Interesting suggestion: schools should have a dedicated science room. Does that makes sense? Or should science be in every room and every subject? - Nat Torkington
More useless reporting. What % of paroled murderers with violent crime backgrounds have gone on to reoffend? Are there such criminals who reformed but wouldn't have been given the opportunity with this law? I can believe the answer is "no", but it's irritating that the question wasn't even asked. - Nat Torkington
3.2M visits, 2.6B hits, 350k hours of streaming video. Built on the Silverstripe open source platform. (I'm an advisor) Way to go, guys! - Nat Torkington
to read (full text available for download in PDF form). Unsure whether it'll be academic hypothesizing or the results actual projects that work. - Nat Torkington
"Even though MP3 is probably the single most well known file format and codec on Earth, it’s not very well understood by most programmers – for many encoders/decoders is in the class of software “other people” write, like standard libraries or operating system kernels. This article will attempt to demystify the decoder, with short top-down primers on signal processing and information theory when necessary. Additionally, a small but not full-featured decoder will be written (in Haskell), suited to play around with." - Nat Torkington
"Competition organizer J. Stephen Downie, an associate professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was especially taken with the entrants' success at identifying cover songs by different artists. For example, given one rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," the electronic listeners had to sift through 1,000 songs and pick out 10 performances of "Stairway" by other artists, one of them on the banjo. A team from Barcelona, Spain, won that challenge, with a 75 percent success rate." - Nat Torkington
"Open-API-based Poken technology will become the standard for connecting people in the real world and enhancing their interactions online. Poken revolutionizes your social networking experience. It’s reviving the handshake… with a twist. Connect where it matters: when you meet face-to-face." - Nat Torkington
Groeling’s work is one of the few studies to quantify partisan bias in the media, a subject notoriously difficult for social scientists to research and discuss. These scientists work with theories such as the socalled hostile media effect to predict that ardent supporters of a cause will view media as slanted for the other side, and they have conducted hundreds of studies that have revealed imbalances in the ways journalists frame news on topics ranging from AIDS to the war in Iraq. - Nat Torkington
These stamp-like pieces of adhesive plastic will also contain RFID chips and you will be able to tag the “7995 other items in your house that don’t know how to communicate, yet”. Apparently we all own about 8000 items of which only 5 know how to talk to the rest of the world. Violet’s goal is to make them all smart and connected. - Nat Torkington
