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Obscure software question, here we go - identify (1) named after (2)
PS: Sorry for the delay folks. Question stays up longer!
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GNU Octave
Kinda continuing from the theme of the previous question - connect:
Click for big. This is not an exhaustive list :)
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Wilhelm Schlenk, Florence - Italy, Emil Erlenmeyer and Ernst Wilhelm Buchner - typical ‘flasks’ in chem labs around the world are named after these :)
Identify the man in (1), known for one of the devices in (2)
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Robert Bunsen, of the Bunsen Burner fame.
A was a Dutch cryptographer who created a set of 6 rules for a certain kind of system. The 2nd of his set of 6 remained famous and relevant and was named after him.
B was an American mathematician, cryptographer, electrical engineer and all-round genius who, almost 100 years after A, formulated a variant of the same principle. This was in turn, named after A although they both largely mean the same! B was, of course, an incredibly prolific genius whose work, many believe, created the field of information theory and his papers are considered the most important papers of the 20th century. (consequently, B has featured on Boiledbeans many times. So this is not a dupe :P)
Another interesting (unrelated) coincidence around B was with C. B proved a certain theorem in 1949 that is fundamental to the world of information theory. Unbeknownst to B, C - who was a Swedish-born American - had pretty much proved the same thing almost 20 years before. Funnily enough, almost half-a-dozen people independently proved this over time. But, by and large, the theorem is credit to both B and C.
Identify A, B and C for 1 point. No part points. Pseudo-bonus points for naming the set of 6 rules, the maxim, and the theorem :)
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A - Auguste Kerckhoffs
Bit of a sitter perhaps. And yes, we might have touched upon similar topics in the past on Boiledbeans :) But, here goes anyway. Identify the bit that’s been blocked out.
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Minecraft, of course :) These were Penny-Arcade’s comic strips talking about Minecraft’s addictive-ness (and awesome-ness)!
Two images with a bit of a story behind them. Story, please :)
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Foocamp and barcamp. Foobar
Sorry for the ultra-late post folks. This will stay open for longer.
This question’s kinda silly, I just put it here because the cartoon was amazing. Identify what’s been blocked out in red:
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Pavlov from Pavlov’s Dogs
Identify both. A special case of (1), at 0, is named after (2) :)
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What is the strip below about?
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A comic that was trying to depict the prevailing sentiment against Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccine (inoculating people with the Cowpox virus, hence the cows in the image).
Identify the phrase that’s been beeped out right at the start of the clip.
[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/668a3e2b75bc673f7281d9ca2a18cc9a.mp3]
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The phrase is “I am Macintosh”. The clip is an excerpt of what the Macintosh machine itself spoke during the official 1984 unveiling.