Sunday, January 31, 2016

REBOUND

REBOUND is a new multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also solve the classical N-body problem.  It is described in a paper @ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.4876v2.pdf


Find it @ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rebound/0.2.2

Architecting Hybrid Cloud Environments

This paper focuses on understanding the different design approaches for architecting hybrid cloud environments.

The Promise of Action-able Intelligence


Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP) is an initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, with the purpose of improving the quality of education, and health and human service agencies’ policies and practices through the use of integrated data systems.


A Q&A session with Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo, principal investigators may be found here:

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2016/01/19-promise-integrated-data-butler


Tuesday, January 12, 2016

How old do I look?

The "How old do I look?" guesses how old you look using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning.  It is part of the Microsoft Oxford Project and may be found @ http://how-old.net/.  Give a try....