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SETI, Citrus Division - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...cted-at-kinetica-art-fair.html SETI fun
shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • A nice contrast to these high-tech installations, Adrian Lee's Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Citrus Division (below), sees 65 lemons trying to communicate with aliens. Using their own juices, these lemon batteries power a small motor - which turns a disc into which is punched the Morse code for "We are here". As the disc rotates, a class 2 laser - also powered by the lemons - shines through the holes and the encoded message is then directed by a small mirror up into space...or in this case, onto the ceiling of the Ambica P3 venue. Amusing, simple and sophisticated all at once, the Citrus Division mixes old and new science and technology in just the right measure.
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FuturICT: FuturIcT - 2 views

www.futurict.ethz.ch/FuturICT AI computer SciFi socology
shared by Luzi Bergamin on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Luzi Bergamin on 01 Jun 11
     
    FuturICT, another of these nonsense-flagships. Marek: after having read about this, I understand that BlueBrain is not the only flagship proposal that sucks. Long live the dream of cybernetics, or, apparently people never learn anything...
  • Ma Ru on 01 Jun 11
     
    The others: http://www.ga-project.eu/ - "Guardian Angels for a Smarter Planet" http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ http://www.itfom.eu/ http://www.robotcompanions.eu/ One doesn't have a website (graphene). The message from their presentation was more or less: everyone else does intensive research in this and the Europe should not stay behind. Full list of flagship proposals including short descriptions here: http://www.fet11.eu/about/fet-flagships
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DailyTech - NASA Releases iPhone App - 2 views

www.dailytech.com/...article16613.htm
shared by Joris _ on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The U.S. space agency has worked more diligently the past few years to better interact with the public.
  • Joris _ on 26 Oct 09
     
    what about ESA?
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  • LeopoldS on 26 Oct 09
     
    have already sent it as a suggestion to our com department ... btw: installed the app and its really well done!!
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09
     
    God no, why give more taxpayers' money to the shittiest, greediest and most closed company out there??
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 09
     
    why "more" ... do they get any taxpayers money? answer to your question: because its the most efficient (and coolest) platform to convey your message to a larger audience with relatively little effort ... btw: just ordered a time capsule for home :-)
  • Francesco Biscani on 27 Oct 09
     
    I said "more" because we already gave them money in the form of Sophia and Atlas :) If we want to be consistent in promoting "open" efforts (open innovation, open source, open governance, etc.) we should avoid Apple like the plague. They are far far worse than Microsoft in terms of closedness, secrecy, shady market practices and vendor lock-in. Just google a bit and you will find lots of example of their behaviour.
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 28 Oct 09
     
    cant' really argue about the Apple practices, although I ve read some things. I think the NASA app is more like a news feed and nothing more. But that online crowdsourcing game we had in mind, now that would be cool in a mobile version - new mobiles also have accelerometers nowadays
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Euroscience Open Forum 2010 - 2 views

www.esof2010.org science conference Europe
shared by Ma Ru on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A conference ACT should consider going to.
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  • Ma Ru on 23 Apr 10
     
    Perhaps some of ACTers will find this conference interesting... One of the talks: "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" [Edit] Oh, I see someone has already posted this link... a year ago. Anyway, if anyone of you plans to go, let me know - I'll be around ;-)
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Just came back from ESOF 2010... I was on look for ACT agents undercover, but either they were not there or the cover was good enough... Anyway here's a few remarks from me (I could write a nice report... if you paid): 1) In general, to say that ESA was underrepresented on the conference as a whole is not enough (I guess ESA just failed to notice the event taking place). For instance, on the GMES presentation, ESA as such was not mentioned at all... at some point I started to wonder if ESA is actually involved in the project, but now I checked the website and apparently it is. On the other hand, GMES presentation was crap anyway, as after 1:15 of talking, I didn't gain any knowledge of what GMES is and what its contributions to the EU community will be. 2) There was a lot of talk about LHC and particle research (well, at least among those that I attended). Some of them were very good, some of them rather crap... 3) "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" talk - quite interesting, but focusing mainly on Science-to-Wide Public and Science-to-Journalists communication. Not really on Science-to-Science (as in Ariadnet). There was quite an extensive discussion with the public. You may be interested that Nature is trying to stimulate Web 2.0 communication, running blog service, but also I think a kind of social network - perhaps you'd like to have a look. In general the conclusion was that Web 2.0 is not so useful for scientific communication because practising it requires TIME (blogs, etc.) and often some professional skills (podcasts/videocasts, etc.), and scientists have neither of these. This can be run on corporation level (like ESA does actually), but then it looses the "intimate" character. 4) "How much can robots learn?" talk... very nicely presented: understandable by the wide public, but conveying the message... which is something like "we can already make the robots do stuff absolutely imp
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Well, my comment was cut in half, and I don't feel like typing it again... the most important highlight from the rest is that the only presenter from ESA (ESTEC) did not show up on his talk because his department was undergoing some sort of audit on the same day :)
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    Fantastic comment - or better report!! thanks very much Marek! Who was the supposed no-show speaker from ESA?
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Bernard Foing (he is actually one of the 8 ESA employees who have their own page on Wikipedia)...
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    written almost entirely by a guy called a "quest for knowledge" ... who will this be????? :-)
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Amount of profanity per programming language - 8 views

andrewvos.com/...sages-per-programming-language inf
shared by Francesco Biscani on 22 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Francesco Biscani on 22 Feb 11
     
    And the winner is... C++ :) Love the comment on Slashdot: "C++ Templates will turn the most pious programmer into a curse-slinging, chain-smoking alcoholic."
  • Ma Ru on 23 Feb 11
     
    Nice one... However note the sample could be biased, because I'd expect some interaction between "using github" and "being a curse-slinging, chain-smoking alcoholic" ;-)
  • Francesco Biscani on 23 Feb 11
     
    Fair enough :)
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The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind | MIT Technology Review - 4 views

www.technologyreview.com/...illusion-that-tricks-your-mind
shared by Alexander Wittig on 30 Sep 15 - No Cached
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  • Alexander Wittig on 30 Sep 15
     
    Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare. One of the curious things about social networks is the way that some messages, pictures, or ideas can spread like wildfire while others that seem just as catchy or interesting barely register at all.
  • Ma Ru on 30 Sep 15
     
    "The effect is largest in the political blogs network, where as many as 60%-70% of nodes will have a majority active neighbours, even when only 20% of the nodes are active." How convenient :-)
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Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration | PNAS - 3 views

www.pnas.org/8398 ML social predictability
shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 21 Apr 20 - No Cached
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  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 21 Apr 20
     
    This is a social sciences paper trying to make use of ML. Quote from text: "Social scientists studying the life course must find a way to reconcile a widespread belief that understanding has been generated by these data-as demonstrated by more than 750 published journal articles using the Fragile Families data (10)-with the fact that the very same data could not yield accurate predictions of these important outcomes." "(...) In other words, the submissions were much better at predicting each other than at predicting the truth."
  • darioizzo2 on 21 Apr 20
     
    an important message to learn from
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