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  • Interview with Richard Rhodes about The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    I was surfing the web for some information about the Oppenheimer movie and came across this interview with author Richard Rhodes on YouTube in May 2023. Really interesting to hear Rhodes talk about the many people he talked to in the course of writing this book and others. Well addition to reading the actual book.

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  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    Last week we had an unexpected opportunity to go to the cinema and watch Killers of the Flower Moon as both kids were not at home. Even though the movie was only released mid October we had to look for a theatre that was still playing it. We were in luck that it was still playing in Cinema Lumiere in Mechelen and we didn’t have to go to Brussel or Antwerp. Cinema Lumiere is more of an old style city cinema and not a modern megaplex type of cinema. Housed in the center of the city in a nice building…

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  • Mosaic

    Even though Netscape was the first really widespread browser it really started with Mosaic. Marc Andreessen was involved in both products. There is s a short Computing Conversations interview about the origins of Mosaic.

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  • Netscape

    If you are old enough you may remember Netscape and their browser that made the World Wide Web accessible for everyone. There is a nice documentary about these early beginnings of the www, Netscape and the ‘war’ between Microsoft to bring out the most popular web browser.

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  • Saisaki

    Went for dinner at Saisaki in Werchter some time ago. We had seen it passing by in the car a few times and planned to try it out some time. We had ‘our’ typical menu with Edamame and Gyoza for starters and then a sushi boat. Quality was good but not exceptional, but the atmosphere in the place is nice with wooden floors and elsewhere as you can see on the picture. Definitely better interior decoration compared to Wabi Sabi in Bonheiden or Isana in Haacht that have a cantine-like interior not very inviting to spend a lot of time…

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  • Markdown Basics

    In my search for a good way to digitise my notes with equations I have come across Markdown as an option. Jupyter Notebooks support it so this may be a promising solution. It is another ‘language’ to learn but at least the basics not related to equations are extremely simple. Headings in Mardown start with a # sign. 1 #for the largest heading#, 2 ##signs for a slightly smaller one## and so on. To start a new paragraph type 2 spaces followed by enter. Italic text is surround by * symbols like *italic*, bold text by 2 ** like **bold**…

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  • Bombs

    ‘You drop a bomb and it falls on the just and the unjust. The prudent man can’t escape it, nor the honest man.‘― Isidor Rabi

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  • Oppenheimer

    ‘God knows I’m not the simplest person, but compared to Oppenheimer, I’m very, very simple.‘― Isidor Rabi

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  • Cackle

    ‘Another cackle. Will there ever be an egg ?‘― James Chadwick

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  • Speculation

    ‘There’s speculation, and then there’s more speculation, and then there’s cosmology.‘― Michio Kaku

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