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2013-05-22 15:08:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It is not easy to be one of the "unequals" in one of the most egalitarian nations...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/05/2013521234814665777.html

2013-05-22 02:26:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-21 22:38:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-20 16:48:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

As they turn more than 90% of their trash into energy, Sweden gets some more trash from the neighbour Norway. And even that is not enough. Isn't it good to have problems like that?

2013-05-20 16:40:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

[pt-br] 3 anos do incêndio no Butantã. Se, como nação, colheremos o que cultivamos, que medo...

www.cienciabrasil.blogspot.com.br/2013/05/se-passaram-3-anos-do-incendio-no.html

2013-05-17 18:11:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

NeuroDebian 7.0 released. So now we have virtual appliances running wheezy available for use with VirtualBox. #NeuroDebian  

2013-05-10 20:18:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Is Microsoft becoming a patent troll?

www.zdnet.com/microsofts-most-profitable-mobile-operating-system-android-7000015094/

2013-05-06 12:09:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

[pt-br] Hoje é o Dia Nacional da Matemática. E 2013 é o ano internacional da matemática no planeta Terra!

http://mpe2013.org/

http://www.brasilescola.com/datas-comemorativas/dia-nacional-matematica.htm

2013-04-28 22:29:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Machine Learning is a hot topic now. But is this the new way of dealing with huge amounts of information? 

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/google-acquires-wavii/

2013-04-27 21:51:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nanosatellites made from Google Nexus One smartphones were launched into space by NASA!

http://www.techhive.com/article/2036422/nasa-launches-new-nanosatellites-android-smartphones.html

2013-04-27 18:51:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Pinky and the Brain gone real? Scientist were able to increase folding in mice brain, confirming the role of a new nuclear protein in this process.

2013-04-17 11:39:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How many bugs in scientific papers would be revealed if we would try to reproduce the result of every study? My guess is that at least 50% of all papers have serious problems with code/programs used in it.

2013-04-08 03:37:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I confess that I believed that picking color for graphics was more a matter of taste. Then I found an interesting text about how mathematically equivalent color mappings could be misleading if you ignore the inner workings of our visual system or natural thresholds in the data.

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM

2013-04-06 21:09:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Incredible stabilization system for digital cameras!

http://fstoppers.com/newest-camera-stabilizer-could-revolutionize-cinema-forever

2013-04-06 20:09:48 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

♥

2013-04-03 14:21:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Not exactly new, but interesting. Ironic argument regarding the quality of open source. From the R Project's fortune package:


Kevin Wright: Doug already mentioned the limitations of open source optimization code. Open source has benefits, but simply being
open doesn't necessarily mean better.

Joshua Wiley: Actually, a series of studies I have conducted including theoretical proofs and empirical evidence proves open
source to be unequivocally better. If you are interested, you can pay me to use the assertion, but the supporting details are
restricted so you must accept that my internal checks and quality control are sufficient and the findings are correct and
accurate. Details follow.

License and Use of I. Ben Fooled's findings:

"Open source is unequivocally better" is $10 for personal use or $20 for each public use... more »

2013-03-27 11:47:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I got this link from John Chalmers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
Here is Fat Phil's web site:
http://fatphil.org/maths/

2013-03-25 03:41:20 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

John Snow Cholera Epidemiologist

This week marks 200 years since the birth of John Snow, the doctor who worked out how cholera is spread.  John Snow was not only a founder of the Science of Epidemiology, and one of the first to use Geographical Information Systems, but he also informed Data Journalism in his use of these tools to influence decision makers and the public.  Even though the Cholera epidemic in London may have peaked before this work was completed and there is debate as to how many lives he actually saved at the time, he has no doubt helped reduce human suffering and preserved hundreds of millions of lives since 1854.

Head to Soho in London and you might find an epidemiologist or two on a pilgrimage to Broadwick Street and the memorial to John Snow. There you'll find a public water pump with its handle missing; a symbol of Snow's discoveryt... more »

2013-03-22 20:56:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Learn VIM's keyboard shortcuts playing a game!
http://vim-adventures.com/

2013-03-21 14:04:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Familiar, eh? :D

2013-03-20 11:01:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

As more and more infrastructure becomes controlled by computers, risks of disruption by crackers increases. But when criminals are able to send an elite police squad to a journalist's home, it is worrying.

http://www.esecurityplanet.com/hackers/hackers-send-swat-team-to-security-journalists-home.html

2013-03-06 19:23:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

As a programmer I really need one of these... #LoL  

2013-03-06 19:21:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The FORTH programming language was created to control telescopes. RTX processor were created for space applications. One man was behind both projects.

http://www.cpushack.com/2013/02/21/charles-moore-forth-stack-processors/

2013-02-16 22:58:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-01-23 21:26:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hello! I am Ailton, from Brazil.

2013-01-22 17:36:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is not the first time that people are punished because they reported a security flaw. And I don't believe it will be the last time...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/

2013-01-22 14:44:43 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Oracle anti-ethical behavior must stop. An updater is supposed to just update and not to install unwanted crapware.

http://www.zdnet.com/a-close-look-at-how-oracle-installs-deceptive-software-with-java-updates-7000010038/

2013-01-17 11:36:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-01-17 11:26:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

After this review, I got really curious about the book. And, hey!, it is about mathematicians!

http://ubpdqnmathematica.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/mathematicians-an-outer-view-of-the-inner-world/

2013-01-12 21:12:33 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Aaron Swartz suicide: a premature end for someone that helped shape the social internet...

http://www.ibtimes.com/aaron-swartz-suicide-reddit-co-founder-rss-authors-death-meets-outpouring-appreciation-online

2013-01-10 16:46:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

An Australian PSA from the Metro Transit operator that went viral on November, 2012. Watch out for trains and avoid the dumbest ways to die.

2013-01-09 09:13:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Seems legit...

2013-01-09 00:14:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Toward a science of (cyber)security
(IEEE - Computer Society - Computing Now magazine):
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/archive/january2013

2013-01-08 20:23:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Virtobot

A recent study in Annals of Internal Medicine discusses the benefits of virtual autopsies, in which common electronic medical imaging technologies - magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and surface scans - are combined to provide forensic insights that conventional autopsies are unable to catch. "Virtobot" is the name Michael Thali gave to this suite of devices, which was pioneered at the University of Zurich and is now being used in a select number of hospitals across Europe.

Forensic scientist Michael Tsokos thinks that half of homicides in Germany are overlooked due to resistance to traditional autopsy from both doctors and victims' families. Another recently-published study helps back this up: "The post-mortem in more than 10 percent of cases is performed incompletely or not in accordance with legal... more »

2013-01-04 12:34:46 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

This is hilarious on so many levels! 

2013-01-04 12:28:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

1983, a new protocol, TCP/IP took over NCP.

http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/30-years-of-tcpip-dominance-began-with-a-deadline.html

2012-12-27 13:00:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-17 19:26:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mayan Calendar Recall ... forwarded as a public service, I am already packaging mine for UPS pickup. #calendar #mayancalendar #apocalypse #mayans2012 #endoftheworld #end  

2012-12-10 21:18:42 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Living for an entire year without patented tools: Sam Muirhead's attempt.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/conversation-sam-muirhead-fully-open-source-man

2012-12-09 00:34:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to humans what we want the computer to do."
-- Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming, 1984

2012-12-08 21:00:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Very cool article about how NASA thought of space colonies in the 1970's:
http://slate.me/YYfTIm

2012-12-08 12:51:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

[pt-br] Nada como um coala fofo pedindo apenas um pouquinho de você para algo nobre.

http://mentirinhas.com.br/um-pouquinho-de-voce/

2012-12-07 20:24:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Today's my last day at Google. In January I start a new job at Dropbox: https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/12/welcome-guido/ We're parting as the best of friends (check out my previous G+ post).

2012-12-07 20:07:41 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Death Star Ice Sphere Tray

For summer maybe ....

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f0b6/

2012-12-07 20:06:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

When an Alzheimer researcher becomes the target of an investigation - by SEC.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/prominent-alzheimers-investigator-resigns-university-post-wake-insider-scan/2012-11-30

2012-12-01 23:12:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

A man turns blind because of vodka interacting with his diabetes medication. And his eyesight is restored through an ingestion of whisky...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10851152

Before sharing I tried to see if it could be possible and now I think so!
The original post is from +Peter Bailey
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102648429021828386272/posts/hkZxzuv8oej

2012-12-01 22:49:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Blaschko Lines

2012-12-01 10:04:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Google’s chief mapmaker answers more of our questions -- about mapping Mars, Apple Maps and the failures and successes of Google’s quest to map the world."

2012-11-30 17:03:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

See also here: http://www.canada.com/news/Canadian+scientists+create+functioning+virtual+brain/7628440/story.html

2012-11-30 15:15:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Mathematica 9 is out. Some highlights:

Units:
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/units/

Support for R:
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/built-in-integration-with-r/

Tensor Analysis (Finally we all can do what Einstein did 100 years ago ;-) ) :
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/built-in-symbolic-tensors/