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August 16, 2010
Schedule » MoogFest 2010

woah!

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August 13, 2010
Happy leads to success, but success doesn't lead to happy
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August 12, 2010
Gross pie
3 weeks ago
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August 11, 2010
AlchemyAPI Tools - AlchemyCmd - Command line text analysis tool for Linux/Unix systems

 

AlchemyCmd

Command line text analysis tool for Linux/Unix

AlchemyCmd? What’s that?

AlchemyCmd is a command-line tool for performing natural language processing and text analysis on Linux/Unix systems.

What Does It Do?

AlchemyCmd enables you to perform named entity extraction, concept tagging, keyword extraction, language detection, and structured content extraction directly from the command line.

This tool can process HTML or text content on your local filesystem, crawl Internet-hosted web pages, and process content from standard input (stdin). This makes it easy to construct shell scripts and UNIX command pipes that leverage natural language processing.

OK, How Do I Use It?

AlchemyCmd provides a wide variety of NLP and content retrieval options. You may see the available command-line options by issuing the following command:

  • alchemycmd —help

To perform concept tagging on an Internet-hosted web page, you may issue the following command:

  • alchemycmd —mode concept -S web -U “http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/13/steinbrenner.obit/index.html?hpt=T1”

The above command would return concept tagging results in a simplified, comma separated value (CSV) format:

New York Yankees,0.956409
Major League Baseball,0.62449
George Steinbrenner,0.548511
Billy Martin,0.473525
Yankee Stadium,0.457922
Reggie Jackson,0.423929
Derek Jeter,0.421396
YES Network,0.413723

Output in XML format may also be retrieved using the “—output-mode xml” command-line option.

3 weeks ago
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PeerIndex helps you discover the authorities and opinion formers on a given topic. (via PeerIndex)

PeerIndex helps you discover the authorities and opinion formers on a given topic. (via PeerIndex)

3 weeks ago
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August 10, 2010
Pastoral Psychedelicism


Pastoral Psychedelicism

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August 4, 2010
“ The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable problem until it’s solved. No illness or distraction is sufficient to get the engineer off the case. These types of challenges quickly become personal — a battle between the engineer and the laws of nature. Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem. (Other times just because they forgot.)
Engineers Explained 4 weeks ago
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July 28, 2010
“ To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1)things that need to be fixed, and (2)things that will need to be fixed after you’ve had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don’t understand this concept; they believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
Engineers Explained 1 month ago
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July 23, 2010
Bond's yacht in Casino Royale

The Spirit 54 is the first sailing vessel in 350 years to be in the Grand Canal in Venice, mast up, sails on and ready to go.

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July 16, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVT34-xQDUE&feature=player_embedded
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July 15, 2010
Take a regular pillow, add some LEDs and some Wi-Fi, pair it with another, identical pillow far away, and what do you have? Probably some pretty uncomfortable bedding for starters, but you’ll also have the Relational Pillow, an interactive device from the minds of MIT’s Ambient Intelligence Group. The idea is disgustingly cute: One person “draws” on his or her pillow just by touching it (sensors are beneath the surface), watching the LEDs light up. At the same time, the Wi-Fi transmits the drawing to the other pillow, which can theoretically be anywhere in the world… sort of an interactive Etch-A-Sketch, but comfier. (via COOL PHOTOS BANK: Relational Pillow: World’s most comfortable Etch-A-Sketch)

Take a regular pillow, add some LEDs and some Wi-Fi, pair it with another, identical pillow far away, and what do you have? Probably some pretty uncomfortable bedding for starters, but you’ll also have the Relational Pillow, an interactive device from the minds of MIT’s Ambient Intelligence Group. The idea is disgustingly cute: One person “draws” on his or her pillow just by touching it (sensors are beneath the surface), watching the LEDs light up. At the same time, the Wi-Fi transmits the drawing to the other pillow, which can theoretically be anywhere in the world… sort of an interactive Etch-A-Sketch, but comfier. (via COOL PHOTOS BANK: Relational Pillow: World’s most comfortable Etch-A-Sketch)

1 month ago
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Chrome Experiments - Home

Chrome Experiments - Home

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July 13, 2010
imogen luddy: cross stitch table
cool idea, and name.  :)
Imogen luddy is a london based textile designer who recently graduated from the royal college of art. luddy’s work takes inspiration from antique lace, doilies and other embroidery, or in the case of the cross stitch table, a piece of 16th century italian lace. the piece is a table top made from laser cut stainless steel with small perforations all over to create the pattern. the design aims to subvert the traditional notions of a table covering by taking an old concept and re-imagining it with modern materials and manufacturing processes.

imogen luddy: cross stitch table

cool idea, and name.  :)

Imogen luddy is a london based textile designer who recently graduated from the royal college of art. luddy’s work takes inspiration from antique lace, doilies and other embroidery, or in the case of the cross stitch table, a piece of 16th century italian lace. the piece is a table top made from laser cut stainless steel with small perforations all over to create the pattern. the design aims to subvert the traditional notions of a table covering by taking an old concept and re-imagining it with modern materials and manufacturing processes.

1 month ago
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July 12, 2010
Slide Screen by Larva Labs
Awesome.  This is what I’m talking about for personal info display.  Really clever interface.

Slide Screen by Larva Labs

Awesome.  This is what I’m talking about for personal info display.  Really clever interface.

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July 9, 2010

The AQUA2, built at McGill University in Montreal, is the first of its kind. You see, the AQUA2 is a robot that can both dive and swim in water, and move about on land. The amphibious bot can explore water up to 120 feet and is tethered to a remote control via ethernet or fiber optics. The ‘headless’ robot’s flippers make it a pretty impressive swimmer, and it’s also strikingly fast on even rough terrain. Check out the video after the break. (via AQUA2 amphibious robot is super cute and fast, less annoying than most pets because it has no head — Engadget)

So cool!  Go Yogi!

1 month ago
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