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Friday, May 8, 2015

Extraordinary Pictures

"The cat without fear."
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Hotel Four Seasons, Bora Bora.
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Conservatory of Music in China.
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Zebras embrace.
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Kiss in Paris.
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Premature elephant one minute after birth.
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Each year in February, the sun's angle is such that
Horsetail Falls waterfall lights like fire, Yosemite, USA.
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Houseboat, Iceland.
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Panda scared after the earthquake in
Japan embraced the leg of a policeman.
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Kalapana, Hawaii where the lava meets the sea.
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''I think I'll try to take a picture of myself.''
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Beijing Airport by night.
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Two year-old Chimpanzee feeding milk
to "Aorn", a small tiger 60 days old.
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Throughout their life ducks tend to follow what 
they first see at birth, whether or not it is their mother.
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Highway in Japan with snow around more
than 10 meters high. Unbelievable!
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Spectacular rice fields in China.
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Austria's Green Lake is a beautiful park in winter.
In summer the snow melts and creates a very clear lake.
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Undersea tunnel linking Sweden and Denmark.
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The world's highest swimming pool is located
in the skyscraper Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
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Amazing lightning storm over the Grand Canyon.
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Baby Chameleons.
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Beautiful image of a baby panda helping another.
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"The road to Heaven", a place in Ireland
where every two years the stars align with the road.
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World's Largest Swimming Pool in San Alfonso, Chile.
More than 1,000 yards long.
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Crystal Palace, Madrid.
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''Heaven's Gate'',
Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain, China.
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The Northern Lights', Alaska.
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Llamas after fleecing.
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The white owl. Unbelievable.
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The famous "Rosa Moss Bridges", Ireland.
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The Eiffel Tower in
romantic and beautiful Paris, France.
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Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii.
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Hanging restaurant, Belgium.
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Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they
awaken together in case the current takes them away.
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There are animals with more
sensitivity than many people.
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Fireman giving drink to a baby Koala in Australia fires.
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Amazing view of Manhattan,
New York, from above.
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Frozen bubbles in the Canadian Rockies, Canada.
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Spiral cloud in the sky,
an Iridescent Cloud in Himalaya,
the phenomenon observed on October 18, 2009.
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View of the semi-submerged cataract, Hawaii.
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Northern lights over the
Rocky Mountains in Canada.
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Due to harmless bacteria, Retba Lake,
north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal, is pink.
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This dog saved her puppies from a fire at home,
and put them safely in one of the fire trucks.
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Infinite Cave, Vietnam.
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Extraordinary Photos

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Automatic Statistician


 
Reports are generated automatically and have natural language describing patterns in data.

Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey

Results of the annual developer survey of Stack Overflow:


http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

Rest in Peace Dart


Dart was an open-source Web programming language developed by Google aimed at killing JavaScript.  It eventually made it to number 17 in TIBOE list in 2014.  Yet it is nowhere to be seen now among the top 50.


And it was not unexpected - please see http://www.sitepoint.com/google-dart-fail/


"You can take a horse to water, you cannot make it drink!".


More on Dart:


Main Dart Site is @ https://www.dartlang.org/


Language Specifications is @ https://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/


Learning Dart @ http://learningdart.org/





Monday, March 30, 2015

Astro Pi

The Raspberry Pi Foundation (raspberrypi.org) has a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to send Raspberry Pis to the ISS.


Primary and secondary school children in UK can enter a competition to develop code for two Raspberry Pis connected to the sensor-loaded Astro Pi boards that will be flown to the ISS. They'll be deployed around the ISS to collect data in orbit and send that data back to Earth to the winning teams.


The resources are available at opsy.st/AstroPiResources.

The Astro Pi hardware is available at swag.raspberrypi.org (for about $45.0).  The Astro Pi will be used with the Raspberry Pi 1 B+, though it's also compatible with the Raspberry Pi 1 A+, 2 B+, and 2.

The Astro Pi's sensors include a gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, temperature sensor, barometric pressure sensor, and a humidity sensor as well as visible light or infared (Pi NoIR) cameras, five-button joystick, 8x8 RGB LED matrix display, additional function push buttons, and real-time clock with backup battery (details at astro-pi.org/hardware).

An Adventure in Programming

The book "Lauren Ipsum: A Story About Computer Science and Other Improbable Things" is an introduction to computer-science for children which is modeled on the book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll.


It follows a young girl's adventures through a strange land, solving problems as she goes, using a wide array of techniques and concepts.



Saturday, March 14, 2015

Managing Risk on Software Projects

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects  by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister assumes no prior knowledge of risk and uncertainty - and works its way up from assuming total ignorance of the key concepts of risk management by the Project Manager - such as inherent uncertainty/noise in all physical processes - to some semblance of quantitative risk management at the level of a person who has mastered Algebra II in a US high school.



Sunday, March 1, 2015

Computer Poker

A research group at the University of Alberta has evidently solved the problem of computer poker.

Please see here:  http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/


Thursday, February 19, 2015

US National Security Agency Cyber Spying


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/16/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216


I suppose different governments will now invest efforts in developing their own firmware and bootstraps for PCs and Servers.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Friday, November 21, 2014

چند خط به یاد مرتضی پاشایی‏



 سلام بر همگی

این چند خط را به یاد زنده یاد مرتضی پاشایی نوشتم.

خیلی دلم سوخت از اینکه این جوان هنرمند و برومند در عنفوان جوانی مرد.

تازه پس از ان همه کار و زحمت,  و با پشتکاری که داشت در دشت پهناور موسیقی ایرانی جا باز میکرد - که اجل مهلتش نداد.

همانند درختی زیبا که که تازه به بارنشسته است ولی صاعقه ای  مهیب آنرا از ریشه بخشکاند

در چنبر چرخ جان چندین پاکان
 میسوزد و خاک  میشود دودی کو

بابک مکی نژاد


=========================به یاد  مرتضی پاشایی=================================================

میدانی که قلبم اکنون کجاست؟
با توست, نگهدار و بفشار!

تصویری در مقابل منست از جوانی خوشروبا چشمانی گیرا و موی آشفته که با اعتماد به نفس به خود و به آینده ای روشن به من مینگرد.
تصویری که احوالی از احوال پسر خودم  را به ذهنم متبادر میکند  

و تصویری دیگر از همان جوان بیداردل - کج کلاه بر سر و با سیمای تکیده - که با تن نحیف خود و برغم  درد اهریمنی سرطان آواز می خواند وپای  میکوبد.

 مرتضی پاشایی.

کسی که
دختر هایمان همه به او عاشق بودند
پسرهایمان  همه مخلصش
وسالمندانی مثل من چاکرش
و کهنسلانی مثل مادرم دوستدارش!

و من هی از این اتاق به آن  اتاق میروم - میشینم و بلند میشوم - به کتابها نگاه میکنم - و میدانم که همکاری حروف سربی بیهوده است
و میخواهم که به زمین و آسمان فحش بدهم
و هی در ذهنم  آن سوال لعنتی را تکرار میکنم -چرا؟ چرا؟ چرا ای خدا؟
و آنسو مادر کهنسالم به موسیقی وی گوش میدهد و برجوانی این جوان میگرید.

سپاس  بر تو مرتضی خان
که با درد هایی ابلیسی فرشته بودی
و به دام یاس و نا امیدی نیفتادی
در آزمایشگاه,
در بیمارستان,
در بستر این بیماری جانسوز,
تا به لحظه آخر چو کوهی از امید و آرزو ایستادی
سپاس  بر تو!

دوستان, یاران, عزیزان

حاصل عمر کوتاه و پر ثمرمرتضی پاشائی  حدوه پنجاه قطعه موسیقی میباشد که حد اکثر شاید پنج ساعت بشوند.
لیک همین ها در روح و جان بسیاری در سرتاسر ایران و در میان  فارسی زبانان رخنه کرد و جا خوش نمود.
هفتصد سال پس از نصیحت حافظ که گفت : "حدیث عشق به دان زبان گو که تو خود دانی" آوازخوانی پیدا شد که با صدای گرم و صمیمانه اش  آنچه را انجام داد که حافظ خواسته بود.

میگویند چندان کسی او را نمیشناخت - حرفیست خلاف -
دوست دارانش همه در شب مرگش تجمع کردند - در رشت, تبریز, شیراز, تهران, مشهد, اصفهان
واز حفظ اشعارش را به یادش خواندند.
مرتضی خان گمنام نبود,
و این عزا, عزایی خرد نیست .



ما مرده پرست نیستیم , جو گیر هم نیستیم - یکی از بزرگان ایران جوانمرگ شد و دل ما میسوزد و این مسکن ما میباشد.



مرتضی پاشایی جوانی ما بود, عاشقی ما بود, پاکی ما بود که خاک شد و رفت.



سراینده ای گرم نوا
در آن سو مینوازد 
از نغمه اش عواطف پاک و احساسات لطیف فرو میپاشند 
بگزارید اندیشه های خشک
و افکار منجمد ان را نشنوند
عصب ها  و قلبها می شنوند  
 بگشایید در ها را
میخواهم همه اشکهایم را
 در پایش نثار کنم.

جهان همواره به بزرگانی چون نعمت الله آغاسی که ملتی را به رقص آورد و مرتضی  پاشایی که حرف  دل  ملتی را زد خوش  آمد خواهد گفت.

الوداع مرتضی خان -
 خدا نگهدار

 

Friday, October 24, 2014

Free Computer Vision eBook



"Computer Vision Metrics: Survey, Taxonomy, and Analysis" by Scott Krig is available for free (requires registration) @ http://www.apress.com/9781430259299

Sunday, October 5, 2014

20Q

Why this has not been licensed and  expanded to compete with IBM's Watson I do not understand:

http://www.20q.com/

Google: 2 Books

"Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away" by Professor Rebecca Goldstein.  The book review may be found @ http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303775504579395281102610124

and

"How Google Works" by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg.  The book review may be found @ http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-how-google-works-by-eric-schmidt-and-jonathan-rosenberg-1412371982


Dataclysm

"Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)" by Christian Rudder.  The book review in WSJ may be found @ http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-dataclysm-by-christian-rudder-1412372499

Mr. Rudder's Weblog may be found @ http://blog.okcupid.com/

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Smart Cushions

Thanks to Darma Cushion, I now enjoy coming to the office" -- Tim Boringsod, Tax Collector, Manureheapville, South Dakota, USA See for yourselves:

http://www.gizmag.com/darma-smart-cushion-posture-health/34055/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=34e3395262-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-34e3395262-90190513




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