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"Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot has just set a new record for legged robots by sprinting at 28.3 mph. This, incidentally, is also faster than Olympic (human) champion Usain Bolt, who set the world record for the 100 meter dash with a speed of 27.8 mph back in 2009. Yes, this means that now there is officially no escape from a robot cheetah on a ( Read more... )

Moffat Tunnel to Heart Lake is one of my favorite hikes in Colorado. It's fairly long at 8.4 miles (and 2100 ft of vertical), but I find the scenery well worth it. I didn't get pictures the first time I did this hike, about three years back. But this time...


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You can dredge up my favorite roommate from college and throw him at me, but it's still not gonna prevent me from moving out of the People's Republic of Boulder.

You want to keep me here, this is what you're going to have to swing:

A decent apartment (need not be big, but not a rathole), within easy drive of Foothills (mostly rights, no difficult ( Read more... )

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300 years ago, Newton posed the problem of finding a closed form equation to model the motion of a projectile acting under the influence of both gravity and air friction. He couldn't solve it, and until recently nobody knew if there was an equation that did describe it ( Read more... )

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I've been spending a lot of time at work lately debugging Java. The details are not particularly important, other than to note that the popular description of JavaEE as "the new COBOL" is deadly accurate.

Most of you whipper-snappers probably use Eclipse to do your debugging these days. And that works quite well as long as you happened to compile ( Read more... )