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Artificial Life Shares Biosignature With Terrestrial Cousins

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In the early 1960s, the independent scientist James Lovelock worked as a consultant for NASA developing ways to analyse extraterrestrial atmospheres. This work led him to the dramatic conclusion that life would leave an indelible stamp on the chemical make up of any planet.

Over billions of years, he said, the processes of life would create a fog of chemicals unlike anything that could form in an ordinary chemical equilibrium.

He even went further to suggest that this atmosphere and the life it supported would form a kind of self-regulating system that could itself be thought of as a living organism-the Gaia hypothesis. Lovelock famously says that as soon as he saw the first analysis of the chemical make up of the Martian atmosphere, which is almost entirely carbon dioxide and nitrogen, he knew the planet could not support life.

Since then, the search for biosignatures has become an important problem for astrobiologists. We know, for example, that large amounts of oxygen and small amounts of methane are generated by life on Earth. And that carboxylic acids in terrestrial life forms tend to have even rather odd numbers of carbon atoms, a fact that is used to identify contamination in meteorite samples.

The problem, of course, is that we have only one example of life to study. So the biosignatures of life on Earth may be of little use for identifying ET lifeforms.

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Posted: January 10th, 2011
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The Cover-Up Culture

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A key element of a "Lessons Learned" culture is rapid dissemination of information. All information, whether good or bad, must be shared rapidly. We taught our company that understanding sales losses were more important than understanding sales wins; understanding why a competitor's products were better was more important than rationalizing ways in which ours were superior. All news, but especially bad news, needed to be shared, dissected, understood, and acted on. At each weekly department and company meeting we discussed what worked and hadn't. And when we found employees who hoarded information or covered up problems we removed them. They were cultural poison for a startup. The resulting conversations made us smarter, agile and relentless.

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Posted: January 10th, 2011
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In both an academic research lab and in an early-stage start-up company, people either work alone or in a small tightly-knit team (of no more than 5 people). Unlike a traditional big-company or government work environment, there is relatively little bureaucracy or management overhead. Therefore, everyone is hyper-focused on the task at hand, which is either implementing novel research ideas or creating a marketable product.

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Posted: January 9th, 2011
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How to Accelerate Success

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We are obsessed with success, with successful people, companies, actors, products, stories, but why?

There are many reasons and some are more selfish than others. But really, most reasons are selfish. Mainly because success seems to be a pursue that is inherently about satisfying our own egos more than others.

Instinctively, we seek pleasure where ever and whenever we can. Feeling successful just feels good, really good. You know because when you won that competition, or got recognition for your work, you felt good, you truly believed you were indestructible for those fleeting moments of glory. Maybe you didn’t go as far as James Cameron and said "I am the king of the world!" after winning a load of Oscars for Titanic, but hey, I cannot even begin to think what crazy things I would have said on a similar situation.

Being successful is really a state of mind, if you truly believe you are successful, I got news for you, you are! you made it!
How fast was that? just believe you are successful and ignore whatever the world says about you or your work and you got there.
Of course, that sounds too easy and unfortunately deluding yourself only works for a couple of minutes or until you find out that thinking so did not actually add zeros to your checking account (if that is the way you measure your success).

So hereby, I present you with two pieces of practical advice that will help you achieve real success as opposed to its imaginary counterpart.

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Posted: January 9th, 2011
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Forty years ago, the term "information technology" probably didn’t exist, but let’s call the computer users of that era "I.T. professionals" regardless. Anyway. Forty to fifty years ago, in the 1960s, I.T. professionals worked with systems which, by modern standards, were close to useless. These systems were cutting edge for their era, which is respectable, but they lacked much which we take for granted. For example, output was sent to a printer, not a monitor, and thereby consumed ink, paper and a great deal of time. Any serious computer system occupied an entire room, if not a floor, of your building. It required aAteam of people to maintain. It was inscrutable and difficult to handle, because any concession to usability carried a real cost in processor cycles and this was the era when computer processor time was more valuable and difficult to replace than human programmer time.

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Posted: January 9th, 2011
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DIY: Origami Notebook

This is the notebook where I keep my to-do list, like the one you can see in the picture inABook Review: Do It Tomorrow. A quick and cheap way to have a small multi-page notebook you can keep always with you. Of course, calling this origami is a small lie, as you have to use scissors.

I read a very good post about going the analog way (How analog rituals can amp your productivity) and this was my tool. I could have gone the Moleskine way (I have a pair of 7 odd cm sized pocket notebooks), but this is way cheaper and more handy. When you need one, you only need a A4, it can even have a side written up!

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Posted: January 8th, 2011
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Freedom to Drink Coffee

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This brings me back to the quoted simile. I reject the comparison of free software programmers to autoworkers trying to unionize the company. A better comparison would be that someone writing free software is like a hippie who grows his own coffee beans and sells them at the side of the road by his farm. You can’t buy them at Tim Horton’s or Dunkin Doughnuts because the hippie doesn’t like what the big chains do with the coffee.

So you go to the hippie or you don’t drink the coffee he grows. The problem is that you bought yourself a shiny espresso machine that only takes pods distributed by the manufacturer.ASo even if you buy the hippie’s beans, you can’t make yourself any coffee with them because the machine won’t take them unless they’ve been shipped to the manufacturer and packaged into little special pellets.

How is this the hippie’s fault for not liking big coffee chains or espresso machines? You can drink plenty of coffee, and you can buy a plot of land and grow your own coffee to be distributed by the espresso machine maker. You can buy a different kind of espresso maker that takes ground beans directly. The hippie is free and you are free. The hippie hasn’t shut down the big chains, but that isn’t his goal. His goal is to sleep at night, comfortable that he has made choices compatible with his personal beliefs and that he has given other people the freedom to make choice compatible with their personal beliefs.

I can think of no greater definition of freedom.

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Posted: January 8th, 2011
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The biggest mistake I ever made in my life as an entrepreneur was - not quitting my fulltime job in time. Even after Jitbit Software started making a four-times bigger income, I was still afraid to quit working for the big boss. Don’t make that mistake.

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Posted: January 8th, 2011
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What’s New? : CES 2011

What's New? covering what's new in tech, this week looks at GOPRO’s 3D wearable camera.

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Posted: January 8th, 2011
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