Collective Intelligence theory research

"This course will use social network analysis, both its theory and computational tools, to make sense of the social and information networks that have been fueled and rendered accessible by the internet."

"The government is investigating free open source software as it emerged that £200m of taxpayers' money has been spent on Microsoft Office alone since 2010 "

"Sustainable open source projects are those that are capable of supporting themselves. Simply put, they are able to meet their ongoing costs. However, from the viewpoint of selection and procurement, sustainability also means that the project is capable of delivering improvements and fixing problems with its products in a timely manner, and that the project itself has a reasonable prospect of continuing into the future. Elsewhere on our site you can find articles describing some of the many formal approaches to evaluating open source software as part of the Software Sustainability Maturity Model."

"One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars' research."

"A startling fact is that there are in excess of a billion people who have some type of disability. That represents approximately 15% of the world's population with a physical, sensory or mental limitation that interferes with their ability to move, see, hear or learn. 350 million people in the world are partially sighted or blind. "

"You can't always get what you want, but you can improve your chances by being charming and convincing. This info-comic by illustrator Yumi Sakugawa runs down the basics of the art of persuasion. "

"1.1 Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git? Git allows groups of people to work on the same documents (often code) at the same time, and without stepping on each other's toes. It's a distributed version control system. Our terminal prompt below is currently in an octobox directory. To initialize a Git repository here, type the following command: git init"

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"Hey, developers! Here's how you can have more say in city, state or national government than ever before."

"Benjamin Franklin spent his mornings naked. Patricia Highsmith ate only bacon and eggs. Marcel Proust breakfasted on opium and croissants. The path to greatness is paved with a thousand tiny rituals (and a fair bit of substance abuse) - but six key rules emerge"

"The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science, by John William Draper This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science Author: John William Draper Release Date: February, 1998 [EBook #1185] Last Updated: January 25, 2013 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT *** Produced by Charles Keller, and David Widger HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE By John William Draper, M. D., LL. D. PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AND OF MANY EXPERIMENTAL MEMOIRS ON CHEMICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS CONTENTS PREFACE. HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. PREFACE. WHOEVER has had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the mental condition of the intelligent classes in Europe and America, must have perceived that there is a great and rapidly-increasing departure from the public religious faith, and that, while among the more frank this divergence is not concealed, there is a far more extensive and far more dangerous secession, private and unacknowledged. "

"It means wars. It means famines. It means raging forest fires and the death of grasslands. September 26, 2013 | Three quarters of a billion people is a lot of people. And that's how many people, within the next 22 years, will almost certainly run low on water - a necessity of life - in just the regions whose rivers are supplied with water from the glaciers in the Himalayas. "

"Few things in the world of programming are as hot as GitHub. Boasting 4 million users, the code-sharing site boasts itself as the largest code host in the world. With 7.8 million repositories and counting, it's hard to argue. Based on the Git software version control system engineered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds, GitHub has blossomed since its launch in 2008. From ABAP to Xtend, GitHub offers open source projects in almost every conceivable programming language."

"Según comentó el CTO de Intel durante la LinuxCon, la era de Linux ya ha llegado. Un cambio de paradigma que llega gracias al empuje de proyectos como Android y Chromebook que han popularizado el uso de Linux 19-09-2013 - En estos días se ha estado celebrando en Nueva Orleans la LinuxCon North America, uno de los eventos de referencia para la comunidad de desarrolladores que trabajan en el proyecto Linux en Norteamérica. El evento ha tenido ponentes de la talla de Chris DiBona o el mismísimo Linus Torvalds y empresas como Red Hat, Samsung, OpenStack o Canonical. Intel también participó en el evento con una keynote que corrió a cargo de Dirk Hohndel, CTO de Intel y desarrollador del proyecto del kernel de Linux; una ponencia en la que lanzó una interesante predicción: Linux liderará el segmento de sistemas operativos orientados a usuario y, por tanto, la era de Linux ya ha llegado. "

"PageOneX makes it easy to track, code, and visualize major news stories based on the proportion of newspaper front pages that they take up. "

"With innumerable FOSS projects ruling the IT world, we bring to you a list of 10 most used and most recommended open source software of all times! "

"Matrixology: fact vs. fiction Sep2 by Jon Rappoport Matrixology: fact vs. fiction by Jon Rappoport September 2, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com I've made this point several times: fiction is often a better way than fact to gain insight into the Matrix. With some people, this notion turns over in the mind about as compellingly as the engine of a 1947 Buick in a junkyard."

"High Times / By Paul Mcadory 10 Reasons Marijuana is Better For You Than Alcohol One of these drugs kills people. Guess which one."

"High Times / By Paul Mcadory 10 Reasons Marijuana is Better For You Than Alcohol One of these drugs kills people. Guess which one."

"En este informe vamos a hablar de 5 herramientas gratuitas dedicadas a la enseñanza, para que puedas desarrollar tus conocimientos en diferentes plataformas. Hablaremos de un completo entorno educativo para Linux, una potente herramienta para estudiantes y profesionales de las matemáticas, hasta llegar a una aplicación con la cual podrás crear mapas conceptuales, entre otras opciones."

"En este informe vamos a hablar de 5 herramientas gratuitas dedicadas a la enseñanza, para que puedas desarrollar tus conocimientos en diferentes plataformas. Hablaremos de un completo entorno educativo para Linux, una potente herramienta para estudiantes y profesionales de las matemáticas, hasta llegar a una aplicación con la cual podrás crear mapas conceptuales, entre otras opciones."