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ESA ACT

Twitter - 0 views

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web2.0 chat communications

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    the new hype in the web
darioizzo2

Physics is stuck - and needs another Einstein to revolutionize it, physicist Avi Loeb s... - 0 views

www.salon.com/...ize-it-physicist-avi-loeb-says

shared by darioizzo2 on 14 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • darioizzo2 on 14 Sep 20
     
    """ Today, it's all about impressing each other. And that's part of social media, you know, trying to impress other people to say things that look smart, that look very intelligent, that completely align with what everyone else is saying so that they will like you, that you would have more likes on Twitter. Okay. So that's the motivation, so that you can get more awards, more grants so that you can get a tenure appointment and everyone would respect you. """
LeopoldS

NRC to Conduct Independent Assessment of NASA Strategic Direction, Management at Parabo... - 0 views

www.parabolicarc.com/...strategic-direction-management

Policy strategy NASA

shared by LeopoldS on 21 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jan 12
     
    New study on NASA strategy - though with strange hybrid mandate to on the one hand take the Obama strategy and then assess how well the strategy fits national goals (which I assume should be also Obama's) .... Leopold
LeopoldS

China opens up military space programme - 2 views

www.physorg.com/...-military-space-programme.html

china policy

shared by LeopoldS on 10 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 10 Nov 11
     
    Interesting article
LeopoldS

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Web_2.0_Suicide_Machine

shared by LeopoldS on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 19 Sep 12
     
    you will love this one ...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 21 Sep 12
     
    Hilarious! Perhaps I should join Facebook and Twitter just to commit suicide afterwards!!
johannessimon81

Big data, bigger expectations? - 1 views

blogs.computerworld.com/...2013-review-big-data-cfbdcw

technology AI

shared by johannessimon81 on 07 Feb 14 - No Cached
Thijs Versloot

The World's Fair 2014 - Isaac Asimov's predictions 40 years ago - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...asi-v-fair.html

history

shared by Thijs Versloot on 02 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 Jan 14
     
    saac Asimov's predictions of the year 2014 back in 1964.. Truly amazing to read how close his sharp mind turned out to be at that time (cold war, Yuri Gagarin just went into space and Fortran first appeared 7 years before). The last prediction also came true I think, however the solution was not psychiatry.. instead we invented Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
  • Thijs Versloot on 02 Jan 14
     
    Also, he predicted that solar power stations would power the places on earth where solar power nor fission (?) would be available... Not there yet
LeopoldS

The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...ng-the-nsas-all-seeing-machine

shared by LeopoldS on 12 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 12 Nov 13
     
    nice summary overview
  • Thijs Versloot on 13 Nov 13
johannessimon81

RT @JustBe74: China Unveils Its First and Unnamed Moon Rover - 0 views

english.cri.cn/...2361s789412.htm

space technology

shared by johannessimon81 on 25 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 25 Sep 13
     
    Found this on Twitter ;-) This is also a test to see if Diigo titles get processed correctly as re-tweets...
  • johannessimon81 on 25 Sep 13
     
    Yes. Worked.
alekenolte

Research Blog: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks - 0 views

googleresearch.blogspot.de/...-going-deeper-into-neural.html

FUN AI

shared by alekenolte on 18 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • alekenolte on 18 Jun 15
     
    Deep neural networks "dreaming" psychedelic images
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  • Paul N on 25 Jun 15
     
    Although that's not technically correct. The networks don't actually generate the images, rather the features that get triggered in the network already get amplified through some heuristic. Still fun tho`
  • Paul N on 25 Jun 15
     
    Now in real time: http://www.twitch.tv/317070
  • alekenolte on 26 Jun 15
     
    Yes, true for the later images, but for the first images they start with random noise and a 'natural image' prior, no? But I guess calling it "hallucinating" might have been more accurate ;)
  • Luís F. Simões on 02 Jul 15
  • Paul N on 08 Jul 15
     
    Funny how representation errors in NNs suddenly become art. God.... neo-post-modernism.
Nicholas Lan

volunteering for hilarious privacy/security issues - 2 views

blippy.com

web fun

shared by Nicholas Lan on 23 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Nicholas Lan on 23 Mar 10
     
    lets you link your account to a credit card and then publish whatever you just bought and what you paid for it to your facebook status/twitter feed/etc.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 24 Mar 10
     
    looks like a joke: "Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone is buying." TIME :"Made me want to spend more"" where is our world going to?
santecarloni

[1105.5170] Validation of Dunbar's number in Twitter conversations - 0 views

arxiv.org/1105.5170

Dunbar social science

shared by santecarloni on 30 May 11 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 30 May 11
     
    We test the theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships known as Dunbar's number. We find that users can entertain a maximum of 100-200 stable relationships in support for Dunbar's prediction.
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.
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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.
  • 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...
LeopoldS

Supercharged thunderstorm reaches a record 1.3 billion volts : Research Highlights - 2 views

www.nature.com/...d41586-019-00934-z

energy NRG

shared by LeopoldS on 27 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 27 Mar 19
     
    Can we use this discharge energy to .... half the cost of access to space? ;-)
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