Tweets of the month

25 Jul
I love Dropbox because It is multi-platform, has simple and easy-to-use interface, and it's free! http://db.tt/PEouAYM4

20 Jul
After the bad experience with #iBooks on the #iPad I can only recommend #iAnnotate - great app! http://www.branchfire.com/iannotate/

19 Jul
Great book about the Semantic Web http://workingontologist.org/ The 2nd edition is even better than the 1st

19 Jul
The Internet of Things http://share.cisco.com/internet-of-things.html via @CiscoSystems

13 Jul
Foxit reader 5 is a major improvement especially because it remembers the current page and has a ribbon interface http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/

12 Jul
Amazed by how *bad* #Apple #iPad #iBooks can handle a PDF with 300 pages http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/pgfplots.pdf It crashes after just a few minutes reading...

9 Jul
Interesting plot tool, especially if you write papers with LaTeX http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/

3 Jul
Major rewriting in progress. Pieces are falling into place. :)

Poison Attacks Against Machine Learning

Poison Attacks Against Machine Learning: With AI systems becoming more common, we have to start worrying about security. A network intrusion may be all the more serious if it is a neural net that is affected. New results indicate that it may be easier than we thought to provide data to a learning program that causes it to learn the wrong things.

Mapping the uncanny valley

Robots and psychology: Mapping the uncanny valley | The Economist: Dr Gray and Dr Wegner speculated that experience in particular was playing a crucial role in generating the uncanny-valley effect. They theorised that adding human-like eyes and facial expressions to robots conveys emotion where viewers do not expect emotion to be present. The resulting clash of expectations, they thought, might be where the unease was coming from.

My City of Ruins - lyrics

There's a blood red circle
on a cold dark ground
and the rain is falling down
The church doors thrown open
I can hear the organ's song
But the congregation's gone

My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet veils of mercy
drifting through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
like scattered leaves
The boarded up windows
The empty streets
While my brother's down on his knees

My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!

Now there's tears on the pillow
darling where we slept
and you took my heart when you left
without your sweet kiss
my soul, is lost my friend
Now tell me how do I begin again?

My city's in ruin
My city's in ruin

Now with these hands
with these hands
oh with these hands
with these hands
I pray Lord
with these hands
pray for the strength Lord
with these hands
pray for the love Lord
with these hands
pray for the lost Lord
with these hands
pray for the strength Lord
with these hands
pray for the strength Lord
with these hands

I
Come on Come on Come on Come on
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!
Come on rise up!

Come on Rise up

Song by Bruce Springsteen, cover by Eddie Vedder

Stanford researchers produce first complete computer model of an organism

Stanford researchers produce first complete computer model of an organism: Stanford researchers produce first complete computer model of an organism A mammoth effort has produced a complete computational model of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium, opening the door for biological computer-aided design.

Getting to the Bottom of Statistics

Getting to the Bottom of Statistics – Technische Universitat Darmstadt: Computer scientists at the TU Darmstadt have developed software that, aided by linked open data, i.e., enormous collections of semantically linked data accessible on the Internet, discovers correlations and regularities in statistics and formulates hypotheses regarding its interpretation

How to change Epson Scan software language

solveXP: Epson V33 scanner change language

Even after choosing the English language during installation of the Epson software it ignored the choice and default to a different language.

To fix: check the folder: C:\Windows\twain_32\escndv\... and from there remove the folders containing the languages I would never use. English is 0809.

Just open the .chm file belonging to the above mentioned folders to find which number corresponds to which language.

Teach Computing to Everyone

The Call to Teach Computing to Everyone | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM: Wow--the interest in teaching computer science to everyone has really become visible in the last month! It's great to see that people are realizing what we've been saying for years: Computer science is key to understanding the 21st century world.