Tag Archives: technology

Cool New Stuff in May

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

This post is more or less a random dump of the cool things I’ve seen lately. Web Data: * Huge number of volunteers for genome database

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The Next Paradigm

By Raelifin | Published: May 23, 2009

Terminator 4 came out this Thursday. I haven’t seen it yet. I hope it’s better than Star Trek. Robotics confronts me continuously online, to the point where I cease to keep track. In terms of military equipment there is Ember, TROPHY, and the old news predator UAV, which I was unhappy to learn now advertises [...]

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Just some tech

By Raelifin | Published: April 22, 2009

Amazing robots:

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Why the Terminator is Inaccurate

By Raelifin | Published: April 6, 2009

Originally this was going to be a reply to Rose of Montague’s comment on my “Raw Data Now” post: “Dude. You’re teaching the machines to read. They’ll destroy us all!” That was clearly in jest, but I’ve actually been fairly worried about future conflicts with machines. Seriously! (Most of the following blog was also prompted [...]

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Raw Data Now

By Raelifin | Published: March 14, 2009

First, a video: I watch just about every TED video that’s released, but this one really struck me. One of the most important things about the web is the way it promotes the increase of wealth by sharing information. The typical lack of fees for most content also means that the wealth generated (as the [...]

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