Schrodinger cat

Schroedinger’s cat

Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödingerin 1935.[1] It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Read more…

Confessions of a Sublime Text-aholic

Today I found a very funny while interesting post (http://elegantcode.com/2013/02/22/confessions-of-a-sublime-text-aholic/). A developer needed to quickly remove all empty lines from a very large text file. The solution they came up with, using Sublime Text, was: Press CTRL-F Enable regular expressions (the button entirely in the bottom-left corner). Search for ^\s*$ PressALT-ENTER (click on Read more…

Database icon

Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison

Link: Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Couchbase vs Neo4j vs Hypertable vs ElasticSearch vs Accumulo vs VoltDB vs Scalaris comparison While SQL databases are insanely useful tools, their monopoly in the last decades is coming to an end. And it’s just time: I Read more…

Braille reader

Braille

Imagine a world where the sight impaired can read almost any publication without it being specially printed in Braille. The Blind Reader is a device that looks like a smartphone but functions like a text-to-Braille converter. Simply skim it over the paper publication and the surface transforms to Braille that Read more…