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10 lightweight apps to make older PCs fly | News | TechRadar UK
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/10-lightweight-apps-to-make-older-pcs-fly-515162
Tech Central - Times Online - WBLG: Top 25 days in computing history
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/11/top-25-days-in.html

Top 25 days in computing history
5 Cost-Efficient, Flexible Open Source Resources for Cloud Computing
http://ostatic.com/blog/5-cost-efficient-flexible-open-source-resources-for-cloud-computing
5 Cost-Efficient, Flexible Open Source Resources for Cloud Computing including Eucalyptus and Globus
Wolfram Blog : Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!
http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/
via Nova Spivack: It doesn't simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn't just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn't simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example. Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions -- like questions that have factual answers such as "What is the location of Timbuktu?" or "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?," "What was the average rainfall in Boston last year?," "What is the 307th digit of Pi?," or "what would 80/20 vision look like?"
Wolfram Research introduces a search engine
Always Innovating: Introducing the Touch Book
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/
TOUCH BOOK | GALLERY | BUZZ | PRE-ORDER Touch Book Netbook reloaded. The world's first netbook with a detachable keyboard. 10 to 15 hours of battery life*. Touchscreen with 3D user interface. Internal USB slots. The innovation is under way at Demo 09. Watch the video Detach, revert, flip, hold, carry. On your lap, on the fridge, on your sofa, in a plane, on the wall. What will you do with yours? Starting at $299. First batch will be limited. Reserve now! OPEN SOURCE | PRESS | CONTACT | ABOUT US
Das sieht nach einem ziemlich genialen Device aus und auch noch Open Source!
great netbook + tablet with 10-15 hr battery life
Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics | Wired Science from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html
Inductive reasoning at it's finest.
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell researchers, the program deduced the natural laws without a shred of knowledge about physics or geometry. The research is being heralded as a potential breakthrough for science in the Petabyte Age, where computers try to find regularities in massive datasets that are too big and complex for the human mind. (See Wired magazine's July 2008 cover story on "The End of Science.") "One of the biggest problems in science today is moving forward and finding the underlying principles in areas where there is lots and lots of data, but there's a theoretical gap. We don't know how things work," said Hod Lipson, the Cornell University computational researcher who co-wrote the program. "I think this is going to be an important tool." Condensing rules from raw data has long been considered the province of hu
“In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings…”
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings. Developed by Cornell
Tropo.com
http://tropo.com/
Tropo is cloud-based telephony. Using our simple API you can quickly create and deploy powerful telephony applications in Groovy, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Tropo is powered by Voxeo - the largest and most reliable hosted telephony platform in the world.
What is Tropo.com? Tropo is cloud-based telephony. Using our simple API you can quickly create and deploy powerful telephony applications in Groovy, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Tropo is powered by Voxeo - the largest and most reliable hosted telephony platform in the world. Tropo is currently in BETA and will always be absolutely free for development use. After the BETA, production use will start at $0.03 per minute. If you encounter any problems whatsoever during testing, please contact us via the help menu above. Thanks and happy Tropoing! Sample Code Here's a simple JavaScript example that shows you how to, well, you know. answer(); say("Hello, world!"); hangup(); The following JavaScript example demonstrates how to ask a caller for input: answer(); result = ask("For sales, press 1. For support, press 2.", {choices:"1, 2", repeat:3}); if (result.name == 'choice') { if (result.value == "1") say("sales is not available right now."); if (result.value == "2")
Official Google Enterprise Blog: What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about.html
According to Gartner, a typical IT department spends 80% of their budget keeping the lights on, and this hampers their ability to drive change and growth in their business.
Google's definition of the "Cloud"
Common Java Cookbook
http://www.discursive.com/books/cjcook/reference/book.html
This collection provides expert tips for using Java-based utilities from projects such as Apache Commons, Apache Lucene, and Apache Velocity. You don't have to be an expert, the book's solution-based format contains code examples for a wide variety of web, XML, network, testing, and application projects. If you want to learn how to combine common open-source Java utilities to create powerful Java applications and tools, the Common Java Cookbook is for you.
Top 10 Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs
http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/wolfram-easter-eggs/
Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs
Stephen Wolfram and his team didn’t lack a sense of humor when they built their Mathematica-based engine. Slowly but surely, people have been finding some interesting quirks within Wolfram Alpha, triggered by specific questions or events. These interesting easter eggs will make you smile or raise an eyebrow in bewilderment.
SMS: "Tim Gowers - Computational Complexity and Quantum Compuation"
http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/545358
Computational complexity lectures
Fields Medalist Tim Gowers' lectures on computational complexity.
Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing | Video on TED.com
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_will_change_computing.html
Jeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins kertoo aivotutkimuksen teorianmuodostuksesta sekä esittelee parhaan kuulemani älykkyyden määritelmän. Kiva kuullaa miestä, kun on aikoinaan lukenut tämän saman hänen kirjastaan.
Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.
TED talk - currently no theory about how brain works because there is not framework for the theory - The framework is memory and prediction not behavior and computational ability.
Useful Tutorials on Linux and UNIX for Beginners and Experts Alike | Educhoices.org
http://educhoices.org/articles/Useful_Tutorials_on_Linux_and_UNIX_for_Beginners_and_Experts_Alike.html
Useful Tutorials on Linux and UNIX for Beginners and Experts Alike
Official Google Research Blog: Large-scale graph computing at Google
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/large-scale-graph-computing-at-google.html
I want one of these! "We have created scalable infrastructure, named Pregel, to mine a wide range of graphs. In Pregel, programs are expressed as a sequence of iterations. In each iteration, a vertex can, independently of other vertices, receive messages sent to it in the previous iteration, send messages to other vertices, modify its own and its outgoing edges' states, and mutate the graph's topology (experts in parallel processing will recognize that the Bulk Synchronous Parallel Model inspired Pregel). Currently, Pregel scales to billions of vertices and edges, but this limit will keep expanding. Pregel's applicability is harder to quantify, but so far we haven't come across a type of graph or a practical graph computing problem which is not solvable with Pregel. It computes over large graphs much faster than alternatives, and the application programming interface is easy to use. Implementing PageRank, for example, takes only about 15 lines of code. "
Kernel
So many things to learn and apply in business deals.
http://spinn3r.com/rank
Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems | Science | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer
Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could solve complex mathematical problems faster than anything made from silicon.
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RT @zaibatsu: Bacterial computers can crack mathematical problems fast than most computers http://su.pr/1DwpiJ [from http://twitter.com/lekahe/statuses/2856248758]
Bacteria Computer! Wa-ow!
a bestiary of algorithmic trading strategies « Locklin on science
http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/a-bestiary-of-algorithmic-trading-strategies/
Quants come in three basic varieties. 1. Structurers: people who price complex financial instruments. 2. Risk managers people who manage portfolio risk 3. Quant traders people who use statistics to make money by buying and selling most quants are structurers. Of course, there is often bleed over between these varieties -but it’s a useful taxonomy for looking for work. I’ve done a little of all three at this point (very little, honestly), and have always liked quant trading problems more than the other two varieties. It’s the most ambitious, and the most likely to net you a career outside of a large organization (go me: Army of one!). It’s also the most mysterious, since successful quant traders don’t like to talk about what they do. Structurers and risk managers have to talk about what they do, almost by definition. Quant traders gain little from talking about their special sauce.
***** very good and deep articles on finance topics by "Locklin on science"
vocab of "job specs" in trading
Cloud computing: Clash of the clouds | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14637206
Windows 7 release -- Google vs. Apple vs. Microsoft in the future of OSes.
The launch of Windows 7 marks the end of an era in computing—and the beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple and others
Briefing from The Economist (17 October 2009)
10 Years of Virtual Machine Performance (Semi) Demystified | Engine Yard Blog
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/10-years-of-virtual-machine-performance-semi-demystified/
Since 2005, VMware and Xen have gradually reduced the performance overheads of virtualization, aided by the Moore’s law doubling in transistor count, which inexorably shrinks overheads over time. AMD’s Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI – 2007) and Intel’s Extended Page Tables (EPT – 2009) substantially improved performance for a class of recalcitrant workloads by offloading the mapping of machine-level pages to Guest OS “physical” memory pages, from software to silicon. In the case of operations that stress the MMU—like an Apache compile with lots of short lived processes and intensive memory access—performance doubled with RVI/EPT. (Xen showed similar challenges prior to RVI/EPT on compilation benchmarks.)
100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek - Online Courses
http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/10/28/100-incredible-open-courses-for-the-ultimate-tech-geek/
Cottage Computer Programming
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programming.php
The deliberate cultivation of individual creativity may end up being the most important social result of computer technology. Either that, or cottage programmers like myself will simply have more time to cultivate our gardens
You may have heard about me. In the computer business I'm known as the Oregon Hermit. According to rumor, I write personal computer programs in solitude, shunning food and sleep in endless fugues of work. I hang up on important callers in order to keep the next few programming ideas from evaporating, and I live on the end of a dirt road in the wilderness. I'm here to tell you these vicious rumors are true.
yed images and messages. In one of the sequences a cabin appeared on a hilltop, the door opened, then music played. It was designed to persuade a certain someone to visit me
Cloud Computing Ecosystem Map - Appirio
http://www.appirio.com/ecosystem/
The anatomy of cloud computing
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2009/03/cloud-computing-stack.html
historic documents in computer science and engineering
http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/history.html
Historia de la programación, lenguajes y manuales originales en pdf.
The History of Hacking | IT Security | Focus.com
http://www.focus.com/fyi/it-security/history-hacking/
Ask Proggit: Recommender a compsci paper for me to read this weekend : programming
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9220o/ask_proggit_recommender_a_compsci_paper_for_me_to/
I've tried to span as many subjects as possible to have a little something for everyone while limiting myself to foundational papers that have had a lasting impact on the field and are also highly readable. Some of the people (Chomsky, Shannon, Metropolis, Ulam) represented here might not consider themselves computer scientists but the papers I've included have been so important that they cannot be left out. I admit a few papers may seem like idiosyncratic picks due to my particular interest in certain areas like computer graphics and computational dynamics. There are several important papers I couldn't include due to an absence of freely available copies, e.g. Rissanen's Generalized Kraft Inequality and Arithmetic Coding.
I am looking for something clever or thought provoking that doesn't depend on too much background knowledge, and is easy to read without too much formalism/maths.
Recommender a compsci paper for me to read this weekend
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock
http://speirs.org/blog/2010/1/29/future-shock.html
I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad. Some are trying to dismiss these ravings by comparing them to certain comments made after the launch of the iPod in 2001: "No wireless. Les space than a Nomad. Lame.". I fear this January-26th thinking misses the point. What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock.
I'm often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they're thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges. With the iPhone OS as incarnated in the iPad, Apple proposes to do something about this, and I mean really do something about it instead of just talking about doing something about it, and the world is going mental.
"Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. ... "The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS. "The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table's order, designing the house and organising the party. "Think of the millions of hours of human effort spent on preventing and recovering from the problems caused by completely open computer systems. ... "If the iPad and its successor devices free these people to focus on what they do best, it will dramatically change people's perceptions of computing from something to fear to something to engage enthusiastically with."
Cloud computing, grid computing, utility computing - list of top providers | MyTestBox.com - web software reviews, news and tips & tricks
http://www.mytestbox.com/miscellaneous/cloud-computing-grid-computing-utility-computing-list-top-providers/
Cloud computing means that the applications are running somewhere in the “cloud” (whether an internal network or the Internet). We, as users, don’t know and don’t care. Done right, cloud computing allows developers to develop, deploy and run applications that can easily grow in capacity (scalability), work rapidly (performance), and never – or at least rarely – fail (reliability), all without any concern as to the nature and location of the underlying infrastructure.
Cloud computing providersEveryone can build a website, but not not everyone can build a good and popular website. If you can pull it off, you can enjoy benefits like building something people are using, recognition and – sometimes – money. It can be a good business, even your full time job. But bad things can happen, and you should be prepared for it. One of those things (well, actually this is not a bad thing!) is to have spikes in traffic… maybe as a result of getting on Digg.com, Reddit.com, Google News, or another major media outlet frontpage… or getting reviewed by Techcrunch or another major technology blog.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 40 years of Unix
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8205976.stm
Jaeger
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2456/2171
Volume 14, Number 5 - 4 May 2009; Contents: Introduction; What is the cloud? Who uses the cloud? Where is the cloud? What rules govern the cloud? Conclusion: Clouds without borders?
FirstMonday - Peer Reviewed Journal
Article from First Monday 14 (5) (4 May 2009)
Geography, Economics, Environment, and Jurisdiction in Cloud Computing.
read this! Cloud computing
PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
http://www.picloud.com/
import a lib in your python and run code automagically in parallel on a remote cluster. pricing is time used x processes plus data xfer
Cloud computing and the return of the platform wars | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=303
Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots « counternotions
http://counternotions.com/2008/12/03/411/
Google shows Microsoft how to connect the dots « counternotions
Some business advice for Ballmer.
Quoting Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products & User Experience: "You may have heard about our [directory assistance] 1-800-GOOG-411 service. Whether or not free-411 is a profitable business unto itself is yet to be seen. I myself am somewhat skeptical. The reason we really did it is because we need to build a great speech-to-text model … that we can use for all kinds of different things, including video search."
Interesting article about how Google is just playing a different game than the rest of us.
The State of the Internet Operating System - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/state-of-internet-operating-system.html
good read
Great article on the present and future trends of computing technologies and horizons.
“The Cloud Is The New Dotcom” (Video Highlights)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/01/the-cloud-is-the-new-dotcom-video-highlights/
Geeking with Greg: Jeff Dean keynote at WSDM 2009
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/02/jeff-dean-keynote-at-wsdm-2009.html
Google Fellow Jeff Dean gave an excellent keynote talk at the recent WSDM 2009 conference that had tidbits on Google I had not heard before. Particularly impressive is Google's attention to detail on performance and their agility in deployment over the last decade.
Coding Horror: Why Do Computers Suck at Math?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001266.html
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"Computers are supposed to be pretty good at this math stuff. What gives? How is it possible to produce such blatantly incorrect results from seemingly trivial calculations? Should we even be trusting our computers to do math at all?"
"Computers are awesome, yes, but they aren't infinite.. yet. So any prospects of storing any infinitely repeating number on them are dim at best. The best we can do is work with approximations at varying levels of precision that are "good enough", where "good enough" depends on what you're doing, and how you're doing it. And it's complicated to get right."
4 Steps To a Professional Database Design | ProgrammerFish - Everything that's programmed!
http://www.programmerfish.com/4-steps-to-a-professional-database-design/
Just as you require a blueprint to build a house, you will need a database blueprint in order to implement a database successfully .
ongoing · The Web vs. the Fallacies
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/05/25/HTTP-and-the-Fallacies-of-Distributed-Computing
Here at Sun, the Fallacies of Distributed Computing have long been a much-revered lesson. Furthermore, I personally think they’re pretty much spot-on. But these days, you don’t often find them coming up in conversations about building big networked systems. The reason is, I think, that we build almost everything on Web technologies, which lets get away with believing some of them.
via rtomayko
If you’re building Web technology, you have to worry about these things. But if you’re building applications on it, mostly you don’t. ¶ Well, except for security; please don’t stop worrying about security
Mac money-savers: fill up your Mac for free | News | TechRadar UK
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/mac-money-savers-fill-up-your-mac-for-free-479223
Mac money-savers: fill up your Mac for free Fantastic free programs, online services, and more : TechRadar UK
YouTube - Lecture 1: Higher Computing - Richard Buckland UNSW 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7l6Adoiiw&feature=channel
Richard Buckland
The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie | Lessons of Failure
http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/companies/outsourcing-cost-lie/
Ouch, nasty stats on actual cost savings vs. original pitch.
The Outsourcing Low Cost Lie | Lessons of Failure - http://j.mp/cV2RpX
outsourcing kan ikke betale sig
High Scalability - High Scalability - How will memristors change everything?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/5/how-will-memristors-change-everything.html