NIST dudes trap patterns of light in a cloud of rubidium atoms for tens of microseconds! Can quantum porn be far behind?!
GDC 2012 leak of Maxis’ presentation of their new Sim engine running in debug mode. Interesting use of AI agents to represent social and environment behavior. Agent-based ecosystems are packaged into components called bundles which act as a unit of gameplay.
- http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7183/Sim-City-5-Inside-the-GlassBoxEngine-gfx-not-final-1of4
- http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7186/Sim-City-5-Inside-the-GlassBoxEngine-gfx-not-final-2of4
- http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7187/Sim-City-Inside-the-GlassBoxEngine-gfx-not-final-3of4
- http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7188/Sim-City-Inside-the-GlassBoxEngine-gfx-not-final-4of4
Easy point-of-reference: Watership Down in Iraq
Linkdump
- Mozilla BrowserID: BrowserID is a proposal for a browser-based authentication framework which relies on public-private key tokens in lieu of passwords. These token pairs are automatically brokered amongst a browser, an email provider and a website to confirm a user’s identity which removes the need to manage site-specific passwords.
- Visual.ly: Data visualization gallery with a suite of tools (in beta testing) for creating custom visualizations online.
- Mind-Machine Interface: NSF funded project to develop robotics that integrate with and augment the human nervous system through applied robotics, neurology, electromechanical engineering and computer science. “Gentlemen, we can rebuild [them]. We have the technology.”
Amplify your waning stock of genetic material with this little paint-by-numbers PCR unit! Sequence your own genome! Science for the common man!
Instructions are available for the curious and wary without purchase @ http://openpcr.org/instructions.
“Time is a fist.”
Modern web design and usability principles inform a re-think of the command-line interface, including the use of MIME-types to augment piped commands, support for asynchronous operations and predictive cues (like auto-complete) for shell commands.
A list of un-licensed data sets available for public consumption via Amazon EC2 instances.
A Rice University grad student has demonstrated extending the range of ISM spectrum (WiFi) transmissions from a few hundred feet to a mile+ by pushing the signals into adjacent unused TV channels (“white spaces”).
