NELL Learns to Read the Web
NELL (Never-Ending Language Learning) is a system developed at Carnegie Mellon which is taught to "learn" the web. I guess this is a successful project, something which I had worked on several years back with the idea that everything is related to everything else. Here is what they say about...
Film crews descent into fiery volcano
Bristol was part of a team led by New Zealand filmmaker/volcanologist Geoff Mackley, at Marum volcano on Ambrym Island, trying to capture the dynamics of an active volcano while adding a human presence for the sake of drama and perspective. The video, which the filmmaker insists is genuine, has gone...
Time-Lapsed Building Destruction & Construction
3 Year Time-Lapse of Building Destruction & New Building Construction via. Laughing Squid
HTML5 Boilerplate
HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.</p> via HTML5 Boilerplate.
China's Latest Invention: Fakery
Rampant Fraud Threat to China’s Brisk Ascent via NYTimes
Yanukovych's Bodyguard is a Russian National
Ukraiinska Pravda reports that the bodyguard of the Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, is Russian. Питання безпеки Віктора Януковича, а, отже, фактично кожен крок життя президента України контролює людина з російським паспортом у кишені та невідомо якими погонами під цивільним костюмом. Read the Google Translation here. Having 'learned' the lesson from the...
Aspect-Oriented Programming with jQuery
The jquery-AOP project used jQuery to create functions that can treat object methods and global functions as aspects. That means, that you can run other code before, after, or around them.</p> For example, let’s say you want a pop-up message box to appear before someone uses the document check-out feature....
14 Helpful Tricks, Notes, and Best Practices in jQuery
There are a couple of revealing mistakes which I have made. Time to go over the code and polish it up. If there is one bad thing about jQuery, it’s that the entry level is so amazingly low, that it tends to attract those who haven’t an ounce of JavaScript...
all the other mobile lawsuits, visually
Who is suing who in the mobile industry. via guardian.co.uk.