Public marks with search gas,conventional Public marks with search gas,conventional http://blogmarks.net/marks/search/gas%2Cconventional labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » DIY Android Home Energy Monitor http://labs.moto.com/android-meets-energy/ Lately we’ve been tinkering with deploying Android beyond the phone (using Google’s open-source Android to connect devices to each other and the web), so we thought we’d see if we could leverage the efficiency of Android on a BeagleBoard, the accessibility of wireless webcams, and the ease of a Flickr feed to a custom Google Gadget to track the ups and downs of our metered utilities. Why webcams? While there may be a few compelling (low-cost, low-impact) products out there to monitor your electric meter, there are no comparable products for reading gas or water meters. So until the really smart grid arrives, here’s a way to chart your whole utility spend on your own Google homepage. 2009-11-06T16:52:02Z Spone flickr, android, Environnement, monitoring, électricité

labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » DIY Android Home Energy Monitor

by Spone

Lately we’ve been tinkering with deploying Android beyond the phone (using Google’s open-source Android to connect devices to each other and the web), so we thought we’d see if we could leverage the efficiency of Android on a BeagleBoard, the accessibility of wireless webcams, and the ease of a Flickr feed to a custom Google Gadget to track the ups and downs of our metered utilities. Why webcams? While there may be a few compelling (low-cost, low-impact) products out there to monitor your electric meter, there are no comparable products for reading gas or water meters. So until the really smart grid arrives, here’s a way to chart your whole utility spend on your own Google homepage.

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]]> Land Art Generator Initiative http://www.landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127 <blockquote><p>According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).</p></blockquote> 2009-09-15T02:36:46Z karlcow ecologie

Land Art Generator Initiative

by karlcow & 1 other(s)

According to the US Department of Energy (Energy Information Administration), the world consumption of energy in all of its forms (barrels of petroleum, cubic meters of natural gas, watts of hydro power, etc.) is projected to reach 678 quadrillion Btu (or 7.15 exajoules) by 2030 – a 44% increase over 2008 levels (levels for 1980 were 283 quadrillion Btu and we stand at around 500 quadrillion Btu today).

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]]> Technology http://www.fooxx.com/default.asp?mode=tech FOOXX is based on client-server-solution and the patented 'Personal Rank' technology. FOOXX "studies" the activity of its members as they surf and from this, learns the importance of the sites being used. How are the search results ranked? In contrast to conventional search engines, FOOXX does not rank its' sites exclusively according to content, but also through the evaluation of other users' interactions. Intensively used sites receive a higher ranking than sites which are only briefly visited. In this way, each internet site receives a ranking which really reflects its' value to the user. Attempts to manipulate don't stand a chance. FOOXX ranks sites fairly. 2009-09-02T06:39:14Z cyberien search engine, community search engine, personal rank

Technology

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FOOXX is based on client-server-solution and the patented 'Personal Rank' technology. FOOXX "studies" the activity of its members as they surf and from this, learns the importance of the sites being used. How are the search results ranked? In contrast to conventional search engines, FOOXX does not rank its' sites exclusively according to content, but also through the evaluation of other users' interactions. Intensively used sites receive a higher ranking than sites which are only briefly visited. In this way, each internet site receives a ranking which really reflects its' value to the user. Attempts to manipulate don't stand a chance. FOOXX ranks sites fairly.

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]]> Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/building-a-robot-army-one-cuddly-bot-at-a-time <blockquote><p>Meet the Guardian Robot: This friendly little fellow stands on your desk and monitors your Twitter feed for "happy" and "sad" posts by your friends on your Twitter feed. But unlike conventional alert systems, this robot encourages you to interact with the posts it finds.</p></blockquote> 2009-08-14T01:40:57Z karlcow twitter, robot

Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk

by karlcow

Meet the Guardian Robot: This friendly little fellow stands on your desk and monitors your Twitter feed for "happy" and "sad" posts by your friends on your Twitter feed. But unlike conventional alert systems, this robot encourages you to interact with the posts it finds.

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]]> The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/the-time-has-come-to-regulate-search-engine-marketing-and-seo/ It's now conventional wisdom that search engine optimization, representing the organic result sets on any search query, is more voodoo than science 2009-07-18T22:22:57Z marco search, seo, google, référencement

The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO

by marco & 1 other(s)

It's now conventional wisdom that search engine optimization, representing the organic result sets on any search query, is more voodoo than science

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]]> Why Functional Programming Matters http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html <blockquote><p>As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we show that two features of functional languages in particular, higher-order functions and lazy evaluation, can contribute greatly to modularity. As examples, we manipulate lists and trees, program several numerical algorithms, and implement the alpha-beta heuristic (an algorithm from Artificial Intelligence used in game-playing programs). Since modularity is the key to successful programming, functional languages are vitally important to the real world.</p></blockquote> 2009-07-16T02:15:32Z karlcow programmation

Why Functional Programming Matters

by karlcow

As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we show that two features of functional languages in particular, higher-order functions and lazy evaluation, can contribute greatly to modularity. As examples, we manipulate lists and trees, program several numerical algorithms, and implement the alpha-beta heuristic (an algorithm from Artificial Intelligence used in game-playing programs). Since modularity is the key to successful programming, functional languages are vitally important to the real world.

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]]> Color-Structured Image Search - Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=81527 <blockquote><p>Color-Structured Image Search</p><p>Jingdong Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, and Yinghai Zhao</p><p>6 July 2009</p><p>In this paper, we propose a novel interactive image ranking technique, color-structured image search, by exploiting color spatial relation information, and demonstrate it in image research results refinement. This technique enables users to draw a few color strokes, called target color structure, to indicate the intent. Beyond the conventional image retrieval methods based on query by image content that simply view the target color structure as an image and compute the similarity merely according to the spatial correspondence criterion, the proposed method represents the target color structure using a set of spatially relational colors, and evaluates the similarities between target color structure and image color structure by exploiting their spatial correspondence information, and an extra novel criterion, the consistency of spatial relation of colors implied in target color structure, and even offering a scheme to handle the uncertainty of target color structure. This similarity evaluation process can be accomplished efficiently. Moreover, a convenient interactive interface is presented to allow users to specify target color structure flexibly. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.</p></blockquote> 2009-07-11T18:35:55Z karlcow image, microsoft, couleur

Color-Structured Image Search - Microsoft Research

by karlcow

Color-Structured Image Search

Jingdong Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, and Yinghai Zhao

6 July 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel interactive image ranking technique, color-structured image search, by exploiting color spatial relation information, and demonstrate it in image research results refinement. This technique enables users to draw a few color strokes, called target color structure, to indicate the intent. Beyond the conventional image retrieval methods based on query by image content that simply view the target color structure as an image and compute the similarity merely according to the spatial correspondence criterion, the proposed method represents the target color structure using a set of spatially relational colors, and evaluates the similarities between target color structure and image color structure by exploiting their spatial correspondence information, and an extra novel criterion, the consistency of spatial relation of colors implied in target color structure, and even offering a scheme to handle the uncertainty of target color structure. This similarity evaluation process can be accomplished efficiently. Moreover, a convenient interactive interface is presented to allow users to specify target color structure flexibly. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.

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]]> ASPO International | The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas http://www.peakoil.net/ 2009-06-29T00:18:55Z rwatuny énergie, pétrole, gaz-naturel, Environnement, politique, référence, oilpeak, peakoil

ASPO International | The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas

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]]> Time & Money Code Library http://timeandmoney.sourceforge.net/ More abstraction and generalization is not always better. In the Java library, the separation of the Calendar class seems like a nice abstraction, but it was not implemented well. The result is that the great majority of applications that use conventional calendars have to deal with cumbersome constants because Calendar attempts to make no assumptions about the breakdown of time into years, months, days, and so forth, resulting in verbose, unreadable code. 2009-03-18T21:05:34Z jpcaruana java, programmation, open source

Time & Money Code Library

by jpcaruana

More abstraction and generalization is not always better. In the Java library, the separation of the Calendar class seems like a nice abstraction, but it was not implemented well. The result is that the great majority of applications that use conventional calendars have to deal with cumbersome constants because Calendar attempts to make no assumptions about the breakdown of time into years, months, days, and so forth, resulting in verbose, unreadable code.

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]]> Futures of Learning http://futuresoflearning.org/index.php/site/new_media_practices_in_china_mobile_phones/#When:23:13:10Z <blockquote><p>Photo-shopping images and circulating them on the Internet is most closely associated with “Little Fatty” (Xiao Pang), a Shanghai teenager (real name Qian Zhijun) whose photo was snapped by someone during a training at a gas station and then uploaded to the Internet in 2003. His round face with his slightly hesitant sideways glance somehow captured the imagination of a slew of photo-shoppers, and his image was soon replacing the visage of everyone from the Mona Lisa to Jackie Chan to Johnny Depp</p></blockquote> 2009-02-06T01:01:50Z karlcow opacité, chine

Futures of Learning

by karlcow

Photo-shopping images and circulating them on the Internet is most closely associated with “Little Fatty” (Xiao Pang), a Shanghai teenager (real name Qian Zhijun) whose photo was snapped by someone during a training at a gas station and then uploaded to the Internet in 2003. His round face with his slightly hesitant sideways glance somehow captured the imagination of a slew of photo-shoppers, and his image was soon replacing the visage of everyone from the Mona Lisa to Jackie Chan to Johnny Depp

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]]> Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog » Blog Archive » Conventional Wisdom http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2009/02/01/conventional-wisdom/ <blockquote><p>The goal is to get consensus on a document that improves life for cross-browser web authors as soon as possible, without spending time on features that only apply to small portions of the market, proprietary devices, wrappers for patent-encumbered media players, and other products of closed development processes.</p></blockquote> 2009-02-02T21:45:18Z karlcow html5, mozilla

Rob Sayre’s Mozilla Blog » Blog Archive » Conventional Wisdom

by karlcow

The goal is to get consensus on a document that improves life for cross-browser web authors as soon as possible, without spending time on features that only apply to small portions of the market, proprietary devices, wrappers for patent-encumbered media players, and other products of closed development processes.

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]]> ixi audio http://www.ixi-audio.net/ ixi audio is an experimental project concerned with the creation of digital musical instruments and environments for generative music. We are interested in the computer as a workshop for building non-conventional tools for musicians, i.e. not trying to imitate or copy the tools that we know from the world of acoustic instruments or studio technology. We currently work with open source software such as SuperCollider, ChucK and Pure Data, but our aim is to distribute our applications packaged in a way that allows everybody to use them. Simplicity and ease of use together with depth in interaction and expressive scope is the aim of our experimental music software. 2009-01-27T00:45:49Z Emaux audio, logiciel libre, Synthèse sonore

ixi audio

by Emaux

ixi audio is an experimental project concerned with the creation of digital musical instruments and environments for generative music. We are interested in the computer as a workshop for building non-conventional tools for musicians, i.e. not trying to imitate or copy the tools that we know from the world of acoustic instruments or studio technology. We currently work with open source software such as SuperCollider, ChucK and Pure Data, but our aim is to distribute our applications packaged in a way that allows everybody to use them. Simplicity and ease of use together with depth in interaction and expressive scope is the aim of our experimental music software.

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]]> jill bliss : paper goods : the native herbs journal http://shop.jillbliss.com/paper-goods/the-native-herbs-journal/prod_116.html <blockquote><p>inspired by the intimate size of my favorite japanese stationery journals, this li'l journal is filled will herb drawings, originally made into posters. each journal features five different, full-color herb-illustrated spreads; some with graph paper, some not. printed on 30% post-consumer waste recycled paper with conventional inks.</p></blockquote> 2009-01-24T21:57:45Z karlcow journal

jill bliss : paper goods : the native herbs journal

by karlcow

inspired by the intimate size of my favorite japanese stationery journals, this li'l journal is filled will herb drawings, originally made into posters. each journal features five different, full-color herb-illustrated spreads; some with graph paper, some not. printed on 30% post-consumer waste recycled paper with conventional inks.

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]]> modified toy orchestra on MySpace Music http://www.myspace.com/toyorch <blockquote><p>Modified Toy Orchestra are a collection of abandoned and reconstructed Childrens electronic toys, conducted by a selection of musicians.</p> <p>Its rare to hear an electronic record that has no midi, no sampling, no synthesizers, no laptops, in fact no conventional instruments of any kind, yet Toygopop by the Modified Toy Orchestra is just that.</p></blockquote> 2009-01-22T00:06:00Z Neewok musique, electronic, toys

modified toy orchestra on MySpace Music

by Neewok

Modified Toy Orchestra are a collection of abandoned and reconstructed Childrens electronic toys, conducted by a selection of musicians.

Its rare to hear an electronic record that has no midi, no sampling, no synthesizers, no laptops, in fact no conventional instruments of any kind, yet Toygopop by the Modified Toy Orchestra is just that.

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]]> Underware http://www.underware.nl/ Underware is a graphic design studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are often conventional in terms of legibility - yet functional, having concepts that seek for new visual, typographic and linguistic possibilities. These typefaces are published for retail sale or are custom designed. 2009-01-07T19:48:30Z Spone design, graphic, studio, typographie

Underware

by Spone

Underware is a graphic design studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are often conventional in terms of legibility - yet functional, having concepts that seek for new visual, typographic and linguistic possibilities. These typefaces are published for retail sale or are custom designed.

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]]> TopTarif.de - Tarifvergleich / Tarifrechner für Strom, Gas, Kfz-Versicherung und mehr http://www.toptarif.de/ 2008-12-31T17:08:58Z pooky_a allemand, comparer, assurer, énergie, internet

TopTarif.de - Tarifvergleich / Tarifrechner für Strom, Gas, Kfz-Versicherung und mehr

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]]> Transportation panel eyes new road levies - Opinion | CharlotteObserver.com http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/story/372832.html With a severe economic downturn, North Carolina's state government will contend with a big budget hole when the 2009 General Assembly convenes next year. And as motorists drive fewer miles and gas prices decline, the state's transportation revenues based on the gas tax continue to drop even as the state's population rises. 2008-11-24T17:45:21Z ERSWeb north carolina, transportation, taxes

Transportation panel eyes new road levies - Opinion | CharlotteObserver.com

by ERSWeb

With a severe economic downturn, North Carolina's state government will contend with a big budget hole when the 2009 General Assembly convenes next year. And as motorists drive fewer miles and gas prices decline, the state's transportation revenues based on the gas tax continue to drop even as the state's population rises.

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]]> com.overset.dev» Blog Archive » Animated Sortable Datagrid jQuery plugin - jTPS http://www.overset.com/2008/08/30/animated-sortable-datagrid-jquery-plugin-jtps/ Animated scrolling of pagination on a datagrid aka datatable. Support ascending and descending “natural sorting” for columns. Support attachment to generic pre-built tables from conventional HTML and/or template driven HTML tables. 2008-09-05T12:10:58Z srcmax plugin, jQuery, tableaux, developpement, js

com.overset.dev» Blog Archive » Animated Sortable Datagrid jQuery plugin - jTPS

by srcmax

Animated scrolling of pagination on a datagrid aka datatable. Support ascending and descending “natural sorting” for columns. Support attachment to generic pre-built tables from conventional HTML and/or template driven HTML tables.

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]]> filefreakout.com http://filefreakout.com/about.html bringing the world fine electronic music, chiptune music, and experimental sounds creating visuals using experimentation, sub-standard programs, and inovative editing methods advancing the stature of electronic instruments through creativity and live applications defying conventional methods of music making and moving towards the future organizing cost effective events that showcase the talents of our members and friends providing quality cost effective entertainment and innovative premium merchandise bringing new undiscovered acts recognition and visibility in a new and growing art / music scene 2008-08-28T11:05:43Z mbertier music, art, chiptune, electronic, live, label

filefreakout.com

by mbertier & 1 other(s)

bringing the world fine electronic music, chiptune music, and experimental sounds creating visuals using experimentation, sub-standard programs, and inovative editing methods advancing the stature of electronic instruments through creativity and live applications defying conventional methods of music making and moving towards the future organizing cost effective events that showcase the talents of our members and friends providing quality cost effective entertainment and innovative premium merchandise bringing new undiscovered acts recognition and visibility in a new and growing art / music scene

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]]> Top 10 Stinky Cheeses in the World http://blog.hotelclub.com/top-10-stinky-cheeses/ "There are many types of stinky cheeses in the world and they all smell so bad that they make your dirty socks smell like expensive cologne. So picking the smelliest ones was no easy feat, but we’ve done it, so put on your gas-masks as we count down the top 10." 2008-08-18T21:49:29Z cruz fromage, Anglais, americain, nimp

Top 10 Stinky Cheeses in the World

by cruz

"There are many types of stinky cheeses in the world and they all smell so bad that they make your dirty socks smell like expensive cologne. So picking the smelliest ones was no easy feat, but we’ve done it, so put on your gas-masks as we count down the top 10."

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]]> Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP) http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/index.html Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP) is a Python data processing framework. Implemented algorithms include: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Slow Feature Analysis (SFA), Independent Slow Feature Analysis (ISFA), Growing Neural Gas (GNG), Factor Analysis, Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA), Gaussian Classifiers, and Restricted Boltzmann Machines. Read the full list. 2008-08-09T11:33:03Z ogrisel python, programming, machine learning, RBM. DBN, deep learning, open source

Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP)

by ogrisel

Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP) is a Python data processing framework. Implemented algorithms include: Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Slow Feature Analysis (SFA), Independent Slow Feature Analysis (ISFA), Growing Neural Gas (GNG), Factor Analysis, Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA), Gaussian Classifiers, and Restricted Boltzmann Machines. Read the full list.

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]]> Evaluate IBM solidDB v6.1 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/im/soliddb/learn.html?S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=DLDTA-c4c-dta&ca=dgr-c4c-dta-btw15solidDB61 Download your free trial of IBM solidDB V6.1, relational in-memory database software that delivers extreme speed, performing up to ten times faster than conventional databases. 2008-08-06T14:30:31Z BlueVoodoo programming, unix, linux

Evaluate IBM solidDB v6.1

by BlueVoodoo

Download your free trial of IBM solidDB V6.1, relational in-memory database software that delivers extreme speed, performing up to ten times faster than conventional databases.

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]]> t r u t h o u t | Citing Privilege Bush Again Snubs Waxman http://www.truthout.org/article/citing-privilege-bush-again-snubs-waxman The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escalating a fight over the White House role in U.S. policy on greenhouse-gas emissions and ozone air quality s 2008-06-21T18:55:23Z soul1383 politics, bush, congress, president

t r u t h o u t | Citing Privilege Bush Again Snubs Waxman

by soul1383

The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escalating a fight over the White House role in U.S. policy on greenhouse-gas emissions and ozone air quality s

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]]> SUEZ - SUEZ, an international industrial and services Group. Electricity, gas, energy services, water and waste management http://www.suez.com/ 2008-06-19T12:54:40Z mfaure cac40

SUEZ - SUEZ, an international industrial and services Group. Electricity, gas, energy services, water and waste management

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]]> "Beer now cheaper than gas!" http://pixdaus.com/pics/1212763912wdD7IR5.jpg Ergo, "Drink, don't drive!" 2008-06-06T11:00:34Z xibe tag, biere, essence, coût de la vie qu'elle est chere

"Beer now cheaper than gas!"

by xibe

Ergo, "Drink, don't drive!"

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