Arduino - the documentary

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Arduino The Documentary 2010

Back from the Future - Cauzalitate inversa

Am sa va prezint doua articole. Ambele se ocupa de problema dubioasa a cauzalitatii inverse. Asta inseamna ca studiaza fenomenul prin care efectul unor evenimente se propaga si inapoi in timp. Suna imposibil?

Primul articol: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future studiaza efectul acesta la nivelul cuantic. Intr-un experiment o particula subatomica este masurata (si automat influentata) de mai multe ori. Daca se fac de exemplu 3 masurari s-a descoperit ca masurarea a doua este influentata de masurarea a treia (care inca nu a fost facuta si in mod ciudat poate chiar sa nu mai fie facuta).

Al doilea articol: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19712-is-this-evidence-that-we-can-see-the-future.html trateaza lucrurile la un nivel macroscopic. Este vorba de un studiu de la universitatea Cornell care a durat 8 ani si a cautat sa afle daca fenomenul de precognitie este adevarat. Rezultatul surprinzator este ca a fost inregistrata o deviatie statistica semnificativa (aprox 3%) de la rezultatul aleatorie asteptat. De multe ori a fost inregistrat acelasi fenomen mentionat si in articolul precedent: reactia a aparut inaintea stimulului.

Detaliile si implicatiile acestor studii sunt mult prea complicate pentru a fi discutate aici asa ca va invit sa cititi articolele si sa trageti propriile concluzii.

Making things hard to read 'can boost learning'

The 28 volunteers in the Princeton study were given 90 seconds to try to memorise a list of seven features for three different species of alien.
The idea was to re-create the kind of learning in a biology class. Aliens were chosen to be sure that none of the volunteers' prior knowledge interfered with the results.
One group was given the lists in 16-point Arial pure black font, which is generally regarded to be easy and clear to read. 
The other had the same information presented in either 12-point Comic Sans MS 75% greyscale font or 12-point Bodoni MT 75% greyscale.
The volunteers were distracted for 15 minutes, and then tested on how much they could remember.
Researchers found that, on average, those given the harder-to-read fonts actually recalled 14% more.
They believe that presenting information in a way that is hard to digest means a person has to concentrate more, and this leads to "deeper processing" and then "better retrieval" afterwards.

Tot articolul:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11573666

Diminished reality

Software Eliminates Objects From Reality Itself

You should be working

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

The girl who conned her way into Harvard

"There's something I need to ask you," the officer continued. "Are you Brooke Henson?"
"Yes," Brooke said into the phone. "That's me."
On the one hand, she had a purse full of proof that she was Brooke: her student ID, a Vermont driver's license, a U.S. passport, an Ohio identification card, a South Carolina birth certificate. She had a part-time job, a rented apartment not far from campus on New York's Upper West Side and a full course load at Columbia, all registered under the name Brooke Henson.

On the other hand, she wasn't Brooke Henson.

She packed a suitcase hastily, grabbed her two Shih Tzus, hailed a cab and headed straight off the grid. By the time New York police came knocking with a DNA test, "Brooke Henson" was long gone.

Tot articolul: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31770765/the_girl_who_conned_the_ivy_league

Turbo

TURBO from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo.

Turbo este un film facut de studenti cu un buget sub 100000USD. Se pare ca astia sunt bani de proiect studentesc in lumea civilizata.

Sfarsitul vacantei

The human synthesizer

Inginerii români vor 12.000 de euro pe lună

Un studiu realizat de un institut german arată să absolvenţii de inginerie şi economie visează la salarii de 9.000-12.000 de euro lunar, adică de 64- 84 de ori mai mari decât salariu minim pe economie.

Veniturile visate de români sunt similare cu ale studenţilor din Slovacia, Polonia, Republica Cehă sau Ungaria, dar sunt de trei sau chiar de cinci ori mai mici decât cele dorite de „omologii” lor din Danemarca, Austria, Franţa, Germania sau Marea Britanie.

„Luând în considerare şi diferenţele economice între ţări, e surprinzător că studenţii români sunt cei care se aşteaptă la cele mai mici salarii din Europa. În fond, educaţia pe care o primesc este cel puţin la fel de bună ca cea pe care o primesc colegii lor europeni”, a explicat, pentru EVZ, Gesa Bartels, marketing expert în cadrul Institutului trendence.

Reactia la TV a fost "Sunt nesimtiti. Nici Sarkozi nu are asemenea salariu."
Trebuia sa fac facultatea de pus borduri probabil ca sa am un castig decent.


Articol: http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/858804/Inginerii-romani-vor-12000-de-euro-pe-luna/

Wikipedia

Domino!

Dominoes Everywhere from Jared Lyon on Vimeo.

Paper Art by Free University of Bozen

Sursa: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/6375/paper-art-by-free-university-of-bozen.html

Advertising pentru universitati

Clever advertising campaign for Panamericana School of Art and Design encourages people everywhere to test their creativity.

The objective is to draw as many things as possible that originate from X’s or O’s. How far does your creativity go?

Sursa:http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/05/06/school-of-art-and-design-creativity-test/

Balul absolventilor?

Vor sa scoata sigla ministerului de pe diplome

"Putem sa scoatem sigla Ministerului Educatiei, Cercetarii si Inovarii de pe toate diplomele pe care astazi invatamantul superior le elibereaza. Scoatem sigla si universitatea iti asuma integral responsabilitatea pentru diploma pe care o da.

In aceste conditii universitatile private ajung la acelasi nivel cu cele de stat. Incantator nu?

Sursa: http://www.ziare.com/Andronescu_vrea_sa_scoata_sigla_ministerului_de_pe_diplome-746618.html

Scanare tomografica a obiectelor cunoscute

Satre Stuelke seems to have three passions: McDonald's fast food, toys, and gadgets—specially the GE 4-slice medical research scanner he uses to create these stunning images and videos at Cornell University's Biomedical Imaging Centre.

http://gizmodo.com/5239606/ct-scanner-bares-apple-notebook-ps3-and-big-mac-to-their-core

University as we know it

The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That’s one of the main reasons we still encourage people to enroll in doctoral programs. It is simply cheaper to provide graduate students with modest stipends and adjuncts than it is to hire full-time professors.

In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for subsistence pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments. But their economical presence, coupled with the intransigence of tenure, ensures that there will always be too many candidates for too few openings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html