Daily Archives: July 24, 2013

First they Came for the BB Gun Owners…

Ask for a local depredation permit, get flagged in national databases. How do I know RNS is a bona fide journalistic publication? We get press releases. Presented uncut (just like the newspapers do!), but with bolding of the fun parts … Continue reading

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RNS Quote of the Day, The Past Is Not Fixed in Stone Edition

Or consider the history of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) , one of the most useful algorithms known to man. John Tukey had an idea for speeding up the calculation of the discrete Fourier transform: Dick Garwin saw that it … Continue reading

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