Archive for April, 2007
I doubt he got far with the Austin Powers routine&#[ READ MORE ]
To quote Niklaus Wirth: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster[ READ MORE ]
This article follows on from the previous post about semantic web applications in C#. I’ll be using the SemWeb framework again, but this time I chose to demonstrate the capabilities of RDF by producing a simple MP3 file manager. I haven’t completed it yet, and I’ll be working on that over the next few days [ READ MORE ]
It used to be that you could keep abreast with the news by reading the Sunday morning newspapers, or at least that’s how it seemed. Now I find that I scan several hundred RSS feeds to track all the news I care about. The birth of the Blogosphere is a mixed blessing to anyone with [ READ MORE ]
This picture would have been worth re-posting even if the photographer had not been lucky enough to catch an amazing bolt of fork lightning at the instant they took the picture[ READ MORE ]
The latest update of the SemWeb library from Josh Tauberer includes a C# implementation of the Euler reasoner. This reasoner is able to go beyond simplistic RDFS reasoning – being able to navigate the class and property relationships – to make use of rules. The ontology I’ve been using to get used to coding in [ READ MORE ]
Archaeologists from the University of Cardiff have finally worked out how to put together a complex mechanism that was found in the 2000 year old ruins of a sunken boat off the coast of Greece. The announcement was impressive because this mechanical calculating device had defied researcher’s attempts to understand it for over a hundred [ READ MORE ]
Some of the low and high points of today’s science headlines: Smoking and Caffeine inversely associated with Parkinson’s disease Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risk to humans Guns in homes strongly associated with higher rates of suicide Good behaviour, Religiousness may be genetic Why small dogs are small Study links propensity toward worry [ READ MORE ]
The surge of religiosity in the US continues unabated. A survey from NEWSWEEK is the current cause of distress – apparently over 90% of Americans profess to be religious, and almost half reject the findings of science. Alarmingly, 35% of college graduates (the most educated of Americans) accept the bible as fact and believe that [ READ MORE ]
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