bumble bee

paradox

Simply applying aerodynamic laws to the real bumble bee would result in the conclusion that one should not fly at all. Here is an explanation of the real world. So sometimes you need pretty great techical progress to explain even simple things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xFfJL6y0sw

runnable

code

This a shared code snippet site with ability to run the code. Enjoy. Dart; C++; Java; Rails; Node.js; PHP; jQuery; Ruby; Django; express; Python; CodeIgniter .NET; Flask; CakePHP; Bash http://code.runnable.com/

evolution

of music

The chart below shows the popularity of the 13 computer-generated categories over time. Greater thickness indicates a larger number of songs in a category in a given year. Descriptive labels, which give an idea of the genres the categories represent, were compiled from descriptions users of the music discovery tool Last.fm assigned to songs in each category. IMG:003-music-evolution.png http://www.latimes.com/visuals/graphics/la-sci-g-music-evolution-20150505-htmlstory.html

social life

why it could be an answer?

..."The oposite to addiction is people connection!"... IMG:009-addiction.png And you will wonder why! Here is video explaining the theory. May be it is too much time use "drugs". The conclusion although is normal. That means it is just for catching your attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

steve

Job's

IMG:007-steve.jpg Vision of the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEiSa6_EPA Secrets of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYfNvmF0Bqw About failures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI That is quite interesting thing. About that vision. That all around world is created by people. I have some story to share. May be it's a little bit "pathetic to talk near Steve icon", but it's real. I was playing computer games at my fathers computer center when was kid for some years before school. And suddenly I was thinking following way "look this programs probably written not by some aliens(but that time that was not so obvious :-) ). There is probably somebody who write this games and they are humans as well, so intersting who are this people". And I aksed my father this question, after some time my father went to Switzerland on some project for half a year and returned from there with 386 machine. That was first form of the school. Nothing to say I'm happy that happened https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/12/02/steve-jobs-1995-life-failure/

car

should be programmed to kill?

Sometimes people should do the tough choice. Like to cut hand or die. Now think about this picture below. How should we program a fully autonomous car to select what to do in either case? What is better? Simple answer is to minimize death. But would you buy such a car? That is tricky thing. IMG:004-programming-to-kill.png So overal this puzzle is about doing it right in social, behavioural, ethical, economical and marketing aspects. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving-cars-must-be-programmed-to-kill/

work

is for sure very important in life.

For moms and kids as well. And kids are future us. So basically for everyone. Simple stats Even after controlling for gender attitudes—to take beliefs regarding gender roles out of the equation—the researchers found that 33% of daughters of working mothers held supervisory roles, compared to only 25% of daughters of stay-at-home moms. “What I take away is that employed mothers create an environment in which their children’s attitudes on what is appropriate for girls to do and what is appropriate for boys to do is affected,” McGinn says. http://qz.com/434056/working-moms-have-more-successful-daughters-and-more-caring-sons-harvard-business-school-study-says/

scala

times

Are not the true programming sites boring? That's the target state for this zine :-) http://www.scalatimes.com/

eating

healthy could be a game changer

Of course that could be just a someones dream, but why not... Harlan expects a sea change to take place in the way doctors treat chronic illness—and the way insurance charges for it. At the conference, Kass described a future where doctors write recipes as prescriptions and insurance companies treat food as a reimbursable expense. (There is, of course, a strong economic argument in favor of a prevention-based approach to health.) Harlan predicts that care plans will eventually include menu planning, recipes and maybe even programming to get the ingredients delivered to patients. “Call me up in ten years and let’s see if that’s true.” IMG:008-food.jpg http://qz.com/545110/the-future-of-medicine-is-food/

conscious

mind could work other way

IMG:001-consciousness.jpg Moreover, the widely-accepted global workspace theory, first suggested by Bernard Baars in 1982, states that consciousness occurs when information is made accessible throughout the brain, while unconscious information is processed regionally. To test these theories, a team of neurologists and psychiatrists from the University of Michigan constructed an experiment using the oddball paradigm, which involves subjecting participants to the same regularly-occurring stimulus, interspersed with one incongruous stimulus. In this case, subjects were repeatedly shown the word “LEFT” for a period of just seven milliseconds at a time. This is long enough for the brain to unconsciously register and respond to the stimulus, but too short for participants to consciously realize what they had seen. The oddball came when they were shown the word “RIGHT,” which was flashed for the same period of time and therefore again processed unconsciously. Using electroencephalography to measure the neural responses of participants, the researchers found that the oddball stimulus generated a P3b response throughout the brain, despite the whole process being unconscious. In other words, the occurrence of P3b revealed that “at least some forms of widespread, globally distributed, sustained processing can occur unconsciously.” The team therefore concludes that much of what we thought we knew about consciousness is wrong, as neither P3b nor global access to information are NCCs, meaning the great mystery of our cognizance continues to deepen. http://www.iflscience.com/brain/leading-theory-about-how-consciousness-works-may-be-wrong

plan

for the disaster

And please don't put Thread.sleep in your software! IMG:006-failure.png http://schd.ws/hosted_files/buildstuff2013/8d/Viktor%20Klang%20Failure-deal-with-it.pdf

andromeda

will crash our galaxy in 5B years

So take some popcorn, enjoy. Just few moments and we are there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdF2wX5GfdU