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#photo: 1853 Close-up of Babbage's difference engine, a 19th-century early mechanical computer. This was an earlier version of the analytic engine that Ada Lovelace from our previous posts programmed. Later versions of these massive machines were used to compute, among other things, error-free navigation tables. There is thus a clear line between early computers and our earlier photos on astrolabe, Gutenberg, printing, and the conquistadors. Inexpensive navigational tables were a killer app for the early printing presses. It is not coincidental that the voyages of discovery happened soon after the invention of inexpensive printing. Another chapter in the of #data.
1853 Close-up of Babbage’s 19th-century early mechanical computer

Photo post: 1853 Close-up of Babbage's difference engine, a 19th-century early mechanical computer. This was an earlier version of the...

#Today's #Photo: @IBM Visualization of @Wikipedia data As well the store of #data, it is often difficult to come up with compelling images of different database technologies. This is a of daily Wikipedia edits activity by bot script "Pearle" on done by IBM. More info can be found in Proceedings of INTERACT (2007). "Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms". The data is several terrabytes in size. So this is "big data." At least for a while, until the equivalent of Moore's law for data storage makes it small data in a few decades or so. :) data Photo: Wikimedia/Fernanda B. Viégas/CC-BY-2.0
A Visualization of Wikipedia Data

In addition to the difficulty of efficiently storing and processing very large data sets, it is often difficult to come...

Cheap air filters (purifiers) for those who need to slice their budget? Photo Credits: taxcredits.net/Flickr/Creative Commons By Attribution License
Cheap air filters for the broke?

Cheap air filters when you can't afford to make a fashion statement? Air pollution is serious enough to create elevated...

#photo: of our Hoag object post Here's a of Hoag's object and several versions. Hoag's object, a non-typical ring galaxy. Our original IG post (and a longer version on our blog) talked about #carlsagan's and Kardashev's ideas on what a type III civilization might look like, and how it might use galaxies for energy. To which we added the newly appreciated relatonship between information and energy (or rather energy gradients and entropy), ideas that have become more popular with theories such as the holographic universe, and causal fermion system.
Glitched Hoag’s Object Ring Galaxy

Here's a glitch art encore layout collage collage of our earlier Hoag's object ring galaxy post. This has several glitched popart...

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