March 2012
The Julia Language →
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.
DryadLINQ - Microsoft Research →
DryadLINQ is a simple, powerful, and elegant programming environment for writing large-scale data parallel applications running on large PC clusters.
February 2012
Evidence for Antimatter Anomaly Mounts -... →
Physicists have long suspected that a difference in the properties of matter and antimatter is key to the early universe’s survival. Such a difference—technically known as charge-parity (CP) violation—would have allowed normal matter to prevail over antimatter so that normal matter could go on to form all of the stuff we see in the universe today.
Atari Launches $100,000 Pong Indie Developer... →
Ready to feel really old? The video game that started it all — Pong — turns 40 this year, and to celebrate, Atari has kicked off the Pong Indie Developer Challenge. Submit your own original take on the classic game and you’ll not only see it published by Atari, you’ll get a cool $100,000 as well.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO formats →
Windows 8 Consumer Preview ISO files (.iso) are provided as an alternative to using Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup. If you are on a PC running Windows and want to install the consumer preview on another partition, another PC, or a virtual machine, we recommend you download Windows 8 Consumer Preview Setup and use the built-in tools for converting an ISO image into installation media, such as a...
CoffeeScript Cookbook » Home →
Welcome to the CoffeeScript Cookbook! CoffeeScript recipes for the community by the community.
How To Be Happy Anywhere | Fast Company →
Does that mean that on some level we’ve lost our way? Absolutely not. But what it does mean is that we need to realize that with the ever-increasing media outlets, we must be vigilant in maintaining our own personal view of happiness. No matter how high you set your goals, you may never actually get there. So, what is my definition of happiness? A good friend once said to me, “Happiness is not...
Found: Ancient Warrior's Helmet, Owner Unknown |... →
A Greek bronze helmet, covered with gold leaf and decorated with snakes, lions and a peacock’s tail (or palmette), has been discovered in the waters of Haifa Bay in Israel. But how this helmet ended up at the bottom of the bay is a mystery.
“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will...”
– Thomas Edison
Vowpal Wabbit →
The Vowpal Wabbit (VW) project is a fast out-of-core learning system sponsored by Yahoo! Research. Support is available through the mailing list.
There are two ways to have a fast learning algorithm: (a) start with a slow algorithm and speed it up, or (b) build an intrinsically fast learning algorithm. This project is about approach (b), and it’s reached a state where it may be useful to...
gramfeed: 2 hour side-project to 2 million... →
gramfeed:
Exactly a year ago was when gramfeed.com launched. Instagram had released developer APIs couple weeks prior and I started playing with the APIs and started creating a web interface for Instagram to pretty much do everything that the Instagram iPhone app did on the web. I put together a web…
Google once considered issuing currency | ITworld →
At the end of his keynote speech, Schmidt hit on a wide array of topics in response to audience questions. “We’ve had various proposals to have our own currency we were going to call Google Bucks,” Schmidt said.
The idea was to implement a “peer-to-peer money” system. However, Google discovered that the concept is illegal in most areas, he said. Governments are...
Can The Human Brain See Quantum Images? -... →
These strange pictures are called quantum images or higher order images and quantum physicists think they can use them to carry out exotic processes such as sending information secretly and performing quantum lithography.
Backbone.js and Chrome Extensions - Zapier Blog →
Part of our design philosophy is that the entire backend be accessible via APIs. This allows us to build different and device-varying frontends which all leverage the same data source. We have a lot going on behind the scenes with Zapier and creating an exposed backend API creates a very clean separation of concerns. We can easily create a desktop application, Android app, iOS app, or even, a...
App Store Optimization - The best mobile app... →
App Store Optimization (ASO) is the process of moving your mobile app up in the Top Apps rankings and search results rankings within an app store (iTunes App Store, Android Market, etc). It’s like SEO for mobile apps.
Collusion →
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby... →
A side-by-side reference sheet
Making Sense of the World, Several Senses at a... →
Our five senses–sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell–seem to operate independently, as five distinct modes of perceiving the world. In reality, however, they collaborate closely to enable the mind to better understand its surroundings. We can become aware of this collaboration under special circumstances.
From Invisible Ink to Cryptography, Lessons in... →
“In the eighteenth century, there was no expectation of privacy when the postal system was used,” writes John Nagy in Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution — a fascinating lens on the Revolutionary War as a war of information, where no correspondence could be sent that wasn’t first encrypted and whichever side hid theirs the best would come out on top.
GÖD, Emergence, Life | High Existence →
In a future with vastly superior computers that can handle and answer any question thrown at them, what would I do? Do I continue to find a brighter light to shine into the void like a program calculating pi? Or do I look into the darkness and create beauty and meaning through art? Or do I follow the Zen path by observing the absurdity of these infinite loops and paradoxes from outside this...
CultureLab: Luca Pozzi: an artist tied up in... →
Many of them defy gravity, using magnetic materials to suspend objects in unlikely positions - such as Dragon Wings, in which tennis and ping pong balls are captured by invisible forces, trapped against the underside of an aluminium pair of abstract wings, or positioned incongruously half-way down the wing’s slope, full of unrealised potential energy.
Just how certain is the 'uncertainty principle'? -... →
The wavelength of the light determines how precisely the measurement can be made. The smallest wavelength of light, called gamma-ray light, can make the most precise measurements, but it also carries the most energy, so an impacting gamma-ray photon will deliver a stronger kick to the electron, thereby disturbing its momentum the most.
Thinking different. →
It’s an easy exercise to make fun of someone’s deteriorated mental state. But in all honesty, it must be an awful thing to deal with; especially given the fact that he appears to be just in his 40s.
Neuroscientists identify how the brain works to... →
For the first time, a team led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists has identified how different neural regions communicate to determine what to visually pay attention to and what to ignore. This finding is a major discovery for visual cognition and will guide future research into visual and attention deficit disorders.
Morris.js →
Making good-looking graphs shouldn’t be hard. Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing time-series graphs easy.
How We Built an iOS App, an Android App and a... →
That said, plan for the long run. Don’t resort to hacks that will have to be redone later. Getting the entire basic skeleton down is imperative. Before the day had started, we didn’t know a whole lot about Node.js APIs, Sphinx search, iOS geolocation, SMS APIs and much more, but we’re now comfortable enough with these ideas to set informed deadlines for the future and make adept feature choices
viatropos/tower - GitHub →
Built on top of Node’s Connect and Express, modeled after Ruby on Rails. Built for the client and server from the ground up.
Tower.js - Full Stack JavaScript Framework for... →
Includes a database-agnostic ORM with browser (memory) and MongoDB support, modeled after ActiveRecord and Mongoid for Ruby. Includes a controller architecture that works the same on both the client and server, modeled after Rails. The routing API is pretty much exactly like Rails 3’s. Templates work on client and server as well (and you can swap in any template engine no problem). Includes...
SVM-Light Support Vector Machine →
SVMstruct is a Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm for predicting multivariate or structured outputs.
SVM-Light Support Vector Machine →
SVMlight is an implementation of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) in C.
The Electronic Brain? Your Mind Vs. a Computer |... →
In a 2011 interview, physicist StephenHawking declared, “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.” Of course, the brain is not a computer in the literal sense of the word, but the brain-as-computer metaphor is a powerful one. Long before the invention of the PC, people used the word “switchboard” to express the same meaning. And the...
Chris Maury's Blog: Mechanical Turk Stations for... →
Let’s build a Turk station with a built in cash machine. Someone can walk up do a few tasks and pay out right there. No need to have a computer, set up accounts, or anything which would keep urban poor out of the market.
Video lectures & presentations about Clojure →
On this page I tried to collect links to all existing video materials about Clojure — video-lectures & tutorials, presentations at conferences, etc.
Moving 6 Billion Messages Without Being Noticed by... →
Migrating large amounts of data from one MySQL server cluster to another without affecting operation or losing writes is hard and apparently no one has come up with a really good solution yet
mmcgrana/ring - GitHub →
Ring is a Clojure web applications library inspired by Python’s WSGI and Ruby’s Rack. By abstracting the details of HTTP into a simple, unified API, Ring allows web applications to be constructed of modular components that can be shared among a variety of applications, web servers, and web frameworks.
InfoQ: WebSockets versus REST? →
For the past few years WebSockets has been gaining in popularity and availability. At the end of last year it moved one step closer to a standard by becoming a W3C Candidate Recommendation. Oracle and others have also recently submitted a request to start a standardisation effort around WebSockets (JSR 356) in the next version of Java Enterprise Edition. All of the major browsers, such as Chrome,...
Teller Reveals His Secrets | Arts & Culture |... →
3. It’s hard to think critically if you’re laughing. We often follow a secret move immediately with a joke. A viewer has only so much attention to give, and if he’s laughing, his mind is too busy with the joke to backtrack rationally.
Book Review: The Quantum Universe - WSJ.com →
In the time it takes to blink, billions of ghostlike particles called neutrinos, which hail from deep within the sun, pass through your body. In the quantum realm, particles exist in multiple places at once, spontaneously multiply and change form. They can be perfectly identical, such that not even an omniscient being could tell them apart. A subatomic particle’s exact location can’t...
Reaching For The Limits of Tiny Transistors : NPR →
Computer chip makers have long struggled to build ever-smaller transistors to allow faster, more powerful computers. Writing in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, a team of scientists describes what may be the ultimate limit of that struggle — a transistor made of a single atom. Michelle Simmons, a physicist at the University of New South Wales in Australia and leader of the project, discusses the...
WiredEnterprise/Lord-of-the-Files - GitHub →
This is the source code for the Wired.com article Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More), published on February 21, 2012.
Why Trigger.io doesn’t use PhoneGap – 5x faster... →
Actually, we think this is a pretty important benchmark: battery drain and general responsiveness is a huge deal on mobile devices, so we take performance of the bridge very seriously. Every millisecond counts here.
Also, I can absolutely see the need to send large number of messages - a streaming accelerometer API, for example, which is on our roadmap.
PHP: V8Js - Manual →
This is the core class for V8Js extension. Each instance created from this class has own context in which all Javascript is compiled and executed.
PLV8 - plv8js - V8 Engine Javascript Procedural... →
plv8 is shared library that provides a PostgreSQL procedual language powered by V8 JavaScript Engine. With this program you can write in JavaScript your function that is callable from SQL.
Introducing the New Developer Experience - The... →
In this blog post (and the one that will follow) we’d like to introduce a few of the broad reaching experience improvements that we’ve delivered in Visual Studio 11. We’ve worked hard on them over the last two years and believe that they will significantly improve the experience that you will have with Visual Studio.