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The physics of finance: Or, the puppetmasters revealed.

1 September 2009 grant b 0

Scientists are not just getting into creating music, InsideScience informs me. They’ve also figured out the magic of finance:

A pair of physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute

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Scientists make music #2: Live coding.

31 August 2009 grant b 0

BBC News reveals the latest tactic in the war to make live electronica performances a little more of the moment: Have the musicians write their sound-making code on the fly:

Live coding has

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Gibraltar may crumble…

27 May 2009 grant b 0

…but this new memory technology Neatorama’s talking about will be here to stay:

Berkeley… researcher Alex Zettl and colleagues created a physical memory cell composed

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AI baby step: Robot masters scientific method.

6 April 2009 grant b 0

The sober, respectable Financial Times isn’t really the publication one would expect to be covering OH EM GEE THE ROBOT THINKS IT THINKS! kind of breakthroughs, but that’s… Read the rest “AI baby step: Robot masters scientific method.”

PENGUIN: ACQUIRED.

10 July 2008 grant b 0

Technology Review closes in on an interesting application for spooky biometric computer systems – using Big Brother security software to identify penguins:

The software involved–originally

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