http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=474
Void in center in original is filled in by determining spatial transform and redrawing
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SIAM: M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye
August 7, 2012Thoughts on The Philosophical Baby by A Gopnik
July 29, 2012Lots of movie mentions: Momento, Total Recall, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The Matrix (as Plato’s cave)
Claims Murray and Herrnstein’s Bell Curve discredited by Head Start
The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Baby-Childrens-Minds-Meaning/dp/0374231966
The privacy of our data in Google
July 27, 2012Rather worrisome discussion of the privacy of information stored on gdrive
http://bradlowrey.net/2012/04/google-drive-vs-dropbox-battle-of-privacy/
http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/tech-news/google-drive-licence-agreement .html
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-sk ydrive-dropbox-icloud
The privacy of our data in Google
July 27, 2012Rather worrisome discussion of the privacy of information stored on gdrive
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-sk ydrive-dropbox-icloud
http://bradlowrey.net/2012/04/google-drive-vs-dropbox-battle-of-privacy/
http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/tech-news/google-drive-licence-agreement .html
data, data everywhere
July 5, 2012http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557443
Nice writeup in Economist
Useful QTs :
“That highlights the role of ‘information intermediaries’. ” “These days metadata are undergoing a virtual renaissance. “
Data in High Energy Physics
June 26, 2012High-Energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111213144715.htm
High-energy physics: Down the petabyte highway
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110119/full/469282a.html
Particle physics has been a trendsetter in developing the
infrastructure to push petabytes from central detectors (often at CERN) around the world.
OMICS publishing group
April 22, 2012http://chronicle.com/article/Predatory-Online-Journals/131047
Chronicles the evils of omicsThen see Beall’s List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers :http://metadata.posterous.com/83235355
Eye-Fi Forums • View topic – Eye-Fi Helper is unable to contact the Eye-Fi server
April 16, 2012http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5590&start=0&sid=c2be3c54ae689c112c9a3bd7d2450732 http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=314&start=90
looks like there are router configuration issues here. So it might be helpful to switch between providers.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class – NYTimes.com
March 30, 2012http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html
flexible factories in east Asia, SF dinners with a networth of $69B around the table
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