October 2009
391 posts
Galaxy study hints at cracks in dark matter... →
The study shows that there is always five times more dark matter than normal matter where the dark matter density has dropped to one-quarter of its central value. [I am so confused by the language…
A new 3D chip integrating DRAM on top of a logic... →
The new 3D stack resembles as close as possible to future commercial chips. It consists of a 25µm thick logic die on top of which a commercial DRAM is stacked using through-silicon vias (TSVs) and…
Galaxy study hints at cracks in dark matter theories - space - 30 September 2009 - New Scientist: The study sho.. http://bit.ly/10TEZb
So, I will soon be able to organise the tweeps I follow into lists. The one feature I can’t be bothered using already on FriendFeed…
A new 3D chip integrating DRAM on top of a logic IC: The new 3D stack resembles as close as possible to future .. http://bit.ly/nMASE
Melbourne is artsy, geeky but not nerdy.
September 2009
373 posts
x86 Instruction tables →
Lists of instruction latencies, throughputs and micro- operation breakdowns for Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs By Agner Fog. Copenhagen University College of Engineering. Copyright © 1996 - 2009. Last…
The Rockefeller University - Newswire: New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance: Magnasco’s model.. http://bit.ly/r3TLn
I feel a disturbance in the force… the electromagnetic force… my WiFi reception just took a hit. I think someone turned on the light.
I just watched some Scientology spiel. I feel… dirty. It was like *shudder* an infomercial, so tacky I’m still recovering from many winces
The Rockefeller University - Newswire: New model... →
Magnasco’s model differs from traditional models of neural networks, which assume that each time a neuron fires and stimulates an adjoining neuron, the strength of the connection between the two…
Lec-5 Learning... →
Lecture Series on Neural Networks and Applications by Prof.S. Sengupta, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
How round is your circle? →
where engineering and mathematics meet
WildTrig53: An introduction to chromogeometry →
Chromogeometry is a new three-fold symmetry in planar geometry, that brings together the usual Euclidean geometry (here called `blue’) with two relativistic geometries (called `red’ and `green’)….
Androgen receptor gene sequence and basal cortisol... →
Men’s salivary testosterone and cortisol concentrations increased after a brief conversation with a young woman, but did not change (or slightly decreased) after a conversation with a young man.
YouTube - 2001 Quantum Leaps ; Nobel 4 : Supercool →
Dear YOUTUBE, please implement a CONCATENATE videos function. I’m sick of Part 1 of 9 click and find crap because of large upload issues.
Androgen receptor gene sequence and basal cortisol concentrations predict men’s hormonal responses to potential.. http://bit.ly/15lpmk
How round is your circle?: where engineering and mathematics meet http://www.howround.com/
IEEE Spectrum: Photonics Breakthrough for Silicon... →
Harnessing the mechanical force of light
JVM Language Summit Content on InfoQ →
Videos
IEEE Spectrum: Photonics Breakthrough for Silicon Chips: Harnessing the mechanical force of light http://bit.ly/xR0Og
Magnetic Fields Guide Star Birth | LiveScience →
The researchers studied polarized light, which has electric and magnetic components that are aligned in specific directions. From the polarization, they measured the magnetic fields within each cloud…
Avnet Electronics Marketing - Xilinx® Spartan®-6... →
Utilizing Spartan-6, Avnet introduces the first-ever battery-powered Xilinx FPGA development board, the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 (14k Logic cells) Evaluation Kit. Texas Instruments provides the battery…
Magnetic Fields Guide Star Birth | LiveScience: The researchers studied polarized light, which has electric and.. http://bit.ly/1ckQb1
Black tail + black mat + black socks = REOW!
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The Plus podcast: How does gravity work (mp3) →
YouTube - Fermat's Last Theorem Part 1 →
YouTube - Counting Neutrinos at the South Pole →
YouTube - 2000 BBC Horizon Supermassive Black... →
Superduper.
YouTube - TML: The Infinities In Between (1 of 2) →
YouTube - Nova- Infinite Secrets: The Genius of... →
IEEE Spectrum: Entangling a Rainbow →
The optical parametric oscillator converted photons from the green laser into pairs of infrared photons with slightly different frequencies, which were entangled with one another in a well-known…
US LHC Blog » Symmetry in Physics, Pt. 2: Discrete... →
By now you’ve heard from all sorts of physics outreach sites that the Higgs boson gives particles their mass. What you may not have heard as much is that the Higgs also combines left-handed electrons…
YouTube - 2000 BBC Horizon Supermassive Black Holes 1 of 5: Superduper. http://bit.ly/3FknrC
IEEE Spectrum: Entangling a Rainbow: The optical parametric oscillator converted photons from the green laser i.. http://bit.ly/8Bs07
US LHC Blog » Symmetry in Physics, Pt. 2: Discrete Symmetries and Antimatter: By now you’ve heard from all sort.. http://bit.ly/MNKn6
RT @mocost: The polymath is an endangered species http://j.mp/2ZTmDP
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Podcasts May Not Make You Rich, But They May Make... →
A diet podcast based on social cognitive science lost 9 times as much weight as people listened to a regular diet podcast.
Dark Matter Part III: Dark Matter or Modified... →
The three killer reasons why we need Dark Matter.
Rats learn to be once bitten, twice shy - life -... →
The researchers found that in 8-day-old pups exposed to shock-paired odours, genes involved in the release of dopamine were relatively inactive. But these genes were much more active in 12-day-old…
Podcasts May Not Make You Rich, But They May Make You Skinny: A diet podcast based on social cognitive science .. http://bit.ly/2joPCN
How Did Evolution Begin?: Here, Ohtsuki and Nowak have presented a model where a purely chemical system (prelif.. http://bit.ly/J71DC
Rats learn to be once bitten, twice shy - life - 28 September 2009 - New Scientist: The researchers found that .. http://bit.ly/SPxyb
Key to subliminal messaging is to keep it... →
The researchers found that the participants answered most accurately when responding to negative words – even when they believed they were merely guessing the answer.
Watch those shots of booze! →
The results indicate that the [long-term] risk-taking behavior is caused by the alcohol.
Fact or Fiction? There ten times more glia than... →
Cell counts in the prefrontal cortex of the rhesus monkey turned up a glia-to-neuron ratio of just about 1. There was some regional variation, but no prefrontal area had a GNR larger than 1.2. Maybe…
Sex chromosomes linked to evolution of new species... →
The ancestral Y sex chromosome (which makes males) had fused with a non–sex chromosome to create a new sex chromosome in the Japan Sea stickleback fish.