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How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure, and Abstraction - 4 views

www.sciencemag.org/...1279 AI cognition learning Bayesian probabilistic probabilistic computing
shared by Luís F. Simões on 21 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 21 Mar 11
     
    a nice review on the wonders of Hierarchical Bayesian models. It cites a paper on probabilistic programming languages that might be relevant given our recent discussions. At Hippo's farewell lunch there was a discussion on how kids are able to learn something as complex as language from a limited amount of observations, while Machine Learning algorithms no matter how many millions of instances you throw at them, don't learn beyond some point. If that subject interested you, you might like this paper.
  • Ma Ru on 21 Mar 11
     
    Had an opportunity to listen to JBT and TLG during one summer school.. if they're half as good in writing as they are in speaking, should be a decent read...
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Knowledge, networks and nations | Royal Society - 4 views

royalsociety.org/...knowledge-networks-nations
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  • LeopoldS on 29 Mar 11
     
    nice graphs ... and nice stats
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  • Luís F. Simões on 30 Mar 11
     
    the graphs are Motion Charts. They were made famous by Hans Rosling's TED talks (http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html). Google eventually bought his software, and made part of it freely available: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/motionchart.html. That's what they are using there.
  • LeopoldS on 30 Mar 11
     
    thanks - I was already wondering several times what had happened to this technique that he used at the talk we looked at several times when it was first uploaded ... good that they have made it open source! are they easy to use?
  • Luís F. Simões on 31 Mar 11
     
    the easiest way to use them is: Google Docs > open/create a spreadsheet > Insert > Gadget > Charts > Motion Chart !! :) You have here a tutorial describing all the steps to get it running.
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[1104.1824] Simulating Spiking Neural P systems without delays using GPUs - 4 views

arxiv.org/1104.1824 BIO
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  • Francesco Biscani on 12 Apr 11
     
    Might be interesting for Giusy...
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Following SpaceX down the rabbit hole -- The Space Review - 4 views

www.thespacereview.com/...1 SpaceX launcher
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  • He then went on to remind the press that his company’s goal is to continue to lower the cost of access to space because high launch costs were “the fundamental factor preventing humanity from becoming a spacefaring civilization.”
  • First, two Falcon Heavy launches could field a return to the Moon
  • Second, a single Falcon Heavy could launch a Mars sample return mission.
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  • Also possible with a single launch: a first ever human mission to an asteroid.
  • what effect Falcon Heavy might have on the costs of supporting the International Space Station. The ability to launch twice the supply capacity provided by the shuttle at something on the order of 20 percent of the cost changes the calculus entirely. So much so in fact, it opens the door for contemplating an entirely different future for ISS in which it never follows Mir into the Pacific.
  • Following conclusions offered by the Augustine Committee, the Obama Administration cancelled Project Constellation as unaffordable under existing budget limits, and supported instead the ambling, but cost-contained “flexible path.” If the Falcon Heavy is available, however, the rationale for selecting the flexible path—because it’s the only thing we can afford—simply doesn’t exist.
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 Apr 11
     
    an analysis of implications of the Falcon Heavy announcement
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Transparent material opens a new window on solar energy - physicsworld.com - 4 views

physicsworld.com/...45866 solar_cells transparent organic
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  • Researchers in the US have developed a new kind of organic solar cell that converts a small but significant fraction of the sunlight that falls onto it into electricity, while still allowing most of the visible part of that light to pass through. Thanks to this transparency, the team says that the cell could be mounted onto windows in buildings or cars in order to tap a currently under-exploited source of energy.
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RedTacton - 4 views

www.redtacton.com/info
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  • Giusi Schiavone on 02 May 11
     
    impressive: use of human body for communication between electronic devices
  • LeopoldS on 05 May 11
     
    i saw once a similar system that would automatically transfer your business card when you shake hands ... funny ..
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DARPA Solicits Ideas For Its Hundred-Year Starship Project | Popular Science - 4 views

www.popsci.com/...try-100-year-starship-concepts darpa MAD
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  • LeopoldS on 05 May 11
     
    I just can't see how their way of finding non-state funding for a 100 year project could work but would be happy to be surprised positively ...
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Three-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak at Optical Wavelengths - 4 views

www.sciencemag.org/...337.abstract technology phy science nan
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  • LeopoldS on 16 May 11
     
    more transformation optics ... 
  • dejanpetkow on 17 May 11
     
    I still believe that it is worth to check the thermal, mechanical and chemical properties of the developed metamaterials. For hyperbolic re-entries the radiation is still the dominating heat load source and a dominating bandwith may be indentified. A resistive metamaterial should be placed on the nose cap of the entry body in order to reduce local radiation heat load.
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Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice | Harvard Gazette - 0 views

news.harvard.edu/...rsal-of-aging-achieved-in-mice aging bio technology
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  • santecarloni on 21 May 11
     
    Researchers led by Ronald A. DePinho (above), a Harvard Medical School professor of genetics, say their work shows for the first time a dramatic reversal of many aspects of age-related degeneration in mice, a milestone in aging science achieved by engineering mice with a controllable telomerase gene. T
  • LeopoldS on 22 May 11
     
    I would not yet volunteer ....
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xkcd: The Cloud - 4 views

xkcd.com/908 fun inf
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  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Jun 11
     
    Cloud computing explained.
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Science Inside | Lytro - 4 views

www.lytro.com/science_inside science PHY optics
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  • LeopoldS on 22 Jun 11
     
    the standard question: can we use it for space?
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CERN - the European Organization for Nuclear Research - 4 views

public.web.cern.ch/public INF
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  • LeopoldS on 09 Jul 11
     
    here comes the next step ...
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Projects - Open Hardware Repository - 4 views

www.ohwr.org/projects opensource hardware
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  • LeopoldS on 09 Jul 11
     
    who would be willing to go through this list and see if there is anything we could use in space (or are maybe already using ...) Dejan? Lionel?
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Mac OS X Lion: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping For - 4 views

gizmodo.com/...-the-future-we-were-hoping-for INF
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  • LeopoldS on 09 Jul 11
     
    interesting, critical article ....
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Senseg - 5 views

senseg.com INF fun PHY
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  • LeopoldS on 12 Jul 11
     
    from Kevin
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PLoS ONE: Editorial Peer Reviewers' Recommendations at a General Medical Journal: Are T... - 4 views

www.plosone.org/...10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010072
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  • reject vs. accept/revise at levels barely beyond chance
  • Francesco Biscani on 18 Jul 11
     
    Apparently the peer review process is no better than chance.
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USSR Wins Space Race As U.S. Shuts Down Shuttle Program | The Onion - America's Finest ... - 4 views

www.theonion.com/...-shuts-down-shuttle-prog,21007 fun Space shuttle Soviet Russia
shared by Luís F. Simões on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • The termination of NASA's space shuttle program marks the end of a nearly 54-year rivalry between the USSR and the United States to achieve superiority in space exploration.
  • Sources confirmed that in commemoration of the capitalist defeat, extra bread and corn rations had been approved in all major cities, and factory workers were given time off their nine-hour work shifts to join in the festivities.
  • LeopoldS on 29 Jul 11
     
    we can't access it from within the firewall I fear ...
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