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nikolas smyrlakis

Logicomix: an epic search for truth - 1 views

www.independent.co.uk/...tional-bestseller-1801683.html

maths comic bertrand_russel

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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09
     
    an interesting comic about maths, ideas etc. Co-written by a greek mathematician / writer and a Berkeley computer science professor, sold out in Greece and since its international release a couple of months ago is occupying the top selling comics lists of Amazon etc. also: http://www.logicomix.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=53
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09
     
    btw I just ordered it from Amazon, so if you want after I finish it I can lend it
Beniamino Abis

New Web Structure Found in the Peruvian Amazon - 1 views

www.nbcnews.com/...-baffles-scientists-8C11073468

BIO fun

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  • Beniamino Abis on 05 Sep 13
     
    The strange formation resembles a tiny spire surrounded by a webby picket fence and is about 2 centimeters wide. Apparently nobody knows what it is, but Tom said that it may actually come from a spider (according to the way the web was spun)!
Dario Izzo

NASA Brings Earth Science 'Big Data' to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services | NASA - 3 views

www.nasa.gov/...cloud-with-amazon-web-services

big data

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  • Dario Izzo on 12 Nov 13
     
    NASA answer to the big data hype
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 13 Nov 13
     
    "The service encompasses selected NASA satellite and global change data sets -- including temperature, precipitation, and forest cover -- and data processing tools from the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)" Very good marketing move for just three types of selected data (MODIS, Landsat products) plus four model runs (past/projection) for the the four greenhouse gas emissions scenarios of the IPCC. It looks as if they are making data available to adress a targeted question (crowdsourcing of science, as Paul mentioned last time, this time climate evolution), not at all the "free scrolling of the user around the database" to pick up what he thinks useful, mode. There is already more rich libraries out there when it comes to climate (http://icdc.zmaw.de/) Maybe simpler approach is the way to go: make available the big data sets categorized by study topic (climate evolution, solar system science, galaxies etc.) and not by instrument or mission, which is more technical, so that the amateur user can identify his point of interest easily.
  • Thijs Versloot on 13 Nov 13
     
    They are taking a good leap forward with it, but it definitely requires a lot of post processing of the data. Actually it seems they downsample everything to workable chunks. But I guess the power is really in the availability of the data in combination with Amazon's cloud computing platform. Who knows what will come out of it if hundreds of people start interacting with it.
Luís F. Simões

The accidental roboticist - 1 views

www.sciencemag.org/...192.full

BIO AI INF robotics evolution

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  • Luís F. Simões on 10 Oct 14
     
    Evolutionary Robotics, as practised by biologists. Here's the link to John Long's book, mentioned in the article: Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QXVRZG/
Luís F. Simões

This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future (The Edge Annual Question... - 3 views

www.edge.org/q09_index.html

edge future science technology

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  • WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING? "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
  • That's the question John Brockman, editor of the Web site edge.org, posed to about 160 cutting-edge minds in his 11th annual Edge Question. As in years past, they responded with bold, often thrilling, sometimes chilling, answers.
  • Luís F. Simões on 28 Nov 10
     
    And here's the same thing, but in dead-trees format: http://www.amazon.com/This-Will-Change-Everything-Future/dp/0061899674 Anyone else thinks that the ACT should buy us all a copy as a Christmas present? :)
  • LeopoldS on 29 Nov 10
     
    you are the ACT!!!
pacome delva

Forest a Desert, Cool the World - 0 views

sciencenow.sciencemag.org/...2

environment climate_change geoengineering

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  • pacome delva on 15 Sep 09
     
    Destroy a forest at one side of the world (amazon), and create one ate the other side... the world is crazy!
ESA ACT

Amazon puts network power online : Article : Nature - 0 views

www.nature.com/...444528a.html

supercomputing technology amazon

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Cost-effective supercomputing wins academic praise. A loose idea now in Nature
johannessimon81

Amazon's New Truck Can Haul Five Copies of the Internet-With Room to Spare - 1 views

www.wired.com/...-truck-hauling-huge-hard-drive

data

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  • johannessimon81 on 05 Dec 16
     
    I guess this is for data what oil tankers vs. pipelines are for hydrocarbons. Isn't ESA doing something similar for satellite data? I seem to remember that Leopold mentioned that at some point.
johannessimon81

Google combines skycrane, VTOL and lifting wing to make drone deliveries - 6 views

www.wired.com/...ffort-to-build-delivery-drones

technology drone_delivery VTOL skycrane FUN soundtrack

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  • johannessimon81 on 30 Aug 14
     
    Nice video featuring the technology. Plus it comes with a good soundtrack! Google's project wing uses a lifting wing concept (more fuel efficient than normal airplane layouts and MUCH more efficient than quadrocopters) but it equips the plane with engines strong enough to hover in a nose up position, allowing vertical landing and takeoff. For the delivery of packages the drone does not even need to land - it can lower them on a wire - much like the skycrane concept used to deliver the Curiosity rover on Mars. Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. Anyways, the video is great for its soundtrack alone! ;-P
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  • Paul N on 31 Aug 14
     
    could we just use genetic algorithms to evolve these shapes and layouts? :P
  • Ma Ru on 31 Aug 14
     
    > Not sure if the skycrane is really necessary but it is certainly cool. I think apart from coolness using a skycrane helps keep the rotating knives away from the recipient...
  • Thijs Versloot on 01 Sep 14
     
    Honest question, are we ever going to see this in practice? I mean besides some niche application somewhere, isn't it fundamentally flawed or do I need to keep my window opened on the 3rd floor without a balcony when I ordered something from DX? Its pretty cool yes, but practical?
  • Guido de Croon on 02 Sep 14
     
    Package delivery is indeed more complicated than it may seem at first sight, although solutions are possible for instance by restricting delivery to distribution centers. What we really need of course is some really efficient and robust AI to navigate without any problems in urban areas : ) The hybrid is interesting since it combines the advantage of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (and hover), and a wing for more efficient forward flight. Challenges lie in the control of the vehicle under any angle and all that this entails also for higher levels of control. Our lab has first used this concept a few years ago for the DARPA UAVforge challenge, and we had two hybrids in our entry last year for the IMAV 2013 (for some shaky images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7XgRK7pMoU ).
  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Sep 14
     
    Fair enough, but even if you consider advanced/robust/efficient AI, why would you use a drone? Do we envision hundreds of drones above our heads in the street instead of UPS vans, or postmen, considering delivers letters might be more easily achievable. I am not so sure if personal delivery will take this route. On the other hand, if the system would work smoothly, I can image that I'm send a mail with the question whether I'm home (or they might know already from my personal GPS tracker) and then notify me that they are launching my DVD and it will come crashing into my door in 5min.
  • Paul N on 08 Sep 14
     
    I'm more curios how they're planning to keep people from stealing the drones. I could do with a drone army myself and having cheap amazon or google drones flying about sounds like a decent source.
Luís F. Simões

Seminar: You and Your Research, Dr. Richard W. Hamming (March 7, 1986) - 10 views

www.chris-lott.org/...kaiser.html

science research Methods methodology Nobel Bell Labs Los Alamos

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  • This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the question "Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?" From his more than forty years of experience, thirty of which were at Bell Laboratories, he has made a number of direct observations, asked very pointed questions of scientists about what, how, and why they did things, studied the lives of great scientists and great contributions, and has done introspection and studied theories of creativity. The talk is about what he has learned in terms of the properties of the individual scientists, their abilities, traits, working habits, attitudes, and philosophy.
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Jan 11
     
    Here's the link related to one of the lunch time discussions. I recommend it to every single one of you. I promise it will be worth your time. If you're lazy, you have a summary here (good stuff also in the references, have a look at them):      Erren TC, Cullen P, Erren M, Bourne PE (2007) Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming. PLoS Comput Biol 3(10): e213.
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  • pacome delva on 11 Jan 11
     
    I'm also pretty sure that the ones who are remembered are not the ones who tried to be... so why all these rules !? I think it's bullshit...
  • Luís F. Simões on 11 Jan 11
     
    The seminar is not a manual on how to achieve fame, but rather an analysis on how others were able to perform very significant work. The two things are in some cases related, but the seminar's focus is on the second.
  • pacome delva on 12 Jan 11
     
    Then read a good book on the life of Copernic, it's the anti-manual of Hamming... he breaks all the rules !
  • LeopoldS on 12 Jan 11
     
    honestly I think that some of these rules actually make sense indeed ... but I am always curious to get a good book recommendation (which book of Copernic would you recommend?) btw Pacome: we are in Paris ... in case you have some time ...
  • pacome delva on 12 Jan 11
     
    I warmly recommend this book, a bit old but fascinating: The sleepwalkers from Arthur Koestler. It shows that progress in science is not straight and do not obey any rule... It is not as rational as most of people seem to believe today. http://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-History-Changing-Universe-Compass/dp/0140192468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294835558&sr=8-1 Otherwise yes I have some time ! my phone number: 0699428926 We live around Denfert-Rochereau and Montparnasse. We could go for a beer this evening ?
tvinko

Beware online "filter bubbles": Eli Pariser on TED.com - 1 views

blog.ted.com/...bubbles-eli-pariser-on-ted-com

recommendation information_filtering

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Francesco Biscani

Slashdot Technology Story | Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech? - 2 views

tech.slashdot.org/...g-the-Hotel-California-of-Tech

inf

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  • the cloud is still largely a one-way road into Web services, with closed data networks making it difficult to impossible to move data into competing services
  • Juxi Leitner on 06 Oct 09
     
    also interesting is this article quote: "How big can the cloud get before it starts to rain?" http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/0152200/Amazons-Cloud-May-Provision-50000-VMs-a-Day
ESA ACT

Surface structure and frictional properties of the skin of the Amazon tree boa Corallus... - 0 views

www.springerlink.com/...7364173l68486347

BIO friction paper locomotion

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Anisotropic frictional properties for crawling locomotion.
Luís F. Simões

Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future? - The Atlantic - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...588040

future forecast innovation collaboration

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  • The Peculiar Blindness of Experts Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.
  • The result: The experts were, by and large, horrific forecasters. Their areas of specialty, years of experience, and (for some) access to classified information made no difference. They were bad at short-term forecasting and bad at long-term forecasting. They were bad at forecasting in every domain. When experts declared that future events were impossible or nearly impossible, 15 percent of them occurred nonetheless. When they declared events to be a sure thing, more than one-quarter of them failed to transpire. As the Danish proverb warns, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.”
  • Tetlock and Mellers found that not only were the best forecasters foxy as individuals, but they tended to have qualities that made them particularly effective collaborators. They were “curious about, well, really everything,” as one of the top forecasters told me. They crossed disciplines, and viewed their teammates as sources for learning, rather than peers to be convinced. When those foxes were later grouped into much smaller teams—12 members each—they became even more accurate. They outperformed—by a lot—a group of experienced intelligence analysts with access to classified data.
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  • This article is adapted from David Epstein’s book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
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