Software Programming Data

Why we lie to children: http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html

Currently Browsing: http://islamic-finance.net/journal.html

Quite pleased to discover you can buy Staffordshire oatcakes online – http://www.staffordshireoatcakes.com/pages/store.html

The problem of long-term digital storage- http://tinyurl.com/55qfcn

Monty Python Channel on You Tube – http://uk.youtube.com/user/MontyPython

cirkey.Lego. http://www.mechanizedbrick.com/mb.html

New web data-mining technologies have the potential to be somewhat intrusive – http://tinyurl.com/9g23vj

On Children: Pointing- http://tinyurl.com/d23kkz – Computer Games – http://tinyurl.com/aankab – and Grandparents –http://tinyurl.com/b8jll4.

RT @coopsmarc – http://coopsmarc.blogspot.com/2009/04/banksy-gets-banksyd-in-bristol.html Does vandalising Banksy = art?

Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy – http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.400-deja-vu-where-fact-meets-fantasy.html

Children come with a high carbon cost – http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126994.200-children-come-with-a-high-carbon-cost.html

100 Best First Lines of Novels – As chosen by the editors of American Book Review – http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0934311.html

RT @killfile – Alistair Reynolds on Radio 4 – an unexpected treat for a Monday morning – Today Programme – 08:50 http://tinyurl.com/m9gmd4

Writing software for Space Shuttles: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print

Gen X, not Gen Y, are the ones leading the charge for social computing. http://bit.ly/XBB5c

How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? http://bit.ly/p6b3c

Mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. This year, it will create 1,200 exabytes.http://bit.ly/cUF2Rp

Wired Article on Google Algorithm. Pretty Cool. http://bit.ly/9ttNQr

3D printing is cool. http://bit.ly/cIN5ac

In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers http://bit.ly/cjNdbD

JavaZone Trailer- Java 4-ever – http://bit.ly/96161k

Dubious – Manchester historian deciphers hidden 'Plato Code' http://bit.ly/9nO33E

HTML 5 Brilliance – The Wilderness Downtown. http://bit.ly/9D2O6V

Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No Proof Iran Nukes Were Target – http://bit.ly/9iaLr2

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup – the creator of C++ http://bit.ly/cLAjYA

Crikey. Stuxnet Questions and Answers. http://bit.ly/aLNbbJ

Pretty cool. Sub-threshold electronics. http://bbc.in/d3AWVz

Stuxnet worm 'targeted high-value Iranian assets' – http://bbc.in/aPOAzl

Listen Again – BBC Bristol Programmes – Ground or Green Debate: Recorded debate on plans for a new Bristol Stadium – http://bbc.in/g1gJxb

Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom? http://bit.ly/idzAHT

Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy – http://bit.ly/hdkmp0

Damage from the Stuxnet virus has apparently set back the Iranian nuclear program by as much as two years – http://bit.ly/gnL9dB

Postmortem – Skype’s Outage http://bit.ly/f1XXJR

Google's Search Algorithm Has Been Ruined, Time To Move Back To Curation – http://read.bi/fGvdLw

Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes describes 45 algorithms from the field of AI http://bit.ly/hcOQvM

Israeli general claims Stuxnet attacks as one of his successes – http://bit.ly/fu6ytt

My parent s couldn't afford to buy us a ZX81 – but I still want one now. http://bbc.in/evIOW4

Hacker vs. Hacker – http://buswk.co/fzS8Jq

Philosophy of simulation – from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems http://amzn.to/hVmVGk

Slightly distressed to discover someone shares my name until I realised it was on a database of fictional characters http://bit.ly/fPu29f

You can now boot Linux in your browser – http://bit.ly/kTetW3

Excellent video: Kevin Slavin – How Algorithms Shape our World http://bit.ly/p6Iph6 @slavin_fpo

Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers – http://bit.ly/rlGXSd

Will Open Data Solve Peer Review Concerns? – http://bit.ly/q8Df7W

How One Man Hacked His Way Into the Slot-Machine Industry – http://t.co/OA9odKU

Newly launched 'Ghost Algorithm' attracts twitter clicks due to cool name. http://t.co/sgmeJvPQ

The case against the Kindle Fire as a low end tablet disruption – http://t.co/4YkDiq7M

Insurance for the unhappy: This column looks at data on religion and life satisfaction from across the globe http://t.co/wWuDWMAd

How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software – http://t.co/NF6A9z8n

Crikey – iPhone accelerometer detects keyboard keystrokes – http://t.co/rNqfoqxN

Rather cool: Kinect hack merges the real and virtual worlds http://t.co/2uWSIiI1

The Big Data Boom: "Breakthroughs in innovation often rely on breakthroughs in measurement…" http://t.co/BZGb7YsP

Facebook will cross the critical 500 shareholder mark by end of 2011, compelled to file financial data with SEC http://t.co/ejbBISXg

Can you crack it? GCHQ Code-breaking Test. http://t.co/OJ6ESgMH

IBM’s cognitive computing chip project has already made some initial progress – http://t.co/KvXH9Ut0

My brother-in-law @CatGoneCrazy has released his first game for iphone: Squeak's Dreams http://t.co/FyV0BQli – http://t.co/iL1vYSGr

Crikey. A new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second http://t.co/31maedyC

Code of conduct: The relentless march of the algorithm – http://t.co/UB1Xy4UN

@marketpsych Newsletter: On crowd enthusiasm, IPO pricing, the emergence of #BigData and social prediction – http://t.co/kdNsVYhu #tcm

Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source – http://t.co/sAkjaRdC

For tablet computer visionary Roger Fidler, a lot of what-ifs – http://t.co/c6XqbGv5

The Rise of the 'Brogrammer' – http://t.co/gf7rhCMQ #tcm

Data-snooping bias is a form of statistical bias that arises from this misuse of statistics – http://t.co/eNPScAos #tcm

It's not even #fractalfriday yet! RT @cstross: Wow! 3 minute fractal movie with sound track in 4kb of code: http://t.co/eJZlToGE

A miniature Linux computer that is slightly larger than a USB thumb drive http://t.co/m2wDVJzq (1.5GHz ARM CPU and 512MB of RAM) #tcm

Brilliant! MT @graeme_burnett: Shhhh. Listen to the data http://t.co/RZUTycJj

It certainly did – @CatGoneCrazy: @j_bettany Bitly just suddenly turned rubbish today, didn't it?

Unofficial confirmation that the United States was behind the Stuxnet virus #tcm http://t.co/rPfAATCS

Social Cascades: A new algorithm seems to break new ground for viral marketing practices #tcm http://t.co/2zXxJrxu

@bitly. And just to confirm, here's a grab of the script error preventing me from using the bitmark tool #bitly http://t.co/Iol6XyiI

Sifting through a trillion electrons: Researchers design strategies for extracting data from massive datasets http://t.co/rI6XdLQP

Very cool: “Chirp app sends smartphone data via 'digital birdsong' http://t.co/3FEqZReE

Introducing the Twitter Political Index: Welcome to the age of big political data. #tcm http://t.co/fVEgRC8L

Talk about #BigData: IT At the LHC - Managing a Petabyte of Data Per Second http://t.co/7waKNkMp

GPU-based supercomputing cluster could help Square Kilometer Array stitch together > exabyte of data per day http://t.co/geXoHh2w

RT @newscientist: Cruise stage separation successful! In 1 minute the EDL software will wake up. More applause! #MSL

Sandy Pentland – Reinventing Society in the wake of #BigData via @cxdig http://t.co/6my34H7f

High-Frequency Traders Flat-Out Buying Data Ahead of You #hft http://t.co/DREAKRMk

RT @carlcarrie: Algorithmic Revolution – Silicon Valley meets Wall Street … http://t.co/SSeKN3W9 #quant

First session: sourcing data for sentiment analysis models, news vs Social networking #quantbattle @robpas on the panel