August 2009
213 posts
RISC (10/10/1986) | Hardware | CChronicles →
20 minutes in: “We just seem to be keeping on making new instruction sets - and that’s like inventing a new typeface every time you want to say something again.” … “What I’d really like to see…
Nominating this week as ‘unsubscribe from stuff’ week.
Has a craving for Crispy M&M’s for breakfast. A legitimate brekky after I pass them off as chocolate with a crackle and pop. :)
Ten things everyone should know about... →
Ten things everyone should know about nanotechnology safety http://bit.ly/FIEHs
I can’t find the words.
IBM Scientists First to Image the Anatomy of a... →
“Imaging molecules like they appear in textbooks.” Pentacene Atomic Force Microscopy explanation and imagery.
Genomic Dark Matter: The Emergence of Small RNAs →
mini-2440, Samsung S3C2240 ARM9 Board + 3.5" TFT... →
mini2440 Samsung S3C2440A 400MHz
- 64MB SDRAM, 64MB Nand
- 2MB Nor Flash, BIOS installed
- 4 wire resistive touch screen interface
- Audio / USB / SD / 3x Serial / I2C / Ethernet
- Pre-loaded with…
Anxious temperament correlates with serotonin... →
5-HTT availability in the amygdalohippocampal area and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis correlated positively with individual differences in a behavioral and neuroendocrine composite of anxious…
Introduction to DNSCurve →
DNSCurve uses high-speed high-security elliptic-curve cryptography to drastically improve every dimension of DNS security: * Confidentiality: DNS requests and responses today are completely…
The incompleteness of information - HaloScan.com -... →
“whenever we ask and want to answer macroscopic questions, the incompleteness of the information is a must. For example, the very concept of entropy is based on the indistinguishability of some…
Fasting could extend female fertility - life - 28... →
By reducing calorie intake of adult female mice by 40 per cent significantly fewer of their eggs had abnormal chromosomes once the mice reached the age of 12 months
Simoleon Sense » Blog Archive » BBC Documentary:... →
amy jo (amygdala) on Twitter's 'to read'... →
#Created script to periodically grab new twitter ‘favorites’, find and expand URLs in them, and post the links as bookmarks to pinboard.in…
# …am (inordinately) pleased with the result as I use…
YouTube - Towards a Global Scale Public Computer →
“Moore’s Law is for wimps.” hardware-centric, communications-centric… IBM don’t know where the center is. :)
BBC iPlayer - The Cell: The Hidden Kingdom →
The Reference Frame: The arrow of time: understood... →
Low or vanishing entropy of the early Universe is neither a necessary condition for the validity of the second law, nor a sufficient assumption to derive the second law. To see that it is not…
Tim O’Reilly and the concept of Web Squared (Sensor explosion, Machine learning etc) on Future Tense http://twurl.nl/zc6bwb
The Reference Frame: The arrow of time: understood for 100 years: Low or vanishing entropy of the early Universe.. http://bit.ly/BHP10
RT @meio: http://twitpic.com/fiouu - Train station through warped glass
I’m drawing entropy.
Anxious temperament correlates with serotonin transporter availability.: 5-HTT availability in the amygdalohippo.. http://bit.ly/nUomq
In drawing entropy, I drew gravity. In drawing gravity, I drew dimension. In drawing dimension, I drew angular momentum - then I got dizzy.
I don’t want to do my washing but I have no pants. #pantemonium
“Moore’s Law is for wimps” - Towards a Global Scale Public Computer (Video): IBM’s Project Kittyhawk http://twurl.nl/1zp304
Already had my Being Erica moment. #nowbeingjaded
Fasting could extend female fertility - life - 28 August 2009 - New Scientist: By reducing calorie intake of adu.. http://bit.ly/v6WHW
Is googling “sexy bloomers” - I blame @JulzM
“I used the pussy propulsion - which is the basis of all space travel” - American Swingers Documentary, SBS
“55 per cent of bouts won by the competitor in red.” http://is.gd/2DUuy - Why Miss Venezuela won Miss Universe 2009 :) http://is.gd/2DUs9
Has the urge to hug then spank the next person that’s nice to me; you have been warned.
Sounds of implosion off in the distance… who internally combusted?
Uncertain Spin « Mass →
Two papers that relate Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, spin-1/2, the generations of elementary fermions, their masses and mixing matrices, and their weak quantum numbers.
Beyond space and time: Fractals, hyperspace and... →
10 articles covering 0 to 10 dimensions.
Symmetry in physics - Wikipedia, the free... →
“Symmetry as invariance”
plans within plans within plans: Zero-Latency... →
Manuel’s promise-based concurrent GUI.
Venturi effect on slotted metamaterial interfaces:... →
We demonstrate the existence of broadband anomalous transmission of electromagnetic (EM) waves through an electrically very narrow aperture in a thin metal plate backed by left-handed media (LHM). It…
Some non-euclidean geometry Video – 5min.com →
The shortest distance illustrated on a 3D rectangle.
Uncertain Spin « Mass: Two papers that relate Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, spin-1/2, the generations of e.. http://bit.ly/qRlDb
Venturi effect on slotted metamaterial interfaces: broadband tunnelling: We demonstrate the existence of broadba.. http://bit.ly/XWyAb
More on stress and the brain. →
Acute stress enhances glutamatergic transmission in prefrontal cortex and facilitates working memory, and Admon et al.’s study of new recruits to the Israeli military that shows that an individual’s…
Bid farewell to sleep deprivation's adverse... →
A miracle drug that helps sleep-deprived individuals protect episodic memory; memory consisting of autobiographical events such as times, places, and associated emotions. They found that Donepezil, a…
Content-Centered Collaboration Spaces in the Cloud →
A new approach to content-centered collaboration. Emphasizing communication, collaborative work and community, we envision a cloud-based platform that inverts the traditional application-content…
[0908.3347] A survey of graphical languages for... →
Synaptic cleft rap http://bit.ly/fvs3H
Bid farewell to sleep deprivation’s adverse effects on memory: A miracle drug that helps sleep-deprived individu.. http://bit.ly/2mbJz7
Physics and Opera: “sopranos warp their vocal tract to change its resonant frequency” http://is.gd/2ychy
RT @sigfpe Nice survey of diagrams in categories: http://aps.arxiv.org/abs/09…
More on stress and the brain.: Acute stress enhances glutamatergic transmission in prefrontal cortex and facilit.. http://bit.ly/1e4dNx