os cortes de verba fizeram com que só tenham chegado a 10% em 2013.
Na parte de defesa ativa então, a coisa tá feia. Em uma sessão no Congresso dos EUA, ao ser questionado sobre as providências caso um asteroide em curso de colisão seja detectado, Charles Bolden, manda-chuva da NASA foi claro:
“Se estiver chegando em 3 semanas, rezem”.
É isso aí. Todas as nossas tecnologias de deflexão de meteoros são apenas teóricas, mas se serve de consolo aos cientistas, o número de meteoros desviados com nossa tecnologia é exatamente igual ao número de catástrofes naturais evitadas por meio de oração.
Temos poucas chances de detectar e zero de desviar um asteroide destruidor de cidades.
A esperança é que as empresas (sim, há mais de uma!) planejando mineração de asteroides decolem logo, e desenvolvam a tecnologia que um dia salvará Nova York, Rio ou Tóquio, porque se formos depender de governos, acho mais fácil seguir o conselho da NASA e rezar para que um Poder Superior que nos observa do alto venha nos salvar. HELP, SUPERMAN!
Fonte: PS
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21 Mar 15:31
Google Art Project adds nearly 2,000 works, from street art to prized photos
by Jon Fingas
The Google Art Project could be considered a safeguard for culture when it's preserving work that's not just difficult to see, but may disappear at the drop of a hat. Witness Google's latest addition of 30 partners, and almost 2,000 pieces of art, as proof. The collection includes 100-plus examples of high-profile graffiti and street art from Sao Paulo, some of which aren't guaranteed to survive unscathed; there's also 300-plus photos from Spain's Fundacion MAPFRE and a famous Hungarian poem whose original copy is usually too fragile to show. Although the digital expansion won't replace booking a flight to visit the artwork first-hand, it may prevent some urban masterpieces from fading into obscurity.
Via: Google Official Blog
Source: Google Art Project (1), (2), (3)
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21 Mar 00:34
Hexagonal rocks
by Jason Kottke
This is an Icelandic waterfall called Litlanesfoss and the naturally occurring rock formation is columnar jointed basalt.
The columns form due to stress as the lava cools. The lava contracts as it cools, forming cracks. Once the crack develops it continues to grow. The growth is perpendicular to the surface of the flow. Entablature is probably the result of cooling caused by fresh lava being covered by water. The flood basalts probably damned rivers. When the rivers returned the water seeped down the cracks in the cooling lava and caused rapid cooling from the surface downward. The division of colonnade and entablature is the result of slow cooling from the base upward and rapid cooling from the top downward.
One of the coolest things I have ever seen. Looks totally fake, like they built it for Fractal Falls in Polygon Gorge at Disneyland or something. Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland looks amazing as well. Check out several similar formations from around the world.
Tags: geology
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20 Mar 16:08
He's an artist
Submitted by: ggutierrez
Posted at: 2013-03-19 01:11:55
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6846274
20 Mar 16:07
A turtle riding a jellyfish
Submitted by: dumbwaystodie
Posted at: 2013-03-19 06:09:36
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6847775
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20 Mar 16:01
If Super Mario was made today.
Submitted by: erikjimenez
Posted at: 2013-03-18 07:43:29
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6838803
20 Mar 16:00
I wish I still had that imagination
TadeuBeautiful
Submitted by: leneclaryle
Posted at: 2013-03-18 20:35:53
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6844188
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20 Mar 15:47
Sonic the Hedgehog
Submitted by: sevillaej
Posted at: 2013-03-18 14:15:50
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6841009
20 Mar 15:45
Priority Peter couldn't get any sweeter
Submitted by: slurre
Posted at: 2013-03-18 20:18:05
See full post and comment: http://9gag.com/gag/6843998
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20 Mar 15:35
Computer Simulations Reveal Benefits of Random Investment Strategies Over Traditional Ones
Tadeu"Econophysicists", that's new for me
Central Banks could use random investment strategies to make markets more stable, say econophysicists
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20 Mar 15:23
Shapely algebra breakthrough wins million-dollar prize
Mathematician Pierre Deligne has won the 2013 Abel prize for a breakthrough in algebraic geometry – a method of solving equations using shapes
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20 Mar 03:04
Scientists release list of extinct species they want to "bring back to life"
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20 Mar 02:53
Beetlejuice Themed Minecraft Roller Coaster
by amanda b.
It took a group of people two months to build this epic Beetlejuice-themed roller coaster in the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, including dozens of portraits and blocky recreations of the movie’s key characters.
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20 Mar 02:38
Iguazu Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil....
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20 Mar 01:58
Scalars as Implicit Collections - Removing an Edge
by Michael Feathers
Every once in a while I get irritated by the edges in programming languages. One notorious edge is the absence or presence of a method on an object. The method is either there or it isn't and if you guess wrong you have a program that simply doesn't run.
In some programming languages, there is a way around this. You can hook into the runtime to generate a method on an object when it is called but doesn't yet exist. Of course, that leaves us with the decision of what method to generate. And, I suspect that some of you reading this are wondering now whether this is some sort of rabbit hole - what problem am I trying to solve? In most cases, the fact that a method doesn't exist is important. We shouldn't gloss over it. But, sometimes we can gain advantage when we do.
Consider finder methods. You have some criterion you want to use to find an object. Maybe some unique id. You call your finder and you have to deal with possibility that the thing you are looking for doesn't exist. Most of the time this means that you are obligated to use a null check in your language, but that's messy and people can easily forget to do it. Some functional programming languages get around this by using a Maybe or Option type, but there's another way to punt. You can make your finder always return a collection. If the thing you are looking for is not found, you receive an empty collection. "Okay," I can hear you say, "that is just passing the buck. You have to check later." The fact of the matter is that you may not have to. You could use a map to perform the same operation on each of the elements, provided there is no chance of having more than one.
finder(criterion).map(&:run)This makes me wonder about something. What if we were were able to treat values as collections when we are programming?
Consider this in a dynamic language.
x = 4When we type that, we expect that x[0] will yield an error, and we expect that x[1][59][3] would yield an error also. But what if they didn't? What if each of those references returned 4. What if values could be treated as infinite collections of themselves in programming? Could that be a creative way of erasing an edge?
Consider this in a Haskell-ish language.
map (+1) [1,2,3]We know that would yield [2,3,4]
Okay, how about this?
map (+1) 3Couldn't that evaluate to 4?
With an operation like map, this is easy. What about fold (codenamed reduce or inject in some languages)?
If we did something like: [0,1,2].reduce(:+) in Ruby, we'd expect the sum.
What should we expect for this?
2.reduce(:+)The sensible answer is: 2. A case could be made for infinity as it is the sum of an infinite list of 2s, but I think we can just say that it evaluates to 2 and maintain consistency.
Maybe there is an inconsistency in this and it all falls down. But I hope that it works and that there is an efficient way to merge scalar values and collections of the same value. I suspect I'm just reinventing APL in conventional programming languages.