MetaFilter posts tagged with Uncertainty

Scrimping on the Future

kliuless — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:12:03 -0800

Information is stimulus, confusion is contraction.

Genuine random numbers, generated by radioactive decay

parudox — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:46:51 -0800

HotBits is an Internet resource that brings genuine random numbers, generated by a process fundamentally governed by the inherent uncertainty in the quantum mechanical laws of nature, directly to your computer in a variety of forms. HotBits are generated by timing successive pairs of radioactive decays detected by a Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer. (Warning: random sounds.)

Cities of God

hadjiboy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:22:37 -0800

Slum (youtube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Dwellers (mp3): how the other billion lives.

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts

XMLicious — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:29 -0800

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts (pdf), a recently-updated paper on the Cornell arXiv peer-review site. By Hrvoje Nikolić of the Rudjer Bošković Institute in Croatia. Note: the presence of a paper on arXiv does not necessarily mean it has been reviewed and is not equivalent to having been published in a journal.

By my will alone I set my mind in motion...

loquacious — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:29:09 -0800

May The Force be with you. Also: 13 things that don't make any sense. May your New Year - and the many years to come - be wild and wonderous and bright.