Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With 'Project Prism' Today, countless websites are facing the epic amounts of online data that first hit Facebook a half decade ago. But according to Facebook engineering bigwig Jay Parikh, these sites have it so much easier. That’s because many of the web’s largest operations — including Facebook — spent the last few years building massive software platforms capable of juggling online information across tens of thousands of servers. And they’ve shared much of this “Big Data” software with anyone who wants it. Collective intelligence: Ants and brain's neurons CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (415) 723-2558 Collective intelligence: Ants and brain's neurons STANFORD - An individual ant is not very bright, but ants in a colony, operating as a collective, do remarkable things. A single neuron in the human brain can respond only to what the neurons connected to it are doing, but all of them together can be Immanuel Kant.
Dependency Graph This visualization shows the dependencies among classes within the Flare library. Classes are paced along a circle with the radius length signifying the depth of the class in the package structure. A link indicates that a class imports another. Links are routed along the package structure tree, forming “bundles” between packages. Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America | Planet Money By Chana Joffe-Walt In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job, and new laws have banned workplace discrimination against the disabled. Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government. The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet people relying on disability payments are often overlooked in discussions of the social safety net.
'Mind reading' brain scans reveal secrets of human vision Courtesy of Fei-Fei Li Researchers were able to determine that study participants were looking at this street scene even when the participants were only looking at the outline. Researchers call it mind reading. One at a time, they show a volunteer – who's resting in an MRI scanner – a series of photos of beaches, city streets, forests, highways, mountains and offices.
Ada Lovelace: Founder of Scientific Computing Born: London, England, December 10, 1815 Died: London, England, November 27, 1852 Ada Byron was the daughter of a brief marriage between the Romantic poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabelle Milbanke, who separated from Byron just a month after Ada was born. Four months later, Byron left England forever. chorobot in time machine Good old Bullets, just from their song "Somewhere in between" from Les Miserables I knew they were an unstoppable hit machine. That instant pop classic must have caught the attention of Jim Terry 'cause here they are singing the theme tune to Time Fighters. And it's not the last time we hear an original composition from them but more on that later. Our story begins in the laboratory of Professor Von Spock as the final preparations are being made to his new time machine Scorpion 2 (the narrator states that there never was a Scorpion 1 since the inventor didn't want to waste the time, with more than a little derision in his voice). The children Jett and Starr dash around excitedly while robotic assistant Tonk makes the final checks.
Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), one of three National Poverty Centers, is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. CPI supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality. The current economic climate makes CPI activities and research especially important. The following are a few critical poverty and inequality facts: Poverty:The U.S. poverty rate, according to the new Supplemental Poverty Measure, is estimated at 16.0 percent. data, copyright, photography, not necessarily in that order You could think of this post as telling the story of two Kickstarter projects. Since its a long post, here's a quick summary: I recently ran a Kickstarter project.I wanted to share all the financials and details of how I shipped my rewards.I discovered we could do a better job helping creators process their backer's addresses.We recently deployed a change to backer surveys that should do just that.
Brains in Silicon Welcome to Brains in Silicon. Learn about the lab, get to know the brains that work here, and find out about new projects that you could join. We have crafted two complementary objectives: To use existing knowledge of brain function in designing an affordable supercomputer—one that can itself serve as a tool to investigate brain function—feeding back and contributing to a fundamental, biological understanding of how the brain works. We model brains using an approach far more efficient than software simulation: We emulate the flow of ions directly with the flow of electrons—don't worry, on the outside it looks just like software. Welcome and enjoy your time here!
simplify simplify A library by Ekene Ijeoma for the Processing programming environment. Last update, 10/01/2012. A java/processing port of simplify.js Feel free to replace this paragraph with a description of the library.