Alexander Kruel

News for 2010-09-08

XiXiDu — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

'Look Honey how beautiful the information..' a SciFi Ultrashort http://bit.ly/aOiCys #
Why Spacetime On The Tiniest Scale May Be 2-Dimensional http://bit.ly/9O33Kl #
On Surveillance and Privacy http://bit.ly/b8H453 #
A "fundamental" number may be shifty, astronomers say http://bit.ly/bUDOQd #
Top story on the Wildcat2030 Daily http://bit.ly/9xxgqt ▸ Why Alcohol is Good For You | Wired Science #
Eternal black holes http://bit.ly/c53NIp #
On destroying Tokyo, plasmobots, and making decisions without a brain http://bit.ly/dDdfDu #
Stranger Than Fiction http://bit.ly/9stY0v #
Spiral Diving into a Dense Cluster http://bit.ly/bmVt2b #
Data Dependent Journalism – Open Data http://bit.ly/ayEimU #

News for 2010-09-07

XiXiDu — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Novae produce gamma-rays. Damn. http://bit.ly/9t2VIu #
Ranking the most powerful forces in the Universe http://bit.ly/aaLHPM #
Resentment Simmers in Western Chinese Region http://nyti.ms/abZ8TH #
Living in the future ain’t all it’s cracked up to be http://bit.ly/adOhSh #
Hitchens: Domesticating religion an unceasing chore of civilization http://bit.ly/aJD5IW #
Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? (via @kaleidic) http://bit.ly/a4v2uU #
Hubble Spies an Amazing Cosmic Spiral http://bit.ly/dyObQy #
Interview with Dr. Don Ihde, a philosopher of science and technology, and a post-phenomenologist http://bit.ly/93bgN4 #
Metamaterial Discovery The Combinatorial Way http://bit.ly/cjO3Kn #
Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier http://bit.ly/dkSgPf #
Genetic differences within European populations http://bit.ly/aOBfcd #
Link love: language (22) « Sentence first http://bit.ly/aWkAft #
Efficiency: The Hard Cases http://bit.ly/9b4XYr #
Will Terminator Robots Come In Fly Miniature? http://bit.ly/cEHdXn #
NASA's warnings on the dangers of severe space storms http://bit.ly/94DhQV #
Top story on the Wildcat2030 Daily http://bit.ly/9xxgqt ▸ Yahoo Engineers Talk Of Outsourcing To Bangalore; Yahoo PR Disagrees #

News for 2010-09-06

XiXiDu — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (356 contributions today) #
Visualising sorting algorithms (via @kaleidic) http://bit.ly/apymA1 #
Less Wrong: Something's Wrong http://bit.ly/920plv #
Limbaugh/Palin "death panels" extend the lives of terminally ill patients http://bit.ly/cSJthS #
Habits of Mathematical Minds http://bit.ly/bpV3nV #
Evolving Culture: Where Do We Go From Here? http://n.pr/dsfSBh #
Year 10,000 problem http://bit.ly/aVoFLl #
Khan Academy: Evolving to Define the Future of Educatio http://bit.ly/aFTm1H #
Accepted Notion of Mars as Lifeless Is Challenged http://nyti.ms/agZslW #
YouTube – The Subtle Art of Self-Delusion http://bit.ly/a15h4w #
OpenMicrobiome.org http://bit.ly/94dYzi #
Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam http://bit.ly/9GFBYW #
Physicists Build A Memory That Stores Entanglement http://bit.ly/9zOBCn #
Crisis in Zefra — Free SF book by Karl Schroeder! http://bit.ly/9qia7J #
'The Island' by Peter Watts [PDF] – 2010 Hugo Award Winner http://bit.ly/9D4fLl #

News for 2010-09-05

XiXiDu — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (305 contributions today) #
Video: Thousand-Hand Guan Yin http://tumblr.com/xzuhojjso #
"Superintelligence does not imply benevolence": Extended abstract http://bit.ly/ayIo3M #
Harvard makes auto differential like device one million times smaller for Micro UAVs http://bit.ly/cmXSJX #
Wisdom on Comments http://bit.ly/9oNCG0 #
A Computer Chip Based on Probability Not Binary (video) http://bit.ly/agw7e8 #
The Black Hole/Globular Cluster Correlation http://bit.ly/aQHPyO #
A human in downward dog and chimpanzee on all fours http://bit.ly/dvwspb #
Humans and the slime mould http://bit.ly/cUedeb #
"WTF" = ? http://bit.ly/ctuwMu #
Probability Puzzles (Part 2) http://bit.ly/dwueOo #
A correlation between poverty and religiosity http://bit.ly/bZN91y #
Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange website is now up! http://bit.ly/9JePxZ #
Did evolution give us God? http://bit.ly/cYsFC6 #
YouTube – Stephen Hawking and the Existence of God http://bit.ly/bkPfx7 #
The language of symmetry [PDF] http://bit.ly/byqp6n #
2 legs good, 4 legs better: Uner Tan Syndrome, part 2 http://bit.ly/avGVKt #
Controlling Constant Programs http://bit.ly/a9hMRA #

News for 2010-09-04

XiXiDu — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Wild chimps outwit human hunters http://bbc.in/bCv8Zr #
Did Earth’s Magnetic Field Have a Fast Flip-Flop? http://bit.ly/cBeU84 #
fragments of consciousness: Actuality and Knowability http://bit.ly/ahQDSh #
Particle Physics + Relativity makes the impossible happen! http://bit.ly/cSxybL #
Instructions for Mass Manufacture of Botulinum Toxin Freely Available Online http://bit.ly/cIUOMd #
The Worm In Your Brain http://bit.ly/aJ386F #
Volunteer bias in erotica research: effects of intrusiveness of measure and sexual background. http://bit.ly/dlTj85 #
Micropayment http://bit.ly/ayH8W8 #
The Measure of Success http://bit.ly/9f2q6U #
YouTube – The Real threat from Islam http://bit.ly/axesRv #
Foundations of Inference http://bit.ly/ahjRl6 #
Kleines Flattr-Update http://bit.ly/9pDoQa #
@WeAreGeek How cute but… http://bit.ly/96o2LG Sneal sneeze is full of parasites!!! in reply to WeAreGeek #
The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (338 contributions today) #
' … for then we would know the mind of God' http://bit.ly/aI0gW8 #
Normal? You're Weird – Psychiatrists http://bit.ly/9FVQkJ #
Nick Bostrom on humanity’s biggest problems http://bit.ly/97RH6q #
Beautiful Probability http://bit.ly/9HaTBH #
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: The Book http://bit.ly/cJ1vmX #
Kauffman – The Mathematics of Peirce http://scr.bi/95illV #
Techniques for adding the numbers 1 to 100 | BetterExplained http://bit.ly/9lFWoU #

News for 2010-09-03

XiXiDu — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Femtotech Speculation http://bit.ly/ciVa1i #
Metacognition, then and now (a crisp example) http://bit.ly/b5U3x5 #
It's a control thing: Religion and human reproduction http://bit.ly/clsTs8 #
Hawking and God http://bit.ly/c3foiH #
Broken Window Theory: The Spreading of Disorder http://bit.ly/bjjDeW #
Scientists can read your face like a data-filled book http://bit.ly/cBZXTc #
I Joined Three Cults Simultaneously http://bit.ly/aq4Rfu #
Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A "Monster in the Dark" http://bit.ly/d18Gmk #
does functional specialization exist in the language system? http://bit.ly/9G8pd0 #
Better health through social networking http://bit.ly/djAmnr #
The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (334 contributions today) #
EDP18 — apparently P does not equal NP http://bit.ly/aOoRjt #
Frugality and working from finite data http://bit.ly/dmt0Ap #
Mario AI Championship 2010 http://bit.ly/dzAv7L #
YouTube – 3D sound in Google Earth http://bit.ly/boD5dX #
Ways To Pay To Exist http://bit.ly/aj7nCO #
How To Tell Who Is Influencing Whom in a Group Discussion http://bit.ly/bC8trf #
Do you get more wet running or walking through the rain? Formulating the question mathematically. http://bit.ly/aG8bVf #
Undergrads Destroy NASA Satellite http://bit.ly/c1kFVD #
We All Live in a Virtual World http://bit.ly/9Y9qa8 #
Readers Respond to Criticism of Obama: 'Remaking the US into Europe Would Be a Disaster' http://bit.ly/97q5lF #
Do protagonists of great novels have children? http://bit.ly/aArOAm #
Incredible Video Captures Lightning at 9,000 Frames per Second (via @kaleidic) http://bit.ly/98JnJS #
Is 'Shared Intentionality' the Foundation of Human Uniqueness? http://bit.ly/abiIMr #
Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box" http://bit.ly/9DeCaf #
Khan Academy on a Stick http://bit.ly/aeqX4Y #
Kick-Ass http://bit.ly/bvv1ZG #
NASA Lauches Photo Archive on Flickr http://bit.ly/bo7xXq #
Diving in – The Big Picture http://bit.ly/bS6n4V #
Levine on the Phenomenology of Thought http://bit.ly/cQoomT #
NASA’s Stunning Hurricane Pics Via Plane, Space Station & Satellite http://bit.ly/bYC6gu #
China's building a high speed rail economy and could achieve a 1 to 1.2 billion person single city effect by 2040 http://bit.ly/9bVKDb #
the strange and aching beauty of mathematics http://n.pr/bU3PJN #
A Deepening Look at the Digital Sky http://bit.ly/aNJVZE #
Rethinking Nanotechnology http://bit.ly/dqf4MO #
How to Crash Stars Together http://bit.ly/9ZNl4q #

News for 2010-08-31

XiXiDu — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0000

"Campaigns are built to fool us into thinking that we’re voting for individuals. We learn about the…" http://tumblr.com/xzuh8227t #
The Objective Study of Subjectivism http://bit.ly/9q9m2R #
Phoneme Inventory Size and Demography http://bit.ly/an45GV #
Iranian Jews in America: Torn Between Homelands http://bit.ly/cqdxMy #
Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index http://bit.ly/9J0UNE #
Who Should Exist? http://bit.ly/dzdN0d #
xkcd: Exoplanets http://bit.ly/9UiY6m #
10 Questions for Hugh Pope http://bit.ly/d47SV4 #
Science with soul sells http://bit.ly/bP3pQF #
There's a hole in my spacetime! Or a string, or a wall… http://bit.ly/d0BC79 #
The Idea of the Decade http://bit.ly/aC2cfL #
Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter http://bit.ly/dhDYiW #
The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (332 contributions today) #
Documentary captures the hard realities behind Chinese economic development. http://bit.ly/a9snfv #
Older people enjoy reading negative stories about young http://bit.ly/bdb3n2 #
YouTube – Islamic Humiliation – Sam Harris http://bit.ly/dbnX7E #
Hell on Earth: The UN Documents Congo's Bloodbath http://bit.ly/bLHgZb #

News for 2010-08-30

XiXiDu — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Comanche Outcrop on Mars Indicates Hospitable Past http://bit.ly/acXqXG #
Nick Bostrom on life on Mars – part 1/2 http://bit.ly/98Nzwq – part 2/2 http://bit.ly/dxVgMA #
Nick Bostrom on the Fermi Paradox http://bit.ly/aEuPme #
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing. [PDF] http://bit.ly/cWqCH1 #
"Superintelligence does not imply benevolence" — short abstract http://bit.ly/bUviZ2 #
Transhumanism, the Singularity, and Mass Extinction http://bit.ly/afR9tH #
Welcome to 1850: The Risk of EMP Attack http://bit.ly/cYLszB #
Analogies to creating and killing alters http://bit.ly/ddY8XV #
Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some http://bit.ly/bdvEQV #
cognitive neuroscience paper title generator http://bit.ly/dgOm1y #
Babel's Dawn: Cultural Evolution http://bit.ly/bopT96 #
Metric Spaces http://bit.ly/9wCsUk #
YouTube – 'Tolerance' and the 'Ground Zero Mosque' http://bit.ly/aUWe3f #
The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (372 contributions today) #
Unary primitive recursive functions [PDF] http://bit.ly/cnhjcQ #
Computability and Recursion [PDF] http://bit.ly/banXje #
Mathematicians Create Objective Quality of Life Index http://bit.ly/aOPyDb #
Predicting the Future in 1964 http://bit.ly/b2zhUW #
Poul Anderson’s Answer to Fermi http://bit.ly/ctKMfJ #
NASA | New Eye on the Sun Delivers Stunning First Images http://bit.ly/a8B9U5 #
Survey Says: Genetics Affect Whether We’re Willing To Take Surveys http://bit.ly/aZrwfC #

News for 2010-08-29

XiXiDu — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0000

The best introduction to DNA nanotechnology http://bit.ly/bdS04j #
The Scientific Method http://bit.ly/alJ6T4 #
The Local Fluff http://bit.ly/cwi1D7 #
God, I Need a Cup of Placebo Coffee http://bit.ly/amoUQO #
The mind's eye: How the brain sorts out what you see http://bit.ly/9dgaIr #
Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish http://bit.ly/dsPD4K #
People who hold extreme opinions are more likely to voice them loudly http://bit.ly/aAeO6v #
The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory http://bit.ly/bMvWMM #
Mathematics as science http://bit.ly/cYhqvP #
Beyond the Reach of God http://bit.ly/c7Y6Mh #
Abstract Stone Duality http://bit.ly/aHN502 #
Shut up and calculate http://bit.ly/b3NBWd #
The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (343 contributions today) #
"Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our…" http://tumblr.com/xzuh2820i #
An analogue between principle philosophies of vagueness and principle responses to the skeptical paradox. http://bit.ly/aGjPkH #
YouTube – The Asteroid that Flattened Mars http://bit.ly/dwH0la #
The Don't Bother Travel Guide: 101 Places Not To Go http://n.pr/dmAjGs #
New York City At Night http://bit.ly/cWAuGJ #
The man who knows what it is like to be a bat http://bit.ly/aW6DFa #
YouTube – Genesis (take #1 http://bit.ly/dfuAFj #

News for 2010-08-28

XiXiDu — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Judge: Man Can’t Sue Over LHC’s Potential “Destruction of the Earth” http://bit.ly/bXpFqI #
Sentences to ponder http://bit.ly/9Rs7Fr #
Creative AI vs. Mad Men http://bit.ly/9q0fih #
Zombies, Human Sonar, and Transhumanism: an Interview with Rutgers Professor Katalin Balog http://bit.ly/bJzJfQ #
An Introduction to the J Programming Language [PDF] http://bit.ly/8ZG0iA #
You should follow @kaleidic if you are interested in programming/computational math! #
The Wildcat2030 Daily is out – read this Twitter newspaper on http://paper.li/Wildcat2030 (368 contributions today) #
Ask a real musician: 5 classic male metal singers http://bit.ly/aMiJaQ #
A taste of morality http://bit.ly/b0IEgq #
AI Go Foom http://bit.ly/939ffp #
Hitch and Harris on moderate Islam http://bit.ly/9Jxmnn #
Lower Bounds and Progressive Algorithms http://bit.ly/cVnWT2 #
PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus http://bit.ly/ca6R78 #
Short Story Club: "The Things" by Peter Watts http://bit.ly/9Q0jpP #
Explanations for everyone. | BetterExplained http://bit.ly/clsLd1 #
Nigerians agree despite religious differences http://bit.ly/ciAxvq #
Improve your visual literacy http://bit.ly/czl1Mx #
Infinity, 5 or 3? http://bit.ly/91lO4V #