jgamman

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• Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns

  by jgamman on 1/25/2025, 8:35 PM with 43 comments

• Enigma machine explained with animation [video]

  by jgamman on 12/31/2024, 9:51 AM with 0 comments

• How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power

  by jgamman on 9/27/2024, 10:11 PM with 4 comments

• Cliodynamics and Society Failure

  by jgamman on 9/15/2023, 10:41 PM with 0 comments

• The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene

  by jgamman on 1/7/2023, 9:53 PM with 0 comments

• Codebreaking Sexts in the 1800s

  by jgamman on 7/27/2022, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• MecanoChemistry: H2 Gas Storage in Solids

  by jgamman on 7/23/2022, 10:24 PM with 0 comments

• Interview with John Cook: mathematical consultant

  by jgamman on 6/28/2022, 8:11 PM with 25 comments

• Man survives desert by making motorbike from broken car

  by jgamman on 1/29/2022, 2:30 AM with 0 comments

• Learning from grad student chem death (2008)

  by jgamman on 1/16/2022, 6:29 PM with 0 comments

• Teaching Machines: A History

  by jgamman on 12/20/2021, 5:02 AM with 1 comments

• Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)

  by jgamman on 12/20/2021, 1:15 AM with 67 comments

• Teaching Machines: A History

  by jgamman on 9/29/2021, 7:22 PM with 0 comments

• Beautiful animated 3-body orbits

  by jgamman on 8/29/2020, 9:07 PM with 1 comments

• The potentially seedy side of the hotel bed jumping community

  by jgamman on 5/25/2019, 6:29 PM with 12 comments

• A physicist has some questions about physics culture

  by jgamman on 5/20/2019, 11:39 PM with 0 comments

• The ggplot flipbook – building charts slowly

  by jgamman on 3/11/2019, 3:04 AM with 27 comments

• Editorial responses from quality journals on 58 misreported trials

  by jgamman on 2/14/2019, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization – online book

  by jgamman on 1/14/2019, 8:31 PM with 0 comments

• Billiard ball bounces are digits of Pi (YouTube)

  by jgamman on 1/13/2019, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• The Future Book is here but not what we expected

  by jgamman on 12/21/2018, 8:42 PM with 0 comments

• Exploring Histograms – interactive webpage explanation

  by jgamman on 12/13/2018, 2:48 AM with 0 comments

• Lab equipment backdoors

  by jgamman on 11/30/2018, 9:42 PM with 0 comments

• TIL – Holocaust tattoo numbers were primary keys for IBM machines (Dehomag)

  by jgamman on 11/15/2018, 6:01 AM with 1 comments

• How should code be pronounced?

  by jgamman on 10/18/2018, 12:55 AM with 0 comments

• Sustaining the Underfunded (open source labour not supported)

  by jgamman on 10/13/2018, 4:32 AM with 0 comments

• The interesting case of the Ecuadorean dwarfs and longevity

  by jgamman on 10/11/2018, 5:58 AM with 0 comments

• AI bias in medical school applciations (since 1988)

  by jgamman on 10/11/2018, 1:37 AM with 0 comments

• Non-traditional science research

  by jgamman on 10/9/2018, 7:46 AM with 0 comments

• Programming as interaction: A new perspective for programming language research

  by jgamman on 10/8/2018, 9:27 PM with 12 comments

• FBI PSA – EdTech considered risky

  by jgamman on 9/14/2018, 7:54 AM with 0 comments

• Putting the 'suck' in success

  by jgamman on 6/2/2018, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• The State of Jupyter (2017)

  by jgamman on 5/4/2018, 7:08 AM with 0 comments

• Scroll-Interactive story on NZ's dissapearing glaciers

  by jgamman on 4/25/2018, 8:28 PM with 0 comments

• Science Education in Computational Thinking – CT Projects Page

  by jgamman on 4/25/2018, 7:16 AM with 0 comments

• Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (2011)

  by jgamman on 4/14/2018, 8:46 AM with 50 comments

• Bret Victor: Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper

  by jgamman on 4/5/2018, 8:05 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: TTW paypal guy gets NZ citizenship: doesn't show up in HN

  by jgamman on 2/3/2018, 1:20 AM with 3 comments

• by jgamman on 2/3/2018, 1:13 AM with comments

• Advice on recruiting data scientists in public sector NZ

  by jgamman on 1/23/2018, 6:53 AM with 0 comments

• Algorithm M/F Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads

  by jgamman on 12/2/2017, 6:52 PM with 0 comments

• The Perfect Apology: how-to

  by jgamman on 10/26/2017, 10:13 PM with 0 comments

• Benchtop and education NMR machines

  by jgamman on 10/24/2017, 12:23 AM with 0 comments

• Newton's annotated copy of the Principia (Cambridge)

  by jgamman on 10/8/2017, 10:23 PM with 0 comments

• Immersive/interactive documentary on homelessness in NZ

  by jgamman on 8/29/2017, 9:29 PM with 1 comments

• WWII Warsaw rebuilt using 18th Century paintings as guide

  by jgamman on 7/16/2017, 11:13 PM with 0 comments

• Weird result: Everyone in a room keeps giving dollars to random others

  by jgamman on 6/27/2017, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• Proof Without Words: Alternating Sums of Odd Numbers

  by jgamman on 2/7/2017, 10:38 PM with 0 comments

• Wolfram Alpha automatically generate code from natural language question

  by jgamman on 1/19/2017, 6:43 AM with 2 comments

• NZ finally explains how comments should work

  by jgamman on 12/7/2016, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Children exploitation via YouTube

  by jgamman on 11/21/2016, 1:17 AM with 23 comments

• Ask HN: How would autonomous vehicles handle emergency services right of way?

  by jgamman on 10/4/2016, 12:13 AM with 1 comments

• The History of Dice

  by jgamman on 9/15/2016, 9:33 PM with comments

• Syllabus of Science Class: Everything Is Fucked

  by jgamman on 8/11/2016, 10:51 PM with 3 comments

• NZ Rent Rage: comics as commentary

  by jgamman on 7/31/2016, 10:39 PM with 0 comments

• Woman woken when 5m python accidentally turns on her room lamp

  by jgamman on 6/22/2016, 1:54 AM with comments

• Social media and the finest court transcript you will ever read

  by jgamman on 4/18/2016, 2:57 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: When to watch classic movies with kids?

  by jgamman on 1/11/2016, 8:26 AM with 2 comments

• Giant Squid filmed in Japanese harbour

  by jgamman on 12/31/2015, 6:16 AM with 0 comments

• Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics

  by jgamman on 8/18/2015, 1:52 AM with 44 comments

• Does Wellington, NZ have the most feminist startup ecosystem in the world?

  by jgamman on 8/6/2015, 1:41 AM with comments

• Using GIF loops in journalism

  by jgamman on 6/16/2015, 5:00 AM with 0 comments

• Really nice data vis on breast cancer screening vs. not screening from UK NHS

  by jgamman on 6/16/2015, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• Advice for whistleblowers on how to contact Spiegel

  by jgamman on 1/11/2015, 10:25 PM with 1 comments

• Outstanding marble machine

  by jgamman on 11/2/2014, 6:19 AM with 0 comments

• AT&T Archives: the Unix operating system

  by jgamman on 10/29/2014, 5:30 AM with 0 comments

• Bubble wrap as test tubes

  by jgamman on 7/25/2014, 2:45 AM with 0 comments

• Better questions for those planning their retirement

  by jgamman on 7/25/2014, 2:24 AM with 0 comments

• "ninja" is officially dead

  by jgamman on 2/14/2014, 6:18 AM with 0 comments

• by jgamman on 12/2/2013, 12:25 AM with comments

• Ask HN: where are the Amazon headlines in the NSA/Snowden saga?

  by jgamman on 11/21/2013, 11:59 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: where are the Amazon headlines in the NSA/Snowden saga

  by jgamman on 11/21/2013, 11:58 PM with 3 comments

• Dark sky reserves: see the Milky Way as you're supposed to

  by jgamman on 9/18/2013, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• NZ's Fonterra recalls baby formula due to botulism risk

  by jgamman on 8/4/2013, 2:45 AM with 0 comments

• Google 'pressure cooker' - get a visit by the NSA

  by jgamman on 8/1/2013, 11:43 PM with 0 comments

• They're not flip-flops - they're jandals and we're OK with that

  by jgamman on 7/8/2013, 11:08 PM with 0 comments

• Ornate rug made from computer parts

  by jgamman on 4/1/2013, 4:40 AM with 0 comments

• Request HN: Follow-user feature

  by jgamman on 1/21/2013, 2:26 AM with 2 comments

• Vanity Fair profile of YC

  by jgamman on 9/24/2012, 9:13 AM with 6 comments

• The Economist magazine: A review.

  by jgamman on 8/23/2012, 10:00 PM with 1 comments

• 1992 Wash Post editor memo on the PC and impacts

  by jgamman on 8/22/2012, 11:54 PM with 1 comments

• NZ internet/IP/copyright lawyer posterous blog: latest Kim Dotcom post

  by jgamman on 8/9/2012, 1:41 AM with 0 comments

• The letter that got 2001: A Space Odyssey started

  by jgamman on 7/27/2012, 12:44 AM with 0 comments

• 300,000 babies stolen in Spain since 1940s for ideological reasons

  by jgamman on 7/19/2012, 10:35 PM with 0 comments

• Guy builds particle accelerator in kitchen

  by jgamman on 7/11/2012, 10:35 PM with 24 comments

• Golden Mean Calipers

  by jgamman on 7/9/2012, 11:04 PM with 0 comments

• Is Apple becoming an evil empire?

  by jgamman on 7/4/2012, 1:48 AM with 1 comments

• 1950s SciFi flame letter unwittingly contains prescient Google reference

  by jgamman on 6/13/2012, 4:28 AM with 1 comments

• Molecular basis to trust and altruism

  by jgamman on 5/29/2012, 11:47 PM with 0 comments

• Mildly addictive weight game - disguised algebra

  by jgamman on 4/17/2012, 5:01 AM with 0 comments

• Packet switching in Stockholm's waste vacuum system

  by jgamman on 4/16/2012, 2:50 AM with 3 comments

• Grad student sneaks fisherman into Nobel's 1950s publication

  by jgamman on 4/11/2012, 11:01 PM with 0 comments

• by jgamman on 4/2/2012, 1:49 AM with comments

• Ask HN: Tool for gathering quotes for use in non-specified future context

  by jgamman on 3/20/2012, 1:07 AM with 1 comments

• CEO puts social security number on billboard as challenge

  by jgamman on 3/19/2012, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• Math valentine

  by jgamman on 2/14/2012, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• I've created a new job description: Software Archaeologist

  by jgamman on 1/31/2012, 6:30 AM with 1 comments

• Hear my tale of wifi gallentry

  by jgamman on 1/23/2012, 8:08 AM with 0 comments

• Flying Robots Build A Tower Near Paris

  by jgamman on 1/4/2012, 1:17 AM with 0 comments

• PLoS paper generates visual of 1B academic paper views (clickstream)

  by jgamman on 1/4/2012, 1:02 AM with 0 comments

• Krugman on housing in 2005 - cause sometimes it's fun to go back in time

  by jgamman on 1/1/2012, 10:09 PM with 2 comments

• Switzerland looking to ban PowerPoint?

  by jgamman on 8/29/2011, 2:59 AM with 0 comments

• Wiley and Elsevier PR spin for how their business model adds value

  by jgamman on 8/11/2011, 1:14 AM with 0 comments

• Zoom-out graphic of physics length scales w/ examples

  by jgamman on 6/20/2011, 2:10 AM with 0 comments

• Teach kids electronics with PlayDoh

  by jgamman on 6/12/2011, 9:54 AM with 5 comments

• Ask HN: is there a term for site deja vue?

  by jgamman on 6/3/2011, 10:54 AM with 0 comments

• Synchronised pendulums (pendulii?) w/ youtube vid

  by jgamman on 5/17/2011, 8:55 AM with 0 comments

• Mao Bell:Neal Stephenson

  by jgamman on 5/15/2011, 4:45 AM with 2 comments

• History of everything

  by jgamman on 5/12/2011, 9:32 AM with 3 comments

• 8 bit crop circle hack

  by jgamman on 5/3/2011, 9:10 AM with 11 comments

• What if the banks went on strike? - ireland did the expt in 1970...

  by jgamman on 4/30/2011, 10:37 PM with 0 comments

• Why you should fear them: 5 unbelievable bugs

  by jgamman on 4/26/2011, 10:40 PM with -1 comments

• Engineers without Borders: failure reports

  by jgamman on 3/25/2011, 9:33 AM with 0 comments

• Baidu beats Google in China

  by jgamman on 11/16/2010, 12:02 AM with 1 comments

• High (and I mean really high) res images

  by jgamman on 11/8/2010, 8:50 AM with 1 comments

• Octopus that mimics other animals for defence (youtube)

  by jgamman on 10/31/2010, 4:24 AM with 3 comments

• Anti-math article in the new yorker

  by jgamman on 10/23/2010, 10:12 PM with 17 comments

• Being Steve Jobs's Boss

  by jgamman on 10/22/2010, 2:05 AM with 23 comments

• Recursion explained

  by jgamman on 10/17/2010, 3:25 AM with 2 comments

• Michelson and Billiards

  by jgamman on 10/6/2010, 1:00 AM with 0 comments

• Engineered Geothermal Systems

  by jgamman on 9/6/2010, 8:16 AM with 0 comments

• NPR story on tracking down the website trackers

  by jgamman on 9/6/2010, 8:00 AM with 0 comments

• IPad App iAnnotate now required by Stanford Med School

  by jgamman on 8/28/2010, 5:24 AM with 0 comments

• Robosub vs the giant isopod

  by jgamman on 4/3/2010, 11:38 PM with -1 comments

• Barbie Computer Engineer

  by jgamman on 3/25/2010, 8:02 AM with 35 comments

• NASA's version of Google Earth extended to the edge of time

  by jgamman on 2/8/2010, 8:45 AM with 0 comments

• Catastrophic failure at major Russian hydroelectric dam (Aug 09)

  by jgamman on 9/2/2009, 2:15 AM with 0 comments

• Stephen Few comments on the US CIO's IT dashboard

  by jgamman on 8/4/2009, 8:40 AM with 0 comments

• Firefox: it's just too darned expensive

  by jgamman on 8/2/2009, 12:31 PM with 26 comments

• Guy makes a 3D version of Lunar Lander

  by jgamman on 7/31/2009, 12:51 PM with 1 comments

• POW tap code

  by jgamman on 7/22/2009, 10:35 AM with 5 comments

• Simple non-programmer explanation of REST architecture

  by jgamman on 7/21/2009, 11:03 PM with 6 comments

• by jgamman on 7/12/2009, 6:27 AM with comments

• Install a drain heat recovery unit: worth the effort?

  by jgamman on 7/11/2009, 5:47 AM with 3 comments

• Name Frequency vs Year Interactive Chart: caution, timewaster potential is high

  by jgamman on 7/8/2009, 12:16 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: start with python 2.6 or 3?

  by jgamman on 7/4/2009, 11:40 AM with 17 comments

• Death of Kodachrome belies technological leap it represented

  by jgamman on 7/1/2009, 4:52 AM with 5 comments

• How to be a genius

  by jgamman on 6/21/2009, 11:03 AM with 2 comments

• Koordinates: an NZ geodata company

  by jgamman on 5/27/2009, 9:25 PM with 0 comments

• Protein sequencing gone awry: 1 sample, 27 labs, 20 results

  by jgamman on 5/18/2009, 8:42 PM with 7 comments

• The 1946 Disney guide to menstruation

  by jgamman on 3/7/2009, 6:48 AM with -1 comments

• Beautiful visualisations of everyday statistics

  by jgamman on 1/16/2009, 11:23 PM with 11 comments

• Sparklines: Nice ET graphic idea

  by jgamman on 1/7/2009, 6:41 AM with 0 comments

• OS X Automator

  by jgamman on 1/5/2009, 10:35 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Looking for a software developer Akl/NZ

  by jgamman on 9/26/2008, 4:35 AM with 0 comments

• Homopolar motor demo

  by jgamman on 9/8/2008, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• How does a real scientist rate Wired's Tobacco Virus 'cure for cancer' story?

  by jgamman on 9/5/2008, 12:41 PM with 0 comments

• Sell the problem _and_ the solution...

  by jgamman on 9/1/2008, 8:50 AM with 3 comments

• RMS interviewed on Radio NZ

  by jgamman on 8/15/2008, 2:38 PM with 20 comments

• Mailinator family now includes talkinator

  by jgamman on 7/29/2008, 9:33 AM with 1 comments

• Rack Hardware Innovation

  by jgamman on 7/21/2008, 9:06 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: how do i move 5 GB of photos?

  by jgamman on 7/18/2008, 3:27 PM with 57 comments

• Hats-on-seals

  by jgamman on 7/11/2008, 7:45 AM with 0 comments

• Ask YC: anyone know if the Olympics is broadcasting digitally?

  by jgamman on 6/9/2008, 12:17 PM with 4 comments

• An iconic middle east image is found to be a hoax

  by jgamman on 5/29/2008, 3:06 PM with 1 comments

• WWJB?

  by jgamman on 4/10/2008, 8:23 AM with 0 comments

• Somorjai - surface scientist

  by jgamman on 4/9/2008, 12:27 PM with 4 comments

• Buffet's 2003 letter -- his crystal ball has less scratches than mine

  by jgamman on 4/4/2008, 10:16 AM with 4 comments

• Submitted for obscure reason

  by jgamman on 4/3/2008, 10:19 AM with 1 comments

• Table top scanning electron microscope

  by jgamman on 3/28/2008, 1:26 PM with 3 comments

• Apple - google - you

  by jgamman on 3/13/2008, 1:31 PM with 13 comments

• the more things change...

  by jgamman on 3/9/2008, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• Lessons from the Skeptics Conference

  by jgamman on 3/6/2008, 3:36 PM with 10 comments

• How does a 'Warren Buffet' company handle climate change?

  by jgamman on 3/6/2008, 12:11 PM with 0 comments

• Cool physics interactive toy program

  by jgamman on 3/4/2008, 4:40 PM with 0 comments

• Biggest case of plagiarism in the science literature

  by jgamman on 3/4/2008, 12:35 PM with 0 comments

• The most interesting problem in physics?

  by jgamman on 2/29/2008, 12:21 PM with 9 comments

• Flags. Rated.

  by jgamman on 1/16/2008, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• Advice for my nephews?

  by jgamman on 1/16/2008, 9:54 AM with 2 comments

• The code giveth and the code taketh away [comic]

  by jgamman on 12/3/2007, 11:28 AM with 0 comments

• Informed comment on peer reviewed literature

  by jgamman on 11/22/2007, 11:08 AM with 0 comments

• Why you need a plan B in grad school

  by jgamman on 8/23/2007, 3:06 PM with 0 comments

• An untapped search problem?

  by jgamman on 8/22/2007, 11:58 AM with 0 comments

• The project generator

  by jgamman on 8/22/2007, 11:08 AM with 1 comments

• What do you get when an Oxford anthropologist writes a guide to English pub etiquette for tourists?

  by jgamman on 8/20/2007, 12:03 PM with 0 comments

• Google is 403 - wonder who got the dreaded 404 booth?

  by jgamman on 8/20/2007, 11:56 AM with 0 comments

• Scariest cephalopod you'll see today (and i'm gonna guess all week)

  by jgamman on 8/17/2007, 12:13 PM with 0 comments

• Anyone looking for a couple hours html/css work?

  by jgamman on 8/2/2007, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• SEO advice for a small (non-IT) business?

  by jgamman on 5/29/2007, 11:01 AM with 6 comments