9 amazingly unique bridges you may not have seen (31)
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it’s time for a list about brilliant bridges, but not the bridges you normally see in these kinds of lists. i wanted to avoid the usual suspects as they seem to get pounded to death on the intertubes and there’s only so many photos of the golden gate bridge you can look at without becoming just slightly bored. voila… pedestrian bridge, texas, u.s.a. source this beautiful arched bridge in lake austin was a private build ...
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Peter said:
Some beautifully complex bridges
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Peter D said:
Gorgeous.
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Mancho said:
Buenisimos puentes, obras maestras de arquitectura y diseño
Naomi Yotsumoto is the Asian Anna Kournikova (10)
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Naomi Yotsumoto is the most-talked about ping pong player in Japan right now, and it's not just because of her paddle-swatting skillz. The petite 29-year old Tokyo native is revolutionizing the sport by dressing provocatively and presenting herself as more than just an athlete. After creating plenty of buzz in local and international press because of her hot pink and rainbow-striped outfits (there is no dress code in professional ping pong), she now has her ...
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Kay said:
This is why their culture rules. We get a hack like Kournikova, devoid of anything other than "good looks" and they get crazy-assed ping-pong playing goofballs. Advantage: Japan.
Tricks Wiki article: The tensor product trick (1)
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As many readers may already know, my good friend and fellow mathematical blogger Tim Gowers, having wrapped up work on the Princeton Companion to Mathematics (which I believe is now in press), has begun another mathematical initiative, namely a “Tricks Wiki” to act as a repository for mathematical tricks and techniques. Tim has already started the ball rolling with several seed articles on his own blog, and asked me to also contribute some articles. (As ...
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Peter D said:
Heavy article, but a great little trick. Limit of the Nth-root of a constant as N goes to infinity? Yep, 1. Delightful.
“Longest concert ever” is actually 1000 years (4)
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The ringing sounds coming out of the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Warf, London are blips from a 1,000-year-long opus. This millennial organism, entitled Longplayer, was born at midnight on the 31st of December 1999 and will (hopefully) continue living until that same moment in 2999. The Longplayer can be heard from various listening posts around the world and via a live audio stream (which I suggest you plug into now while reading the rest of ...
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Goldie Katsu said:
I love the growth of long time projects (the long now etc.) at the same time we find faster being the dominant theme in other areas.
Steve Greenberg // claytoncubitt (1)
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Enticing Text Messagers in a Get-Out-the-Vote Push - NYTimes.com (5)
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R U curious to know Obama’s VP? The names of vice-presidential candidates are typically announced at news conferences or political conventions. But sometime before the opening gavel of the Democratic National Convention next Monday, Senator Barack Obama plans to break the mold by doing it with a text message.Last week, the Obama campaign said that anyone who sent a text message of “VP” to a dedicated phone number would be among the first to learn ...
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Reuben said:
Why can't we all just text message our lives.
Obama Takes Command of Five More Issues (1)
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Dow Jones Insight: Election Pulse (2)
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Dow Jones Insight StaffIn our previous analysis, we found that Obama was in the lead in media coverage on 10 of the 25 key election issues being tracked in mainstream and social media by Dow Jones Insight, a rather impressive performance. But in the latest period, from July 17 to August 17, he demonstrated a clear lead on 15 of the 25 issues, wresting one away from McCain and breaking formerly statistical ties in four ...
Warning: Zombies Returning To San Francisco (4)
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We just got word that the zombies will be returning to San Francisco this Saturday, August 16th. This time around you’ll be able to track the movements of the zombie horde via Twitter. The time has come to once again activate the radio-attraktor towers to funnel hundreds of zombies through downtown to a secure location. This is a risky maneuver, as evidenced by carnage enshrouding last year???s event. Rest assured, we have made improvements to ...
Slow Motion Video of Lightning (15)
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Here’s a really cool slow motion video of lightning. via Fark Related PostsThe SLOMO Video FestivalSLOMO Horror Festival Call For EntriesLightning In A Bottle 2007: A Green, Music & Art FestivalLightning Strikes Woman As She Is Shooting VideoWestern Spaghetti, Stop-Motion Animation by PESThis is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Slow Motion Video of Lightning
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Peter D said:
Holy Crap that's beautiful!
the amazing house that always faces the sun (11)
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[note: apologies for the shit picture quality. there was very little to choose from] wow. it’s surprising that there’s so little (english) information available about this house as it seems to be such a piece of engineering brilliance and a building which, when designed, was way ahead of its time. it was built and lived in by an italian ship engineer by the name of angelo invernizzi (along with assistance from architect ettore fagiuoli) between ...
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Kenny Eicher said:
Brandon, this is like that new Dubai skyscraper we read about, but built in the 1930s!
A Multiple Instance Learning Strategy for Combating Good Word Attacks on Spam Filters; Zach Jorgensen, Yan Zhou, Meador Inge; 9(Jun):1115--1146, 2008. (1)
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Statistical spam filters are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. One of the more common adversarial attacks, known as the good word attack, thwarts spam filters by appending to spam messages sets of "good" words, which are words that are common in legitimate email but rare in spam. We present a counterattack strategy that attempts to differentiate spam from legitimate email in the input space by transforming
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Peter D said:
I love this attack, a year ago I kept getting random poetry in my Gmail account; this is a paper presenting a method to thwart it.
Using Markov Blankets for Causal Structure Learning; Jean-Philippe Pellet, André Elisseeff; 9(Jul):1295--1342, 2008. (1)
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We show how a generic feature-selection algorithm returning strongly relevant variables can be turned into a causal structure-learning algorithm. We prove this under the Faithfulness assumption for the data distribution. In a causal graph, the strongly relevant variables for a node X are its parents, children, and children's parents (or spouses), also known as the Markov blanket of X. Identifying the spouses leads to the detection of the V-structure patterns and thus to causal orientations. ...
Universal Multi-Task Kernels; Andrea Caponnetto, Charles A. Micchelli, Massimiliano Pontil, Yiming Ying; 9(Jul):1615--1646, 2008. (1)
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In this paper we are concerned with reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces HK of functions from an input space into a Hilbert space Y, an environment appropriate for multi-task learning. The reproducing kernel K associated to HK has its values as operators on Y. Our primary goal here is to derive conditions which ensure that the kernel K is universal. This means that on
Dada Comes to Berkeley — Shotgun Players Take Ubu to the Park (2)
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guest post by mikl-em Berkeley’s Shotgun Players are staging Ubu Roi the classic work of proto-dadaism. Performances will be in John Hinkel Park in Berkeley. The show opens this Saturday and runs until mid-September, it’s a free show in the park but donations are encouraged (just like the SF Mime Troupe). It’s a rare opportunity to see a first rate production of one of the great strange theatrical works of all time. And it’s the ...
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Peter D said:
The Shotgun Players is one of my favorite theatre groups, I went to see them often while a student at Berkeley. If anyone's interested in seeing this with me, drop me a note!
A Skyscraper’s 100,000 Gallon Stabiliser [PICS] (17)
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one rincon hill’s south tower :: photo source you’re looking at the top of the south tower of one rincon hill in san fransisco, a building that boasts 60 floors, a total height of 641ft and a spot at the top of a hill in one of the windiest and most earthquake prone parts of north america. bearing in mind the skyscraper sits alone on the hill, without any surrounding protection from other high-rises, it’s ...
Citizen Engineer, Open Source Hardware Hacking by Ladyada & PT (4)
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Citizen Engineer is new video series on open source hardware hacking, art and electronics produced by Limor “Ladyada” Fried of Adafruit Industries and Phillip “PT” Torrone of MAKE magazine. The first episode, featuring cellphone SIM card and payphone hacking, recently debuted at The Last HOPE conference in New York City. Modify a retired payphone so it can be used as a home telephone and for VoIP (Skype). Then learn how to modify the hacked payphone ...
Obama and the Middle East (1)
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By Glenn FannickDow Jones Insight StaffAlso ranking high and moving up in the table of issues is that of Afghanistan, where Obama stopped on his current tour of the Middle East and Europe and toward which he says the U.S. must shift its focus, instead of Iraq.In the period July 14 – July 21, as Obama geared up for and then began the trip, he was mentioned in reference to Afghanistan 8,299 times, or 61% ...
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Peter D said:
Media's paying more attention to Obama's interactions with the middle-east than McCain's. Interesting.
