Archives for the 'Research' Category
Large Asteriod May Collide with Mars
Published on 28 Dec 2007 at 11:37 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Mars, Research, Space.
There is now a 4 percent chance that the large asteriod 2007 WD5 may collide with the planet Mars in January 2008. While there is a 96% chance that the asteriod will miss, these odds are much larger than usual for large asteriod impacts. If the impact is to occur, it will be on 2008 [...]
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Raw Thoughts on Mass (updated)
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 2:18 am.
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Filed under Philosophy, Physics, Probability, Research.
What good is a cortex if it doesn’t dream a little?
I have been thinking about Ariel Caticha and Carlo Cafaro’s derivation of Newton’s Second Law from probability theory (http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.1071). In this derivation, they assume three things:
There exist basic entities called particles
There is an intrinsic uncertainty about a particle’s position
There is change… not time necessarily, but change.
The first thing I [...]
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The Freesound Project
Published on 19 Dec 2007 at 3:16 am.
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Filed under Acoustics, Internet, Research, Solutions.
Today Roger Pink pointed me to The Freesound Project, which is an online database of sounds. These sounds are free to be used by anyone in accordance with the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project makes these sounds accessible by keyword search.
Recently, the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona received [...]
Robotic Toddler? WHY???
Published on 18 Dec 2007 at 3:14 am.
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Filed under Intelligent Systems, Inventions, Research, Robotics, Seriously???, Technology.
Tonight on the Colbert Report, I learned of a Japanese research project to make a robotic toddler. I am sorry, but not only am I not at all sure why one would endeavor to do this, but I am also not sure why one would choose this particular design.
With all due respect to the researchers [...]
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An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
Published on 1 Dec 2007 at 4:15 am.
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Filed under Physics, Research.
Garrett Lisi recently posted a paper to the arxiv (arXiv:0711.0770v1 [hep-th]) titled “An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything”. In it he proposes that the group E8 unifies all of the fields of the Standard Model with Gravity and predicts new particles.
In addition to the paper, here is an excellent blog that discusses the theory, its [...]
