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Sounds good!

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 ?

well, from 1936 to 1993 the central bank of france was owned by the state and was supposed to serve the general interest...

can we contribute in any way to this - or alternatively benefit from this research already now?

that bad! wow ....

You know me, I'm the bullshitter... You remember Kurzweil and his Singularity-nonsense. In a way this was very similar. Though I think Kurzweil and Markram are very different characters (The Singularity essentially is a religion, I can't see anything like that in Markram's claims) they seem to share an important point: they are both complete nerds that apparently never spent a single thought on the limits of science (in its English meaning) in general nor of their particular research field in specific. One may find this excusable, I don't. But even then, they make claims that the nerdest nerd must know that they are completely unrealistic and thus I just have to assume that they claim their nonsense on purpose. The reason in Markram's case clearly seems to be money. But all this does not mean that these nerds cannot produce valuable results.

Excellent photo gallery.

Thanks for sharing! Most pics are very very nice, but a few are actually pretty mediocre I must say... "Wildlife" photography is always a rather tricky topic, as demonstrated by this famous story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8470962.stm

Some more stuff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15359263

who wants 100 cores ... future of PAGMO?

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).

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.

As ACT is tasked to investigate innovative working methods... DO IT!!! :)

but then we also have to ask who is willing to work on saturdays one day more for an extra 20% ...

Looks really cool! And it's open source :)

Don't know if you've noticed, but the current version is becoming more and more usable... did you try it already in your collaborative work?

We've used it a bit with Juxi and Leopold for the work on the new issue of acta futura, and I think it is quite nice. The problem right now is that only a few people in the team have an account (and I have exhausted my invitations). Maybe you have one or two you are willing to share? :)

The Web Developer's Resource

Great idea! Isn't it at the opposite of the web 2.0, where machine tends to be only clients and all the data centralized in big servers? I like more this approach of each individuals dealing with their own data, you have more control on what you want to share or not!

classical teleportation, sounds pretty interesting.

open source hardware?why not

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A social experiment that harnesses the collective intelligence of the web to visualize and uncover hidden relationships among future events.

no registration, you just send an email to post@posterous.com and automatically creates a blog with your link, check my test one e.g. http://nikolis1.posterous.com/ Read more: "Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email." - http://posterous.com/#ixzz0EYUFIaWX&A

bullshit

Interesting not for the US securtiy point of view but some forecasting on technologies and politics of the future

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

[MR] Semantic bookmarking system. Kevin, maybe You could have a look if it's worth trying?

for Tobi! nice analogy between the threat and the fast responding in human network

Yet another example of "because scientifically accurate title would sound sooo boring".

very nice!!! thanks for sharing ...

Now something on working methods... More than anything else Box does, Notes seems to embody the philosophy that in business, you never write for the sake of writing. You write to share with people. After all, memos were never meant to be ends in themselves-just the means.

A quick checklist to detect what sort of papers about blockchain are bullshit.

The B report shares the same conclusions and angle ...