This interesting video shows you a little about how a computer hard drive works, and in the process, reveals what some of those weird little noises mean when your computer saves or deletes something for you.
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In my discussion with Sal Cordova in this post, one point came up which I thought was interesting, and worth taking the time to flesh out as a separate post. It's about the distinction
Sean watches a panel discussion on whether the universe is a computer, looks up the definition of a computer, and decides that instead the universe is a
This glib article from the Wired Blog Gadgets Lab discusses some of the "crazy" ideas for building computers.
As noted by Lance, the new journal ACM Transactions on Computation Theory is now accepting papers. Note for quantum computing theorists:
Harddisk tuning with Lego
This reminds me: must back-up my laptop tonight...
Bob