Thursday, January 17, 2013

Web 2.0

I learned nothing. That is only because I already knew the topics we learned about. I can say that this course is good for begginers  It gives them a base to further their understanding from. For people who do not know anything about programming this is a good start for people who do not understand anything about programming or its processes.



Monday, January 7, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

ai language at google

A famed inventor and entrepreneur  is joining Google as director of engineering. He is focusing on their new technology which includes machine learning and language processing. They have all been waiting for this singularity. This shows one of the reasons Google is so popular. You watch other companies fail because they focus too much on stocks. They play it safe and try to please the investors. what they really should be doing is just focusing on being a good company and innovating and staying ahead of the market. Google is currently trying to advance itself with the increase of funding to experimental concepts.
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Monday, December 17, 2012

bookmarking

I can organised my computer via a giant mass of file system.

Emails are fine but then you and the person you send it too have to look through all of your emails to find which ones have links. It is hard and frustrating if there is a need to constantly use the links.

My favorite websites were the ones about home land security and counter terrorism. I like to know about how my government is deciding to prevent acts of terror.IF the question meant something else bookmarks are fine. The problem with them is that i cant access them at every house i go to. If i do not use chrome. The problem with chrome is i have to make a new user and delete the user ect. IF i want privacy.

Blog posts are fine but that means that everyone post things on to all the other peoples blogs. So you have to remember slot of links the links for Sam, Tom, Mark's blog\

Rss feeds sometimes get jumbled up if the website does not make any updates. They are meant for a different style of usage. They are more to just keep up to date and less for reading full articles.

All of thees things are usable and good in their own way. They are not meant for the same usage teqniques as social bookmarking. I don't know about special websites for these things but i can state general things about the systems.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

batteries of the future



plant root used to make eco friendly batteries

Researchers have found an alternative to the metal ores used in the electrodes of lithium-ion batteries. The new substance is non-toxic and sustainable it uses purpurin, a red/yellow dye extracted from the root of the plant that has been used for coloring clothes for at least 3,500 years – meaning the substance can simply be grown instead of mined. Currently, lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) is the material of choice for forming the cathode in Li-ion batteries. However, mining the cobalt and combining it with lithium at high temperatures to form the cathode is an expensive energy-intensive process, and ineffective. Dr. Arava Leela Mohana Reddy from Rice University says that for every kilowatt-hour of energy in a Li-ion battery, production and recycling pumps an estimated 72 kg (159 lb) of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A American army Laboratory, found that purpurin and other biologically based color molecules offer great potential as a more environmentally friendly alternative. This is due to the carbonyl and hydroxyl groups in the molecules that are adept at passing electrons back and forth.






(1) Pristine purpurin and (2) Chemically lithiated purpurin at a 1:2 ratio

link here