I so love Freeman Dyson. I definitely unarguably agreeing with him on Global Warming.
"all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated." - Freeman Dyson
When we mastered Chaos Theory, Nonlinear Dynamics, Climate Modelling and interdisciplinary modelling of earth dynamics, and the results from this mastery will conclude that we are doomed because of Global Warming, then that's the time I am going to believe that it's a real thing.
For me, I guess we are just so overly-persuaded by media.
I'll give my two cents to Freeman Dyson's skepticism.
To know more check NYT's article on Freeman Dyson, The Civil Heretic.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Natural Terminator
The population of Tasmanian devils is declining. A certain non-viral contagious cancer is killing them one by one.
Photo from FoxNews
Photo from FoxNews
This recent natural terminator is on rampage of exterminating the Tasmanian devils. Hopefully this won't spread in Dasyurini Tribe.
Read here for more information about the Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
Imagine how our own cells turn against us.
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In biology, a tribe — or infrafamily — is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.
Read here for more information about the Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
Imagine how our own cells turn against us.
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In biology, a tribe — or infrafamily — is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Update: P-BTX
I somehow moved my bar for P-BTX from 2.25% to 3.15%. My goal for next week, March 30, 2009, is to move it to 6.30%. So many things to do and I have to focus myself to achieve this goal.
On Copper
“Copper is kind of schizophrenic — it wants electrons, but once it starts getting some it also wants to do something to get rid of them,” - Robert Maleczka Jr.
From: Helping Molecules to Reach Meta
From: Helping Molecules to Reach Meta
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Something "New" is coming!
This May, Wolfram, the creator of Mathematica will launch the first (I am not sure about this) Answer engine in the web. Semantic Web is gaining ground nowadays. Keep them coming! We are slowly working our ways to create AI machines.
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha
Of Mobile Reading and Other Things
Few weeks ago I blogged about e-reading and until now I am still bugged by the thought of buying a good e-book reader.
As usual, I scoured the web for mobile (e-) reading technologies. Good thing, wiki has a list. So it is time for me to visit the malls and check the items in cybergates.
Before arriving to the point of buying an e-book reader, I explored first the possibility of efficient mobile reading with the technologies I have now. I tried my laptop and I concluded that it is only good as a repository of my e-books and for home reading. Ivan (my laptop) has an Adobe Digital Edition. This software proved its worth for e-reading as long as you’re not in transit or mobile. In mobile mode, I guess E71 can already serve the purpose. I tried reading books using Adobe Reader installed in my E71 (I call her as Bisetta Dutt – or Bisetta or Bessie in short, in honor of Time Odyssey character). I encounter one problem in reading through Bessie, the screen size. The fonts of the e-book are too small and can easily strain my eyes. Zooming-in on the document gives another problem, the left and right scrolling while you are reading through the line, another eye-straining activity. These methods are not efficient for me. I need something that I can bring (which I cannot do with my laptop) and I can read well (which I cannot do using E71) through the document. So, I really need to buy an e-book reader.
By right now, I have around 60 e-books lined up to be read. Some of them will take me days to finish, others months to comprehend and much years to completely understand.
Hopefully, by the end of this year, I can buy a good e-book reader.
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Physicists are going gaga in detecting Higgs-Boson. This mysterious particle is really hard to catch.
On life, more and more biologists believe that RNA started life here on earth and not the set of DNA, RNA and proteins. Viroids can tell a lot.
In astronomy, Kepler is in the lime light. We are engaged to look for other planets beyond Sol.
Mathematics, I haven’t checked the latest developments yet in this field. I am stuck with Gregori Perelman’s case.
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Projects (based on my progress bars), I am sluggish. I am not sure what will be my net progress when I lag for months and move only for few days.
On one hand, we are close to finish our project here in the office. Hopefully we can hit it before the deadline.
As usual, I scoured the web for mobile (e-) reading technologies. Good thing, wiki has a list. So it is time for me to visit the malls and check the items in cybergates.
Before arriving to the point of buying an e-book reader, I explored first the possibility of efficient mobile reading with the technologies I have now. I tried my laptop and I concluded that it is only good as a repository of my e-books and for home reading. Ivan (my laptop) has an Adobe Digital Edition. This software proved its worth for e-reading as long as you’re not in transit or mobile. In mobile mode, I guess E71 can already serve the purpose. I tried reading books using Adobe Reader installed in my E71 (I call her as Bisetta Dutt – or Bisetta or Bessie in short, in honor of Time Odyssey character). I encounter one problem in reading through Bessie, the screen size. The fonts of the e-book are too small and can easily strain my eyes. Zooming-in on the document gives another problem, the left and right scrolling while you are reading through the line, another eye-straining activity. These methods are not efficient for me. I need something that I can bring (which I cannot do with my laptop) and I can read well (which I cannot do using E71) through the document. So, I really need to buy an e-book reader.
By right now, I have around 60 e-books lined up to be read. Some of them will take me days to finish, others months to comprehend and much years to completely understand.
Hopefully, by the end of this year, I can buy a good e-book reader.
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Physicists are going gaga in detecting Higgs-Boson. This mysterious particle is really hard to catch.
On life, more and more biologists believe that RNA started life here on earth and not the set of DNA, RNA and proteins. Viroids can tell a lot.
In astronomy, Kepler is in the lime light. We are engaged to look for other planets beyond Sol.
Mathematics, I haven’t checked the latest developments yet in this field. I am stuck with Gregori Perelman’s case.
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Projects (based on my progress bars), I am sluggish. I am not sure what will be my net progress when I lag for months and move only for few days.
On one hand, we are close to finish our project here in the office. Hopefully we can hit it before the deadline.
Ayn Rand
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." - Ayn Rand
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Go KEPLER!
Last night, NASA launched KEPLER. A modest beginning of our search for answers to the question, are we alone?
While watching the launch animation in Youtube, I was reminded by Star Trek tagline:
“Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
We are taking steps in realizing this vision, slowly by slowly, scouring the sky for a slight signal that will prove that we are not alone in this universe.
I am glad and happy to know that we are spending so much time and effort (as well as money) to discover new worlds scattered around our universe.
I believe we are not alone here. Somewhere, someday, we will explore and conquer space and I am 100% sure of it.
Anyway, let’s go back to KEPLER. It is just the beginning. This mission will look for earth-sized planets revolving around several thousand stars. If we will discover much of these earth-liked planets it will be an interesting result for us. It will provide us so much insight and motivation to push forward our dream to conquer space.
Astronomy blogosphere is excited about this mission. They know the importance of this mission, especially on how we create our future action plans in conquering space.
Someday we will launch a starship to visit these earth-sized planets.
For more information about KEPLER check these videos:
Launch Animation
KEPLER A Search for Habitable Planet/s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9gENveG0FQ
KEPLER Observatory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaD9wx6GGKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLHM8dQ0fQ
The Blogosphere Pages
Cosmic Diary – Up, up and away!
Asymptotia – Kepler, Ready!
KEPLER NASA Page
While watching the launch animation in Youtube, I was reminded by Star Trek tagline:
“Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
We are taking steps in realizing this vision, slowly by slowly, scouring the sky for a slight signal that will prove that we are not alone in this universe.
I am glad and happy to know that we are spending so much time and effort (as well as money) to discover new worlds scattered around our universe.
I believe we are not alone here. Somewhere, someday, we will explore and conquer space and I am 100% sure of it.
Anyway, let’s go back to KEPLER. It is just the beginning. This mission will look for earth-sized planets revolving around several thousand stars. If we will discover much of these earth-liked planets it will be an interesting result for us. It will provide us so much insight and motivation to push forward our dream to conquer space.
Astronomy blogosphere is excited about this mission. They know the importance of this mission, especially on how we create our future action plans in conquering space.
Someday we will launch a starship to visit these earth-sized planets.
For more information about KEPLER check these videos:
Launch Animation
KEPLER A Search for Habitable Planet/s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9gENveG0FQ
KEPLER Observatory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaD9wx6GGKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLHM8dQ0fQ
The Blogosphere Pages
Cosmic Diary – Up, up and away!
Asymptotia – Kepler, Ready!
KEPLER NASA Page
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Archimedes
I did not know that Archimedes did something in the development of Calculus until I read Michio Kaku's The Physics of Impossible.
It is interesting to note that the foundations of Calculus were not built only by Leibniz and and Newton. In fact, they were built by several figures of mathematics.
I just revisited the time line of calculus and it's wonderful to the see the names of Archimedes, Zeno of Lea, Fermat, Barrow and many other mathematicians.
Anyway, here's the short story of Calculus.
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Side note: I so love Erwin Schrodinger. He had a lot of mistresses (according to Michio Kaku). He he he he he. :D
It is interesting to note that the foundations of Calculus were not built only by Leibniz and and Newton. In fact, they were built by several figures of mathematics.
I just revisited the time line of calculus and it's wonderful to the see the names of Archimedes, Zeno of Lea, Fermat, Barrow and many other mathematicians.
Anyway, here's the short story of Calculus.
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Side note: I so love Erwin Schrodinger. He had a lot of mistresses (according to Michio Kaku). He he he he he. :D
Sunday, March 1, 2009
E-reading
At last I already have a copy of Adobe Digital Edition and currently using it.
It's good e-library for e-reading. I was telling most of my friends to migrate to e-books to exploit and enrich the digital ecosystem and capabilities.
Here I am now, exploiting e-reading with the use of Adobe Digital Edition. It is indeed a useful tool to read digitally.
The Library
The Bookshelf/shelves
The Book
The Reading Mode (Two-Page)
The Reading Mode (Zoom-In)
You can insert bookmark/s.
There are still a lot of things to be improved in e-books softwares or managers, like insertion of notes, highlighting, and relink/referencing.
But, I guess this is a good start already. And for me, it is time to migrate to ebooks.
Powerful reading!
It's good e-library for e-reading. I was telling most of my friends to migrate to e-books to exploit and enrich the digital ecosystem and capabilities.
Here I am now, exploiting e-reading with the use of Adobe Digital Edition. It is indeed a useful tool to read digitally.
The Library
The Bookshelf/shelves
The Book
The Reading Mode (Two-Page)
The Reading Mode (Zoom-In)
You can insert bookmark/s.
There are still a lot of things to be improved in e-books softwares or managers, like insertion of notes, highlighting, and relink/referencing.
But, I guess this is a good start already. And for me, it is time to migrate to ebooks.
Powerful reading!
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