Murano is known for the glass blowing industry in Italy’s venice. Tourists visit in great numbers and almost all of them pass by Murano to buy some glass piece of value. However, what they buy are the usual momento’s and nothing very expensive. Thus, a glass blower who has to keep the kiln working day…
Robert Dudley was trying to design a system that would pick out the ripe cauliflowers that were ripe amidst the leaves. However, he ended up discovering a system that can decide when the strawberries are ripe for picking. His system uses imaging with microwave, light and terahertz radiation. He found that the microwave radiation, that…
The southeast countries and members of South Eastern Nations (ASEAN: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand) have been working on unifying their health care systems as reported in Pharmaceutical technology in June 2013 with the link to the full article below. There are several interesting points to note in…
All scientists agree that there is a lot of information and data that is being generated and that it takes a significant amount of time to integrate that information. Trying to draw conclusions from that and make new discoveries is quite another matter. A company called “DistilBio” has done a wonderful job of integrating those…
Paper comes in different sizes. Paper is used every day and it has been accepted as a standard but there is some interesting mathematics behind it too. Consider size A0: The area of a A0 size of paper is exactly 1 meter square. Interestingly, each subsequent size is half the area of the previous size….
A new coined term “data exhaust” has become popular. This implies that the data that is collected without a specific need or a specific routine, is also useful even though it is being “exhausted” like waste gases. Take an example of massive online courses: Coursera. Massive online courses (MOOC) are the latest trends in learning….
There is a great value in Ebook readers. Yes, they are very convenient to have a lot of books available to read and reading them is much easier with a screen, instead of messing with paper and other tools. However, the big value of Ebook readers is to the seller of books. Typically, they did…
Facebook’s Jeff Hammerbacher is an interesting person. He literally coined the term – data scientist and has been one of the big proponents of data mining. He found that the big predictor whether people will take action is dependent on whether they had seen their friends do the same thing. This is true whether you…
The quantified self movement tries to quantify the self through measurement of every bodily function. This has lead to development of a lot of devices. The one device that is made by a company called Asthamapolis. This company has put a GPS on an inhaler to figure out where people have the most asthma. Quantified…
It is easy to get fooled by how the statistics interpret data. Sometimes, analysis of big data sets lead to conclusions that may not make sense. Also, the cause and effect do not work quite the same when the big data analysis shows a correlation. Just because there is a correlation does not mean that…
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