Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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ALS needs
Technologists often think that the solution to most problems can be solved with technology and when you ask people what can help them – they often also answer technology. For example on the Facebook page of Prize for life the patients with ALS were asked what can help them and here are the 12…
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Musical Neural Exam
Usin’Life presented a concept of Pervasive computing and intelligent healthcare monitoring devices at the Maker Faire from Sept 23rd to Sept 24th in New York, NY and was awarded the BEST IN CLASS 2017. The Wikipedia defines Pervasive Computing as “Embedding computational capability into everyday objects to make them effectively communicate and perform useful tasks”.…
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Compendium of open source biological software
This is just a short note that if you do any biological data analysis – whether it is sequence data, flow cytometry data or any other data then first look at Bioconductor website. This has open source data, mostly written in R, that enable you to see what is the process that is used to…
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Acoustic prism – non electric sound manipulation
Sound as we listen is made up of multiple frequencies. The typical way of separating them has been computationally using an algorithm called a Fourier transform. However, researchers in Switzerland have managed to split sound into different frequency by way of a device – a 40cm aluminum case with 10 holes on its sides –…
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A very sensitive vibration sensor
Vibration sensing is important for sensing failure of instrumentation or found sound and vibration measurements. Technology for detecting sound has existed for a long time and usually employs a variety of microphones. However, vibration is difficult to measure easily. There have been many reports of utilization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based technology such as this…
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Pricing strategies – what makes sense?
How do you price an information or digital product? Lets imagine you think there is a business opportunity in cataloging all the pizza places in the neighborhood. This short blog is not about whether such a database is profitable or a viable business in the age of easy google information but rather how do you…
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Competition is expensive
The capitalistic economy believes that competition is good and useful to keep prices “competitive” and good for coming up with new technologies and products. In the macro-economic area, that makes perfect sense. However, from the company perspective, competition wastes resources. If your company is competing on price, rack space and just…
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Crowdfunding for startup companies – another option
However, note that it IS regulated by the Regulation CF and there are several guidelines that govern. For example, there is limitation on investment in a 12 month period per individual – so you can invest about $2k to $100k (for high net worth individuals). Note this is not something that you do casually –…
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The curious case of data mining Octopus
Did you know about Paul the Octopus who could predict soccer matches? Since 2008, Paul the psychic octopus has been correctly picking the right team that will win the world cup soccer matches especially Germany in a German zoo. It works like this: to make Paul predict the right match, the zoo keepers in Germany…
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Warheads and Confidentiality
Key by usinlife on Sketchfab This article is more to do with confidentiality than warheads. There is a proof in cryptography called zero knowledge proof which states that it is possible to confirm a statement from one party by another party without doing a measurement. A recent paper in Nature has created a zero…
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