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Learning Low Dimensional Manifolds
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Learning Low Dimensional Manifolds

Many read-world datasets can be characterized as follows: the "extrinsic dimension" of the data is high, but the "intrinsicdimension" is low. Consider for example the data generated by a motion cap... read more »

Level: any Oct 15, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Practical Life Extension Results
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Practical Life Extension Results

Genescient is the world's first computational biology company founded on the use of artificial biological selection to cure the diseases of aging. Our laboratory animals have been selected for long... read more »

Level: any Oct 15, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript
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Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltal...

Summary Avi Bryant talks about the iterative process that led to Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process. He goes on to give his view on the state of Smalltal... read more »

Level: advanced Aug 28, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Fun with Light (Quantum Computing: A Physicist's Perspective on Recent Developments)
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Fun with Light (Quantum Computing: A ...

The lightsaber is a supercool gadget that all of us would like to get one. It exhibits many novel light phenomena, notably the light blades of two lightsabers could interact with each other. Unfort... read more »

Level: any Jul 19, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
The Marriage of Fractals and Splines: Fractals with Control Points, Splines as Attractors
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The Marriage of Fractals and Splines:...

Fractals and splines have very different geometric features. Fractals can be continuous everywhere, yet differentiable nowhere. Fractals are often selfsimilar curves with fractional dimension. And ... read more »

Level: any Jul 14, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Three Beautiful Quicksorts
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Three Beautiful Quicksorts

This talk describes three of the most beautiful pieces of code that I have ever written: three different implementations of Hoare's classic Quicksort algorithm. The first implementation is a bare-b... read more »

Level: any Jul 04, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Strategies in the Search for ET
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Strategies in the Search for ET

The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from the cosmos. For that matter, we still dont know if life at a... read more »

Level: any Jun 12, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Designing a Space Settlement
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Designing a Space Settlement

Eric is a grand-prize winner of NASA's Space Settlement Competition, the only Canadian to win in the contest's 16-year history. He is currently attending Toronto's Northern Secondary School.Eric wi... read more »

Level: any Jun 10, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Creative Processes in Science and Technology
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Creative Processes in Science and Tec...

Creative Processes in Science and Technology: Insights from Visual Arts. Presented by Dr. Julio M. Ottino.Creativity is essential in art, in science, and in technology. But in what way is creativit... read more »

Level: any Jun 09, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Deeya Flow Battery
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Deeya Flow Battery

Deeya Energy is a Fremont based company that developed a flow battery that can scale. Starting at 2.3 KW, this technology has the potential of reducing diesel consumption in mission critical applic... read more »

Level: any Jun 05, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk