- We are getting closer to simulating the human brain. http://bit.ly/8XN6RP Here comes computed cognition! #
IBM scientists create most comprehensive map of the brain’s network | KurzweilAIhttp://bit.ly/8XN6RP“The Mandala of the Mind”: The long-distance network of the Macaque monkey brain, spanning the cortex, thalamus, and basal ganglia, showing 6,602 long-distance…
Electronic memes for 2010-07-29
- Most of the storage space in data centers is being wasted http://bit.ly/bWEO8X time to do some serious analysis. #
A waste of space: Bulk of drive capacity still underutilizedhttp://bit.ly/bWEO8XJuly 28, 2010 (Computerworld) Near the turn of the century, data centers were only beginning to implement Fibre Channel storage-area networks (SAN), with most relying on…
Electronic memes for 2010-07-27
- iPad Gets the University Treatment this Fall http://bit.ly/cfbEBx RT @jrhode #
IPad Gets The University Treatment This Fall | Epicenter | Wired.comhttp://bit.ly/cfbEBxThe iPad is about to have its academic chops put to the test this fall in a number of programs around the country. Colleges and universities are looking to adopt the iPad as a…
Electronic memes for 2010-04-26
- Had a great meeting today with @leodesousa it is nice to be strategic in the comfort of my computer chair at home. #
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Electronic memes for 2010-03-06
- Can I have some some antinuclei with nonzero strangeness on my pizza please? http://tinyurl.com/y8dj4ks Radical new form of antimatter. #
Strange antiparticles pop out of RHIC’s quark-gluon plasmahttp://tinyurl.com/y8dj4ksSo far, the LHC has been spending its time ramming protons together, leaving Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) the king of the hill when it comes to smashing… - New post on http://www.automatonsadrift.com/ A quantum understanding. Very cool research to help us advance technology. #
A quantum understanding
It has been a while since I posted an actual article. I feel this innovation is something that a twitter post really couldn’t do justice to. Scientists at Princeton have made a dramatic leap forward in materials simulation. Traditionally when simulating materials on super computers programs must calculate the energy of an atom from scratch to determine the properties of a substance. The scratch calculation is complex and when you scale this across hundreds or thousands of atoms simulations are extremely intensive.
Enter the new formula based solution from Carter and Chen. This solution avoids having to calculate the energy of each electron in a material and instead accurately predicts the kinetic energy of electrons across the entire substance. This takes the most complex repetitive portion out of the simulation and allows it to scale to macroscopic samples of a substance.
So what does this really mean? Well, this will allow them to accurately and easily simulate how new theoretical transistor designs will work. So instead of having to actually make a new transistor from new materials and experiment to see if it performs the way you want, you can just simulate it. It can work for many other materials too, not just computer parts. What this is really letting scientists do is bring quantum properties into the realm of real simulation. This can probably help with fluid dynamics calculations, increasing the accuracy of fusion reactor simulations just as another example.
Heading toward the future, this can allow us to accurately predict how nanotech machines will function. It could even be applied to cells, helping us understand at a quantum level how human cells function. At the rate computer power scales up, efficiencies like this result in massive leaps in simulation capability. Bringing this research together with other fields like full brain simulation may result in some staggering advances.
Electronic memes for 2010-02-16
- RT @leodesousa excellent EA post http://tinyurl.com/yhnjgst I agree with you on skill vs. talent good luck finding a Strategic Practitioner #
Enterprise Architects – What attributes do you look for? | Enterprise Architecture in Higher Educationhttp://tinyurl.com/yhnjgstBuilding on my previous post Starting Your EA Practice – What roles would you pick?, this post looks at attributes of individuals and suggests some that have worked in our… - Quite possibly one of the most impressive small scale robots I have seen in action. http://tinyurl.com/ydbsw88 scale this up please! #
The Remarkable JO-Zero Robot (Video) | Singularity Hubhttp://tinyurl.com/ydbsw88In this uncertain economy, it’s important to find the right opportunity to securely invest your money. This story is not about one of those opportunities, it’s about… - Will Facebook become bigger than Google? http://tinyurl.com/ykolq27 This is possible though not quite the same arena. RT @dailygalaxy #
Is Social Trumping Search – Will Facebook Become Bigger Than Google?http://tinyurl.com/ykolq27Yuri Milner is a 48-year-old Muscovite, post-Glastnost billionaire, and Putin clone has become one of the largest investors in digital media in the U.S. this past year, investing…
- The story behind how Hard Disk storage is made. http://tinyurl.com/yf8y4mz An amazing look at the fab process at Western Digital. #
Inside Western Digital: How Tomorrow’s Storage Gets Made – Great Mysteries To Be Revealed…http://tinyurl.com/yf8y4mzMy first hard drive, entombed in a 1988 XT clone, stored 20 megabytes and clicked and chugged almost as much as my dad’s Buick. Back then, I worried about preserving 30KB text…
Electronic memes for 2010-02-10
- Regeneration of the pancreas, potential cure for type 1 diabetes. http://tinyurl.com/yeyf2m2 does this reduce the “life” of the organ? #
Research Advances Potential For Regeneration As A Possible Cure For Type 1 Diabeteshttp://tinyurl.com/yeyf2m2A hormone responsible for the body’s stress response is also linked to the growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, according to JDRF- funded researchers at the Salk…
Electronic memes for 2010-02-08
- Oh apparently it is #dreamhost I have to tweet to win an iPad. Not so sure I really want an iPad, but a free one… I would make use of it. #
- Teleporting energy through quantum entangled atoms. http://tinyurl.com/yz7tbhm if we master entanglement we could power smart dust with this #
Will It Soon Be Possible to Teleport Energy? World’s Leading Experts Say http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/02/will-it-soon-be-possible-to-teleport-energy-worlds-leading-experts-say-yes.htmlThere is an increasing awareness among the world’s scientific community that the properties of the universe are best described not by the laws that govern matter but by the…
Electronic memes for 2010-02-07
- RT @neiltyson my respect for you increases every time you speak. Fantastic bit here http://bit.ly/cVFuEL worth watching. #
Science Education: Richard Dawkins & Neil deGrasse Tyson | dotSUBhttp://bit.ly/cVFuELWelcome to dotSUB! Any Video Any Language Here you can view, upload, transcribe and translate any video into any language. To create your own subtitles, click the button below…
