http://ajitk.com A weblog sharing ajitk's personal views with the world. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:09:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html "Inspired by the photosynthesis performed by plants, Nocera and Matthew Kanan, a postdoctoral fellow in Nocera's lab, have developed an unprecedented process that will allow the sun's energy to be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Later, the oxygen and hydrogen may be recombined inside a fuel ... http://ajitk.com/archives/69 The search results from cuil are impressive and its still early to say anything... but the real power of Google search lies in finding the information hidden deep in the web. cuil is not there yet: 6,810,000 results from http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=hans+monthly 5,080,000 results from http://www.google.com/search?q=hans+monthly ZERO from http://www.cuill.com/search?q=hans+monthly http://ajitk.com/archives/68 Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Amazing news if it can be used commercially. More innovations in the field or renewable energy sources! A new way capturing the energy from the Sun could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of American scientists has ... http://ajitk.com/archives/67 ["But of course, a mere machine can't really think, can it?"], he said: "You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!"  - J. von ... http://ajitk.com/archives/66 BBC article on Brain control headset for gamers. Just the next step in evolution. The time when machines will know everything about us isn't far. Wonder who will control these machines. http://ajitk.com/archives/65 http://www.uwm.edu/~chruska/recursive/selfish.html http://ajitk.com/archives/63 http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-do-design-patterns-still-apply-with-Python--p3212481.html "Design patterns are kind of like sarcasm: hard to use well, not always appropriate, and disgustingly bad when applied to problems they are not meant to solve." http://ajitk.com/archives/62 SUN "Helping Dolphins Fly" and "...putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP." http://ajitk.com/archives/61 Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians “When you tap your brake, the traffic may come to a full stand-still several miles behind you. It really matters how hard you brake - a slight braking from a driver who has identified a problem early will allow the traffic flow to remain smooth. ... http://ajitk.com/archives/60 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7142073.stm http://ajitk.com/archives/59