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.StressLinux.org. - .System.High.Load.Test. StressLinux - the linux distribution for high load stress testin. Mining the Tweets. I received through my Google Alerts a very interesting article : Twitter is in talks with Microsoft and Google regarding the use of Data Mining technology on user Tweets. Despite the fact that Twitter execs do not appear so eager in making the deal as soon as possible, these news clearly show where things are going.

If and when the deal is finalized it will be very interesting to see : 1) What kind of Data and Text Mining techniques will be mostly used? Which of them will prove useful? Many examples of what can be done in terms of Data and Text Mining application on Twitter were given in this blog (starting from January 2009). In my opinion, types of analysis that will prove to be interesting -apart from Sentiment Mining for Products and Services which is already taking place- are Cluster Analysis (see post "Clustering the Thoughts of Twitter Users" here) and Prediction of Virality. 2) How will Twitter users react when knowing their Tweets are being analyzed? Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel. Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels.

In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential as a gasoline alternative. The reaction is powered directly by energy from sunlight, through photosynthesis. The research appears in the Dec. 9 print edition of the journal Nature Biotechnology and is available online. This new method has two advantages for the long-term, global-scale goal of achieving a cleaner and greener energy economy, the researchers say.

First, it recycles carbon dioxide, reducing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. "We are continuing to improve the rate and yield of the production," Liao said. The research was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines. 14 Tips To Drive Traffic To Your New Design Blog. Recently I’ve been getting emails and friends asking for advice on starting up their own design blog, how to get initial traffic and how keep it consistently coming. Below are a a few tips and techniques that has helped me in the early stages of my blog to bring in traffic, and hopefully continue in the future.

Get people involved and excited One of the first thoughts that went through my mind when starting TDC was, “How do I get people to visit my site?” So what better way to get people to visit than to make them want to visit. Posts such as, 26 Business Cards of Graphic & Web Designers and 40+ Creative Logos Submitted By The Designers Themselves not only helped other designers gain exposure, but helped TDC get off the ground. Become active Although I stated in the second paragraph that these were in no particular order, social networking and getting others involved was hands down the key to TDC’s initial exposure. Notice I said to help others and not just promote your own blog. .:: Pouyan Mokhtarani offical website ::. Synaptic HostingSM Service | Enterprise Business | AT&T. A Fast and Flexible Virtual Hosting Solution Keeping IT services in sync with business needs is a balancing act.

On one hand, you must respond quickly to changing conditions. On the other, you have to intelligently manage capacity costs to handle ‘just in case’ fluctuations, like unpredictable traffic spikes. Now you can keep cost and capacity in balance with AT&T Synaptic Hosting. A utility computing service combining network, computing and storage capabilities into a virtualized IT ecosystem – hosted in an AT&T Internet Data Center and delivered as a fully managed service. Deploy rapidly and virtually with utility computing Is Utility Hosting Right for Your Business? See how Utility Computing gives you the right level of computing capacity to support your business needs. AT&T Synaptic Hosting can free you from managing in-house infrastructure. With utility computing services from AT&T, you can streamline provisioning and reduce deployment times from months to weeks as we help you: Andy Borowitz: Slain Al-Qaeda Leader Posthumously Named Employee. In a new videotape broadcast today on the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera network, terror mastermind Osama bin Laden named fallen terrorist Abu Yahya al-Libi Al-Qaeda's "Employee of the Month" for December.

In the tape, in which Mr. bin Laden is shown holding the terror network's "Employee of the Month" plaque and then hanging it up on the wall of his cave, the Al-Qaeda kingpin had high words of praise for al-Libi, who was killed this week by a CIA predator drone. "Abu Yahya al-Libi worked well with others, and always kept his work area clean," Mr. bin Laden said. "For this, I hereby name him Al-Qaeda's Employee of the Month for December. " Intelligence sources believe that by posthumously bestowing the "Employee of the Month" award upon the deceased terrorist, Mr. bin Laden may be trying to entice other madmen to assume Mr. al-Libi's position as number three man in al-Qaeda, a job whose previous occupants have been captured, imprisoned or killed. Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment &.

AT&T. DevCentral | devCentral Home. "100 Billion" The Most Profound Image in Human History - Hubble' The new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the deepest image yet of the Universe in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are likely the oldest galaxies ever identified, having formed between only 600–900 million years after the Big Bang. The image shows thousands of galaxies, some more than 12 billion years old. The field view of this image would fit behind a grain of sand held at arm's length against the sky.

Almost every dot in this photo is an entire galaxy of stars and who knows what fascinating undiscovered mysteries. Astronomers use this photo to estimate the number of galaxies in the known universe by counting the visible galaxies shown and multiplying the number of such photos it would take to make a composite of the entire sky. Their calculations estimate that the observable universe contains about 100 billion galaxies. Casey Kazan Highly Recommended: Could a 1.8 Gigayear Technology Gap Exist? Swimfish. Check Your Math When Accepting Substitutions. 10 code snippets to interact with Twitter. 1 – Autofollow script (PHP) This code allow you to automatically follow user who have tweeted about a specific term.

For example, if you want to follow all users who tweeted about php, simply give it as a value to the $term variable on line 7. Source : 2 – Get the number of follower in full text (PHP) When you have a website or blog and use Twitter, it can be cool to display how many followers you have. To do so, simply use the short code snippet above. Note that if you want to integrate the same code into WordPress, using caching, Rarst have written a nice code that you can get using the link after the snippets (Rarst code is in the comments, so scroll down a bit) <? Source : Rarst on 3 – View who doesn’t follow you (Python) Some people don’t like the idea of following people who don’t follow you back. Media Militia.

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AT&T. Trump Network ~ Purple People Leaders ~ Keith & Bentley. Twitter Chat Driven Communities « Future Business. Online communities of practice (CoP’s) are VERY challenging to keep vibrant over a long period of time. The ones with staying power always have active management and multiple channels for members to collaborate. Many personal and professional associations have learned this. They send out information and invite people to collaborate online throughout the year. Then they run one or more in-person events/conferences that help keep everyone connected to the group. Not many of these associations are using Twitter Chats. You don’t have to have an in-person element in order to remain successful with an online community. In my opinion Twitter Chats are currently the best method for online community invigoration.

If there are 10 or more people on a chat, the experience is very fast/furious and therefore invigorating. Some examples of Twitter driven chat communities are #SMchat on Ning#eventprofs on PBWorks#Cmtychat on FriendFeed#KMers on custom site. Google demonstrates quantum computer image search - tech - 11 De. Google's web services may be considered cutting edge, but they run in warehouses filled with conventional computers.

Now the search giant has revealed it is investigating the use of quantum computers to run its next generation of faster applications. Writing on Google's research blog this week, Hartmut Neven, head of its image recognition team, reveals that the Californian firm has for three years been quietly developing a quantum computer that can identify particular objects in a database of stills or video. Google has been doing this, Neven says, with D-Wave, a Canadian firm that has developed an on-chip array of quantum bits – or qubits – encoded in magnetically coupled superconducting loops. The team set themselves the challenge of writing an algorithm for the chip that could learn to recognise cars in photos, and reported at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Vancouver, Canada, this week that they have succeeded.

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