I'm so ashamed. Please pardon the vernacular. I meant "novel" and "interesting" and "brilliant" and "amazing" and "cool" and "neat" and "awesome"... Ass.
There's a professor in my building who works on constructing spatio-temporal representations of information from 2D images that allow you to see a city evolve through time. Not sure if all their demos are on the website, but the ones I've seen are pretty ridiculous.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/4d-cities/dhtml/index.html
Heh, very cool. I worked mostly with self-assembly motifs to form block copolymers. Most of my work with conductive polymers was with polythiophenes or cyclooctatetraene-based systems. You're absolutely right about this being not new. Nobel Prizes are rarely given for recent science. I think 20-25 years after the first papers seems to be about standard these days.
So I get the sensation that just like everywhere else on Slashdot, a lot of people are out of their depth when it comes to this topic. For some background, might I suggest reading about the work of the three men who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for their work in conductive polymers. These materials are incredible in a myriad of ways, but require a nontrivial understanding of materials to really get it.
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It's not a matter of "Gee, what is this good for?" If you explore more of Whitesides' research, a lot of his work is very much in the realm of 'proof-of-concept'. I've had the pleasure to hear him speak before on his research in self-assembly and it's astounding what some of the systems his students have devised can do. Check his research out here. The one project that astounded me in particular was self-assembly of functioning electronic devices using nothing but hydrophobic interactions. Wickedly cool.
To be honest, this particular piece of research is almost a footnote in his career. Most of the things he does will never end up in something the average person ever comes into contact with, but the salient ideas will change the landscape of technology 20 years down the road. If you're at all interested in nanoscience, this is a guy to watch.
everyone's favorite datacenter/island nation of Sealand which should be here. I actually emailed both Google and the leader of Sealand of this oversight since Sealand's leader is nothing short of a stupendous bad-ass based on it's history. I mean, who has the stones these days to do something like that?
Another site that invariably seems to propagate days later into slashdot is BoingBoing.
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I agree with the glass of wine or beer suggestion, but don't take it as license to go nuts. From what I remember from class, alcohol inhibits the body's ability to enter the more important phases of the sleep cycle. Sleep apneas are also more prevalent. Sort of explains why you feel tired after sleeping till 2 on Saturday after going out and drinking the night before.
I can't really comment on the whole HORDE project but their webmail system is excellent and has been working in production at Georgia Tech for quite some time without a hitch. If IMP is any measure of the rest of their application suite, it's quality.
Last I checked, you do most of your communication and perception through your head. While I'm sure that lots of very low power nifty stuff with regards to effective, cheap wireless eyepieces and earpieces will come out at some point, I imagine that putting it in your collar would require running wires/rf signals over much shorter distances. Plus, it's PRIME untapped body real estate! Everybody knows that your pockets are already filled with crap and who has time to wear a belt these days?
It does handle calendar syncing, using your handy.Mac account.
Just make sure to always sync with your.Mac account on beginning your session and then again on ending and you're golden. I guess it does kind of suck having to shell out the $100/yr for those little things after already having spent the extra money for the Mac, but it seems most users are resigned to it at this point. On the upside, it is a damn nice service you're getting for that money.
that this guys chief writing influences seem to be Dr. Seuss books? Not to mention the really bad puns. Nice coverage of the show in my eyes though, as I've never been to any type of tech convention and it was cool to see what happens when nerds congregate.
may crap my pants. Question: how many windows systems have the styling to inspire furniture as out there as this? Personally, I like the little glowing butt added to the iMac. pretty funny stuff.
I can vouch for some of the above selections. particularly Medeski, Martin and Wood since Miles Davis really needs no one to vouch for him. Definitely check out MMW's Friday Afternoon in the Universe and if you're interested in the idea of a Hip Hop/Jazz fusion, "What happened to Gus?" off the Combustication Remixes. One of my favorites is actually the album Notes From the Underground, if only for the Dostoyevsky allusion in the title (the novella Notes From the Underground is incidentally the inspiration for Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho").
As for Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, how many other albums are cool enough and have enough longevity to be sampled regularly by hip hop's best and brightest? I've even heard Old Dirty Bastard drop his name in songs (I'll be like Herbie and hand you a cock). Headhunters is one of those albums that polarized audiences when it was first released. As you can read in the liner notes, one review referred to it as "future shit" in reference to its heavy use of synthesizers. Initially, I bought the album for the song "Chameleon", as it has one of the funkiest, dirtiest bass lines worthy of a George Clinton project combined with a awesome horn line. The rest of the tracks were kind of out there on my first listen, even 30 some years after it was released (kind of like the Bill Laswell remix of Panthalassa, actually) but in the end every single one of the tracks just grew on me. Do yourself a favor and pick up Headhunters. I count it as the singularly best $5 purchase I ever made.
Finally, I applaud you for deciding to culture yourself a bit and branch out your musical tastes. I notice a lot of the Slashdot crowd that I actually know are all about hacking Perl or debating the best Linux distro (they all are lacking as far as I'm concerned) but when it comes to being well rounded as human beings, there's really no interest. View it as hacking yourself if you have to, guys, but it just makes you generally a more interesting person...not to mention more likely to be successful with the ladies. And if that's all I manage to do, then I've been a success because if I have to read one more off-topic post bitching about not being able to ask a chick out or not getting laid, I will kill many, many people. Good luck with the music searching.
I don't know if this says anything about the crowd reading Slashdot, but I noticed that most of the post here are in regards to physics or genetics texts. Anyone know of any good books in other fields? I noticed a sore lack of texts in chemistry being thrown out, and to be honest, I'm embarrassed that I can't think of any to recommend other than textbooks. The only consolation I can offer is to point Slashdot readers to a gentleman I had the opportunity to hear speak today on the subject of forming nano and mesoscale structures via self assembly. These techniques could be used for all manner of things, but most interestingly, as a means of creating 3D circuitry without complex fabrication. The circuits would literally assemble themselves. Very cool stuff and possibly the next great revolution that scientists will hand over to engineers. I'm rather proud after having heard this man speak that I am doing work in the same field.
How do all of you out there feel about contributing your computing cycles to the private sector? Previous iterations of this idea have been through nonprofit/university research institutions, but this new post seems to be private enterprise driven. As noble the goal D2OL is working towards is, i still feel odd about the whole idea. I pose the following question to the general Slashdot community: How do you feel about your computing cycles being used for the research and development of pharmaceuticals (or any other imaginable private sector application) and said company reaping tremendous profits from this show of goodwill?
I wonder if anyone remembers the commercial for text messaging a while back with a bunch of people sitting around a board room listening to some yahoo SoCal type guy espousing catch phrases to the board room like "rasining the bar" and "thinking outside the box" and such. The funnist part of it all is when he demands that the people "shift the paradigm", exept he pronounces paradigm PARA-DIG-UM. Funny shit.
I spent a good portion of my freshman english lit class reading "Structures of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. Quite possibly the most pedantic piece of crap in the world, but it made me realize somehting important: the only people who have any business talking about paradigm shifts are the historians doing analysis after the fact. Trying to do something new and different is what I strive to do every day in my research, and fucking managers and bureaucrats talking about "shifting the paradigm" makes me want to barf.
Just my two cents.
As a person doing research in organic chemistry, I'm sure that my book buying habits would be equally circumspect in the eyes of law enforcement. Sitting on my desk right now? PIKHAL: A Chemical Love Story , a wonderful work of fiction by a researcher interested in the pharmacological properties of phenylethylamines. It just so happens that the second portion of the book reads like a recipe book for something like 180 compounds and includes dosage and effect information. Best part? The second half is freely available online. So essentially, the knowledge is out there and the Denver police should not have concerned themselves with where the recipe came from, but the fact that they were making them.
True these flies will be sterilized, but one always has to take statistical variation into account. Weaker doses of radiation could potentially cause genetic alteration without sterilization. From the standpoint of a scientist, I'm sure that this has been exhaustively researched and found to be safe, but I am always a little wary of something being declared "safe" because as the bottles of sea sand with hazard labels in my research lab attest to, in the final analysis NOTHING is truly "safe".
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I'm so ashamed. Please pardon the vernacular. I meant "novel" and "interesting" and "brilliant" and "amazing" and "cool" and "neat" and "awesome"... Ass.
There's a professor in my building who works on constructing spatio-temporal representations of information from 2D images that allow you to see a city evolve through time. Not sure if all their demos are on the website, but the ones I've seen are pretty ridiculous. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/4d-cities/dhtml/index.html
Heh, very cool. I worked mostly with self-assembly motifs to form block copolymers. Most of my work with conductive polymers was with polythiophenes or cyclooctatetraene-based systems. You're absolutely right about this being not new. Nobel Prizes are rarely given for recent science. I think 20-25 years after the first papers seems to be about standard these days.
So I get the sensation that just like everywhere else on Slashdot, a lot of people are out of their depth when it comes to this topic. For some background, might I suggest reading about the work of the three men who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for their work in conductive polymers. These materials are incredible in a myriad of ways, but require a nontrivial understanding of materials to really get it.
To be honest, this particular piece of research is almost a footnote in his career. Most of the things he does will never end up in something the average person ever comes into contact with, but the salient ideas will change the landscape of technology 20 years down the road. If you're at all interested in nanoscience, this is a guy to watch.
everyone's favorite datacenter/island nation of Sealand which should be here. I actually emailed both Google and the leader of Sealand of this oversight since Sealand's leader is nothing short of a stupendous bad-ass based on it's history. I mean, who has the stones these days to do something like that?
Another site that invariably seems to propagate days later into slashdot is BoingBoing.
I agree with the glass of wine or beer suggestion, but don't take it as license to go nuts. From what I remember from class, alcohol inhibits the body's ability to enter the more important phases of the sleep cycle. Sleep apneas are also more prevalent. Sort of explains why you feel tired after sleeping till 2 on Saturday after going out and drinking the night before.
I can't really comment on the whole HORDE project but their webmail system is excellent and has been working in production at Georgia Tech for quite some time without a hitch. If IMP is any measure of the rest of their application suite, it's quality.
Last I checked, you do most of your communication and perception through your head. While I'm sure that lots of very low power nifty stuff with regards to effective, cheap wireless eyepieces and earpieces will come out at some point, I imagine that putting it in your collar would require running wires/rf signals over much shorter distances. Plus, it's PRIME untapped body real estate! Everybody knows that your pockets are already filled with crap and who has time to wear a belt these days?
It does handle calendar syncing, using your handy .Mac account.
.Mac account on beginning your session and then again on ending and you're golden. I guess it does kind of suck having to shell out the $100/yr for those little things after already having spent the extra money for the Mac, but it seems most users are resigned to it at this point. On the upside, it is a damn nice service you're getting for that money.
Just make sure to always sync with your
that this guys chief writing influences seem to be Dr. Seuss books? Not to mention the really bad puns. Nice coverage of the show in my eyes though, as I've never been to any type of tech convention and it was cool to see what happens when nerds congregate.
Damn, I know I'm not funny....but a troll? *sulks*
may crap my pants. Question: how many windows systems have the styling to inspire furniture as out there as this? Personally, I like the little glowing butt added to the iMac. pretty funny stuff.
I can vouch for some of the above selections. particularly Medeski, Martin and Wood since Miles Davis really needs no one to vouch for him. Definitely check out MMW's Friday Afternoon in the Universe and if you're interested in the idea of a Hip Hop/Jazz fusion, "What happened to Gus?" off the Combustication Remixes. One of my favorites is actually the album Notes From the Underground, if only for the Dostoyevsky allusion in the title (the novella Notes From the Underground is incidentally the inspiration for Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho").
As for Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, how many other albums are cool enough and have enough longevity to be sampled regularly by hip hop's best and brightest? I've even heard Old Dirty Bastard drop his name in songs (I'll be like Herbie and hand you a cock). Headhunters is one of those albums that polarized audiences when it was first released. As you can read in the liner notes, one review referred to it as "future shit" in reference to its heavy use of synthesizers. Initially, I bought the album for the song "Chameleon", as it has one of the funkiest, dirtiest bass lines worthy of a George Clinton project combined with a awesome horn line. The rest of the tracks were kind of out there on my first listen, even 30 some years after it was released (kind of like the Bill Laswell remix of Panthalassa, actually) but in the end every single one of the tracks just grew on me. Do yourself a favor and pick up Headhunters. I count it as the singularly best $5 purchase I ever made.
Finally, I applaud you for deciding to culture yourself a bit and branch out your musical tastes. I notice a lot of the Slashdot crowd that I actually know are all about hacking Perl or debating the best Linux distro (they all are lacking as far as I'm concerned) but when it comes to being well rounded as human beings, there's really no interest. View it as hacking yourself if you have to, guys, but it just makes you generally a more interesting person...not to mention more likely to be successful with the ladies. And if that's all I manage to do, then I've been a success because if I have to read one more off-topic post bitching about not being able to ask a chick out or not getting laid, I will kill many, many people. Good luck with the music searching.
I don't know if this says anything about the crowd reading Slashdot, but I noticed that most of the post here are in regards to physics or genetics texts. Anyone know of any good books in other fields? I noticed a sore lack of texts in chemistry being thrown out, and to be honest, I'm embarrassed that I can't think of any to recommend other than textbooks. The only consolation I can offer is to point Slashdot readers to a gentleman I had the opportunity to hear speak today on the subject of forming nano and mesoscale structures via self assembly. These techniques could be used for all manner of things, but most interestingly, as a means of creating 3D circuitry without complex fabrication. The circuits would literally assemble themselves. Very cool stuff and possibly the next great revolution that scientists will hand over to engineers. I'm rather proud after having heard this man speak that I am doing work in the same field.
How do all of you out there feel about contributing your computing cycles to the private sector? Previous iterations of this idea have been through nonprofit/university research institutions, but this new post seems to be private enterprise driven. As noble the goal D2OL is working towards is, i still feel odd about the whole idea. I pose the following question to the general Slashdot community: How do you feel about your computing cycles being used for the research and development of pharmaceuticals (or any other imaginable private sector application) and said company reaping tremendous profits from this show of goodwill?
I wonder if anyone remembers the commercial for text messaging a while back with a bunch of people sitting around a board room listening to some yahoo SoCal type guy espousing catch phrases to the board room like "rasining the bar" and "thinking outside the box" and such. The funnist part of it all is when he demands that the people "shift the paradigm", exept he pronounces paradigm PARA-DIG-UM. Funny shit.
I spent a good portion of my freshman english lit class reading "Structures of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn. Quite possibly the most pedantic piece of crap in the world, but it made me realize somehting important: the only people who have any business talking about paradigm shifts are the historians doing analysis after the fact. Trying to do something new and different is what I strive to do every day in my research, and fucking managers and bureaucrats talking about "shifting the paradigm" makes me want to barf. Just my two cents.
Organic=has carbon. If the sea was methane and ethane, that's an enormous sea of hydrocarbons, a.k.a. hydrocarbons.
As a person doing research in organic chemistry, I'm sure that my book buying habits would be equally circumspect in the eyes of law enforcement. Sitting on my desk right now? PIKHAL: A Chemical Love Story , a wonderful work of fiction by a researcher interested in the pharmacological properties of phenylethylamines. It just so happens that the second portion of the book reads like a recipe book for something like 180 compounds and includes dosage and effect information. Best part? The second half is freely available online. So essentially, the knowledge is out there and the Denver police should not have concerned themselves with where the recipe came from, but the fact that they were making them.
True these flies will be sterilized, but one always has to take statistical variation into account. Weaker doses of radiation could potentially cause genetic alteration without sterilization. From the standpoint of a scientist, I'm sure that this has been exhaustively researched and found to be safe, but I am always a little wary of something being declared "safe" because as the bottles of sea sand with hazard labels in my research lab attest to, in the final analysis NOTHING is truly "safe".