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Hamming's "You and Your Research" Talk  |  (2005/05/22 14:00)

Richard Hamming (a mathematician who worked at Bell Labs in the days of Feynman, Fermi, Teller and Shannon and who is responsible for many innovations in computer science and related fields such as the Hamming code and Hamming Distance) gave a talk in 1986 which centers on the question "Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run". I think anyone working in any scientific or engineering field should read this transcript.

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Technical Video Rental  |  (2005/05/22 10:45)

Always wanted to learn to weld? The Make Magazine Blog points to Technical Video Rental which you can think of as a NetFlix for all sorts of geeks. They have videos to teach everything from linguistics to HAM radio to gunsmithing.
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