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Scientific research shows that angels can not fly

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The UK this year, held a belief in the survey, 36,000 adults, 68% thought that the angels and the devil on the side of human activity. Flying angel have always been a symbol of good luck and bright. However, an orthodox research would obviously did not think so.

A biologist at University College London, Professor Roger Wotton by comparing the structure of birds and angels portrayed in the painting looks like an angel come to conclusion: angel wings could not carry through its own flight. The professor has published his research results. Roger Wotton that the reason birds can fly, is obtained thanks to a strong evolution of wings and streamlined body, and a huge body and a small angel wings out of proportion, it is difficult to provide a strong need to lift flight. Incidentally, that Roger Wotton, goblins, dragon, demon like creatures should also not fly.

But the professor did not say too absolute, he thought an angel could dramatically in the wind (typhoons or tornadoes) state into the glide mode, of course, he added, this great wind not only allows an angel gliding It also makes the ordinary glide. Source Link

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The Zoo Pk The Internet

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From the cNet bored editors take a small zoo animals and the Internet to do a transfer race. As we have seen before, “Moments: pigeons win,” this time is still the animals victory.

People in the 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) to animals within the 32GB of data transmission and Internet games, the Internet, of course, through network transmission, while the animals will need to run their own USB flash drives with 32G. Source Link, the following is the result:

The first, cheetah (cheetah). 30.9 minutes

This is nothing wrong with the world’s fastest animal, one of cheetahs only 30 minutes and put the flash drive with the success of their destinations.

Second, pigeons, 31 minutes.

Third, horse, 31.2 minutes.

Fourth place, dogs, 31.3 minutes.

Fifth, rabbits, 32 minutes.

Sixth, giraffe (giraffe did not expect, but also so quickly, and his neck is obviously that you can hang multiple USB Flash Well), 32 minutes.

Seventh, human, 34 minutes.

Eighth, rodents, 40 minutes.

Ninth, turtles, 5 hours 18 minutes. This cold, but colder in the final.

Tenth, the Internet, 6 hours 14 minutes. Allows you to appreciate what is called a real turtle speed. (It is said in some areas by the United States measured the speed of 2.3Mbps)

If you thought the Internet was fast, think again. We pitted the world’s top animals against the Web over a one-mile course, transferring 32GB of data. The results are surprising. If you put 32GB of data on a bite-proof USB key and strapped it to a cheetah, for example, it would be available to read at the destination 11 times faster than the Internet. The cheetah takes 30.9 minutes, the Internet over 6 hours!

And it doesn’t end there: the Internet is actually slower than every major animal. It’s even slower than the apocryphal tortoise over a mile. Our results come from taking the transfer speed of a typical USB connection shifting 32GB on and off a key, and adding this to the time it takes for each beastly chauffeur to move it one mile. Your results may vary.

It’s the world’s fastest land animal, but who knew it was this fast? Twelve times quicker than the Internet when transferring 32GB of data 1 mile. Strap a 32GB USB key to the side of a cheetah, and it’ll have your data transferred a mile away in less than a minute. Add the 15 minutes it’ll take you to transfer the data to the key and the 15 minutes to take it off, and you’ve still got the fastest connection on the block. If you’re transferring data shorter distances, a cheetah works even more efficiently. The animal can accelerate from zero to 68mph in three seconds — it could have that 32 gig down in accounts and back again before you can say “carnage”.

Finally we get to the lowly Internet. One of the worst ways to transfer your data one mile. The average Internet connection runs at a glue-like 2.85Mbps in the UK (according to Broadband Expert), and a frankly embarrassing 2.3Mbps in some parts of the US (Speedmatters). You’d be better off strapping a 32GB USB key to almost any animal in the world and making it walk a mile than transferring this quantity of data this distance over the Internet.

At the connection speeds cited, it would take 3 hours 7 minutes to upload your 32GB to a server on the Internet, and another 3 hours 7 minutes for your recipient to download it. Of course, at longer distances, the Internet begins to outshine the animal kingdom, but it should hang its head in shame over its ranking in the one-mile speed test.

Tags: data transmission, fastest animal, flash drive, internet games, network transmission, place dogs, turtle speed, usb flash drives, zoo animals

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MIT rumor: London Digital Cloud

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MIT Master of Architecture in London over the preparations for building a large number of clouds (digital cloud), known as The Cloud project, and is declared to become London’s Olympic Park for a visit.

Figure, if The Cloud project is completed, it will in the Olympic Games main stadium next erected a towering 120 meters high, and put the number at the top of the tower clouds. These figures cloud features Actually, there is a display device, it is able to show people the real-time game scores, weather, attendance and other data. At the same time, The Cloud will use all the power its own solar panels.

MIT architect, said that even the London Olympic Committee, The Cloud project was denied, they will want other options, in other places will be built this device is expected to cost at between £ 5 million -5000 (flexibility really big ). Source BBC Link

In any case, let’s take a look at the concept of beautiful designs (4):

The inflatable elements of the building would sit on top of thin, lightweight towers

A giant “digital cloud” that would “float” above London’s skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers.

The construction would include 120m- (400ft-) tall mesh towers and a series of interconnected plastic bubbles that can be used to display images and data.

The Cloud, as it is known, would also be used an observation deck and park.

The unconventional structure was originally envisaged as a centre piece of the city’s Olympic village.

Its designers plan to raise the funds to build it by asking for micro-donations from millions of people.

“It’s really about people coming together to raise the Cloud,” Carlo Ratti, one of the architects behind the design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) told BBC News.

“We can build our Cloud with £5m or £50m. The flexibility of the structural system will allow us to tune the size of the Cloud to the level of funding that is reached.”

The size of the structure will evolve depending on the number of contributions, he said.

Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York who has seen the design described it as a “sculptural spectacle” and “a celebration of technology”.

‘Data streams’

The Cloud was shortlisted in a competition set up by London Mayor Boris Johnson.

The mayor has committed to build a tourist attraction in the Olympic Park “with a legacy for the east end [of London]“.

Other finalists are thought to include the former Turner prize winner Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, the designer of the Angel of the North.

The mayor is still in the “process of deciding” which design will be commissioned, according to a spokesperson.

However, the team, which also includes the writer Umberto Eco and engineers from Arup, has decided to push ahead and publish details of its design.

The structure draws on work by artist Tomas Saraceno, a German-based designer who has previously shown off huge inflatable sculptures.

It is envisaged that the spheres would be made of a plastic known as Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), the material used to build the Beijing Aquatic Centre.

The different spheres would act as structural elements, habitable spaces, decoration and LCD screens on which data could be projected.

“We could provide a custom feed of… searches made by Londoners during the Olympics to give a real time ‘barometer’ of the city’s interests and mood,” said Google, one of the supporters of the project, which has also offered to provide the information feeds.

The team also envisage projecting weather information, spectator numbers, race results or even images of the Olympic Torch on to the building.

Ramps, stairs and lifts would carry people to the top of the structure to look out over the city.

‘Zero power’

The inflatable elements of the building would sit on top of slender, lightweight towers, stabilised by a net of metal cables.

Damping technology, similar to that used in Japanese skyscrapers to resist earthquakes, would prevent the towers being buffeted by the wind.

“Many tall towers have preceded this, but our achievement is the high degree of transparency, the minimal use of material and the vast volume created by the spheres,” said professor Joerg Schleich, the structural engineer behind the towers.

Professor Schleich was responsible for the Olympic Stadium in Munich as well as numerous lightweight towers built to the same design as the Cloud.

The structure would also be used to harvest all the energy it produces according to Professor Ratti.

“It would be a zero power cloud,” he said.

As well as solar cells on the ground and inside some of the spheres, the lifts would use regenerative braking, similar to that in some hybrid cars.

That way, the designers say, potential energy from visitors to the top of the tower can be harnessed into useful electricity.

The team have launched a fundraising website called raisethecloud.org and are now looking for a site for the tower.

Google has already offered to provide free advertising for the so-called “cloud-raising” effort.

The firm has offered a sponsored link at the top of the page advertising a “£1 for 1 pixel” concept to people who search for terms relevant to London 2012.

“It will be a monument to crowd-sourcing,” said Professor Ratti.

Tags: cloud features, cloud project, london olympic committee, massachusetts institute of technology, massachusetts institute of technology mit, master of architecture, observation deck, olympic games, olympic park, olympic village, plastic bubbles

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Geek: Robotics AI Starcraft Competition

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WCG 2009 Grand Final in Chengdu, China still live with, but some people begin to start a new game, please geek to design their own strongest AI robot system that allows computers and computer time among themselves, StarCraft game.

Is to let the computer itself to Play StarCraft and then, two different AI, in the case of artificially own PK peak showdown.

The competition is organized by the 2010 Digital Interactive Entertainment Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AIIDE) host. You can put your own tactical ideas, Wei Cao skills all passed Broodwar API design to the stars for hegemony in the (reportedly mainly C + + language), let it go instead of you playing close fight with their rivals.

Now you can sign up starting next September. See the official website specific rules.

Note: The game version is used in StarCraft 1, I posted a graph is StarCraft 2, which recently released a batch of new maps, the source album Link.

StarCraft AI Competition

The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition:

This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment. The final matches will be held live with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots.
Getting Started

The competition will use StarCraft Brood War 1.16.1. Get it here

Bots for StarCraft can be developed using the Broodwar API, which provides hooks into StarCraft and enables the development of custom AI for StarCraft. A C++ interface enables developers to query the current state of the game and issue orders to units.

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Instructions for setting up the environment are available here.

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An introduction to the Broodwar API is available here.

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Instructions for building a bot that communicates with a remote process are available here.

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There is also a FAQ listing common issues.

Tournaments

The competition will consists of four tournaments. All of the tournaments will use a double-elimination bracket, based on best of 5 matches. Complete details about the tournament environment are available here. Each tournament is described in more detail below:

Tournament 1: Micro-management

Tournament 2: Small-scale combat

Tournament 3: Tech-limited Game

Tournament 4: Complete Game
Rules
Tournament rules are available here
Submission

Information about bot submission is available here
Deadlines

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Registration: Now – 9.15.2010
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Submission and Testing: 9.15.2010 – 9.30.2010
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Competition: 10.1.2010 – 10.15.2010
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Finals:10.15.2010

Registration

Registration is free and easy. Email Ben Weber at bgweber@gmail.com with the title “StarCraft AI Registration”. In the body of the email, include your name, affiliation, the tournaments you are interested in participating in and a short description of your bot.

We encourage participants to notify us as soon as possible if you plan on submitting a bot.
Participants

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Expressive Intelligence Studio, UC Santa Cruz
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Santi Ontañón, IIIA-CSIC and Cognitive Computing Lab (Georgia Tech)
* Jabavu Adams, YB Labs
* Tom Fairfield, Xavier University

Email bgweber@gmail.com if you plan on participating

Tags: academic researchers, artificial intelligence, computer time, digital interactive, entertainment conference, game version, interactive entertainment, new game, new maps, robot system, source album, starcraft brood war, uc santa cruz

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The future magazines

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The title is so complicated that it is mainly refers to Augmented Reality technology. Augmented Reality the main manifestations of the current situation is that prior to silicon or code hidden into the objects (such as magazines) and then adding the code into an object the camera, through the corresponding software decoding, you can see the hidden content ( Video or3D image).

Recently, the U.S. men’s magazine Esquire Magazine published an element with a super-multi-Augmented Reality magazine. Bought the magazine after the camera on the computer the following, you will see more content. TV programs like the cover as well-made show, interesting weather facelift advertising, and motion pictures beautiful women, of course, there will be the best application of suction gold ads.

Esquire Magazine’s technical staff hope that with the development of technology, the future Augmented Reality elements will not need too complicated parts, so that people are more convenient to see more integrated media charm. Source Link, here are fighters video, very interesting (duration 1 minute and 40 seconds):

Download the software here to make Robert Downey Jr. pop to life on our cover and see other things in the magazine start talking and moving.

PC:

http://gamefiles.esquire.com/esquire/Esquire_PC_RC1.zip

Mac:

http://gamefiles.esquire.com/esquire/Esquire_Mac_RC1.zip

Tags: beautiful women, current situation, esquire magazine, manifestations, motion pictures, reality magazine, reality technology, robert downey, robert downey jr, staff hope, suction gold, technical staff, tv programs

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OpenOffice will be Chupin Open Mouse

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However, this is not free, after all, not the software as a virtual mouse. With those of the mouse for game design philosophy is similar to universal OpenOfficeMouse, this device is mainly designed for office staff or scientists to use the mouse. The mouse’s body would be a lot more keyboard shortcuts, allowing you customize the operation of a variety of software (such as transfer out of AutoCAD Photoshop, etc.).

Specific improvements: an increase of 18 shortcut buttons, a joystick to increase. The mode of operation together more than to 52 species (average person can remember all of it?). In short, an Office of the monster, if produced, is expected to cost 74.99 U.S. dollars. The official link, the mouse will come with OpenOffice.org’s logo.

Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009: WarMouse announced the release of the OOMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for a wide variety of software applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and OpenOffice.org. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OOMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for most complex software applications than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys presently permit.

Tags: adobe photoshop, analog joystick, autodesk autocad, average person, complex software, default profiles, game design philosophy, gnu lesser general public license, lesser general public license, microsoft office, open source software, open source software project, setup software, shortcut buttons

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Russia’s development of nuclear-powered spacecraft

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The Russian Federal Space Agency has announced that their next project is a large open space of nuclear-powered spacecraft. The draft of the nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to be completed in 2012, and after nine years, gradually become a reality. It is said that the entire project investment reached 17 billion rubles (5.8 billion).

Space Agency spokesman said: MW-class nuclear power generation system of space (MCNSPS = Megawatt-class nuclear space power systems) is Russia in this field a very competitive technology. Scientists believe that before Russia to send manned spacecraft to the moon or even Mars missions, the most critical technology is a new propulsion systems and energy supply technologies. Source Link

FRYAZINO (Moscow Region), October 28 – The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has developed a design for a piloted spacecraft powered by a nuclear engine, the head of the agency said on Wednesday.

“The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs,” Anatoly Perminov said at a meeting of the commission on the modernization of the Russian economy.

He added that the development of Megawatt-class nuclear space power systems (MCNSPS) for manned spacecraft was crucial for Russia if the country wanted to maintain a competitive edge in the space race, including the exploration of the Moon and Mars.

Perminov said that the draft design of the spacecraft would be finalized by 2012, and the financing for further development in the next nine years would require an investment of at least 17 billion rubles (over $580 million).

Anatoly Koroteyev, president of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics and head of the Keldysh research center, earlier said that the key scientific and technical problem in sending manned missions to the Moon and Mars was the development of new propulsion systems and energy supplies with a high degree of energy-mass efficiency.

The current capabilities of the Russian space industry are clearly insufficient either to set up a permanent base on the Moon or accomplish an independent manned mission to Mars, he said.

Tags: agency spokesman, manned spacecraft, missions to the moon, nuclear engine, nuclear power generation, power generation system, propulsion systems, russian space industry, space exploration programs, space power systems

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High IQ does not mean that you are really smart

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The University of Toronto, Canada, Professor Keith Stanovich with this question (Why is a high IQ does not mean you really clever?) Has been struggling for 15 years. Keith,, IQ test, an affirmation of some sort of spiritual gift, such as the logic capacity, abstract reasoning, learning ability and so on. However, if these involve real life, the respect of not only IQ test so simple. In real life, everyone can not be completely objective about your specific things, completely out of cognitive biases.

IQ test is just a test of human cognitive ability and whether these capabilities can be effectively put into reality is still a problem. In fact, IQ tests have also been frequently criticized for some people with intellectual Meisha target because it does not explain the high IQ will be able to complete the work. Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 1981, said, IQ is merely a ‘mathematical products’, its use is not scientific.

The true multi-intelligence indicators, should include the mathematical ability, language ability, visual-spatial, physical, natural, self-reflection, social, and musical insight and so on. Source Digg Link, there is more detail.

IS GEORGE W. BUSH stupid? It’s a question that occupied a good many minds of all political persuasions during his turbulent eight-year presidency. The strict answer is no. Bush’s IQ score is estimated to be above 120, which suggests an intelligence in the top 10 per cent of the population. But this, surely, does not tell the whole story. Even those sympathetic to the former president have acknowledged that as a thinker and decision-maker he is not all there. Even his loyal speechwriter David Frum called him glib, incurious and “as a result ill-informed”. The political pundit and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough accused him of lacking intellectual depth, claiming that compared with other US presidents whose intellect had been questioned, Bush junior was “in a league by himself”. Bush himself has described his thinking style as “not very analytical”.

How can someone with a high IQ have these kinds of intellectual deficiencies? Put another way, how can a “smart” person act foolishly? Keith Stanovich, professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, has grappled with this apparent incongruity for 15 years. He says it applies to more people than you might think. To Stanovich, however, there is nothing incongruous about it. IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and working-memory capacity – how much information you can hold in mind.

But the tests fall down when it comes to measuring those abilities crucial to making good judgements in real-life situations. That’s because they are unable to assess things such as a person’s ability to critically weigh up information, or whether an individual can override the intuitive cognitive biases that can lead us astray.

This is the kind of rational thinking we are compelled to do every day, whether deciding which foods to eat, where to invest money, or how to deal with a difficult client at work. We need to be good at rational thinking to navigate our way around an increasingly complex world. And yet, says Stanovich, IQ tests – still the predominant measure of people’s cognitive abilities – do not effectively tap into it. “IQ tests measure an important domain of cognitive functioning and they are moderately good at predicting academic and work success. But they are incomplete. They fall short of the full panoply of skills that would come under the rubric of ‘good thinking’.”

Tags: bush junior, cognitive biases, congressman joe scarborough, david frum, keith stanovich, musical insight, political persuasions, self reflection, stephen jay gould, university of toronto canada, us presidents

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We found lightning on Mars

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Recently, the University of Michigan researchers have discovered new evidence of Martian dust storms can cause discharge.

With the Earth in different thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, Mars is dry this electro-optical lightning.

Scientists said the Lightning for the nature of atmospheric chemistry of Mars, and the livability of human Mars to further explore the impact, and perhaps also the origin of life are important.

Link

Tags: electrical discharges, geophysical research letters, jet propulsion laboratory, journal geophysical research, national aeronautics and space administration

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