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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

 
Religious Freedom: The Ultimate Counterterrorism Weapon?
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Religious Freedom: The Ultimate Count...

While the U.S. can summon hard power with relative ease, employing soft power is more difficult. Indeed, smart power suggests that hard and soft power are two sides of the same coin, that our inter... read more »

Level: any Aug 22, 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

 
Inbox Zero
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Inbox Zero

Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website will talk about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for deali... read more »

Level: any Jul 03, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Dtrace Review
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Dtrace Review

Bryan Cantrill will discuss the Dtrace and how it can be used to significantly improve debugging both for development and live systems. Speaker: Bryan Cantrill Google Tech TalksAugust 15, 2007 read more »

Level: any Jul 02, 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

 
So You Want To Be A Programming Rock Star?
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So You Want To Be A Programming Rock ...

Software programming rock stars test-drive their code, refactor mercilessly and deftly apply design patterns. If youd like to get from musician to rock star status, a good place to start is Industr... read more »

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