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You’re driving to work, and far up ahead you can see your biggest nemesis: rush hour traffic. You know that your trek will now involve dodging angry aggressive drivers. Aggressive drivers are nothing new to deal with; they cost the U.S. government about $164 billion dollars in crashes, that’s about $1,000 per person, per year. That’s why it’s important to plan ahead and avoid danger confronted by aggressive drivers on the road. There are a couple things you can do to evade these drivers, and stop yourself from becoming one of them, such as planning ahead in order to allow enough time for any delays, keeping your emotions in check, and focusing on your own driving; pounding on the steering wheel and yelling at other drivers won’t make traffic move any faster. Luckily, you’ve also got this handy infographic which provides plenty of defensive driving tips so you can get to your destination in one piece. Learn how to avoid danger when confronted by aggressive drivers, get the scoop on some important facts about car safety, involvements in fatal crashes over the past couple decades, and some of the largest obstacles to speed enforcement today. Finally, this infographic wraps it all up by delivering the eight secrets of superdriving. Get informed on the subject and then buckle up!

Toll: Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert hat ein Spielzeug gecoded, das zufällige Turing Maschinen erzeugt, die generative Kunst ausgeben und denen man beim „Zeichnen“ zusehen kann. Ich klick da jetzt seit rund einer halben Stunde auf random, hier ein paar der hübschesten zeichnenden Turing-Maschinen, die dabei rausgekommen sind:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,1,1,2,2,0,1,0,1,2,2,2,1,1,3,1,1,1,2,1,3,2,1,3,1,1,3,1,2,2,1,2,1,1,0
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,3,1,1,2,0,1,0,1,1,2,1,2,2,0,1,2,2,2,0,2,1,3,3,1,1,3,2,2,0,1,3,2,2,3
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,3,2,0,1,2,3,2,1,2,0,2,0,0,1,0,3,2,3,2,2,2,3,1,2,0,2,3,3,2,0,1,1,2
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,0,2,1,2,0,1,1,1,2,3,3,2,2,2,1,0,2,2,3,2,1,3,0,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,3,1,1,1
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,2,0,2,1,0,1,2,3,1,3,3,2,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,2,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,2,1,3
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,1,2,2,3,3,2,3,0,1,0,2,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,0,3,1,3,3,1,0,0,2,0,2,2,0,0,2,2

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After watching a documentary about Alan Turing, I started thinking about Turing machines again. They’re a very useful tool for computer science proofs and an elegantly simple computational model. Beyond this, however, Turing machines seem relatively useless in terms of “real-world” applications. […]

One possible application for Turing machines is to use them as programs to generate data procedurally. Their simplicity makes it possible, for example, to create working programs randomly. Generating a random stream of x86 instructions that doesn’t crash could be tricky, but with a Turing machine, it’s quite easy. I decided to try something like this to produce so-called generative art. The program I wrote generates random Turing machines that operate on a two-dimensional grid instead of a one-dimensional tape. The symbols written on the grid can be interpreted as colors, and voilà: we have procedural drawings.

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Energy bars make for great snacks and fuel for workouts, but the pricey commercial versions often contain ingredients you don't need. These homemade energy bars are a healthier version you can make in about half an hour.

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Já haviam algumas especulações sobre a possibilidade do Google lançar uma versão totalmente remodelada do Google Maps, como algumas fontes apontaram. Mas a melhor delas foi o próprio Google, ao por um breve momento ter disponibilizado a nova cara do serviço, tempo o suficiente para o site Droid Life capturar algumas imagens e fazer uma rápida avaliação.

Uma das principais novidades é que o sistema ficou mais esperto. Ao invés de mostrar uma rota por vez através de comandos, ele exibe várias ao mesmo tempo e as compara, a fim de facilitar a vida do usuário. Além disso o Google chegou a estampar uma anúncio dizendo que ele “fica melhor quanto mais se usa”, deixando-o mais parecido com o Google Search, compilando dados de navegação e busca para customizar soluções de deslocamento mais ideais a cada situação. Além disso o Maps incluiu conteúdo do Google Earth além do serviço de rota de voos, o que é uma mão na roda para quem vive com a cabeça nas nuvens.

A expectativa é que o Google revele a nova cara do Maps na conferência Google I/O que começa hoje às 13 hrs e vai até sexta-feira, dia 17. Entre outras expectativas há a possibilidade de surgir uma nova versão do Android (ainda não o 5.0, mas um Jelly Bean 4.3) e um serviço de games similar ao Game Center do iOS. Fiquem atentos.

Fonte: Droid Life via TNW.

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Google has a cute little Easter egg that might suck up all your time if you let it. Just enter Atari Breakout in the Google Image Search field. You'll get results, all right, but those results turn into bricks and before you know it, you'll be playing your little heart out. Or just press the Link -via Daily of the Day

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Comedian Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things in the sky”.

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Check out the most overused buzzwords in public relations compiled by the UK press release distributor Pressat.

A primeira coisa que você vai notar sobre a Rain Room, uma instalação que abriu no Museu de Arte Moderna de Nova York na semana passada, é a umidade tropical. A segunda coisa é o som de centenas de galões de água jorrando de um teto artificial. Finalmente, depois dos seus olhos se adaptarem à escuridão, você finalmente consegue ver: a Rain Room, um espaço de 1.000 metros quadrados em um estado de chuva perpétua.

Mas você nunca se molha. Graças a oito sensores de movimentos instalados acima da sala, a água que cai do teto abre espaço quando você anda pela sala, deixando você completamente seco. A sensação de andar por uma parede de água e continuar seco é sinistra – e observar como as pessoas reagem é parte da diversão. “A Rain Room coloca pessoas fora da zona de conforto, extraindo a base das respostas automáticas e brincando com a intuição”, explica seus criadores, o coletivo de arte e tecnologia londrino rAndom International. “Observar como esses resultados imprevisíveis se manifestam, e a experimentação com este mundo de comportamento pouco perceptível, é a base da nossa força motriz.”

Os designers da rAndom International passaram os últimos três anos desenvolvendo a tecnologia usada na instalação. Recriar a chuva não é tão fácil como parece. Água caindo de 6 metros de altura se comporta diferente da água que cai das nuvens, por exemplo. E milhares de galões de água em um espaço público causa problemas específicos de saneamento. Para lidar com isso, a equipe do MoMA criou a própria instalação para a Rain Room, aproveitando um terreno baldio ao lado do malfadado American Folk Art Museum. Os artistas, por sua vez, ficaram em silêncio em relação às especificações da tecnologia – eles argumentam que tudo faz parte da magia.

A Rain Room é otipo de instalação que museus sempre sonharam: espetacularmente experimental e acessível para quase qualquer tipo de audiência. Este tipo de atração é o que deve começar a surgir em museus, que sofrem para atrair espectadores. Ela ficará aberta até o dia 28 de julho – se você passar por Nova York neste tempo, pode ser um bom lugar para visitar. [MoMA]

Over at Boing Boing's G+ Community, D.S. Deboer says:

Just a heads up on a cool indie game in development right now. It's a village simulator called Banished, and it looks pretty neat. It hasn't been released yet, but I'm following its development pretty closely and almost certainly buying it when it comes out.

What's great is that the developer is doing a lot of detailed blog posts about how he's developing the game, and the decisions he's making re: pathfinding, features, etc. And there are some YouTube videos of gameplay that are making me very excited.

Banished - town simulator for PC

thedailywhat:

Food Pr0n of the Day: Cross-Section Views of Delicious Food

Remember Scanwiches? Well, here are some more cross-sectioned views of delicious stuff for your daily eye nom noms. Photographs by New York-based food photographer Beth Galton.

 

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high tide and low tide in great britain. photographs by michael marten

A new method of detecting alien worlds is full of awesome, as it combines Einstein’s Theory of Relativity along with BEER. No, not the weekend beverage of choice, but the relativistic BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection/emission modulations algorithm. This new way of finding exoplanets was developed by Professor Tsevi Mazeh and his student, Simchon Faigler, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and it has been used for the first time to find a distant exoplanet, Kepler-76b, informally named Einstein’s planet.

“This is the first time that this aspect of Einstein’s theory of relativity has been used to discover a planet,” said Mazeh.
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February 13, 2013 - the day Canada’s Parliament debated the zombie apocalypse. (x)

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After spending $250,000 worth of anonymously donated money, Mark Post from Maastricht University is ready to go public with his first vat-grown hamburger, which will be cooked and eaten at an event in London this week. Though they claim that it's healthier than regular meat, one question not answered in the article is the Omega 3/6 balance -- crappy, corn-fed, factory-farmed meet is full of Omega 6s and avoided by many eaters; the grass-fed, free-range stuff is higher in Omega 3s.

Yet growing meat in the laboratory has proved difficult and devilishly expensive. Dr. Post, who knows as much about the subject as anybody, has repeatedly postponed the hamburger cook-off, which was originally expected to take place in November. His burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue. Dr. Post, who has conducted some informal taste tests, said that even without any fat, the tissue “tastes reasonably good.” For the London event he plans to add only salt and pepper.

But the meat is produced with materials — including fetal calf serum, used as a medium in which to grow the cells — that eventually would have to be replaced by similar materials of non-animal origin. And the burger was created at phenomenal cost — 250,000 euros, or about $325,000, provided by a donor who so far has remained anonymous. Large-scale manufacturing of cultured meat that could sit side-by-side with conventional meat in a supermarket and compete with it in price is at the very least a long way off.“This is still an early-stage technology,” said Neil Stephens, a social scientist at Cardiff University in Wales who has long studied the development of what is also sometimes referred to as “shmeat.” “There’s still a huge number of things they need to learn.”

There are also questions of safety — though Dr. Post and others say cultured meat should be as safe as, or safer than, conventional meat, and might even be made to be healthier — and of the consumer appeal of a product that may bear little resemblance to a thick, juicy steak.

Engineering the $325,000 Burger [Henry Fountain/New York Times]

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