Quote by Francis Bacon on Houses

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Francis Bacon

http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19190/

Before I forget what i thought, I'll just write it down:

"Unless houses are built completly underground or invisble, they're part of our environment; thus we continously are forced to look on them. I prefer aesthetics and beautiy over uglyness. Uniformity as the only requirement is not enough.".

Interestingly, the book I read only contained the quote up to the colon and at least partly misinterpreted the quote by omitting the demand for uniformity.

The ATLAS experiment @ LHC

http://www.nonequilibrium.net/256-video-fo-day-atlas-experiment/

Check this video

Machine learning applied to team balancing

Well, team balancing for games played with the Spring engine. Nonetheless pretty interesting: http://student.science.uva.nl/~fhuizing/report.pdf

Great pictures of the Large Hadron Collider

See

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

for some great pictures. Enjoy!

C++ Templates are Turing complete

See for a paper. It's a few years old:

http://ubiety.uwaterloo.ca/~tveldhui/papers/2003/turing.pdf

Black-Scholes equation

See http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/the-black-scholes-equation/ for some information on deriving the Black-Scholes equation for options.