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The Precision of Stereolithography.
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The Open Graph Viz Platform
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I don’t think my talk was particularly good. But then ... onto the stage, and soon was typing raw Mathematica code... everyone—with me now safely off on the side (where I s... picture):
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Can you think of an open data curation project where the...
In the mid 1990s, as open source code began to boom, the ...
For years I’ve asked, where are the equivalent project ...
Nada.
... and how it was finally opened up in an incomplete form.

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