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pacome delva

"God Machine" Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights - 3 views

blogs.sciencemag.org/...critics-of-god.html

fun phy lhc particles

shared by pacome delva on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • pacome delva on 09 Nov 09
     
    The end of the world is for this month...
Francesco Biscani

Tom Sawyer, whitewashing fences, and building communities online - 3 views

darkmattermatters.com/...nd-building-communities-online

open innovation open source

shared by Francesco Biscani on 11 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • If you are looking to ideas like open source or social media as simple means to get what you want for your company, it’s time to rethink your community strategy.
  • I’ve talked to people at companies who are considering “open sourcing” their product because they think there is an army of people out there who will jump at the chance to build their products for them. Many of these people go on to learn tough but valuable lessons in building community. It’s not that simple.
  • Francesco Biscani on 11 Nov 09
     
    Illuminating article about corporations trying to exploit "open source" and not getting what they want.
  • LeopoldS on 12 Nov 09
     
    I like the red had definition: "To be the catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners creating better technology the open source way."
  • Juxi Leitner on 12 Nov 09
     
    yeah, it is the same with crowdsourcing in general, when some company "managers" see how much cheaper they could do it but don't understand where it comes from...
Juxi Leitner

Google's Go: A New Programming Language That's Python Meets C++ - 6 views

www.techcrunch.com/...google-go-language

programming tech google

shared by Juxi Leitner on 11 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 11 Nov 09
     
    Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company ...
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  • Francesco Biscani on 11 Nov 09
     
    Ugh... no operator overloading, no efficient generic programming and no lambda expressions... Only time will tell, but I don't understand who the intended audience is: I think that Python guys won't care about the (supposedly) increased performance (and you can interface C/C++ with Python easily) and that C++ programmers (I mean, the hardcore serious C++ Boost-like programmers, no the Java-like whiners :P) won't have their beloved templates pried from their cold dead hands with ease.
  • Juxi Leitner on 12 Nov 09
     
    yeah though I think especially operator overloading is not going to be a main problem, it is as with the JS library though quite thinkable that lots of users will switch or use it (or being put to use it...) because it is done by Google
  • Francesco Biscani on 12 Nov 09
     
    Having Google backing it will certainly help, even though they are presenting it as a "system level" (i.e., hard-core) language, and in that domain it is much more difficult to bullshit your way to a position of relevance. Look at Java: Sun pushed it like hell and it is certainly widely used in many contexts (corporate, web and embedded markets mostly), yet it completely failed to win the hearts of "open-source" developers (or, more generally, of those developers who are not forced to use it by virtue of some management-driven decision).
  • Juxi Leitner on 12 Nov 09
     
    "or, more generally, of those developers who are not forced to use it by virtue of some management-driven decision" completely agree with that!!
Nina Nadine Ridder

India cabinet approves solar power programme - Technology News - SINA English - 1 views

english.sina.com/...286944.html

alternative_energy solar_energy renewable_energy

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 20 Nov 09
     
    Idian government approved $19 billion plan for solar energy project
pacome delva

Chemical Reactions Guide Birds Home - 0 views

sciencenow.sciencemag.org/...2

phy bio magnetic_field birds

shared by pacome delva on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Turtles, birds, and butterflies can migrate thousands of kilometers--even over vast oceans largely free of landmarks. Scientists suspect that these animals find their way by sensing Earth's magnetic field, yet the exact nature of this internal compass has remained a mystery. Now, researchers believe they have come closer to solving the puzzle: a magnetic-sensing chemical reaction within the eye.
  • pacome delva on 18 Nov 09
     
    A good occasion to get the idea out of the idea pool...?
Juxi Leitner

Rocketeers take lead in $1 million race - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com - 1 views

cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/...2111070.aspx

prizes lunar lander technology

shared by Juxi Leitner on 02 Nov 09 - Cached
  • The judges will weigh all this over the next few days, in advance of an awards ceremony scheduled Thursday in Washington.
LeopoldS

Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools - 1 views

googlecode.blogspot.com/...introducing-closure-tools.html

open source INF

shared by LeopoldS on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 06 Nov 09
     
    new open source tool from google .... Francesco: of any interest to us?
  • Juxi Leitner on 06 Nov 09
     
    I don't think so, it is just a code optimizer for JavaScript, unless there are somewhere big JavaScript (web2.0) applications running that is not of much interest for us Other google labs systems e.g. FriendConnect could be useful for Ariadnet, maybe also the visualization and social graph API
  • Juxi Leitner on 12 Nov 09
Nicolas Weiss

World Cup Roundup - A Draw Is Good Enough for Uruguay to Advance - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...19soccer.html

footbaal

shared by Nicolas Weiss on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Nicolas Weiss on 19 Nov 09
     
    finally!
Juxi Leitner

Mendeley, the-Last.fm-of-research, could be world's largest online research paper datab... - 4 views

eu.techcrunch.com/...h-paper-database-by-early-2010

science web2.0

shared by Juxi Leitner on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09
     
    smells like ariadnet for ariadna papers and researchers
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  • pacome delva on 19 Nov 09
     
    Ideed, seems like what we dream for ariadnet... However could have been good to allow the creation of groups. I will try it next week. The possibility to "Explore research trends and statistics" will please Leopold ;)
  • pacome delva on 22 Dec 09
     
    I am on mendeley now and I like it so far ! You can check my page on http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/pacome-delva/
  • LeopoldS on 23 Dec 09
     
    am also on Medelay since some time - think that Tobias has showed it to me. Nice but did not actually use it yet really ....
nikolas smyrlakis

Martian landscapes - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 2 views

www.boston.com/...martian_landscapes.html

mars landscapes martian astronomy science

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09
     
    not an expert, but pattern recognising seems a bit tricky ?
Ma Ru

New LHC Sabotage Theory - 3 views

us.cnn.com/video

NRG CERN LHC

shared by Ma Ru on 15 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 15 Nov 09
     
    I find it much more plausible than the theory of a bird bombing it with a baguette...
  • Francesco Biscani on 15 Nov 09
     
    The obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/401/
nikolas smyrlakis

NASA Awards $350,000 to Winning Astronaut Glove Designers | International Space Fellowship - 0 views

spacefellowship.com/...ning-astronaut-glove-designers

nasa awards space glove_challenge_2009

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Nov 09
     
    I just like this phrase: "It is remarkable that two designers working on their own could create gloves that meet the requirements for spaceflight - a task that normally requires a large team of experts,"
Nicholas Lan

rapid 3D model acquisition with a webcam from Cambridge uni - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...ing-with-any-stationary-webcam

3D modelling feature based computer vision probabilistic webcam

shared by Nicholas Lan on 24 Nov 09 - Cached
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  • Nicholas Lan on 24 Nov 09
     
    impressive, particularly if it works like it does in the video the whole time. paper here http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/
  • Ma Ru on 24 Nov 09
     
    Well, impressive indeed... have to try it out...
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