Axis of Ordinary

Looking up to Saturn

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:30:41 +0100

Looking up to Saturn

Series: In the zone with Ms. ZY (by Asian.Impressions)

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:36:19 +0100

Series: In the zone with Ms. ZY (by Asian.Impressions)

MotoGP_2012_Sepang_034 (by Caesda)

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:36:02 +0100

MotoGP_2012_Sepang_034 (by Caesda)

Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors at MIT (by MITNewsOffice)

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:12:25 +0200

Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors at MIT (by MITNewsOffice)

Earth Illuminated: ISS Time-lapse Photography (by ReelNASA)

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:03:16 +0200

Earth Illuminated: ISS Time-lapse Photography (by ReelNASA)

A Flight Through the Universe, by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:46:59 +0200

A Flight Through the Universe, by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (by BerkeleyLab)

"The simple and sheer amazingness of this picture cannot be overstated. Here we have a picture taken..."

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:18:04 +0200

“The simple and sheer amazingness of this picture cannot be overstated. Here we have a picture taken by a camera on board a space probe that’s been orbiting Mars for six years, reset and re-aimed by programmers hundreds of millions of kilometers away using math and science pioneered centuries ago, so that it could catch the fleeting view of another machine we humans flung across space, traveling hundreds of million of kilometers to another world at mind-bending speeds, only to gently – and perfectly – touch down on the surface mere minutes later.”

- Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down! | Bad Astronomy

Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down!

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:16:55 +0200

Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down!

"The landing sequence alone requires six vehicle configurations, 76 pyrotechnic devices, the largest..."

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:16:39 +0200

“The landing sequence alone requires six vehicle configurations, 76 pyrotechnic devices, the largest supersonic parachute ever built, and more than 500,000 lines of code.”

- Mars Science Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Iceberg tsunami gone wild! (by Barbecueengineer)

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:40:38 +0200

Iceberg tsunami gone wild! (by Barbecueengineer)

Caramilk Predictor: Jeffrey (by TheCaramilkSecret)

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:11:53 +0200

Caramilk Predictor: Jeffrey (by TheCaramilkSecret)

Apocalypse Dam: China’s giant man-made waterfall as...

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:33:45 +0200

Apocalypse Dam: China’s giant man-made waterfall as floodgates are opened to send millions of tons of silt downstream

Where the Hell is Matt? 2012 (by mattharding2718)

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:17:49 +0200

Where the Hell is Matt? 2012 (by mattharding2718)

Don’t say you were not warned …

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:42:02 +0200

Don’t say you were not warned …

This is Our Planet (by Tomislav Safundžić)

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:54:29 +0200

This is Our Planet (by Tomislav Safundžić)

NASA | Evolution of the Moon (by NASAexplorer)

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:52:50 +0200

NASA | Evolution of the Moon (by NASAexplorer)

by hung518

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:57:13 +0200

by hung518

"What I think may be really critical is to engage in [conscious] reflection but not make a decision..."

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:10:46 +0200

““What I think may be really critical is to engage in [conscious] reflection but not make a decision right away.” Indeed, Dijksterhuis himself says that whenever he is faced with an important decision, he does collect the relevant evidence and consciously thinks about it, but then postpones decision until his unconscious processing (also known as “intuition”) seems to reach an equilibrium. As he put it, “I sit on things and rely on my gut.” Of course, the question naturally arises of how to decide how long to sit on things, which of course often is a complex decision in itself, influenced by many factors…”

- Complex decision? Don’t think about it!

"Getting the general brain properties isn’t enough. Instead, the builder is saddled with the onerous..."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:45:57 +0200

“Getting the general brain properties isn’t enough. Instead, the builder is saddled with the onerous task of packing the brain with a mountain of instincts (something that will require many generations of future scientists to unpack, as they struggle to build the teleome), and somehow managing to encode all that wisdom in the fine structure of the brain’s organization.”

- Later Terminator: We’re Nowhere Near Artificial Brains

"… it is easy to prove that for essentially any pair of Bayesians, each thinks the other is crazy."

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:21:22 +0200

“… it is easy to prove that for essentially any pair of Bayesians, each thinks the other is crazy.”

- Freedman’s Neglected Theorem « Normal Deviate