OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets - StumbleUpon SCHOPENHAUER'S 38 STRATAGEMS, OR 38 WAYS TO WIN AN ARGUMENT Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896. Carry your opponent's proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent's statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it. (abstracted from the book:Numerical Lists You Never Knew or Once Knew and Probably Forget, by: John Boswell and Dan Starer)
Searching for design inspiration? Here’s 98 of the best places to look Creativity will never be an exact science. Sometimes the juices flow, but other times it’s easy to feel all dried up. And while changing your workspace and rethinking your process are simple ways to see things differently, sometimes all you need to do is see great work to get inspired. For those situations, here’s our growing list of places to visit when you hit a dry spell. General Design Often dubbed “design porn,” here’s a collection of 29 inspirational sites that were suggested by TNW’s readers from all fields of graphic design. Absolutist, AIGA Design Archives, Behance, Bitique, Blogless, Design Less Better, Booooooom, Brand New, Brand New: The B-Side, Campsite, Designspiration, Design is Kinky, Designers go to Heaven, FFFFound! Looks like Good Design, Mocoloco, Okay Great, Processed Identity, Quipsologies, Reform Revolution, Siteinspire, Swiss Miss, Visuelle . Designy Here’s 14 Inspirational sites that don’t quite fit in with pure graphic design blogs. Print, Packaging & Product Design
Some paradoxes - an anthology 100 Incredible Lectures from the World's Top Scientists Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General Let the world’s top scientists explain exactly how they do their job when you listen to these lectures. Science and Engineering From materials science to the study of thermodynamics, learn more about the science of engineering here. WTC Lecture – collapse of WTC Buildings: Steven E. Biology and Medicine Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Earth and Environment Technology Science and Business
Omniscience First published Mon Feb 1, 2010 Omniscience is the property of having complete or maximal knowledge. Along with omnipotence and perfect goodness it is usually taken to be one of the central divine attributes. Philosophical considerations of omniscience often derive from “perfect being theology”, the idea made famous by St. Anselm, that God is that than which nothing greater can be thought. Among the features typically taken to contribute to greatness is perfect knowledge. 1. Since omniscience is maximal or complete knowledge, it is typically defined in terms of knowledge of all true propositions, namely, as (D1) S is omniscient =df for every proposition p, if p is true then S knows p. Some philosophers endorse variations on (D1). 2. Omniscience is supposed to be knowledge that is maximal or complete; perhaps knowledge of all truths captures that idea. A related feature of perfect knowledge is being essentially omniscient, that is, being omniscient but not possibly lacking omniscience. 3.
Meaning of Halflife I'd like to illustrate what this really means. If living creatures had halflives the way radioactive atoms do, the world would be a very different place. What do you mean? Suppose there's an alien species with a halflife of, say, 70 years. That doesn't sound so weird. True...but remember that the halflife is always the same, regardless of how old the aliens are. That is kind of strange. It gets stranger. Methuselah isn't going to make it, though. Methuselah has just as much chance of surviving the next 70 years as any one of the 15 babies.
Bouncing Around San Francisco Kristin Luna jumped at the chance to try out San Francisco’s new trampoline park. I grew up in the South on a large plot of land with both a playground and a trampoline decorating my yard. Even with no real training, I could tumble and flip, bounce and twirl as if I were an aspiring member of the U.S. gymnastics team. Learning a trick or two on the trampoline is a rite of passage when you spend your early years in a rural area (cow tippin’ and moonshine peddlin’ aside, we have little else to keep us entertained, after all) and one I’d long since forgotten about until very recently. Then, just up the road from my current home in San Francisco, a new kid moved onto the block–one who brought the promise of many afternoons of fun and laughs, and a chance for locals to reenact their youth. Those with no prior experience (or trampoline at their childhood home) need not worry: There are classes and private tutorials available should you want to perfect your handspring or learn a new trick.
HowStuffWorks "The Basics of C Programming" The previous discussion becomes a little clearer if you understand how memory addresses work in a computer's hardware. If you have not read it already, now would be a good time to read How Bits and Bytes Work to fully understand bits, bytes and words. All computers have memory, also known as RAM (random access memory). float f; This statement says, "Declare a location named f that can hold one floating point value." While you think of the variable f, the computer thinks of a specific address in memory (for example, 248,440). f = 3.14; The compiler might translate that into, "Load the value 3.14 into memory location 248,440." There are, by the way, several interesting side effects to the way your computer treats memory. int i, s[4], t[4], u=0; for (i=0; i<=4; i++) { s[i] = i; t[i] =i; } printf("s:t\n"); for (i=0; i<=4; i++) printf("%d:%d\n", s[i], t[i]); printf("u = %d\n", u); The output that you see from the program will probably look like this: s:t 1:5 2:2 3:3 4:4 5:5 u = 5 s[1000000] = 5;