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eyewriter.org open source initiative.
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.
Absolutely stunning
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Daniel Radev
Universal Translators Are All Around Us
Since machine translations is one of the topics here is an interesting article plus some video demos
http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/23/universal-translators-are-all-around-us-video
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Daniel Radev
Guys, what do you think about this http://golang.org/ ?
I’m really excited and installing it right now…It could be the death of Java (and .NET in the long run) I think…-
jyonkov
I’ve watched the video introduction at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s . I personally like the language but i don’t think that it would be the death to other languages yet, because like Java originally it needs to find its niche… it took Java about 5 years before it became the language for the server. It may take a while until this happens to GO.
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Neven Boyanov
There’s nothing wrong with developing new programming languages, but that one is definitely not the killer lang. This is not the first time when a large company attempts to propose a replacement language but it is the community that will say yay or nay.
I agree with Yonkov that it will take time until it becomes
The ideas are good, not new though.
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Daniel Radev
Comparing H1N1 to a computer virus
Here is kind of interesting article that compares H1N1 with computer virus
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Daniel Radev
Easy Low Cost No Radiation Fusion
Guys, this is huge.
Easy Low Cost No Radiation Fusion
Somewhere else, I’ve also read the US Navy approved $10B research spending for next 5 years on this project (don’t ask me why exactly US Navy)
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Daniel Radev
Well, I’ve got my facts wrong – it’s not $10B, it’s $8M
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Nikolay
$8M? That’s peanuts!
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Daniel Radev
Well, it will keep the project alive until they can prove the technology has potential….
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Daniel Radev
The Barrelfish OS
Here is an interesting open source project built from scratch in a collaboration between ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Microsoft Research Cambridge in the UK – a scalable new OS architecture for multi-core systems
It can be downloaded from here:
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Nikolay
I can’t believe that you’re promoting a project in which Microsoft is participating.
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Apostol Apostolov
It is quite impressive proof-of-concept OS, I can imagine Linux implementing something like that long before Microsoft moves to Windows 8.
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Daniel Radev
Actually there is an open source project Grand Central, which aims to make multi-core applications support easier. The thing is it’s an API, not a whole OS. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages…
Another problem for some of us (not me obviously) is that it originates from Apple…:)-
Nikolay
But it’s not fully open-sourced yet, is it? I also read that there are several fully open-sourced solutions available already.
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Daniel Radev
It is fully open-source already a month or two.
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Nikolay
Less than a month ago for sure, but I remember that only parts of the whole thing got open-sourced and under an incompatible with Linux license. Anyway, I don’t plan to move back to C/C++ and neither to start using Objective-C so it’s of no use to me. For parallel programming, Java has everything I need, but I also see myself using Scala or Erlang in the near future.
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Daniel Radev
Everything Apple opensouced is compatible with Linux Licenses (WebKit, Darwin) as far as I know.
Otherwise I hear a lot of buzz about Scala and Erland these days, but for know I’m in the kernel level C land (and PHP for some private projects)…:)-
Nikolay
Stop it, appel fanboi, you! I think Ars Technica knows better!
PHP sucks even though it’s my day job now. One of the best Web frameworks today is Lift, which is based on Scala. Erlang is a different beast, which even Amazon AWS is using. So, it’s not just buzz around those two. There are many projects using Erlang nowadays. Twitter is using Scala for all their backend stuff.
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Nikolay
BTW, here’s a fresh off the oven Erlang-based Web Framework ridiculously named Chicago Boss.
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Nikolay
One last pro-Erlang comment… Yaws is one of the fastest web servers known to date which outperforms Apache. You can find many other benchmarks on the web, but they all use static content, which is not a real World benchmark (unless you’re running a porn site).
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Daniel Radev
Having in mind that porn is 80% of internet traffic, static content tests are more then enough…:)
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Apostol Apostolov
Disagree. It’s not porn but marketing landing sites, that drive static web forward. Porn has already moved to Web 2.0 services to the most part.
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Nikolay
Truly my last comment – pinkie promise! Look at one newer Erlang Web server, which has a Comet-based chatroom implemented in 57 lines of code!
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Apostol Apostolov
The OS in question is a prototype OS used as a testbed for development of a new kernel and libraries for better support of multi-core processotrs. It’s nothing a consumer should be excited about, but it makes sense for Microsoft to test technology on a clear slate rather than try to cram it in Windows 7 and spend twice the time working around limitations. Besides, Windows 8 is still supported to be a complete rewrite, breaking compatibility except for VM-ing old apps…
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Daniel Radev
This is something different from the current hot trend here (Robotics), but here is a link to the Blue Brain Project – an exiting attempt to model and simulate human brain.
They have created a virtual pack of neurons that acts just like the real thing, and hope to get an e-brain up and running.
All hope is not lost. Genes don’t really code the body like blueprints do for a building, mapping out every single detail; instead, they give a more general instruction and hit the “repeat” button a few million times (e.g. when they give fractal instructions). This means that amid the great complexity of the whole brain, there are structural units that repeat themselves. One such structure is called a neocortical column (NCC): a group of about 10,000 neurons in the cerebral cortex that are organized in a relatively consistent way across the mammalian brain. Millions of these columns compose the whole of the brain.
Check out this video that flies you through their virtual brain:
and here is project home page
The Blue Brain runs on IBM’s Blue Gene/L (btw: there is one is Sofia since last year, but currently I have no idea how I can get hands on it, and actually not sure what to do with it) supercomputer, one of the top five supercomputers on the planet.
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Nikolay
Some brains are not hard to simulate (or rather “emulate”).
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Apostol Apostolov
Actually, any brain is hard to simulate. Emulation is easy only as long as it is judged by people who do not understand what are the desirable processes and results, so it could easily be called “magic”.
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Nikolay
I was teasing Daniel referring to his own brain.
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Daniel Radev
Well, thank you! Something else would surprise me a lot…
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Daniel Radev
Swarm Robotics
Here is an article plus a lot of videos about Swarm Robotics
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Nikolay
That’s the future, I think, which includes nanobots used especially in medicine.
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Daniel Radev
OK, I’m in the game as well
First post in english, probably all my tech post will be english as well (seems logical)…
jyonkov are discussing. 
Apostol Apostolov, 
Sakhr are good, we partnered with them in 2007/2008 for the English/Arabic. Although, I’ve never had the chance to evaluate their ASR technology.