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jmlloren

Public Service Broadcasting: 'The Other Side,' - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

shared by jmlloren on 25 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • jmlloren on 25 Aug 15
     
    The sound track of Apolo mission. They have a full album devoted to the space race.
pacome delva

Supernovae put dark matter in the right place - 3 views

physicsworld.com/...41399

phy astrophysics dark_matter supernovae

shared by pacome delva on 14 Jan 10 - Cached
  • “one of the best papers I have ever seen”
  • pacome delva on 14 Jan 10
     
    Well, with these huge numerical simulation you're never sure of anything... Anyway the idea sounds quite convincing and simple.
  • Francesco Biscani on 14 Jan 10
     
    Whops, sorry for the duplicate bookmark above :)
LeopoldS

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell : Business : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yom... - 1 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...T091221004988.htm

NRG solar batteries

shared by LeopoldS on 26 Dec 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 26 Dec 09
     
    sounds a bit optimistic to me but interesting ...
nikolas smyrlakis

Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movies, 2000 and Beyond | Underwire | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...5

sci-fi movies primer wired

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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 09 Dec 09
     
    some ideas for movie Fridays A "must" see on my opinion (never heard about it in the past!) : Primer Sounds ideal: "Primer is a 2004 American science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed and produced by Shane Carruth, a mathematician and a former engineer, and was completed on a budget of $7,000.[1] Primer is of note for its extremely low budget, experimental plot structure and complex technical dialogue, which Carruth chose not to 'dumb down' for the sake of his audience. One reviewer said that "anybody who claims [to] fully understand what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar."[2] The film collected the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004 before securing a limited release in US cinemas, and has since gained a cult following."
  • Ma Ru on 09 Dec 09
     
    I watched it a while ago during my studies in Belgium... The plot is quite well summarized on this diagram: http://xkcd.com/657/large/ According to the text above I'm either savant or a liar (you choose). But I watched the movie under significant exposure to Belgian beer, so this may have helped...
Juxi Leitner

"Verschränkte" Gehirnzellen - science.ORF.at - 2 views

science.orf.at/1636355

bio neuroscience quantum

shared by Juxi Leitner on 18 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 18 Jan 10
     
    Sorry for the German, but there is a link to the english paper as well: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000278 Following up on Martin's talk, I found that on the Austrian National Broadcaster website, well not really the top source for sound science news but anyway :)
LeopoldS

A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem | Science/AAAS - 3 views

www.sciencemag.org/...183.abstract

BIO science

shared by LeopoldS on 18 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 18 Jan 11
     
    .... sounds interesting
Luís F. Simões

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

launch.is/...dangerous-project-weve-ev.html

bitcoin p2p money disruptive

shared by Luís F. Simões on 16 May 11 - No Cached
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  • 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.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • * 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.
  • Ma Ru on 17 May 11
     
    Sounds good!
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  • pacome delva on 18 May 11
     
    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
  • Nicholas Lan on 18 May 11
     
    interesting stuff anyone read cryptonomicon by neal stephenson? similar theme.
  • Luís F. Simões on 18 May 11
     
    :) 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...
  • tvinko on 18 May 11
     
    One of my colleagues has made a nice, short write-up about BitCoin: http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~victor/bitcoin.html
  • LeopoldS on 18 May 11
     
    very nice analysis indeed - thanks Tamas for sharing it!
  • pacome delva on 20 May 11
     
    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.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 20 May 11
     
    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
  • LeopoldS on 21 May 11
     
    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 ...
  • pacome delva on 23 May 11
     
    @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).
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 23 May 11
     
    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 ?
  • pacome delva on 23 May 11
     
    well, from 1936 to 1993 the central bank of france was owned by the state and was supposed to serve the general interest...
Francesco Biscani

Former Google CIO says business misses key people marks | ITworld - 2 views

www.itworld.com/...siness-misses-key-people-marks

fun

shared by Francesco Biscani on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
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  • There is a whole cottage industry of people talking about innovation, including all kinds of garbage
  • the more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed
  • Everyone knew we shouldn't build our own hardware as it was 'dumb', but everyone was wrong.
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  • Just because you can do something with technology that doesn't mean you should do something with technology,
  • Francesco Biscani on 26 Jul 11
     
    Some juicy sound bites from the former Google CIO.
Tobias Seidl

The Cochrane Collaboration - Welcome first-time visitors! - 0 views

www.cochrane.org/index_newcomers.htm

BIO health ACT

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  • Tobias Seidl on 22 Jul 09
     
    This is an idependent organisation reviewing healthcare studies and basically judging the results. Something like the ACT for international medicine. Sounds interesting in the approach. Their suggestion for swine-flu prevention: wash your hands frequently. Nothing helps better.
nikolas smyrlakis

SiG | Social Innovation Generation - 0 views

sigeneration.ca

social innovation complexity

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 11 Sep 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 11 Sep 09
     
    How about that for an abstract discipline, and I thought CMS was abstract. Sounds great though: Social Innovation Generation: "Social innovation is an initiative, product, process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact. While social innovation has recognizable stages and phases, achieving durability and scale is a dynamic process that requires both emergence of opportunity and deliberate agency, and a connection between the two."
LeopoldS

Edge 285 - videos of a conference combining mathematicians, physicists and economists o... - 0 views

www.edge.org/...edge285.html

economy manhattan project mathematics INF

shared by LeopoldS on 18 May 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 18 May 09
     
    have not looked at them yet but the tiltle sounded intriguing ...
Francesco Biscani

Slashdot Science Story | NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars - 0 views

science.slashdot.org/...ts-Nano-Robots-To-Explore-Mars

nan mars nasa robots

shared by Francesco Biscani on 02 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 02 Jul 09
     
    Sounds pretty much Sci-Fi...
ESA ACT

Teleportation of massive particles without shared entanglement - 0 views

www.arxiv.org/0706.0062

PHY

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    classical teleportation, sounds pretty interesting.
ESA ACT

Development of a direct three-dimensional biomicrofabrication concept based on electros... - 0 views

scitation.aip.org/...GetabsServlet

BIO microfabrication

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Sounds cool. Needs application.
ESA ACT

Robotic Bugs -- Robot That Senses Its Way With Flexible Antenna - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...0704-robotic_bugs.htm

AI BIO swarm cockroach Robotics robots navigation sensors

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Tobias - sounds somehow relevant... cockroaches, navigation, swarm intelligence...
ESA ACT

Wag the Robot? Brown Scientists Build Robot That Responds to Human Gestures | Brown Uni... - 0 views

news.brown.edu/...robotics

robotics robots AI algorithm

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    does not sound overly advanced to me - but am not a roboticist ...
LeopoldS

Realization of a gravity-resonance-spectroscopy technique : Nature Physics : Nature Pub... - 1 views

www.nature.com/...nphys1970.html

PHY science NRG

shared by LeopoldS on 18 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 18 Apr 11
     
    Sante have a look at this ... sounds fascinating ... 
dejanpetkow

Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...science.1211220

BIO NAN carbon muscles

shared by dejanpetkow on 18 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Actuator materials producing rotation are rare and demonstrated rotations are small, though rotary systems like electric motors, pumps, turbines and compressors are widely needed and utilized. Present motors can be rather complex and, therefore, difficult to miniaturize. We show that a short electrolyte-filled twist spun carbon nanotube yarn, which is much thinner than a human hair, functions as a torsional artificial muscle in a simple three-electrode electrochemical system, providing a reversible 15,000° rotation and 590 revolutions/minute. A hydrostatic actuation mechanism, like for nature’s muscular hydrostats, explains the simultaneous occurrence of lengthwise contraction and torsional rotation during the yarn volume increase caused by electrochemical double-layer charge injection. Use of a torsional yarn muscle as a mixer for a fluidic chip is demonstrated.
  • dejanpetkow on 18 Oct 11
     
    I have no access to the pdf, but abstract sounds interesting.
Nicholas Lan

Hands-on with the Muse brain sensing headband -- the most important wearable of 2014 (e... - 4 views

venturebeat.com/...ant-wearable-of-2014-exclusive

technology BIO BMI wearable

shared by Nicholas Lan on 26 May 14 - No Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 26 May 14
     
    interestingly it looks like a subject could wear it all day while doing normal stuff http://www.choosemuse.com/ "I got my hands on an early version of Interaxon's brainwave reading headband, the Muse, and I think this could be the most important wearable of the year. And that's saying a lot, considering I've seen 2014′s entire lineup for health tech at the Consumer Electronic Show as well as a few undisclosed athletic devices slated for later this year."
  • johannessimon81 on 03 Jun 14
     
    ..."alerts the users with sights and sounds when they are producing brain waves associated with calm and focus." ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! YOU ARE CALM AND FOCUSSED! :-D
  • Nicholas Lan on 04 Jun 14
     
    indeed the app that comes with it sounds really lame but it comes with an sdk
Paul N

Microsoft Hololens, Occulus rift killer? - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

FUN

shared by Paul N on 27 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Paul N on 27 Jan 15
     
    Probably old news by now, but this thing sounds so awesome it warrants an entry
  • Thijs Versloot on 28 Jan 15
     
    Looks like fun! Note though, I'm always slightly annoyed when people use holography only because it sounds cool. because clearly this is not a hologram! Definition: a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source. I am sure this is not what is happening in these goggles.
  • Paul N on 28 Jan 15
     
    I think they suspect that "hologram" would sell better than "yet-another-augmented-reality-goggle"
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