scikit-learn – Machine Learning A.I. in Python
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
Simple and efficient tools for data mining and data analysis Accessible to everybody, and reusable in various contexts Built on NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib Open source, commercially usable – BSD license
Stitching and 360 stereo panorama editing software
Composition and The Expressive Nature Of Light
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-danskin/post_12457_b_10777222.html
George Sand once said “ The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
We got 10 CEOs to tell us their one killer interview question for new hires
- “Would you rather be respected or feared?”
- “Why are you here today?”
- “What’s your biggest dream in life?”
- “I ask how they were treated.”
- “What is your favorite property in Monopoly, and why?”
- “Tell me about when you failed.”
- “Talk to me about when you were seven or eight. Who did you want to be?”
8 Tips for Scaling Rendering to the Cloud
http://www.awn.com/animationworld/8-tips-scaling-rendering-cloud
1.Understand data traffic patterns on your network
2.Watch the volume of requests to your render farm manager 3.Don’t burden your file server 4.Don’t underestimate license management during rendering 5.Match your hardware to the type of render job 6.Cache or sync data to reduce traffic at scale 7.Your Supervisor needs horsepower!
8.Keep a watchful eye on your spending
Travel at light speed is not possible
Why is that light is calculated as using the same speed independently from the medium?
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Speed_of_light Suppose a baseball pitcher is standing on a train moving at 90 miles per hour relative to the ground. The pitcher throws a 90 mile-per-hour fastball towards the back of the train. While the pitcher and anyone else on the train would measure the speed of the baseball as 90 miles per hour, an observer on the ground would measure the baseball’s speed as 0 miles per hour – the motion of the ball against the train cancels out as far as the observers on the ground are concerned. That is, the baseball would appear to hang in midair, until the back wall of the train caught up to it.
Similarly, if the pitcher threw the ball in the other direction, at the same speed, the people on the ground would see the ball travel at an impressive 180 miles per hour, as the ball would gather momentum from the train and the speeds would combine. However, if the pitcher shines a flashlight toward the back of the train, he would measure the speed of the light as c…and so would the observer on the ground.
Light can travel in a vacuum, and Maxwell’s equations simply say what the speed is, and are perplexingly silent on the “medium” that it is measured relative to. The speed of light is considered to be an ultimate speed limit–massive objects can obtain speeds arbitrarily close to the speed of light, but can never reach it.
Relativity predicts that an infinite amount of energy would be required to accelerate an object of any mass to the speed of light – particles without mass, however, can travel at the speed of light.
Suppose Alice observes a light beam. She must therefore be able to observe oscillating electric and magnetic fields, since that’s what light is. Now suppose that she notices Bob traveling at the speed of light alongside that light beam. Bob does not observe oscillating fields; since he’s traveling at the same speed as the oscillations, he would see static fields. Without oscillating fields, there is no light, so the light beam does not exist. But we have postulated that Alice sees a light beam, so it must exist. We therefore have a contradiction, and must abandon one of the following:
a.) Alice can observe light;
b.) Bob can travel at the speed of light. We can observe light, so we drop the idea that Bob can travel at the speed of light. Thus, travel at light speed is not possible.
The existence of some faster-than-light particles, such as tachyons, has been suggested. Tachyons, if they existed, would be confined to the “other side” of the light-speed barrier; they would be restricted to speeds faster than the speed of light
More gravitational waves detected
Gravitational waves are a prediction of the Theory of General Relativity It took decades to develop the technology to directly detect them They are ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by violent events Accelerating masses will produce waves that propagate at the speed of light Detectable sources ought to include merging black holes and neutron stars LIGO fires lasers into long, L-shaped tunnels; the waves disturb the light
