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On Android speech recognition but also with a very nice video: direct translation of English voice input to Chinese audio. Looks like it might be really useful eventually.

Cute info-graphics on different machine learning architectures

coming soon to a garden near you: Snail Sensor Networks

Treating materials like complex networks leads to substances with extraordinary counterintuitive properties, say physicists

Stackexchange is a network of collaborative question and answer sites; the most well-known is the stackoverflow site for programming. This site focuses on Computation.

European research network GÉANT turns Voyager 1 & 2 data into a musical duet.

Sottos, White, Moore, and their team created 3D vascular networks-patterns of microchannels filled with healing chemistries-that thread through a fiber-reinforced composite. When damage occurs, the networks within the material break apart and allow the healing chemistries to mix and polymerize, autonomously healing the material, over multiple cycles.

Not easily digestible piece of esa document, but to prove Paul's point. And yes, they have already planned to train neural networks on a database of different water types, so that the satellite figures out from the combined retrieval of backscattering and absorption = f(λ) which type of water it is looking at. Type of water relates to οptical clarity of the water, a variable called turbidity. We could do this as well for mapping iron fertilization locations if we find its spectral signature. Lab time?????

Almost in time for the workshop last week! This new Nature paper (e-mail me for full paper) claims training and usage of neural network implemented with metal-oxide memristors, without selector CMOS. They used it to implement a delta-rule algorithm for classification of 3x3 pixel black and white letters. Very impressive work!!!!

For those not that much into the topic, see the Nature's News and View section www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7550/full/521037a.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20150507 where they feature this article.

A neuronal network trained to paint the scene of a given photograph in the style of Kandinsky, van Gogh, or Munch. Their results look quite impressive. Unfortunately the article is in German, but the English paper (with plenty of pictures) is here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576v2.pdf Malen wie Kandinsky, wie van Gogh, wie Munch nur auf Basis einer Fotovorlage? Natürlich gibt es begabte Kunstfälscher, die das können. Jetzt aber gelingt es auch Computern, und zwar auf höchst eindrucksvolle Weise. Drei Forscher von der Universität Tübingen haben es geschafft, einem sogenannten künstlichen neuronalen Netzwerk das Malen beizubringen.

Impressive stuff indeed. Paper came out one week ago. Multiple independent implementations have popped out since then: * https://github.com/Lasagne/Recipes/blob/master/examples/styletransfer/Art%20Style%20Transfer.ipynb * https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style * https://github.com/kaishengtai/neuralart

nice new social network - by French! ... also nice layout :-)

nice paper: like especially: To our knowledge, our model provides the first unified explanation of high-frequency, intra-conflict data across human insurgencies. Other explanations of human insurgency are possible, though any competing theory would also need to replicate the results of Figs 1, 2, 3. Our model's specific mechanisms challenge traditional ideas of insurgency based on rigid hierarchies and networks, whereas its striking similarity to multi-agent financial market models24, 25, 26 hints at a possible link between collective human dynamics in violent and non-violent settings1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Top of page

There was also this paper ... Power Law Explains Insurgent Violence (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1216/1?rss=1)

but so far only an announcement ... they want to be ready in autumn only ... :-(

yes, but already 172000 dollars of donation (!!) and plenty of guys offered their service for the coding ! this is something a lot of people is waiting for !

Anything that can has a chance to save us from the Facebook abomination is welcome...

You guys could like this....

really really interesting article also referring to a Nature paper called Evolutionary dynamics on graphs

If you're looking for interesting articles or sites devoted to Kobe Bryant, you search Google. If you're looking for interesting comments from your extended social network about the three-pointer Kobe just made 30 seconds ago, you go to Twitter.

looking a bit back to small world nets bibliography I bumped into that. quote: The probability that a Brazilian soccer player has worked at $N$ clubs or played $M$ games shows an exponential decay while the probability that he has scored $G$ goals is power law. (!)