Campos Magnéticos: November 2006 :: Bruno Martins liga o cérebro à Web

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

links for 2006-11-28

Education: Fundamentals of Composition Part One

How To Make Pictures.

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Book Assembly

Step-by-step binding instructions for using a particular method of making a square bound book.

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Taming Light

Setup and painting techniques for digital painting.

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High dynamic range imaging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In computer graphics and cinematography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures (i.e. a large difference between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intent

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Pay No Mind & Crystal Clear

links for 2006-11-27

The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Book reviews.

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

links for 2006-11-22

2007 Text Mining workshop/competition held in conjunction with SDM

This year's program includes an Anomaly Detection/Text Mining competition sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center. The competition is open to all SDM07 attendees. Winners will receive cash prizes and an invitation to present their work at the workshop.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

links for 2006-11-21

Local Search Series

All articles written to date in Search Engine Watch's series about local searching.

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

DCD - American Dreaming & Fatal Impact

Thursday, November 16, 2006

links for 2006-11-15

Synthesizer DIY pages

Wow, huge collection of DIY synth circuit diagrams from René Schmitz!

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

links for 2006-11-13

Europarl Parallel Corpus

Europarl: A Multilingual Corpus for Evaluation of Machine Translation

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JRC-ACQUIS Multilingual Parallel Corpus V2.2

This is the download page of Version 2.2 of the aligned multilingual corpus JRC-ACQUIS . The dataset contains resources for the following languages: Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian,

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Gutenkarte » Book Catalog

Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extrac

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Welcome to Confabb: The Conference Community

Confabb (confabb.com) combines an aggregate database of major conferences, conventions, and trade shows sorted by industry with social networking tools designed to empower conference attendees to improve their overall experience.

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CSA Images

Featuring some of the freshest, most compelling rights managed images available, Mod Art runs from minimalist modern to vernacular baroque.

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History of Science: Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert: aus einem alten Mscpt. Zum erstenmal ans Licht gestellt: erstes -[drittes] Heft: Gallery

18th century book titled Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer, aus dem 16ten und 17ten Jahrhundert (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries.) The University of Wisconsin Digital Library scanned and posted the entire tome, rich with

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Sub Rosa Magazine

Sub Rosa is a full magazine, in PDF form, which is available online for free. It's focused on magick and the occult.

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

links for 2006-11-11

The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable

This checklist with 88 questions is a must read for every webdesigner who cares about usability.

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Friday, November 10, 2006

links for 2006-11-09

Music Instrument Learning Software for Music Teachers and Students

Called In the Chair, the application encourages music students and budding guitar heroes to play along with real musicians by syncing scrolling sheet music with a prerecorded video of a band playing the song.

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Put The Lights On The Tree

Music Video for Sufjan Stevens' "Put The Lights On The Tree," animated by Tom Eaton. Starring the Michigan Militia, the Swans, the Illinoisemakers, Sufjan Stevens, and Grandma.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

links for 2006-11-07

We Met The Space People by Helen Mitchell - Free eBook

In the 1950s, two sisters named Helen and Betty Mitchell claimed to have met humanoid creatures from outer space in a St. Louis, Missouri coffee shop. We Met the Space People, written in 1959, is their account of the visitation. Judging by the book cover,

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Thelema Texts

These are texts relating to the philosophy of Thelema, many of them written by the occultist Aleister Crowley who founded the organization A.'. A.'. (Argentium Astrum -- the Silver Star) as well as others by members of the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis -- Ord

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

links for 2006-11-06

How my program passed the Turing Test

One of the funniest experiments ever performed in computer science .. it is a small milestone in human history to have produced a machine that can do this.

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United States Patent Application: 0060248046

A suggested query execution plan is used as a constraint on a guided optimization process such that all execution plans that do not conform to the suggested execution plan are eliminated as possible alternatives. If the guided optimization process success

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248057

A search mechanism is evaluated or a relevance model checked using session level and result level diagnostics based on user behavior during a search session with respect to queries entered and user responses to result lists. Tracking occurs of when conten

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248044

An implementation of a technology, described herein, for relevance-feedback, content-based image retrieval minimizes the number of iterations for user feedback regarding the semantic relevance of exemplary images while maximizing the resulting relevance o

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248068

A method for determining semantic correlation between an input query and stored queries based on their temporal correlation. Embodiments include a formal calculation of a correlation coefficient between an input query and stored queries. Alternate embodim

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248066

A system and method are provided for optimizing a set of search results typically produced in response to a query. The method may include detecting whether two or more results access equivalent content and selecting a single user-preferred result from the

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248094

A system and method for analysis of portfolios of documents is presented. The portfolios may comprise patent-related documents, academic articles, product literature, or any other textual material. In one aspect of the invention, a user-defined classifica

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United States Patent Application: 0060248055

A system and method for analysis of portfolios of documents is presented. The portfolios may comprise patent-related documents, academic articles, product literature, or any other textual material. In one aspect of the invention, a user-defined classifica

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United States Patent Application: 0060195440

A unique system and method that facilitates improving the ranking of items is provided. The system and method involve re-ranking decreasing subsets of high ranked items in separate stages. In particular, a basic ranking component can rank a set of items.

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United States Patent Application: 0060248049

A method of processing information is provided. The method includes collecting text strings of definition candidates from a data source. The definition candidates are ranked based on the text strings.

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
United States Patent Application: 0060248072

A system and method are provided for improving a user search experience by identifying spam results in a result set produced in response to a query. The system may include a user interface spam feedback mechanism for allowing a user to indicate that a giv

(tags: microsoft patent search ir algorithm retrieval science research)
Media on 'Second Attention'

Second Attention hosts an inspiring collection of free video and audio lectures by psychedelic pioneers Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, and bOING bOING patron saints Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary.

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Monday, November 06, 2006

links for 2006-11-05

Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress (1745)

When Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good!

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Sunday, November 05, 2006

links for 2006-11-04

Damn Interesting » The Birth of a Language

Languages are thoroughly organic entities. Each one is complex and versatile, constantly shifting according to the needs of those who use it. When social, political or environmental changes create a gap in a language, its individual speakers use creativit

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Easy Design, générateur de graphisme

The part that I find hillarious is that you can also ask it to build you a poster in the style of John Maeda or the French design superstars M/M Paris. For an untrained eye, I’m sure it’s pretty damn close! There is also « Easy Swisse » (LOL), and a

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Friday, November 03, 2006

Vincent - A short film by Tim Burton

Got it from Escalla (who in turn had recieved the reference from Aurélia)... this one is great, thanks to the both for sharing!

links for 2006-11-02

50 Tools that can Increase your Writing Skills - by Dumb Little Man

So without delay, here is a list of a whopping 50 articles that we should all read (yes, I said we because my writing tends to lack in a few dozen areas!)

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

links for 2006-11-01

FLiP On-line

Para facilitar o acesso à tecnologia FLiP, a Priberam disponibiliza, em serviço gratuito on-line, o corrector ortográfico e o corrector sintáctico, tanto para português europeu quanto para português do Brasil. A partir da janela disponível no ecrã

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Arabic Maqam World

Maqam World is a non-commercial, educational web site dedicated to helping musicians understand the maqam or modal system used in classical Arabic music. Maqam World attempts to simplify the subject for the Arabic music beginner, while trying hard to rema

(tags: music arabic)
[cs/0412098] Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google

We have found a method to automatically extract the meaning of words and phrases from the world-wide-web using Google page counts.

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Telegraph | Entertainment | How to be funny

Why are comedians such good liars? How hard do they work on their jokes? And how important is... timing? Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves explain the rules.

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Apoio à Apresentação de Comunicações em Congressos Internacionais - FLAD :: FUNDAÇÃO LUSO AMERICANA

Este programa de bolsas individuais tem como objectivo a internacionalização da produção científica portuguesa, a transferência de tecnologias e a promoção dos contactos internacionais dos académicos e investigadores portugueses.

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Data visualization tools for Linux

Applications for graphical visualization of data on Linux® are varied, from simple 2-D plots to 3-D surfaces, scientific graphics programming, and graphical simulation. Luckily, there are many open source possibilities, including gnuplot, GNU Octave, Sci

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National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

links for 2006-10-31

yet2.com - yet2.com offers scientists and researchers the opportunity to unearth critical technologies. Here, we unearth yet2.com Inc.

yet2.com's mission is to help you identify and capture the full value of your intellectual assets.

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