“Stephen Brown and Jonathan Rose of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, authored this paper providing a tutorial survey of architectures of commercially available high-capacity field-programmable devices (FPDs). They first define the relevant terminology in the field and then describe the evolution of FPDs.”
… Read More → "Architecture of FPGAs and CPLDs: a tutorial"“You may well have seen many simulations of sorting algorithms that aim to show in novel ways how the algorithm works or perhaps doesn’t work quite as well as it should. However I guarantee that you have never seen anything quite in the same league as the videos made by Sapientia University – they are simply crazy but in the nicest possible way.
Take one Central European folk dancing team, a small … Read More → "Sorting algorithms as dances"
“A growing body of research shows that juggling many tasks, as so many people do in this technological era, can divide attention and hurt learning and performance. Does it also hinder short-term memory?”
Another good article on the same subject here at Wired.
… Read More → "New study finds that multitasking can take a toll on your memory"“Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres.”
Read about it here at New Scientist.
… Read More → "Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres"“StripeSpotter takes an isolated portion of a photograph of a zebra and slices it into a series of horizontal bands. Each pixel in the selection is then fully converted into black or white, and the bands are in turn encoded into StripeStrings, which eventually make up a StripeCode that resembles a barcode. All this information is stored in a database that allows researchers to directly identify particular animals without ever having to get too close.”
via Engadget
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“Hold an electromagnet close to your skull and you can enhance or suppress the activity of neurons just beneath it, thanks to a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). In this video, our brave editor Roger Highfield was zapped by Vincent Walsh from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL to show how it can turn off speech. The process … Read More → "How a magnet can turn off speech"
