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GSA Candidate Interviews
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GSA presidential candidate: Dewa Mangal
The Manitoban: Why are you running for this position and what experience do you bring?
Dewa Mangal: I have some leadership skills and work experience in the field and I also...
That’s too big!
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Arabic numerals, which are what we here in Canada and the scientific community at large use to represent numbers, were a huge advancement over the roman numerals they replaced. Need proof? Try doing long...
Sudoku: behind the scenes
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Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku.
For those not familiar with the...
Browsing for web browsers
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Back when I was a kid, there were only two kinds of peanut butter on the shelf — chunky and smooth — a handful of ice cream flavors and fewer television channels than I...
Life after death
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Whoa, you just died. Nice one. Only a moment ago, there you were — alive, lying in bed, in a clean, white room. Your family was standing all around you, vaguely bored. It looked...
Multi-touch screen will soon be obsolete
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How often have you wished that your coffee table doubled as a musical instrument? If your answer was “all the time,” I have good news for you: computer science graduate students at the U...
Sudoku: Behind the scenes
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Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku.
For those not familiar with the...
