youthventure I talked with the mid-Atlantic director of Youth Venture, Sarah Soloman, the other week and discovered what an awesome concept this organization is. Part of the Ashoka umbrella of organizations its mission is to offer startup support for young people who want to solve social problems in their community. Youth Venture embodies the simple wisdom that if people get used to taking initiative on these issues when they are in their teens then they are far more likely to carry that initiative into adulthood.
I made a quick table of reference lengths in meters to figure out if I ever made a data visualization tool for the entire universe, how many zoom levels would it have to support? One zoom level is one power of ten. reference length power is there anything meaningful that's smaller than planck length? planck length 1.62E-35 meters nanometer 1.00E-09 meter 1.00E+00 kilometer 1.00E+03 light year 9.46E+15 meter diameter of known universe 4.40E+26 So the total zoom levels of the Entire Universe are: 61.00 61 zoom levels is way more than Farmville or Warcraft So 61 zoom levels. How do these zoom levels compare to the Big Data Explosion. reference quantity of data bytes bit 1.25E-01 1 or 0 and that's it. byte 1.00E+00 base unit for most data types in programming languages kb 1.00E+03 Starting number for web optimized images and javascript libraries mb 1.00E+06 Starting number for a song gigabytes GB 1.00E+09 This is base unit of $10 USB sticks terab...
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