![]() ![]() ![]() The specifics of “consistent hashing” are complex, but it effectively meant that a sudden, unexpected surge in traffic or a downed server would no longer cause a crippling traffic jam. Danny Lewin and his MIT adviser, Thomson Leighton, built Akamai Technologies on a mathematical algorithm Lewin devised to route the web’s content dynamically. Popular websites took ages to load, if at all, and it was increasingly apparent that simply adding more servers wasn’t going to work.Ī novel solution to the “World Wide Wait” came from an unlikely place: an American-born, Israeli-raised counterterrorism soldier who also happened to a mathematical whiz. As recently as the late 1990s, the web’s core infrastructure was at risk of buckling under the weight of millions of new users. Whether it’s Facebook updates or a favourite TV show on Netflix, many of us take for granted that the Internet will deliver what we want, the second we want it. No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius who Transformed the Internet ![]()
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![]() ![]() You try to flirt now and then but it feels like the idea of you as a couple would shock them more than an alien walking through the front door.īeing friends is great - if you don’t want more.īut when you want more it can feel like you’re being squeezed in a trap from both sides. Every day is a new reminder: you’re just a friend. They hug you in a very friendly way and look at you like someone would at their pet. Or for a girl, maybe he tells you how you’re different from other girls, and gives you a friendly little pat on the hand or shoulder. Maybe she even talks to you about her problems with guys she likes and you nod along and give advice. Basically, it’s where you have feelings for a girl or guy but they see you as only a friend. To get out of the friend zone first you need to know what it is. First things first: Understanding the friend zone If you have feelings for someone but they see you as just a friend it can make you feel like crap.īut here’s how to get out. ![]() You know you should feel grateful to be their friend, and hopefully, you do.īut you want more, and you don’t know how to get it. When you’re into someone and want more than friends you can be left feeling confused, alone, and defeated. Unfortunately, the friend zone is very real, and getting out of it can be one of the most difficult experiences you might ever have in a relationship. To the uninitiated, the friend zone sounds like an urban myth: an unknown place shrouded in mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() My four years at DU were the best years of my life. Read 786 reviewsĪlum: Oh man, I’m disheartened to see so many negative reviews! Granted, I graduated a few years before COVID so didn’t have to deal with online learning. For now, CC has an amazing mathematics department, and that's my major. I would say for this school to truly be diverse as they say, CC needs more diverse viewpoints as a whole. Not to be too pessimistic, however, I will say though that I've met many really nice people on CC's campus, especially the students, although I do tend to see the liberal and privileged side of things in a simple classroom environment often. Many cities have these issues, but CC in the Greater Colorado Springs area has tried to fix them to a degree, but there's clearly still work to be done. ![]() I quickly learned that I could fit in here! However, from being here for two months, I have noticed some of the struggles the area and the school has, including housing and crime. Those are the main reasons I chose this school. It's definitely a great location if you love the outdoors. ![]() Sophomore: I like Colorado College, and the block plan and small size really intrigued me into coming here, even though I'm not a native Coloradan. ![]() ![]() NASA has evolved and so has it workforce. If your image of a NASA engineer or scientist is that of a white male in a crisp white shirt with black clip-on tie and pocket protector, think again. One in every 1,000 patents issued by United States Patent and Trade Organization has gone to scientists or engineers working on NASA projects and tens of thousands of scientific studies from the agency’s missions have been published in leading journals worldwide. As NASA has extended its presence on the final frontier, they have defined new fields and expanded knowledge and technology on almost every front. Similarly, to explain the things and places it explores, NASA enlists scientists from a multitude of specialties within the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, materials science and physics. Space science pioneer - James Van Allen, key contributor to 25 space missions.Įngineers draw the cutting edge in every capacity for NASA, from avionics to electronics, software to rocketry. ![]() ![]() The people who turn space exploration dreams into real NASA missions or projects are engineers and scientists. It’s something else to create the technology to actually do these things. It’s one thing to think about studying Earth from above or sending robots and humans to the moon or Mars or conducting experiments in space. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Our whole society has become consumed by the undisciplined pursuit of more. It’s not all bad, but certain forces that have come together are producing an unintended result for all of us,” Greg said. “We are facing an unholy alliance between social media, smart phones, and consumerism. ![]() Greg believes that our society is consumed with wanting more and that’s why we consistently take on additional things. More more more.” Before we can fix the way we behave, we have to understand how we ended up here. Madness! I truly feel like it’s this perverse disease of thinking and it has an absolute monopoly right now. Greg says, “There’s a word for trying to do everything all the time. We recognize there’s so much we have to do, so we try to do it all. Greg’s book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Doing Less expands upon the things one needs to keep in mind should they proceed down the path of Essentialism. As soon as I heard Greg at SXSW, I wanted to put together an article on his work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The exhibition is organized into six sections, focused on Jeffers’s artistic process, character development, and storytelling. This retrospective exhibition showcases nearly one hundred artworks, some never seen, including original line drawings, sketches, and finished illustrations, from sixteen of Jeffers’s picture books, including the wildly popular The Day the Crayons Quit and its sequel, The Day the Crayons Came Home Here We Are The Incredible Book Eating Boy and Once Upon an Alphabet. From his 2004 debut How to Catch a Star to his more recent titles such as 2017’s Here We Are, his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and sold more than fourteen million copies worldwide. ![]() Born in Australia and raised in Northern Ireland, Oliver Jeffers is an award-winning artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance, and sculpture. ![]() ![]() Penguin Books published the paperback edition in 1996 ( ISBN 8-X ). ![]() ![]() The first edition ( ISBN 1-56865-347-6) was published in hardcover format by Doubleday in 1994. It is book one of The Mitford Years series. ![]() “Karon offers her readers another chance to escape their own world, if just for a while, and live in the town that ‘takes care of its own.’ Her readers say they wish Mitford existed so they could move there. At Home in Mitford is a novel written by American author Jan Karon. “Welcome home, Mitford fans.to Karon's gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives-along with a vividly imagined world.”- People Rock consider it to be Mitford because author Jan Karon lived here when she was inspired to write At Home in Mitford and other books in the series. “Jan Karon reflects contemporary culture more fully than almost any other living novelist.”- Los Angeles Times ![]() “Karon knits Mitford's small-town characters and multiple story lines into a cozy sweater of a book.”- USA Today With a case of writers block, a childrens author escapes to small town Mitford for a change of scenery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Above is the cover by Jon Foster.Ībove, an EXCLUSIVE page from “Gas Station Carnivals” by Joe Harris and Vasilis Lolos.Ībove, “The Chymist” by Stuart Mooreand the vastly underrated but TOTALLY brilliant Toby Cypress.Ībove: “The Clown Puppet” by Joe Harris and Bill Sienkiewicz. I think that for NIGHTMARE FACTORY 2, we found four incredible artists, and working with them was a treat. As I always say, putting together an anthology is like casting - finding the right people for the job at hand is always a challenge but when it clicks the way it did here, the result is thrilling. But as the editor of the book, I am proud to run the first ever preview of pages from ALL FOUR STORIES. Ain’t It Cool News is also running a contest/preview. A couple of previews have gone up this week - including a huge preview of “Gas Station Carnivals” by Joe Harris and the award-winning Vasilis Lolos. ![]() ![]() I am happy and proud to say that the book is coming out NEXT WEEK and you all need to run out and buy a copy. 2, a spine-tingling, mind-warping anthology of work by offbeat horror master Thomas Ligotti. HYPE ALERT!!! Over the summer one of the projects taking valuable time away from The Beat was work on a second volume of THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY, Vol. ![]() ![]() They begin their own search of the Underdark tunnels with murder on their minds, forcing Drizzt to watch his back at every turn.Įxile is the second book in the Dark Elf Trilogy and the Legend of Drizzt series. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.īut loneliness is not the only thing that preys on Drizzt: His drow enemies, including his own siblings, would like nothing more than to see him dead. ![]() It followed me wherever I went–indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. ![]() It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. This novel is without a doubt the best of the series. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. Salvatore here brings his superb 'Dark Elf Trilogy' to a close. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. Exiled from Menzoberranzan, the city of his childhood and the hub of drow society, Drizzt now wanders the subterranean maze of the Underdark in search of a new home.Īs I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. Drizzt DoUrden, the dark elf, confronts the underground civilization of the evil Drow elves, travels through an endless labyrinth, and battles to survive. Ten years have passed since we last saw Drizzt Do’Urden and his magical feline companion, Guenhwyvar-and much has changed. ![]() Dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden fights for his survival in the labyrinthine tunnels of the Underdark ![]() ![]() The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer.īut in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. ![]() ![]() I was supposed to be having the time of my life. ![]() |