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Robot Uses 'Chaos Control' - Technology News - redOrbit - 4 views

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Francesco Biscani on 18 Jan 10

Of any interest to our AI gurus?

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Juxi Leitner on 21 Jan 10

okay this is posted now 3 times ;) congrats you were the first :)

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Robotic roach creates order from chaos : Nature News - 8 views

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posted before, twice:)

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Christos Ampatzis on 21 Jan 10

"The cockroach robot provides a specific model that biologists can test." Apparently drawing hypotheses from an arbitrary model still does the job of getting you funding and published in trendy websites...

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Juxi Leitner on 21 Jan 10

@Christos: still feeling strong, ey?

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NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars | Motherboard - 4 views

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Researchers hope that crowdsourcing imaging targets will increase the camera’s already bountiful science return.
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Francesco Biscani on 20 Jan 10

Here we go, material for curiosity cloning, life detection via image compression, etc. etc.

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Christos Ampatzis on 21 Jan 10

tar cvfz compressed.tgz MarsImages/ Love it!

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Do dogs know calculus? - 4 views

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BIO math optmisation

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Tobias Seidl on 25 Jan 10

also check out: "Dogs don't need calculus" (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maa/cmj/2010/00000041/00000001/art00003;jsessionid=ltahkvtsh76n.alexandra)

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LeopoldS on 25 Jan 10

tobias - please finally put an image to your profile .... :-)

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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy - 4 views

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tech phy quantum entanglement nrg

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He gives the example of a string of entangled ions oscillating back and forth in an electric field trap, a bit like Newton's balls. Measuring the state of the first ion injects energy into the system in the form of a phonon, a quantum of oscillation. Hotta says that performing the right kind of measurement on the last ion extracts this energy. Since this can be done at the speed of light (in principle), the phonon doesn't travel across the intermediate ions so there is no heating of these ions. The energy has been transmitted without traveling across the intervening space.
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Juxi Leitner on 09 Feb 10

wonder if we can use that to power a moon base .... or on-board a SBSP satellite

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LeopoldS on 09 Feb 10

will still have to read the actual article but am a bit sceptic if this interpretation really will hold ... what are our fundamental physicists saying about this?

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Juxi Leitner on 10 Feb 10

I am not the physicist but I thought it might be interesting, from a space security point-of-view

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pacome delva on 11 Feb 10

Yes it seems really interesting and opens new possibilities. However this technology review article is not very good and the guy uses terms which have a precise meaning (like teleportation), which is different from the word we know... Quantum teleportation is what we use for designing quantum computers, but we are quite far from any practical applications. This energy teleportation will allow new scheme involving energy (if it is experimentally confirmed) which is very nice. However it seems this occurs in an entangled many-body system, which the only macroscopic one I know is a bose-eintein condensate (BEC). So it would mean infuse energy in the BEC by doing a measurement on one of the atom and extract it few millimeters away by doing a measurement on another atom. very far from any long distance power transmission...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Yes it seems really interesting and opens new possibilities. However this technology review article is not very good and the guy uses terms which have a precise meaning (like teleportation), which is different from the word we know... Quantum teleportation is what we use for designing quantum computers, but we are quite far from any practical applications. This energy teleportation will allow new scheme involving energy (if it is experimentally confirmed) which is very nice. However it seems this occurs in an entangled many-body system, which the only macroscopic one I know is a bose-eintein condensate (BEC). So it would mean infuse energy in the BEC by doing a measurement on one of the atom and extract it few millimeters away by doing a measurement on another atom. very far from any long distance power transmission...</div>

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Gigapixel-Dresden.de - Large Size Panoramas - 4 views

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The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
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Ma Ru on 18 Feb 10

"With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world. (stand December 2009)" Daring statement... I'm not quite sure, but I'd quess microscopic images used in medicine can easily reach terapixels... What a waste of pixels anyway... they weren't able to find a bit more interesing city?

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pacome delva on 23 Feb 10

yeah... like Leiden !

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Dutch Scientists Grow First Pork Meat In Lab - 4 views

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pacome delva on 05 Mar 10

So much for dutch food!!!

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Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? : Discovery News - 4 views

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LeopoldS on 06 Mar 10

nice article .... but "Jacques Blamont from JPL" is a bit ridiculous!!!

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mentored by the Advanced Concepts Team for Google Summer of Code 2010 - 4 views

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pagmo google summerofcode

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nikolas smyrlakis on 19 Mar 10

you propably already know,I post it for the twitter account and for your comments

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LeopoldS on 20 Mar 10

once again one of these initiatives that came up from a situation and that would never have been possible with a top-down approach .... fantastic! and as Dario said: we are apparently where NASA still has to go with this :-)

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Joris _ on 20 Mar 10

Actually, NASA Ames did that already within the NASA Open Source Agreement in 2008 for a V&V software!

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Joris _ on 20 Mar 10

found it: http://javapathfinder.sourceforge.net/news.html

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LeopoldS on 20 Mar 10

indeed ... you are right .... interesting project btw - they started in 1999, were in 2005 the first NASA project on Sourceforge and won several awards .... then this entry why they did not participate last year: "05/01/09: Skipping this years Google Summer-of-Code - many of you have asked why we are not participating in this years Summer of Code. The answer is that both John and Peter were too busy with other assignments to set this up in time. We will be back in 2010. At least we were able to compensate with a limited number of NASA internships to continue some of last years projects." .... but I could not find them in this years selected list - any clue?

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LeopoldS on 20 Mar 10

but in any case, according to the apple guru, Java is a dying technology, so their project might as well ...

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Joris _ on 21 Mar 10

They participate under the name "The Java Pathfinder Team" (http://babelfish.arc.nasa.gov/trac/jpf/wiki/events/soc2010). It is actually a very useful project for both education and industry (Airbus created a consortium on model checking soft, and there is a lot of research on it) As far as I know, TAS had some plans of using Java onboard spacecrafts, 2 years ago. Not sure the industry is really sensible about Jobs' opinions ;) particularly if there is no better alternative!

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The brain thinks hands are wider and stubbier than they actually are - 4 views

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Eduardo Martin Moraud on 17 Jun 10

How big do you think your hands are?... No clue

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Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars | International Space Fellowship - 4 views

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space nasa imaging mars

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Luís F. Simões on 04 Jan 11

New images of caves on Mars: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/01/nasa-spots-caves-on-red-planet.html

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pacome delva on 04 Jan 11

cool !

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Planets 'Sing' in Three-Part Harmony - 0 views

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celestial_mechanics extrasolar_planets resonance

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this is the first three-planet resonance ever seen.
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The three planets are in a 4:2:1 resonance: the innermost giant completes four orbits in the time the middle one completes two and the newfound outermost world completes one.
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pacome delva on 05 Jul 10

for Francesco!

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SOLAR IMPULSE - AROUND THE WORLD IN A SOLAR AIRPLANE - 0 views

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technology energy solar sustainable

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Luzi Bergamin on 08 Jul 10

Yet another Piccard record and for once a really interesting one. Additionally a nice collection of horrible Swiss German and Frech accents in the videos...

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Claimed Proof That P != NP - 4 views

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Ma Ru on 10 Aug 10

Yet another one? Wish him good luck... I doubt anyone will waste time peer-reviewing his article. Here's quite a nice overview of the efforts on the problem: http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm

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LeopoldS on 11 Aug 10

thanks Marek - very nice link indeed ... did not know about it

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Top 10 Ridiculous Patents - 4 views

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My favorite is the "Device to Sense if a Pedestrian Was Hit by a car" invention

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The creator of Dilbert and his experience with energy efficiency - 4 views

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sreejanag on 25 Aug 10

Funny read, if nothing else!

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Qwiki - 8 views

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"information experience" ... impressive

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duncan barker on 07 Oct 10

Nice!! I want that thing on my mobile which wakes you up in the morning with the weather and temperature....so cool

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LeopoldS on 10 Oct 10

you will need to explain me what is nice in there ....

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And the particles brought back by Hayabusa are... - 4 views

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technology space JAXA Hayabusa asteroid

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nice!

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The Space Age, as recorded on human written history - 4 views

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space history zeitgeist culturomics google books

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Luís F. Simões on 22 Dec 10

Google Books measurements of word frequencies on 15 million books (12% of all the books ever published). More about it in: - Google Opens Books to New Cultural Studies - John Bohannon, Science 2010-12-17 - Slashdot: Google Books Makes a Word Cloud of Human History - http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info

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Gardening in space with HydroTropi - 0 views

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Roots in space!!!

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Luís F. Simões on 31 Jan 11

"Using cucumber plants (scientific name Cucumis sativus)" ...

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Robot Uses 'Chaos Control' - Technology News - redOrbit - 4 views

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