Recent content by Mekkis

You know, back in my day, we had this thing called USENET. Unmoderated, anonymous, and a hell of a lot easier to put annoying users on your killfile. It still exists. And the parallels are also quite interesting (and I'll lay very good odds that there's more porn and piracy on USENET than...

I suppose there are two reasons for that. The early 3D movies were mainly tech-demos, showing off what 3D can do (generally by throwing stuff at you). More modern movies are using the 3D to tell a story, rather than show off the 3D technology. The second reason is more subtle: 3D movies...

It's interesting to see what people define as "Math", and how they term "being good" at it. As someone who's taken math courses through high school, undergraduate, and postgraduate university, when one gets to a certain level, one sees that the most important things are the ability to think...