Juha Haataja: Universe of ScienceMathematics, Biosciences, Chemistry, Popular Science, and Science Writing.Six-word strories about information technology- December 12, 2006 Inspired by a recent Wired article about six-word short-short science fiction stories, I invented about two dozen stories on information technology. It was suprisingly easy to find ideas for this kind of writing. (In Finnish, Kuuden sanan tarinoita tietotekniikasta.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/science/2006/12/12.html#a4758 New book reviews- December 12, 2006 Here are some new book reviews (written by me in Finnish). They originally appeared in the Tietoyhteys magazine. Työn sanat (Tuomas Nevanlinna ja Jukka Relander; Teos, 2006) Uuden työn sanakirja (toim. Mikko Jakonen, Jukka Peltokoski ja Akseli Virtanen; Tutkijaliitto, 2006) Hyvä kirja (toim. Pirjo Hiidenmaa, Raimo Jussila ja Annika Nissinen; Suomen tietokirjailijat ry, 2006) Maailmanviiva - Albert Einstein ja moderni fysiikka (Jukka Maalampi; Ursa, 2006) In total, I have...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/science/2006/12/12.html#a4757 Compute 45,000 times faster- December 4, 2006 Finland has acquired new supercomputers, upgrading the current capacity several dozen times. But code and algorithm optimization can result in even greater speedups. My column on this topic appeared today. (In Finnish, Laske 45 000 kertaa nopeammin.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/science/2006/12/04.html#a4752 |