Four short links: 5 March 2014
$1 Gesture-Recognizing Device (GigaOm) — the AllSee is the size of a quarter, harvests RF for power, and detects the variations in signal strength caused by gestures. A Conversation with Sydney...
View ArticleFour short links: 20 August 2014
Machine Learning for Plant Properties — startup building database of plant genomics, properties, research, etc. for mining. The more familiar you are with your data and its meaning, the better your...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 October 2014
PaGMO — Parallel Global Multiobjective Optimizer […] a generalization of the island model paradigm working for global and local optimization algorithms. Its main parallelization approach makes use of...
View ArticleFour short links: 29 October 2014
TweetNLP — CMU open source natural language parsing tools for making sense of Tweets. Interview with Google X Life Science’s Head (Medium) — I will have been here two years this March. In nineteen...
View ArticleFour short links: 10 November 2014
Metascience Could Rescue the Replication Crisis (Nature) — Metascience, the science of science, uses rigorous methods to examine how scientific practices influence the validity of scientific...
View ArticleFour short links: 18 November 2014
A Worm’s Mind in a Lego Body — the c. elegans worm’s 302 neurons has been sequenced, modelled in open source code, and now hooked up to a Lego robot. It is claimed that the robot behaved in ways that...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 December 2014
Nanodoc — an online game that allows bioengineers and the general public to design new nanoparticle strategies toward the treatment of cancer. (via The Economist) Rendering Haptic Volumetric Shapes in...
View ArticleFour short links: 12 December 2014
Do Artifacts Have Ethics? — 41 questions to ask yourself about the technology you create. MDBM — Yahoo’s fast key-value store, in use for over a decade. Super-fast, using mmap and passing around...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 December 2015
Smartest Cities Rely on Citizen Cunning and Unglamorous Technology (The Guardian) — vendors like Microsoft, IBM, Siemens, Cisco and Hitachi construct the resident of the smart city as someone without...
View ArticleFour short links: 7 January 2015
Program Synthesis Explained — The promise of program synthesis is that programmers can stop telling computers how to do things, and focus instead on telling them what they want to do. Inductive...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 February 2015
Real World Active Learning — the point at which algorithms fail is precisely where there’s an opportunity to insert human judgment to actively improve the algorithm’s performance. An O’Reilly report...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 February 2015
Wiki New Zealand — open data site, and check out the chart builder behind the scenes for importing the data. It’s magic. stenographer (Google) — open source packet dumper for capturing data during...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 February 2015
Remotely Bricking Cars (BoingBoing) — story from 2010 where an intruder illegally accessed Texas Auto Center’s Web-based remote vehicle immobilization system and one by one began turning off their...
View ArticleFour short links: 3 April 2015
Unpowered Ankle Exoskeleton — “As we understand human biomechanics better, we’ve begun to see wearable robotic devices that can restore or enhance human motor performance,” says Collins. “This bodes...
View ArticleFour short links: 8 June 2015
Psychology of Software Architecture — a wonderful piece of writing, but this stood out: It comes down to behavioral economics and game theory. The license we choose modifies the economics of those who...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 June 2015
Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale (Paper a Day) — very readable summary of Apache Storm’s failings, and Heron’s improvements. Molecular Programming Project — aims to develop computer science...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 June 2015
Computational Journalism — Google awards to projects around computational journalism. Sample: The goal of the project is to automatically build topic “event threads” that will help journalists and...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 June 2015
6SensorLabs — product is a grind-your-food-for-my-sensor product that tests for the presence of gluten. Or, as celiacs call it, death. The Art of Testing Less Without Sacrificing Quality (Paper a Day)...
View ArticleFour short links: 10 July 2015
Computer of Wired-Together Rat Brains — this is ALL THE AMAZING. a Brainet that allows three monkeys connected at the brain to control a virtual arm on screen across three axes. […] Nicolelis said...
View ArticleFour short links: 30 September 2015
Homebrew Bioweapons Not Imminent Threat — you need a safe facility, lab instruments, base strain, design and execution skills, and testing. None of these are easy until the Amazon-Google cloud wars...
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