CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-04-04 11:18:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

The largest journalistic collaboration in history, now live in 46 countries. 

2013-04-01 15:11:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

fun return fun function
call for application open till May 31st
http://schmiede.ca/blog/post/rutiger/schmiede13-return/

2013-03-29 19:53:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

kick start a documentary about modern standards for measurement

The project was started by Amy Young about two years ago but needs your support for editing existing footage. ht scientific advisor and co-investor
+Michael Trott

Let us raise this question and answer: YES!

"Should the average person be able to understand where their standards come from?"

"The State of the Unit documentary follows a historic decision in the field of metrology: to redefine the kilogram through a relationship of fundamental constants of physics, specifically Planck’s constant h.

Since 1889, a “kilogram” has been defined to be the mass of a specific platinum-iridium cylinder, secured in a vault outside of Paris. But measurements every few decades since then have shown that the mass of the cylinder is changing. 

Starting from popularheadli... more »

2013-02-16 23:13:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sleeping Beauty Mirror timing Casual TuesDay in Vienna

2013-01-14 16:20:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

In case you don't have enough to worry about, 150 experts offer their candidates for things to worry about

2012-12-04 17:06:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Standard Behind Closed Doors, Ignores Huge Privacy Implications - http://bit.ly/Xm25qu they want trust?

2012-12-01 18:05:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Take a look at Microsoft's new research project, a touch based web IDE
To develop Windows 8 apps in a fun and easy way with touch

It is definitely an experimental touch-centric IDE from Microsoft Research (MSR). https://www.touchdevelop.com/app/

- It's own semi visual programming language.
- It allows you to develop and design any Windows 8 UI.
- Web based, develop right in your browser with touch. Even on the iPhone
- Includes offline access as well.
- Syncs to the cloud automatically.
- It is predictive, it would know what code you anticipate to write, and the context you are in to suggest what to type. Something like a type-ahead intellisense. Natural Language Code Synthesis Engine!
- And you can sign in with your Google account :) And Facebook/Microsoft account.
- etc

Give it a try, the people at MSR worked really... more »

2012-11-29 12:32:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I wish the Google+ execs would stop mouthing off and fix their service

I've been spending more time here lately. Last week I went through all my 12,000+ contacts one-by-one to get my contact list up to date and cleaned up (that's what I ended up with, I actually had 30,000 entries in http://contacts.google.com when I started).

Then I was going through my Google+ contacts and looking at each one, working to clean up my circles and get ready to spend a lot more time here.

Lately I'll be honest: I've been spending a lot more time over on Facebook for a lot of reasons. I'm not alone in that. Over on Mashable they have an article showing that the average person spends many hours per month on Facebook while only a few minutes here on Google+: http://mashable.com/2012/11/28/social-media-time/

Then, today, I saw this article, or, rather, set of... more »

2012-11-22 23:37:07 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

relativistic realism from MIT gamelab

http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

2012-11-13 06:25:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

U$ - Texas, - Louisiana, - Florida .............?
vs
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/strip-citizenship-everyone-who-signed-petition-secede-and-exile-them/ZbMjcwPf

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions/popular/0/2/0/

2012-10-10 12:44:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

kinetic sculpture, musical instrument, Spacetime Helix +Michela Pelusio

2012-07-12 14:58:24 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Visual Meets DriM

2012-06-29 14:13:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Summer in Vienna. Visual Meets Ragnarhof. 2 month dedicated to visual arts, music and joy of life.

2012-06-29 12:53:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Mapping between analog and digital art by
Ali Al Taiee, Cagla Cömert, Ingrid Frauenberger, Thomas Fritsch, Silvia Maria Hecher, Szymon Olszowski, Martin Ruzicka, Michael F Schreiber, Michael Walter Otto Von Bank, Manfred Weber-Wien 

VISUALS
Dornröschen & Lux Lepus

LINEUP
1859 Outdoor BBQ
1900 Clash /Freeze Tunes) 
2100 k:sun (Tiefentanz) 
2300 Cepp van de Bovenkamp (AGKP/zero*/stefunny)
0100 Africa Boyz Madwin & Wayne Harber (Simplemotion), 
0330 Incredible Cedsh (Simplemotion)

2012-06-25 06:52:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

BIS report: vicious cycles  shadow banking etc: "Most importantly, 
authorities should continue forcing banks to bring leverage down – and keep it there by preventing them from deploying new instruments and tactics that 
would push it back up. But such efforts should not stop with traditional banks. Prudential authorities everywhere still face the challenge of putting in place robust regulations that extend to the shadow banking sector."
http://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2012e.pdf

2012-06-14 14:09:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

= part of Anderart vernissage Art.Delusion.Sense & Visual Meets pre_party with Simple Motion. Double feature at Ragnarhof Vienna this evening from 20.00 till early: live performances between objects and installations created by anderart artists and friends. My contributions include a short talk about our Anderart Story, a complete series of 128 Truchets stapled into a cooperative installation including meters of Baumgarten rolls, a quartz animated Windows movie for a composition by Regina Alfery, high resolution reincarnations of three Tau prints stolen recently,  algorithmic and media based visuals to beam that that hat at u.

2012-05-10 14:06:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Art from anderart friends including some of my experiments with multi time. Anderwelt at Ragnarhof Vienna, 1160 Grundsteing 12, on May 10th, 2012

2012-04-25 10:51:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

new kind of compiler, automata in LLVM 3.1

"We added new TableGen infrastructure to support bundling for Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures. TableGen can now automatically generate a deterministic finite automaton from a VLIW target's schedule description which can be queried to determine legal groupings of instructions in a bundle.

We have added a new target independent VLIW packetizer based on the DFA infrastructure to group machine instructions into bundles."

2012-04-11 23:52:45 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Toward a simpler, more beautiful Google

We've just begun the worldwide rollout of a more functional and flexible version of Google+. We think you’ll find it easier to use and nicer to look at, but most importantly, it accelerates our efforts to create a simpler, more beautiful Google.

You can read more about it here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/toward-simpler-more-beautiful-google.html

#googleplusupdate

2012-03-11 03:45:27 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

zettabits per brain

Our heads hold only 10^11 neurons but we connect them with 10^19 micro tubes, each storing > 4k in binary or ternary codes. This system would need about 2% of the energy consumed by the brain.

Cytoskeletal Signaling: Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation?

Travis J. A. Craddock, Jack A. Tuszynski, Stuart Hameroff

Memory is attributed to strengthened synaptic connections among particular brain neurons, yet synaptic membrane components are transient, whereas memories can endure. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and ‘hard-wired’ elsewhere, e.g. at molecular levels within the post-synaptic neuron. In long-term potentiation (LTP), a cellular and molecular model for memory, post-synaptic calcium ion (Ca2+) flux activates the hexagonal Ca2+-calmodulin dependent kinase II (CaMKII), adod... more »

2012-03-10 00:43:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Lobbying Disclosure Report

+The White House promotes a database offering details about a sharp increase in total giga $ amounts in 2007 followed by fat years for lobbying according to Senate filings:
0.59 g$ 2006
20.4 g$ 2007
38.9 g$ 2008

54.0 g$ 2009
46.5 g$ 2010
22.2 g$ 2011

https://explore.data.gov/Federal-Government-Finances-and-Employment/Lobbying-Disclosure-Reports/aqdm-v85k
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105479712798762608629/posts/KE6Kfh7zdSf

2012-01-12 20:18:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Miss Incoming :)
a discussion about the removal of Incoming (stream of posts from not yet circled people who circled you)
https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153/posts/Rjt66GLtnA2

2012-01-10 21:03:34 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 10 +1s)

We’ve started manufacture! (.. not in UK because of timing issues, capacity constraints, price, and tax on imported components..)
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

2011-12-22 16:14:16 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

scored 92.4% in the online class Introduction to Artificial Intelligence offered by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.

2011-12-14 15:24:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

performing Dornröschen visuals
http://www.facebook.com/events/302223799788489/

2011-12-07 15:47:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

art of now live installation of Dornröschen Spiegel a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty Mirror at Bücherstube Baumann Vienna. Pre xmas drinks between real books and this interactive time machine.

2011-12-07 13:50:31 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

http://goo.gl/2wOHi

2011-12-06 11:09:11 (2 comments, 19 reshares, 23 +1s)

drawing 2D hearts with google search...
(abs(x)+sqrt(1-x^2))*(.5-sin(60*pi*x)*.5)+(.5+sin(60*pi*x)*.5)*(sqrt(abs(x))-sqrt(1-x^2)),(abs(x)+sqrt(1-x^2))*(.5+sin(60*pi*x)*.5)+(.5-sin(60*pi*x)*.5)*(sqrt(abs(x))-sqrt(1-x^2))

2011-12-02 05:40:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

atomic memory ops with ARC, dragon egg emus gcc, featuring new type and exception models. LLVM 3.0 removes support for reading LLVM 2.8 and earlier files, and LLVM 3.1 will eliminate support for reading LLVM 2.9 files. Going forward, we aim for all future versions of LLVM to read bitcode files and .ll files produced by LLVM 3.0.
http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

2011-11-26 17:18:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

installing my time constrained time machine experiment Sleeping Beauty Mirror a.k.a. Dornröschen Spiegel at Celeste in Vienna.

2011-11-22 01:44:28 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

$ to kilo, mega, giga, tera $ chart of charts for
prices, incomes, disasters, budgets, production, debt and derivatives.
see for example how risk market risks dwarf all debt and gold ever mined.

2011-11-21 15:17:26 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Spiral at
u[0] == 0
defined by
Derivative[1][u][a] == a E^(I a)
gives the complex solution
-1 + E^(I a) - I E^(I a) a

2011-11-19 05:15:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"I can't charge you money, this is for the people,' she said. She was born in the projects & opened up her home to us."

2011-11-19 04:52:06 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

my interactive meta timing timing installation Sleeping Beauty Mirror is on display in the experimental cooperation event Does a one legged duck swim in circles? for the exhibition project: If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
19th of November 2011 from 1400 to 1900 at
Gallery Lisa Ruyter, Kantgasse 3/20, Wien 1.

2011-11-08 02:13:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Heinz von Foerster 100
The 5th International Heinz von Foerster Conference celebrates with public lectures, a tutorial workshop and keynotes for two conferences:

Self-Organization and Emergence in Nature and Society
An international conference on recent advances in self-organization research
and a tribute to Heinz von Foerster, one of the pioneers in this field

Keynote speakers:
Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University)
John Holland (University of Michigan)
Didier Sornette (ETH Zürich)

Emergent Quantum Mechanics

An international conference about quantum mechanics based on a »deeper level theory«

Keynote speakers:
Stephen L. Adler (Princeton)
Gerard ‘t Hooft (Utrecht)
Lee Smolin (Waterloo)


Wednesday, November 9th2011 | ... more »

2011-11-07 23:58:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Change change. Mix sharing and methods with WISDOM.
Circle your independent non-profit social research institute in Vienna.

2011-11-07 15:42:57 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

A day of tutorial studies of papers by Heinz von Foerster and also *Ernst von Glasersfeld

Participation is free. Space is limited. Please register at
http://www.univie.ac.at/hvf11/congress/
or by mail to
hvf11.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at

Download links to 4 papers by Heinz von Foerster and Ernst von Glasersfeld:

"Why I Consider Myself a Cybernetician"
Ernst von Glasersfeld
Cybernetics and Human Knowing, 1 (1), 21–25, 1992.
http://www.vonglasersfeld.com/140

"Aspects of Constructivism: Vico, Berkeley, Piaget"
Ernst von Glasersfeld
http://www.vonglasersfeld.com/139.2

"On Constructing a Reality"
Heinz von Foerster
Environmental Design Research, Vol. 2, F.E. Preiser (ed.), Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudberg, pp. 35–46 (1973).h... more »

2011-11-05 16:26:06 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

full texts of the G20 meeting in Cannes, including:
Summit Final Declaration, Leaders Summit, Action Plan for Growth and Jobs.
http://www.g20.org/pub_communiques.aspx

2011-11-05 01:28:51 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

Breaking Chemistry News!

"The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier Friday, as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Elements 110, 111 and 112 have been named darmstadtium (Ds), roentgenium (Rg) and copernicium (Cn).

These elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly. Not much is known about these elements, since they aren't stable enough to do experiments on and are not found in nature. They are called "Super Heavy," or Transuranium, elements.

The General Assembly approved these name suggestions proposed by the Joint Working Party on the Discovery of Elements, which is a joint body of IUPAP and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry... more »

2011-11-01 21:52:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Looks like time's up. Let's hope this is not Lehman Brothers 2.0.

The Greek referendum call is, while it lasts, effectively a plebiscite on euro membership. Papandreou announced on Monday that he would put a hard-fought rescue deal to a referendum. I say "while it lasts" because the opposition is mobilising a parliamentary manoeuvre to bring down the government, which may succeed - returning Europe to its status quo of containable trauma.

If Greeks reject the 50% controlled default on the debts they owe to the banking sector, then the arithmetic I revealed on Newsnight on the eve of the Euro summit comes into play - without a 50% haircut, and a further 130bn euro bailout, on top of 110bn, Greek debt spirals out of control and the country goes bust.

At this point, the value of the debt falls to maybe 10% of its face value and Greece has broken all the rules... more »

2011-11-01 14:48:12 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Averages are beautiful.

2011-10-26 16:45:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This is a very cool AI challenge from Google, let the AI games begin.

Want to prove to Google that you’ve got some serious programming chops? Then you better prepare yourself for war. Ant war. The Fall 2011 AI Challenge, sponsored by the giant of search engines, is now underway and pits programmers against one another as rulers of virtual ant colonies. Write code that teaches your pixelated ants how to find food and conquer rival ant hills and you could come out on top. More than 4000 users have already signed up, with 13,000+ games played so far. Check out a typical AI ant vs AI ant match in the video below. While relatively low tech, the Google AI Challenge ant game is designed to pull in a new horde of amateur and semi-professional programmers. The winners of today’s challenge could be tomorrow’s innovators of artificial intelligence.

2011-10-22 18:50:05 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Evolutionary Timeline The Big Bang happened 14 billion years ago. Life arose nearly 4 billion years back . "Our brains have never before needed to be able to comprehend such vastness of time. A decade is probably the longest duration of time that our brains can correctly imagine." Now try a million, or a billion years. It is not surprising then, that some people reject this incomprehensible vastness for "a shorter, emotionally more pleasing yet incorrect number of about 6,000 years for the age of the Universe." Check out this very cool evolutionary timeline, drawn to scale. Drag the time slider through eight telescoping sections. There's a lot happening.

http://www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.html

Thanks to +Suhail Manzoor , for finding the blog that led me to this:... more »

2011-10-21 18:37:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://goo.gl/0vLEJ

2011-10-19 20:08:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Sanders Report Highlights Serious Conflicts of Interest at the Federal Reserve:
For example: The Fed provided $16 billion in financing to General Electric while Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, served as a director on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Jeffrey Immelt is also Pres. Obama's Jobs Czar and oversaw General Electric when it received a $1.1 billion tax refund from the IRS last year despite making over $10 billion in profits in 2009.
Read The Sanders Report here: http://sanders.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/101911%20-%20THE%20SANDERS%20REPORT%20ON%20THE%20GAO%20AUDIT%20ON%20MAJOR%20CONFLICTS%20OF%20INTEREST%20AT%20THE%20FEDERAL%20RESERVE.pdf

2011-10-17 20:53:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Consolidation of US top income shares including capital gains from 1917 to 2008
according to data from
http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/

2011-10-17 13:09:43 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

Very funny to use!

1) Go to Google.com and search for 'Google Gravity'
2) Click on the 1st result that appears
3) Wait 2 seconds. Something cool will happen
4) Play around with it for a while
5) Then write any word in the Google search bar and press Enter
6) Wait and see. Something even cooler will happen

Share if you like it :)

2011-10-16 14:43:52 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Robot biologist?

2011-10-16 06:26:55 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

After Texas government officials purged all mention of climate change and sea-level rise from a report on Galveston Bay, every single scientist associated with the report has demanded to have their names removed from it.

"None of us can be party to scientific censorship," said Jim Lester, a co-author of the report and vice-president of the Houston Advanced Research Centre.

Thanks to +Heather Vandagriff and +John Thomas for pointing this out!

2011-10-16 05:18:23 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 2 +1s)

Top 1% income share including capital gains 2008 in United States: 20.95%!

http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/