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Hewlett-Packard Unveils Real-World Memristor, Chip of the Future | Popular Science - 3 views

  • they allow the same device to serve as the processor and the memory
  • a memristor system would work far faster, and with far less energy, than a traditional computer.
  • Second, memristors can be much smaller than transistors.
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  • Lastly, unlike transistors, which only work linearly, memristors can form three-dimensional networks
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    wow, looks pretty cool! I wonder what is "a ridiculous amount of memory on a chip"...? giga, tera, peta, exa, ... ?
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    Looks cool indeed, but as with all those technology "breakthroughs" my enthusiasm will be limited until this actually makes it to my laptop...
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    what a phrase: "this advance could increase the power and memory of computers to nearly unimaginable proportions within only a couple of years." ... sure ....
Juxi Leitner

Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

  • The interconnections fueled a cascading effect, with the failures coursing back and forth. A damaged node in the first network would pull down nodes in the second, which crashed nodes in the first, which brought down more in the second, and so on. And when they looked at data from a 2003 Italian power blackout, in which the electrical grid was linked to the computer network that controlled it, the patterns matched their models’ math.
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    that would be an interesting "Systems of Systems" study for once ...
LeopoldS

Experimental Detection of Trinitramide, N(NO2)3 - Rahm - 2010 - Angewandte Chemie Inter... - 0 views

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    Dejan have a look at this ...
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    Would be nice to have some cross sections or transition probabilities for the possible transition (or decomposition) channels. But anyway, HEDM is one of the key short/mid-term topics in advanced energy, power, and/or propulsion.
Nicholas Lan

prediction markets - 2 views

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    talking of interesting business models - > futures markets for whether or not despots will still be in power by the end of the year. Markets>Foreign Affiars/International security
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    "Challenge the Intrade Crowd with Your Wisdom"... Yeah...
Luís F. Simões

New algorithm offers ability to influence systems such as living cells or social networks - 3 views

  • a new computational model that can analyze any type of complex network -- biological, social or electronic -- and reveal the critical points that can be used to control the entire system.
  • Slotine and his colleagues applied traditional control theory to these recent advances, devising a new model for controlling complex, self-assembling networks.
  • Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Albert-László Barabási. Controllability of complex networks. Nature, 2011; 473 (7346): 167 DOI: 10.1038/nature10011
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    Sounds too super to be true, no?
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    cover story in the May 12 issue of Nature
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    For each, they calculated the percentage of points that need to be controlled in order to gain control of the entire system.
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    > Sounds too super to be true, no? Yeah, how else may it sound, being a combination of hi-quality (I assume) research targeted at attracting funding, raised to the power of Science Daily's pop-pseudo-scientific journalists' bu****it? Original article starts with a cool sentence too: > The ultimate proof of our understanding of natural or technological systems is reflected in our ability to control them. ...a good starting point for a never-ending philosophers' debate... Now seriously, because of a big name behind the study, I'm very curious to read the original article. Although I expect the conclusion to be that in practical cases (i.e. the cases of "networks" you *would like to* "control"), you need to control all nodes or something equally impractical...
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    then I am looking forward to reading your conclusions here after you will have actually read the paper
Luís F. Simões

Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - 10 views

  • After month of research and discovery, we’ve learned the following:1. Bitcoin is a technologically sound project.2. Bitcoin is unstoppable without end-user prosecution.3. Bitcoin is the most dangerous open-source project ever created.4. Bitcoin may be the most dangerous technological project since the internet itself.5. Bitcoin is a political statement by technotarians (technological libertarians).*6. Bitcoins will change the world unless governments ban them with harsh penalties.
  • The benefits of a currency like this:a) Your coins can’t be frozen (like a Paypal account can be)b) Your coins can’t be trackedc) Your coins can’t be taxedd) Transaction costs are extremely low (sorry credit card companies)
  • An individual with the name -- or perhaps handle -- of Satoshi Nakamoto first wrote about bitcoins in a paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.
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  • * We made this term up to describe the “good people” of the internet who believe in the fundamental rights of individuals to be free, have free speech, fight hypocrisy and stand behind logic, technology and science over religion, political structure and tradition. These are the people who build and support things like Wikileaks, Anonymous, Linux and Wikipedia. They think that people can, and should, govern themselves. They are against external forms of control such as DRM, laws that are bought and sold by lobbyists, and religions like Scientology. They include splinter groups that enforce these ideals in the form of hacktivism, such as the takedown of the Sony Playstation Network after Sony tried to prosecute a hacker for unlocking its console.
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    Sounds good!
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    wow it's frigthening! it's the dream of every anarchist, every drug, arm, human dealer! the world made as a global fiscal paradise... the idea is clever however it will not replace real money because 1 - no one will build a fortune on bitcoin if a technological breakthrough can ruin them 2 - government never allowed parallel money to flourish on their territory, so it will be almost impossible to change bitcoin against euros or dollars
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    interesting stuff anyone read cryptonomicon by neal stephenson? similar theme.
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    :) yes. One of the comments on reddit was precisely drawing the parallels with Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash / Diamond Age / Cryptonomicon. Interesting stuff indeed. It has a lot of potential for misuse, but also opens up new possibilities. We've discussed recently how emerging technologies will drive social change. Whether it's the likes of NSA / CIA who will benefit the most from the Twitters, Facebooks and so on, by gaining greater power for control, or whether individuals are being empowered to at least an identical degree. We saw last year VISA / PayPal censoring WikiLeaks... Well, here's a way for any individual to support such an organization, in a fully anonymous and uncontrollable way...
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    One of my colleagues has made a nice, short write-up about BitCoin: http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~victor/bitcoin.html
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    very nice analysis indeed - thanks Tamas for sharing it!
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    mmm I'm not an expert but it seemed to me that, even if these criticisms are true, there is one fundamental difference between the money you exchange on internet via your bank, and bitcoins. The first one is virtual money and the second one aims at being real, physical, money, even if digital, in the same way as banknotes, coins, or gold.
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    An algorithm wanna-be central bank issuing untraceable tax free money between internet users? not more likely than the end of the world supposed to take place tomorrow, in my opinion. Algorithms don't usually assault women though !:P
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    well, most money is anyway just virtual and only based on expectations and trust ... (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply) and thus if people trust that this "money" has some value in the sense that they can get something of value to them in exchange, then not much more is needed it seems to me ...
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    @Leopold: ok let's use the rigth words then. Bitcoin aim at being a currency ("physical objects generally accepted as a medium of exchange" from wikipedia), different than the "demand deposit". In the article proposed by Tamas he compares what cannot be compared (currencies, demand deposits and their mean of exchange). The interesting question is wether one can create a digital currency which is too difficult to counterfeit. As far as I know, there is no existing digital currency except this bitcoins (and maybe the currencies from games as second life and others, but which are of limited use in real world).
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    well of course money is trust, and even more loans and credit and even more stock and bond markets. It all represents trust and expectations. However since the first banks 500 years ago and the first loans etc. etc., and as well the fact that bonds and currencies bring down whole countries (Greece lately), and are mainly controlled by large financial centres and (central) banks, banks have always been on the winning side no matter what and that isn't going to change easily. So if you are talking about these new currencies it would be a new era, not just a new currency. So should Greece convert its debt to bitcoins ;P ?
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    well, from 1936 to 1993 the central bank of france was owned by the state and was supposed to serve the general interest...
santecarloni

[1106.1470] Evidence for Time-Varying Nuclear Decay Rates: Experimental Results and The... - 2 views

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    Unexplained annual variations in nuclear decay rates have been reported in recent years by a number of groups. We show that data from these experiments exhibit not only variations in time related to Earth-Sun distance, but also periodicities attributable to solar rotation. Additionally, anomalous decay rates coincident in time with a series of solar flares in December 2006 also point to a solar influence on nuclear decay rates....
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    can we use space to make a smart experiment to solve this riddle? e.g. sending a decay detecter on a close solar orbit and one to Pluto and then compare decay rates? or a highly elliptical trajectory and compare during peri and apoapsis?
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    I think it could be possible. I need to look into the details. In fact it could probably be done already with the nuclear generators on the Voyager and Pioneer and other nuclear powered probes. That is if the data are precise enough...
LeopoldS

July 2011: The Future of Energy | Popular Science - 3 views

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    SPS story ...
LeopoldS

Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power achieves key milestone - 24 hours of uninterrupted s... - 1 views

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    was always a bit sceptic about the molten salt technology but practise seems to show that it works just fine ...
Ma Ru

LHC@Home - 3 views

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    Spare processing power anyone? Based on BOINC.
LeopoldS

Technologies That Could Change the Energy Picture - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    SPS rules ....
Juxi Leitner

Honda Improves Process for Making Nanotubes - Reviews by PC Magazine - 0 views

  • Honda Research Institute USA plans to publish results of new research on Friday that shows that the company has improved the success rate of growing carbon nanotubes with metallic properties, a key to using them in future power devices.
nikolas smyrlakis

BBC NEWS | Health | Juggling increases brain power - 1 views

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    Oxford University scientists find that a complex skill such as juggling causes changes in the white matter of the brain. - Let's start juggling for the ideastorm!
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    cool. I can do some lessons with three and four balls... tomorrow after lunch !
LeopoldS

Tilera Corporation - 2 views

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    who wants 100 cores ... future of PAGMO?
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    Well nVidia provides 10.000 "cores" in a single rack on thei Teslas...
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    remember that you were recommending its purchase already some time ago ... still strong reasons to do so?
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    The problem with this flurry of activity today regarding multicore architectures is that it is really unclear which one will be the winner in the long run. Never understimate the power of inertia, especially in the software industry (after all, people are still programming in COBOL and Fortran today). For instance, NVIDIA gives you the Teslas with 10000 cores, but then you have to rewrite extensive parts of your code in order to take advantage of this. Is this an investment worth undertaking? Difficult to say, it would certainly be if the whole software world moves into that direction (which is not happening - yet?). But then you have other approaches coming out, suche as the Cell processor by IBM (the one on the PS3) which has really impressive floating point performance and, of course, a completely different programming model. The nice thing about this Tilera processor seems to be that it is a general-purpose processor, which may not require extensive re-engineering of existing code (but I'm really hypothesizing, since the thechincal details are not very abundant on their website).
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    Moreover PaGMO computation model is more towards systems with distributed memory, and not with shared memory (i.e. multi-core). In the latter, at certain point the memory access becomes the bottleneck.
Francesco Biscani

Asteroid blast reveals holes in Earth's defences - space - 26 October 2009 - New Scientist - 2 views

  • On 8 October an asteroid detonated high in the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia, releasing about as much energy as 50,000 tons of TNT, according to a NASA estimate released on Friday. That's about three times more powerful than the atomic bomb that levelled Hiroshima, making it one of the largest asteroid explosions ever observed.
Nina Nadine Ridder

Trapping Carbon Dioxide Or Switching To Nuclear Power Not Enough To Solve Global Warmin... - 0 views

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    hello, you should put underscores between the words of your tags otherwise it makes two tags...
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    Oh... sorry. Thought that it's enough to seperate the tags with a comma. Won't happen again!
Juxi Leitner

Solar panels shaped like clay roof tiles - Springwise - 0 views

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    I wonder how much more expensive they are...
LeopoldS

NASA - Climate Simulation Computer Becomes More Powerful - 0 views

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    just to make Nina and Friederike envious ...
LeopoldS

Access : Coherent emission of light by thermal sources : Nature - 0 views

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    how "large" could these distances be? - ready for SPS?
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    I don't think that the distance is the important criteria... It seems that the directivity is of the order of a laser one, so the divergence will be equivalent. Perhaps the important criteria is that the cost of these type of light sources could be cheaper...? and also perhaps what power transmission is achievable? It seems also that now that this concept could be used for to focus cheap lasers, instead of using complex optics in cd-rom players, etc... see http://news.softpedia.com/news/Highly-Directional-Semiconductor-Laser-Created-at-Harvard-90839.shtml
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