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Graphic cards in the core of a supercomputer.

looks like a platform independent svn but with nice graphical interface? useful for us? -LS

see also this paper already a few years old now but still ... http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/lfcamera-150dpi.pdf

On the same subject ...

Cute info-graphics on different machine learning architectures

Science aficionados have odd and surprising interests By Mark Fischetti | November 16, 2011 | People who are intrigued with physics are somewhat intrigued with computer science, too, but they are crazy about fashion. Who knew? Hilary Mason did.

In a new exhibition titled Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight [bl.uk], the British Library pays homage to the important role data visualization plays in the scientific process. The exhibition can be visited from 20 February until 26 May 2014, and contains works ranging from John Snow's plotting of the 1854 London cholera infections on a map to colourful depictions of the Tree of Life.

I like the following text: "It's still exponentially hard, but it's exponentially easier than we thought," Duffy says. One implication is that an attacker who simply relied on the frequencies with which letters occur in English words could probably guess a user-selected password much more quickly than was previously thought. "Attackers often use graphics processors to distribute the problem," Duffy says. "You'd be surprised at how quickly you can guess stuff."

iPhone app with scientific assessment of arguments used by global warming skeptics

very good idea! and it seems well done, the graphics are very clear and the literature abondant.

Francesco have a look at this - any interest?

any of us has knowledge how to use this open source 3D rendering software? -LS I used it, but it was a while ago. Why? - MR

A really cool and powerful tool for creating flow diagrams. I particularly like the layout organising algorithms, really nifty. Anyway, it's installed on the smart board computer now and maybe you'd all like it on your computers too.

This is really cool. I know one of the authors and he is a good guy... the only thing that leaves me unsatisfied is that if the whole issue is related to thermal effects one should have seen the Pioneer effect all the time and not only at about 10 AU... ...or is there some thermal process that kicked in only at this distance?

Here's an update on this theory: NASA Releases New Pioneer Anomaly Analysis "The mysterious force acting on the Pioneer spacecraft seems to be falling exponentially. That's a strong clue that on-board heat is to blame, says NASA." Heat emission 'most likely cause' of pioneer anomaly "What's more interesting is that, contrary to the original analysis conducted all those years ago, the deceleration does seem to be decelerating at an exponential rate -- just as one might expect from the radioactive decay of plutonium-238, which powers the two spacecraft. Turyshev concludes, "The most likely cause of the Pioneer anomaly is the anisotropic emission of on-board heat.""

the standard question: can we use it for space?

interesting, the paper: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fourierphoto/fourierphoto-600dpi.pdf

One year after the ACT...

We humans take for granted our remarkable ability to predict things that happen around us. Here, a deep learning model trained from real-world videos and a 3D graphics engine was able to infer physical properties of objects against humans.

In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star. The number of queries has trebled since 2010, while those for other major programming languages have been flat or declining.

Likely this is correlated with the increased interest in machine learning in the past decade - all the popular DL libraries are Python-based after all...