There is an estimated $730 billion in outstanding federal and private student-loan debt, says Mark Kantrowitz of FinAid, a Web site that tracks financial-aid issues — and only 40% of that debt is actively being repaid. The rest is in default, or in deferment, which means payments and interest are halted, or in forbearance, which [...]
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U.S. Student Loan Amounts
Posted in Interesting, Life, Perspective, tagged Debt, Student Loan Debt, Defaulted Debt on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting Numeric Pattern
Posted in Interesting, reSearch, tagged Math, Numbers, Patterns on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
>>> for i in range(1,31): … print(‘ ‘ + ’1′*30) … print(‘x ‘ + ’1′*i) … print(‘= ‘ + str(int(’1′*30) * int(’1′*i))) … print() … 111111111111111111111111111111 x 1 = 111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111 x 11 = 1222222222222222222222222222221 111111111111111111111111111111 x 111 = 12333333333333333333333333333321 111111111111111111111111111111 x 1111 = 123444444444444444444444444444321 111111111111111111111111111111 x 11111 = 1234555555555555555555555555554321 111111111111111111111111111111 x 111111 = 12345666666666666666666666666654321 [...]
New Wooden Gun Project
Posted in Engineering, Fun, Interesting, tagged .45, 3D modeling, SolidWorks, Thompson, Thompson Machine Gun, Toy Gun on April 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In our workshop, we have been designing a new toy wooden gun model in SolidWorks. This is inspired by the classic Thompson Machine Gun from the early 1900′s in the US. We will probably make it out of maple or walnut, and either paint or stain it.
Amazing 1,000,000 frames per second bullet video
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Uncategorized, tagged bullet, high speed camera on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is a tuple?
Posted in Engineering, Interesting, Technique, tagged Python, Tuple on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I get asked this from time to time, so for the fun of it, I’ll post this: Tuples are immutable lists in python (and other languages). Very lightweight, unchangable arrays. They are used for storing multiple values in one variable (usually a fixed number of values). x = (1, 2, 3, ‘abc’) x[0] -> 1 [...]
Freeky Bug
Posted in AppCove, Engineering, Interesting, System Administration, tagged Fail Bug, Load Balancing on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever have one of those bugs that customers complain about, but you just cannot reproduce it? Here is a good one… Customers were complaining about being logged out when clicking a download link. This particular setup is a Cisco CSS 11501 series load balancer with 2 Dell Poweredge web servers sitting behind it. Each webserver [...]
Time Lapse Photography
Posted in Interesting, Life, Perspective, tagged Photography, Time Lapse, Time Lapse Photography on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think this is a really cool picture. It is one from a set at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24/45-beautiful-motion-blur-photos/
