The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
The following is a selection of the papers published by Dr. P. Prusinkiewicz and his students and colleagues about Algorithmic Botany.
Posted: August 11th, 2010
at 7:15pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: green,science,education
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Oldest University on Earth is Reborn After 800 Years
During the six centuries of its storied existence, there was nothing else quite like Nalanda University. Probably the first-ever large educational establishment, the college - in what is now eastern India - even counted the Buddha among its visitors and alumni. At its height, it had 10,000 students, 2,000 staff and strove for both understanding and academic excellence. Today, this much-celebrated centre of Buddhist learning is in ruins.
After a period during which the influence and importance of Buddhism in India declined, the university was sacked in 1193 by a Turkic general, apparently incensed that its library may not have contained a copy of the Koran. The fire is said to have burned and smouldered for several months.
Now this famed establishment of philosophy, mathematics, language and even public health is poised to be revived. A beguiling and ambitious plan to establish an international university with the same overarching vision as Nalanda - and located alongside its physical ruins - has been spearheaded by a team of international experts and leaders, among them the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen. This week, legislation that will enable the building of the university to proceed is to be placed before the Indian parliament.
Posted: August 11th, 2010
at 7:05pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,education
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Unlearn Your MBA
David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints-fiscal, temporal, or otherwise-drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.
Posted: July 24th, 2010
at 7:06pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: development,education,entrepreneurship
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What is the Co-Prosperity School?
The Co-Prosperity School is an Artist-Run School for and about the advancement and understanding of contemporary Chicago Art. Through guest speakers and class member presentations we will shine a light on the contemporary art scene of Chicago. AOne of our goals is to break down the panel discussion dialogue of Chicago's art and bring it to a more informal group discussion format in which shapers of Chicago's Art World themselves tell of the contemporary scene. A Members can discuss their own work, or the work of others.
Posted: July 7th, 2010
at 1:53pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: contemporary,what is?,education
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Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
This is a guide to using logical fallacies in debate. And when I say "using," I don’t mean just pointing them out when opposing debaters commit them — I mean deliberately committing them oneself, or finding ways to transform fallacious arguments into perfectly good ones. (Continue onto the guide by clicking the link below)
Posted: June 27th, 2010
at 7:31pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: myninjaplease,weaponry,"ninja",competitions,education
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What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
Isaac Asimov on the blind intelligence, and deaf society.
My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.
Posted: June 1st, 2010
at 2:50pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: hood status,myninjaplease,life,too good to be true,weaponry,fo' real?,9th dan,science,boredom killer,"ninja",philosophy,education
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Sir Ken Robinson: The Learning Revolution
From a linear model to an agricultural one, learning is about passion!
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Historians and other humanities scholars are increasingly seeking to develop and use visualization tools, methods, and theories for making sense of patterns in large sets of heterogeneous historical data with multiple dimensions. For example, theAElectronic Enlightenment database of over 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents in the Republic of Letters presents a typical challenge confronting the emerging field of digital humanities. How can humanities scholars trained in close reading of individual documents make sense of patterns in large sets of data?
The new challenges posed by an exponentially growing corpus of online historical data also present an opportunity for collaborations with computer scientists interested in data visualization, interpretation, and human-computer interaction. Computer scientists are deeply interested in how users interact with visualization tools to explore, explain, and engage with data to create meaning. We engaged in an iterative, collaborative effort that brought together historians, computer scientists, and an academic technology specialist to design data visualizations to represent the intellectual network of the Republic of Letters.
The above visualization was developed in 2009 by Stanford Computer Science professor Jeff Heer’s students, Yuankai Ge, Daniel Chang, Shiwei Song in collaboration withAMapping the Republic of Letters,ATooling Up for Digital Histories, and theAElectronic Enlightenment Project. We engaged in an iterative, collaborative effort that brought together historians, computer scientists, and an academic technology specialist to design data visualizations to represent the intellectual network of the Republic of Letters.This mapping tool stands apart from the collection, providing a visual browsing tool with direct links to the digitized content in EE available to subscribers according to EEP’s subscription rules. (SHIFT drag over lines to see links.) The visualization depicts connections between cities for over 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents from the Electronic Enlightenment.
San Francisco Bay Area from the ISS
In this photograph of the San Francisco Bay area taken from the International Space Station during Expedition 4, the gray urban footprint of San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and their surrounding suburbs contrasts strongly with the green hillsides. ISS004-E-10288 (April 21, 2002, 105 mm lens)
Posted: December 27th, 2009
at 8:24am by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: business,politricks,photo,science,et cetera,education,maps
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