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Monday, July 31, 2017

Life Imitates Art - "The Minority Report" & Palantir Co.

From The Guardian of the UK

Palantir, the hi-tech US firm, operates along lines that call to mind the methods used by law enforcement in sci-fi movie 'Minority Report'. But it is all for real.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/palantir-peter-thiel-cia-data-crime-police

Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google

www.theguardian.com

Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its ‘crime predicting’ techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments.

Will they inflame already tense relations between the public and the police?

Sunday, July 23, 2017

CRISPR–Cas & Data Storage

CRISPR–Cas encoding of a digital movie into the genomes of a population of living bacteria



I wonder if the Creator has embedded audio-visual-tactile messages in Human DNA.

Sunday, July 16, 2017

مریم میرزاخانی ۳ اردیبهشت ۱۳۵۶–۲۴ تیر۱۳۹۶ ---- Maryam Mirzakhani 3 May 1977 – 15 July 2017

به یاد اختر همیشه فروزان آسمان علم ریاضی‌، افتخار همه ایرانیان
، خانم استاد دکتر

مریم میرزاخانی


او جوان افتاد

In humble salute to the brilliant memory of Professor Doctor Maryam Mirzakhani - the glory of all Iranians - whose brief but magnificent mathematical life was cut short by Death.

It is painful to watch the end of yet another promising life.



Thursday, July 13, 2017

Spark

SPARK is a formally defined computer programming language based on the Ada programming language, intended for the development of high integrity software used in systems where predictable and highly reliable operation is essential.

Learn more about it @ http://www.spark-2014.org/

Rust

Rust is a systems programming language which is designed to be a "safe, concurrent, practical language".

Rust supports functional and imperative-procedural paradigms. 


Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but is designed for better memory safety while maintaining performance.


Learn more about it @  https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/



Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Solidity

Solidity is a contract-oriented, high-level language whose syntax is similar to that of JavaScript and it is designed to target the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).  Find out all about it @ https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/.

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