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www.phdcomics.com. For all you grad students out there. Hilarious

And you thought philosophy was confusing

Here's quantum computing at its finest. If you guys haven't heard of schrodinger's cat , its about this guy schrodinger who came up with this experiment in which a cat is put in the box and stuff is done to it and you don't know if it is alive or dead until you open the box. So till that point in time when you open the box, the cat may be alive and dead at any point before that. Its really hard to simplify that cat shit.
well, anyways, thats essentially what quantum computing is about. Playing with uncertainess. Computers so far had transistors that worked as a specific 1 or a 0. Well not any more!

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18925405.700.html

From the article: "With the right set-up, the theory suggested, the computer would sometimes get an answer out of the computer even though the program did not run. And now researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved on the original design and built a non-running quantum computer that really works."


This is an awesome beginner's read to understand this shite. Read : a lazy layman's guide to quantum physics

The Prancing Horse: crusher of the Raging bull

Ferrari's hoof wheelying black stallion in the yellow italian sunset wasn't just made up as a company gimmick. Enzo Ferrari himself decided to use the emblem on the first of these thoroughbreds.
Where'd he come up with it?

I quote Enzo Ferrari himself,"The horse was painted on the fuselage of the fighter plane flown by Francesco Baracca, a heroic Italian pilot who died on Mount Montello: the Italian ace of aces of the First World War. In 1923 ... I met Count Enrico Baracca, the pilot's father, and subsequently his mother, Countess Paolina. One day she said to me, "Ferrari, why don't you put my son's prancing horse on your cars; it would bring you luck." ... The horse was black and has remained so; I added the canary yellow background because it is the colour of Modena."

Now you know.

P.S. The name Scudiera Ferrari was given to the racing division of Ferrari. This covers all forms of racing right from stradale to the wicked F1. Scudiera Ferrari means the 'Ferrari Stable' . A perfect name for a garage full of scarlet red prancing horses. Sweeeeet