is, perhaps, the oldest written story on Earth. It comes to us from Ancient Sumeria, and was originally written on 12 clay tablets in cunieform script. It is about the adventures of the historical King of Uruk (somewhere between 2750 and 2500 BCE).
trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that the existing online explanations are too abstract. Bayesian reasoning is very counterintuitive. People do not employ Bayesian reasoning intuitively, find it very difficult to learn Bayesian reason
"Why do kids who can't master high school end up as some of the most powerful people in the world? What makes a startup succeed? Will technology create a gap between those who understand it and those who don't? Will Microsoft take over the Internet? What"
A Teachable Tree «This diagram is olready a summary, although it would probably be overwhelming for public or high school audiences. There are possibly four recognizable words: "green plants" "Animalia" 'Bacteria' and "Fungi". Maybe.»
in Uninformed Vol1 2005.May by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. + Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.
a new similarity ranking algorithm, together with its associated string similarity metric. I also include Java source code, so you can easily incorporate the algorithm into your own applications.
Graham Wihlidal "There is no such thing as the “perfect networking code”, due to the Internet’s unreliability, but there are a few tricks you can use to improve it to the point where the illusion can hold."
XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
discuss how paintComponent can be overridden to customize the look of your components, and then we'll discuss a trick that uses paintChildren to paint custom content on top of the component and its children.
The new technology, known as AMQ, is an open-source message queuing system that provides the same functionality as IBM's WebSphere MQ (formerly known as MQSeries), has implementations on C and C++, and will support C# and Java.
Kim Gräsman, January 2004 - how to flow context properties from client to server, and why it works the way it does. Unfortunately, it also unveils a couple of serious limitations.
Simon Mardle and Sean Pascoe - University of Portsmouth - Genetic algorithms (GA) are an evolutionary optimisation approach which are an alternative to traditional optimisation methods.
Network Address Translation (NAT) causes well-known difficulties for peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, since the peers involved may not be reachable at any globally valid IP address.
by Alan C. Kay ffrom Apple Computer - "Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the ARPA community, gave rise to a host of notions..."
Introducing the (IBM/Sony/Toshiba) Cell Processor, "consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores."
PhysOrg, A pioneering new way of creating computer programs could be used in the future to design and build robots with minds that function like that of a human being, according to a leading researcher at The University of Reading.
PhysOrg, Ostar - the latest high-performance light-emitting diode from Osram - is 50 times brighter than comparable predecessor models. Because of its small size (3 cm x 1 cm) and high brightness of 120 lumens (lm),
The term 'social software', which is now used to define software that supports group interaction, has only become relatively popular within the last two or more years.
why do we need a new term? Is there anything new going on, or there just a new generation of people discovering the same old thing, like each generation of teenagers discovers sex.
Looking for a way to share digital music without risking a lawsuit? Look at Mercora, a new music-sharing service that adheres to the letter of federal law.
"Insomnia and being a workaholic is an interesting combination. It is amazing how much work can be accomplished in the eight hours before everyone else comes to work."
by Peter Sefton, January 26, 2005 - set up templates for authors to use to ensure consistency, reduce effort, and help automate conversation of documents between formats, such as building web pages from office documents.
Any peer-to-peer publishing system must provide a mechanism for efficiently locating published documents. For censorship resistant systems, it is particularly important that the lookup mechanism be difficult to disable or abuse.