Life Beneath Antartic Ice

TIME CNN has these photos on life under the antartic ice caps...

Gigantic Species of Leopard-Eating Chimps Rule the Congo Jungle

Daily Galaxy dice:

... The big chimps even seem to be unaffected by the poison arrows used by locals, which are lethal to their smaller cousins. However, Hicks is quick to point out that in spite of their strength they are not known to be aggressive towards humans. To the contrary, researchers have reported that the chimps seem to “recognize” humans as similar creatures and behave with curiosity rather than hostility ...

Anuncio..

Un anuncio que me mando Rubén...

... Paul Potts ...

Wikipedia says:

On June 9, 2007, Potts' audition of Simon Cowell's new search-for-a-star show Britain's Got Talent was televised on ITV in UK. The actual audition was held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on March 17, 2007^[2]. Paul sang a condensed version of Giacomo Puccini's "Nessun dorma", which impressed the judges and received a standing ovation from the audience of 2,000 people. Potts' rendition of this has currently been viewed on video upload site YouTube tens of millions of times and exists among Youtube's all-time most viewed videos.

I actually found out about this at Quijote Urbano... I left a comment about how so much of humanity's Talent is hidden.... and let it be so.. :p I wish someday soon we wake up (just a bit) and revolt against this mass mechanization.... (just as soon as we have/create walking automatons... :D)

Fox Chase

A fox, 90 rods due south of a greyhound, is pursued by the hound at the rate of 5 rods to 4 of the fox, the fox running a due east course. How far will the hound run to overtake the fox?

(Triangle or Elliptical course?) How can plot me the optimal (never trust a Fox) elliptical chase?

Wikipedia Corrects Encyclopedia Britannica

En slashdot escriben:

"Despite all the controversy about Wikipedia's work model, no one can argue the potential of a project that has so effectively demonstrated the usefulness of the 'wisdom of crowds' concept. And that wisdom has detected a large number of mistakes in one of the most revered founts of human knowledge, the Encyclopedias Britannica. Among the wrong information collected on this page are the name at birth of Bill Clinton and the definition of the NP problems in mathematics."

Más adelante en los comentarios se ve como siguen las discusiones sobre la legitimidad de wikipedia:

Too bad most of the administrators think they know more than you, simply because they read an article on the subject. The others are all to happy to demonstrate the Wikipedia caste system to you.

[citation needed [wikipedia.org]]

Para mí, esta discusión es, en si misma una demostración de la credibilidad de la mayoría de la información en el sitio. Filosóficamente se podría discutir horas sobre la percepción de lo real, y la incorporación de memorias como hechos, tanto para un individuo completamente aislado como para uno en un grupo... .... .... :p

WTF... dangling pointer exploits?!

This article points to a potential technique for exploiting dangling pointers?

I have no idea how they can get something usefull from a dangling pointer... any ideas?

life after death.

Cognitive Daily ha publicado esto sobre un estudio de la percepción que tenemos de lo que sucede despues de la muerte. Despues de ver un show de títeres en el que un cocodrilo se come a un ratón, se le hicieron una serie de preguntas sobre el estado: físico - psicológico - espiritual del ratón que ya no esta vivo.




La gráfica se refiere con 'Discontinuity' a una

Este es el juguetito que yo quiero... :p

Cada vez me interesa más....

Realmente me podría conformar con cualquiera de estos jugueticos... :D, pero el XDA flame con un teclado bluetooth laser suena muuuuy interesante...

Por otro lado están los dispositivos de OpenMoko... Me encanta la idea de escribir mi propia interfaz para mi celular... y veo la capacidad de venderle a las compañías interfaces corporativas para que sus ejecutivos puedan realizar las tareas más comunes entre ellos de una manera exquisitamete personalizada...

Engadget entrevisto al pana de la supuesta energia perpetua

No se cuantos han seguido el rastro de "Steorn", la compañia de sabrá Dios donde que pretende haber hecho una máquina de movimiento perpetua... al parecer tiene varios años con este relajito...

He aqui la entrevista de esta figura magnanime... :p

Para mi abuelo Pablo.

La manera en la que me tocaste fue profunda.
Eres un farol que indicaba los caminos al aprendizaje, al cumplimiento de las metas, a la dedicación.
Eres alguien a quien admirar por sus méritos, por sus acciones.
Seguiremos desacuerdo casi por completo en nuestra visión del universo, la mía joven, optimista; la tuya serie, realista.

Pero te agradezco infinitamente todo lo que hiciste, tu incansable esfuerzo por alcanzar la excelencia es el pilar sobre el cual se sientan las maravillas del mundo. Ese esfuerzo, que encarnaste y al que tu vida aún no cesa de aportar, es tanto más que satisfacer curiosidades; es la verdadera opus magnus de la vida en sí, desafiar las fronteras de lo asequible hasta mejorar la condición global.

Tu pusiste tu grano de arena en esta obra, que parece más bien una peña. Gracias!


Hablaba hace unos días (antes de que murieras) con papí sobre el cambio ambiental, y más ampliamente sobre el cambio de manera universal y lo que podría ser simplemente una aversión propiamente humana. Pero le respondí que tenemos una responsabilidad moral, como seres racionales y consientes, de ser arquitectos del cambio, en la medida que podríamos devenir algún beneficio universal (esa reacción es gracias a ti). Y este sólo me recuerda a Asimov (que descubrí te encantaba por igual) sobre las 4 leyes de la robótica, realmente son leyes universales, las más altas e imposibles alturas morales, que solo tienen sentido gracias a la segunda ley (de termodinámica). Punto en el que nunca logre expresarte mi posición satisfactoriamente.


Y nunca pude hablar como te escribo ahora, porque se anteponían siempre otras cosas, y el dialogo se diluía a charla o presentación, creo que tengo una idea de como me veías, y como veías al mundo y no sé si podría existir tu esfuerzo sin esa visión.

Con todo mi respeto, y mi cariño nunca te olvidaré abuelito!

Who thinks of these horrible things... ?

(2007-07-13 16:30:29) Ruben Llibre: saddest thing ever http://themot.org/gallery/v/Comics/Calvin/calvin.jpg.html :(
(2007-07-13 16:32:07) Ruben Llibre: recovery: http://themot.org/gallery/v/Comics/Calvin/calvin2.jpg.html
(2007-07-13 16:32:48) Rodolfo Hansen: wow
(2007-07-13 16:32:49) Rodolfo Hansen: full
(2007-07-13 16:32:52) Rodolfo Hansen: holly shit
(2007-07-13 16:33:01) Rodolfo Hansen: fuckin a
(2007-07-13 16:33:23) Ruben Llibre: :$
(2007-07-13 16:33:27) Ruben Llibre: que ? :$
(2007-07-13 16:33:32) Rodolfo Hansen: na...
(2007-07-13 16:33:36) Rodolfo Hansen: es emocionalmente fuerte
(2007-07-13 16:33:37) Rodolfo Hansen: esa vaina
(2007-07-13 16:33:52) Ruben Llibre: full que si
(2007-07-13 16:33:58) Ruben Llibre: a mi me dio como un sadness, geez
(2007-07-13 16:35:32) Rodolfo Hansen: diablo
(2007-07-13 16:35:38) Rodolfo Hansen: eso fue horrible
(2007-07-13 16:35:48) Ruben Llibre: si.. thank god it's a fake :(
(2007-07-13 16:35:57) Rodolfo Hansen: its a fake?
(2007-07-13 16:36:04) Ruben Llibre: sips, mira el dibujo de calvin

How to sum up my field

Slashdot post:

Coryoth writes

"A new book is trying to claim that computer science is better off without maths. The author claims that early computing pioneers such as Von Neumann and Alan Turing imposed their pure mathematics background on the field, and that this has hobbled computer science ever since. He rejects the idea of algorithms as a good way to think about software. Can you really do computer science well without mathematics? And would you want to?"

Someone Responds:

"... Mathematics as a base for CS was great in the 50's and 60's, but the real problems in computer software are people problems, not algorithmic ones. Once you program a calculation correctly, it generally stays that way.

But determining the optimal layout of a form to benefit the users of the system requires observing people and their needs. Understanding what parts of a program are going to be changed because of changing user needs is more important in program design than deciding whether you need a heap sort or insertion sort. Yes, you should know the difference, but you seldom need to program it, just choose the correct one from the system library.

CS graduates tend to design programs for machine efficiency, not human efficiency. But it is humans that are expensive, not machines."

Someone else retorts:

"That's like a mechanic who is better at replacing a tie rod than the engineer that designed it.

You are a programmer, not a computer scientist. I'd hire you to write code based on a specification. I wouldn't hire you to design rendering algorithms. It is too bad they didn't teach you the difference between compsci and programming during day one of your CS program."

cognitive daily... high iq...

I've lived the reality of many things here stated...

It is very true how much self-discipline and persistence of focus is critical in achieving long term goals.

Unfortunately this seams so much easier said than done for some... : /

t-cell protien retro-virus ballet...

SciAm writes: "Defense against Ancient Virus Opened Door to HIV"

On a hyper dimensional plane, evolution dances a local optimum ballet. Predator with prey, friends, parasite and host, lovers, disease and cure; we all dance, knitting a spiraling web, to a thermodynamic beet.

Enzyme cures HIV... ?

German Scientists.... "This is the first demonstration of actual removal of the integrated virus from cells"

Kenya... Google...

This is an interesting article..

Google are looking to crack the African market but instead of making a beeline for SA, one of the most developed countries on the continent, they are setting up camp in Kenya.

They have advertised for South African personnel so the chances are good that they will also establish an office in SA but the fact remains that Kenya was their first choice.

One must wonder what made Kenya a more attractive alternative than SA?

I would hazard a guess that Google want to build their own infrastructure and after investigating the situation in SA decided that it would be easier for them to achieve their aims in Kenya.

Whilst Kenya also has an incumbent operator that holds things back somewhat, one gets the feeling that things are still happening over there in the fixed line sector with companies like Kenya Data Networks.

Perhaps Google have identified the Kenyan market as being more open for competing forces or perhaps the country is politically more favourable, whatever the case it is a sad day when SA starts to loose out to rival African players.

See http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6695 for the full story.