English verb Conjugation: modal verbs, irregular verbs, present, future, participle Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large-scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space Global geocoded tone of all Summary of World Broadcasts content January 1979–April 2011 mentioning “Bin Laden” (click to view animation). (Credit: UIC) Computational analysis of large text archives can yield novel insights into the functioning of society, recent literature has suggested, including predicting future economic events, says Kalev Leetaru, Assistant Director for Text and Digital Media Analytics at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois and Center Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The emerging field of “Culturomics” seeks to explore broad cultural trends through the computerized analysis of vast digital book archives, offering novel insights into the functioning of human society, while books represent the “digested history” of humanity, written with the benefit of hindsight. Global geocoded tone of all New York Times content, 2005 (click on image to see animation). (Credit: UIC)
World Heritage Site A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, island, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance.[1] The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 states' parties[2] which are elected by their General Assembly.[3] The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity. Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The programme was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage,[4] which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. Since then, 190 states parties have ratified the Convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments. History[edit] Convention and background[edit]
Interpolation d'Hermite Suite: Approximation polynômiale Sommaire: Analyse Retour: Interpolation rationnelle L'interpolation de Lagrange, qui fournit facilement un polynôme prenant des valeurs données, présente l'inconvénient dans certains cas de donner une qualité médiocre : entre les points d'interpolation la différence entre une fonction et son polynôme d'interpolation peut être grande, même si le nombre de points tend vers l'infini (phénomène dit de Runge [2]). Pour remédier à cela on peut essayer d'utiliser non seulement les valeurs d'une fonction mais aussi celles de ses dérivées : c'est l'interpolation d'Hermite, qui est ici mise en oeuvre à l'ordre 1. 1.Algorithme On considère une fonction f dérivable sur R et des points distincts. On note yi=f(xi) et et on cherche un polynôme d'interpolation de f. On pose Calculer et On définit Montrer que pour on a P(xi)=yi et On cherche maintenant le polynôme P sous la forme développée Que vaut m ? 2.Programmation , des valeurs données et des dérivées x[1],... Partie théorique D'où
17 cultural reasons why this European never wants to live in America Warning: If you are pissed off easily, don’t read this post. Although plenty of (American) commenters agree with me, I’m also getting a flood of angry comments and hatemail, but this is my (as always) frank and honest non-watered-down opinion, take it or leave it! Read on to the conclusion to see my positive thoughts about Americans before you conclude that this is Anti-American propaganda. If you are coming here from Stumbleupon or Facebook, please share this post with your friends if you enjoy it :). Normally, after I spend considerable time in a country/city, I like to summarise my cultural experience there and tend to put a positive spin on it, as I did with Germany, Amsterdam, Brazil, and even Paris, which was actually a negative experience for me. This time I’m not doing that. This post is my rant about America because of all the places I’ve been, the people who always complain the most about the local country are travelling Americans. 1. 2. I really hate the word awesome. 3. 4. 5.
Culturomics Main Page ...more updates to follow with futher developments. MIT 1K House is partnering with Skanska and Next Phase Studios to construct three exhibit 1K House prototypes in on MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. The project is moving forward, and the goal is to construct the prototypes by MIT Commencement on June 4, 2010. Skanska Link: www.skanska.com Next Phase Studios Link: www.nps-architects.com September 14, 2009 The 1K House Initiative is actively pursuing prototyping opportunties around the world. June 18, 2009 Work from the 1K House 2009 China Studio is currently showcased in an exhibition by the USC American Academy in China. link June 10, 2009 the new website, has gone live! May 19, 2009 Seven projects have been selected for possible full-scale prototyping. United States: Roof House (T.Olson); Drunken House (S.Form); Anchor-Pier House (L.Rushfeldt) The Philippines: Bamboo Tower (A.Rosenberg); Soft Courtyard House (C.Curran)
Sage notebook FayHejab Google: Le plus grand corpus linguistique de tous les temps Lorsque j'étais étudiant, à la fin des années 70, je n'aurais jamais osé imaginer, même dans mes rêves les plus fous, que la communauté scientifique ait un jour les moyens d'analyser des corpus de textes informatisés de plusieurs de centaines de milliards de mots. A l'époque, j'étais émerveillé par le Brown Corpus, qui comportait la quantité extraordinaire d'un million de mots d'anglais américain, et qui après avoir servi à la compilation de l'American Heritage Dictionary, avait été mis assez largement à disposition des chercheurs. Ce corpus, malgré sa taille, qui apparaît maintenant dérisoire, a permis une quantité impressionnante d'études et a contribué largement à l'essor des technologies du langage... J'ai eu la chance d'avoir pu accéder à l'étude avant publication, et j'ai eu quelque peu le vertige... Et pour le français ? Eh bien, tout est à faire. Les linguistes (français en tout cas) en auront-ils conscience ? Pour en savoir plus
Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words | Technology Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and technological visionary, was well known for his words as well as his creations. Here are some of his thoughts over the past 25 years. On life "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. On Macintosh "I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. "When we finally presented it at the shareholders' meeting, everyone in the auditorium stood up and gave it a 5-minute ovation. On customers "There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. On technology "We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. On motivation "That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. On money On design (1)
The Liang Barsky line clipping algorithm in a nutshell At Skytopia, we pride ourselves in making some of the most difficult concepts as easy to understand as possible. Well, we've outdone ourselves again, and present you with the easiest tutorial to the Liang Barsky line clipping algorithm on the whole net! It was created after I went through torture trying to research it myself for my uni course. We hope you agree that the colour coding, examples, numerous diagrams (pixel-precise and to scale!), and the clearly nested step-by-step instructions will all help to make this otherwise torturous algorithm a little less painful. GOAL - Clip line to the inside of the lighter blue area To begin with, we assume that we want to draw the whole line. t0 = 0 t1 = 1 Now the main idea (and what takes up 99% of the algorithm) is to clip these two values to something a bit more like t0=0.3 and t1=0.8 (that's my rough guess, but you can see that these will approximately represent the points shown by the green squares in the diagram). Left edge check: Finisimo!
Index | eye shadow, coloronpro, instant makeup | colorOn Professional Culturomics Further reading[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Culturomics.org, website by The Cultural Observatory at Harvard directed by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel