Famous 3D puzzle (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The question is: what is a puzzle? The answer I prefer is: a riddle whose solution is hard to find but easy to verify. In computer science, it’s used to provide proof-of-work and usually implemented through cryptographic mechanisms. I found versions of cryptographic …
Category: maths Tagged: Cryptographically Generated Address Domain Name System IPv6 Namecoin Proof-of-work system Protocols maths reflections
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I just discover google music timeline. That leads me to several publications from google about music.
I wonder why does google work on music. Google is a commercial company whose business model is based on ads and …
Category: maths Tagged: Business model Google Play Publication search engine Timeline maths music reflections
Read MoreI just installed a footnote plugin[1. FD footnote]. It works! About page update.
Category: blog
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still no fish to english translator (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
That news is quite useful (or not). In short, some people find a way to add one really strange language in transloators. This language is as strange as alien languages but more common in …
Category: fun Tagged: dog Education language Social Sciences translator fun tools
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Music illustration (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
The next step in the music category of this blog consists on writing/editing/encoding/playing with music.
The keywords to find music editor related software are scorewriter, sheet music, score editor, input music language and music score …
Category: music Tagged: Lilypond MuseScore Music sequencer Musical composition Musical notation Mythbuntu Scorewriter Sheet music music tools
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Natural rhythms generator[/caption]
I'm still interesseted in music (de)composition. In this post, I want to focus on rhythm, i.e. only when a note is played and for how many time.
I will use the usual notation is sheets.
Category: maths Tagged: bar beat duration note rhythm Typesetting music maths
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old disk drive (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I just found a study about hard drive failure. It reminds me another study held in 2007.
The first thing I see is that the failure rate is still higher in the first year and after 3 years. That means that a hard drive …
Category: hardware Tagged: Failure rate Hard disk drive failure Hardware Solid-state drive
Read MoreExplications here are based on what I've learn thanks to this youtube channel and the related researches (including the famous french documentary series c'est pas sorcier)
For this post, we will use the following definitions:
Category: maths
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Date format by country. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When writting the date, the format depend on many things. in France, it is usually written in DD/MM/YY. Today, we are the 11/12/13.
Category: fun Tagged: Calendar date France ISO 8601 Standards
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what's your name? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]
After seeing a post on a blog I follow, I decided to use my own. For me, the most important is not running your own DNS server (but it is the funniest), but the fact that you …
Category: tools Tagged: DNS Domain Name System Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Local area network Name server OpenDNS public recursive DNS Resolv.conf
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