Archive for May, 2008

Rocket Man

Friday, May 16th, 2008

There is a real rocket man, though this one is powered by four jet engines attached to a self-made composite wing. Calling himself Fusion Man, Yves Rossy demonstrated his flight through the Swiss Alps controlling himself with only his body. You can see the amazing video below, and another one where he performs a tight […]

The $25B Eigenvector

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

For a little insight as to why Google has the top search engine around, one needs look no further than the linear algebra that lies just below the surface. With a concept called PageRank, they rank pages based on the number of links to them, in a democracy of the internet, where each link is […]