McGurk effect – you actually hear only what you see or want to hear!

Walmart as is well known is a big retailer, not just big but massive. They have been a big retailer since a long time and have been processing large data before the term “Big data existed”. The interesting feature about them is that they are about the biggest retailer with a net turnover of $450…

When we think of internet, it seems amazing to see that there are so many computers connected. This was made possible by the internet protocol version 4 provides 232 (4,294,967,296) addresses even though not all of them are usable. There are mostly saturated and the total number becomes about 4.2 billion and that is about…

Dr Dharmendra Modha’s group at IBM has been simulating the whole brain one cell at a time. They started with cat brain simulation and have almost reached the whole brain simulation except it runs about 1542 times slower.  This is a simulation of nearly 1.6 billion virtual neurons and 9 trillion synapses. The power consumption…

As scientists make biological models, it is difficult to create frameworks of mathematics and formula’s around it. Usually this requires significant customization for each model. Dr Sorger’ Lab has developed a Python framework for creating systems biology models. These translate the equations to the models and allow a tedious task to be significantly simplified by…

Data visualization requires special tools. The one that has been very useful is “Weave”, as a ridiculously powerful visualization tool. Instead of describing in detail, look at this video below showing the elections of UK and the link that gives all the features very well. {youtube}WHQeP4yQa9U{/youtube}