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How to learn everything for Geeks: On Duality In Quantum Mechanics

http://howtolearneverything.com/blog/on-duality-in-quantum-mechanics/

E=MC^2 and about this Albert Einstein commented: "It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind." Duality is at the core of modern Physics. Back to the 1600s, Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton were debating about the Nature of Light: Huygens thought Light...

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Carl Sassenrath still one of the 30 Most Influential People In Programming

http://reboltutorial.com/blog/why-carl-sassenrath-one-of-30-most-influential-people-in-programming/

According the History of Computing Project, the Amiga 1000 created by Jay Miner and its OS designed by Carl Sassenrath, causes an enormous shock among the users. The computer is so advanced for its time that even the marketing department of Commodore does not know what they are up to.<p>3D animation, full-motion video, fancy TV processing, four-voice stereo sound chip, speech synthesis,...

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D. Crockford on JSON: "An influence was Rebol, a shame it’s not more popular"

http://www.dzone.com/links/the_making_of_json_by_douglas_crockford_an_influe.html

JSON had a lot of influences on its design. It didn’t just come out of my head. It’s based on a lot of things that I had observed over the years. The first – maybe the greatest – influence was Lisp. The thing that was brilliant about Lisp was it used exactly the same representation for programs and data. Originally, the idea was that you would have programs that could act on themselves as data,...

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