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The Phoenix interplanetary exploration vehicle landed on Mars. My name, David Orban, is on it, together with those of the other members* of Planetary Society. This is of course a rather indirect way of being on Mars, ...
The mathematical field of game theory, explored by John Von Neumann in the '40s, and broadened by John Nash in the late '50s and beginning of the '60s has been applied mainly to economics. To me it is interesting, because I view it as a discipline where the experimental subjects ...
On Feb 15 the voting for the 'Grand Challenges For Engineering in the next 100 years' is going to start. This is the contribution I wrote for the discussion there:
Atomic scale assembly, and programmable matter... A better understanding of quantum mechanics, and the software capable of exploiting it will give ...
Death is not the solution. Death is the problem.
The UN has started the final procedures to put to a vote in front of the General Assembly a resolution for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. While not binding, the adoption of a resolution like this would be a further ...
15.00 Jamais Cascio - The Metaverse (is being skipped?! or maybe speaking later?)
Actually looking through the Google Blogsearch links I myself provided in the previous post, I saw that Jamais has already posted the full text of his speech. I guess I will list just a few sentences here and ...
We got the power supply issues solved, and the wifi is also now working well thanks to the great help from the organizers.
09.40 Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital introducing the Summit:
"The 21st Century is going to be far more greater, and/or far more terrible then the 20th Century. We are here ...
Image by David Trowbridge
This spring I joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). After having followed Ray Kurzweil's, Eliezer Yudkowsky's, and Ben Goertzel's work for some time, it is my opinion that the institute that they are directing, together with Tyler Emerson, Bruce Klein, and others, is one of ...
"The Trouble With Physics" by Lee Smolin
For hundreds of years science progressed, and physics was one of the main sciences following the method that having experiments and theories going hand in hand, could offer new and exciting interpretations for the worlds phenomena. This mechanism, giving the foundations of our agricultural, ...
I have been using (and selling) Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the last ten years, and love it. It has become exceptionally accurate and responsive in its various revisions, especially now, that it can swallow all the hardware power we can throw at it. However, current dictation software is only useful if ...
I have been invited to join the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a ...
@skebby I think you should switch to tweeting in English.. :)
At Polimi attending the meeting of the network od Milan area Tech Incubators http://www.reteincubatori.it http://twitpic.com/17vsob
Old Jews Telling Jokes is back! http://oldjewstellingjokes.com/
Mar 10th 2010
RT @xenijardin: National Hobo Ass'n: "Unlike tramps or bums, hoboes are usually very resourceful, self reliant, appreciative people." http://bit.ly/9PpiyZ
RT @Wolfram_Alpha: RT @WolframResearch: Congrats to #Wolfram's Theodore Gray, whose #PopSci Gray Matter column got an #ASME nomination! http://bit.ly/9loGKc
@rapportive why do you have to do a dns lookup when I click on outgoing links for a message? Slows things down a lot!
@PeterDiamandis Love the idea. ARGs are going to be huge soon, and gamification of healthcare is a perfect application!
RT @google: Coming soon to @GoogleBooks: up to 1m Italian classics, thanks to Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage http://bit.ly/bQ7YVB
@luigibaricelli yes, we are here. How can we help you? :) Sim, nós estamos aqui. Como podemos ajudá-lo?
Social Usability Checklist by @ibridazioni http://ibridazioni.com/2010/03/10/social-usability-checklist/
Danila Medvedev
Mar 9th 2010
@farnamstreet thanks! I subscribed to your rss
@Folletto you just made me spend $20 on @macheist! If it were not such a great deal, and a very cool promo, I'd be annoyed :D
@climagic yesss! I knew you were out there somewhere in cyberspace :D
@andrewhessel Yes! My domain auto renewal notices trickle in in a constant stream of reminders of how much more I could still be doing..
Pondering the ROI of preparing against all cognitive biases listed by Wikipedia http://bit.ly/9Tfk3m What do you say @michaelvassar?
I bought the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for just $20 and got 3 cool bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it
Posted 2 pictures to flickr.
Register for the free online Gov2.0 Conference on March 11! http://en.oreilly.com/gov2-international @gov2events
"University And Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions For The Networked Age" June 28-30 Torino http://bit.ly/9sYXXv
RT @zittrain: Who controls the historical record in the digital age? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kpur7yJ7EE
Recovered some lost files with the power of ... the Unix command line! So proud. #realmendontusemice
Still not done reading the special by @theeconomist on "The Data Deluge", and the "Technology Quarterly" of the new issue is here! QED
@mdbraber Me too! Very excited to come and speak at #momoams ...
Posted 5 pictures to flickr.
Took the @23andme allergy survey. Learned nothing new, but helped science, I hope http://bit.ly/alK4Of
