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One of the best use cases for MS Excel so far.

"The Neuromorphic Computing Platform allows neuroscientists and engineers to perform experiments with configurable neuromorphic computing systems. The platform provides two complementary, large-scale neuromorphic systems built in custom hardware at locations in Heidelberg, Germany (the "BrainScaleS" system, also known as the "physical model" or PM system) and Manchester, United Kingdom (the "SpiNNaker" system, also known as the "many core" or MC system)."

new 24qbits quantum computer fitting in standard racks ...

Nice not-too-technical introduction to computing hardware in space.

Computer simulations by researchers in the US and China could lead to solar cells that work efficiently across a broad range of the solar spectrum.

doubt that this would work ...

have a look ... article from Claudio

Recently, many competitions in the computer vision domain have been won by huge convolutional networks. In the image net competition, the convolutional network approach halves the error from ~30% to ~15%! Key changes that make this happen: weight-sharing to reduce the search space, and training with a massive GPU approach. (See also the work at IDSIA: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/vision.html) This should please Francisco :)

...mmmmm... they use 60 million parameters and 650,000 neurons on a task that one can somehow consider easier than (say) predicting a financial crisis ... still they get 15% of errors .... reminds me of a comic we saw once ... cat http://www.sarjis.info/stripit/abstruse-goose/496/the_singularity_is_way_over_there.png

I think the ultimate solution is still to put a human brain in a jar and use it for pattern recognition. Maybe we should get a stagiaire for this..?

A game built to help computers in solving satisfiability problems.  (in case the new version doesn't work, try the original one)

"Despite years of promise, an odor-emitting component in devices such as televisions, phones, computers and more has yet to be developed."

In a world increasingly dominated by the QWERTY keyboard, UCL computer scientists have developed software which may spark the comeback of the handwritten word by analysing the handwriting of any individual and accurately replicating it.

Similar work has been around for several years: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html (as mentioned in the video). I think this could be nicely applied for procedurally generated handwritten post cards (e.g. invitation, thank you cards for weddings, funerals, child birth, etc.) where the sender would otherwise have to write dozens of cards. Anybody interested to start a business? ;-P

"That's why silicon chips operate at temperatures hot enough to fry eggs." I stopped reading after this sentence... is the remaining part of the article equally scientifically (in)accurate?

Directory relaxed to our arianda study, Guido have a Look please

A new quasicrystal formation has been discovered using computer simulations. The formation consists of hard triangular bipyramids, each composed of two regular tetrahedra sharing a single face, and is described in a paper in Physical Review Letters by Sharon Glotzer and colleagues at the University of Michigan in the US. Great for Luis coming paper .....

Another Zeilinger article in science

New experiments and supercomputer computations discovered that iron oxide undergoes a new kind of transition under deep Earth conditions. Iron oxide, FeO, is a component of the second most abundant mineral at Earth's lower mantle, ferropericlase. The finding, published in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, could alter our understanding of deep Earth dynamics and the behavior of the protective magnetic field, which shields our planet from harmful cosmic rays.