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Category Archives: computing
Filled In requires 32 MB memory
I’m using John Godley‘s Filled In WordPress plug-in to allow people to register for Aardbron events. However, when Filled In is activated, WordPress didn’t render some admin pages correctly anymore (Manage Posts, Manage Pages, etc.). Got in touch with John, … Continue reading
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Shift happens
Finally, an excellent video about the emergence of our global collective intelligence. Watch it on Shift Happens. It’s about .
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Levitated | the Exploration of Computing
Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.
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Look what they do with P2P worms
Martijn van Steenbergen tipped me on The Storm Worm: Some key points: Storm is designed like an ant colony Rather than having all hosts communicate to a central server or set of servers, Storm uses a peer-to-peer network for C2. … Continue reading
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SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival
SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival: “PacoCheezdom writes ‘Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called ‘Swarm OS’. The robots are able to work together … Continue reading
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Groovy Actors
Refreshed my link with Gerald “tensegrity” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled Creatures on the beach from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s Fluidiom and Darwin at Home projects. Gerald’s email … Continue reading
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Erlang distributed concurrent programming
A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called Erlang and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases concurrent programming and distributed processes. Erlang is a programming language designed at the … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence
Converted my highlights from Pierre Lévy’s Collective Intelligence—Mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace to my wiki. Pierre Lévy’s vision towards the noosphere… Key words: nomadic earth, molar technologies, anthropological spaces, collective intellect, informational universe, commodity space, knowledge space, molecular politics, preceding … Continue reading
The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs
Harry van der Velde will like this one… The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs: “Self-replicating bridges might be more robust, but also weirder looking, than the nearly magical pieces of civil engineering that human beings come up with. (Via … Continue reading
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Briljante Programmeurs Netwerk
Sanne Roemen en Daan Kortenbach doen een oproep om een coöp van briljante programmeurs op te zetten. Wat mij betreft breiden ze dat uit naar briljante ontwerpers, designers, architecten en projectleiders. En dan lekker agile aan de slag. Als we … Continue reading
Conscious Computing
Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes. Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource … Continue reading
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Thriller voor je TV
Luistert u vooral tussen de regels door. Op het puntje van zijn stoel kijkt Rildrik-Jan van der Wiel uit Hendrik Ido Ambacht naar aflevering 33 van het VPRO-programma Noorderlicht. Dit keer gaat het over natuurlijke constructies en strukturen. Boeiend, boeiend. … Continue reading
Ontroerend goed
Slecht weer, veel regen en wind maakten Klaas’ stemming er niet beter op. Mopperend en somber stapte hij het postkantoor binnen om geld te halen. “Foei, de laatste twee makelaars konden me ook al niet helpen aan het juiste huis … Continue reading