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	<description>Signals from the Noise</description>
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		<title>Proofs Without Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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Source
Edit:
I found another interesting one.

1³+2³+3³+&#8230;+6³=(1+2+3+&#8230;+6)²
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		<title>Google Data Center Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short video about one of Google&#8217;s data centers. It houses 45 containers with 1000 servers each, drawing 10 MW. Impressive.

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		<title>Random Learning Rates in Perceptrons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a random learning factor instead of a fixed one to determine the change of the weight of the connections in a neural network, such as a simple perceptron, improves precision greatly.
The random() function in Python provides a pseudo-random x: 0&#60;=x&#60;1, and should average 0.5. So taking one tenth of that, the learning factor fluctuates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sentient Silicon Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After seeing Google&#8217;s development in the last years, I couldn&#8217;t help but to come to the conclusion that Brin and Page will be the first ones that will succeed in creating a Sentient Silicon Being.
In fact a considerable amount of all people help them reaching that goal by providing knowledge and semantics. We do that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Machines Think?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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Synopsis:
How are people different from computers? Can computers think? The answers to these questions, although seemingly obvious to children, have taxed the minds of some of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. 
Although computers were originally designed to serve as calculating machines, many of the earliest computer scientists and engineers thought of computers as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving Your Childhood Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch died today of pancreatic cancer, aged 48. In his memory, here is his last lecture he gave September 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.
In his moving presentation, &#8220;Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,&#8221; Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Painting with Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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This stunning effect is made with battery powered flash lights, bike lamps, sparklers, cold cathode lights, anything bright. Here are some basics:

To get the best results you need a tripod. The exposure should be around 10-30 sec. or longer if needed. Stay in front of the camera and do your writing.
To not overexpose set the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Carlin – Life is Worth Losing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Famous for his extremely black humour, American comedian George Carlin died Sunday, aged 71. Here is what he thought of death, and more.
 
Go to Mashables for some shorter best-of clips.
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		<title>First ten digits of Pi encoded in crop circle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 50 meter wide crop circle has recently been spotted in a barley field near Barbury Castle, Wiltshire, UK. It depicts the mathematical constant Pi to ten significant figures.

Images courtesy of Lucy Pringle.



Overlay made by Earthfiles.com reader Steve McMath:
The tenth digit has been correctly rounded up. The little dot near the centre is the decimal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blear eyed driver takes an unexpected detour through a small town. When he searches for help in this strange and desolate place, he finds the inhabitants somehow unmoved by his appearance.
This is a brilliantly surreal shortfilm by Canadian director Jon Knautz.

AtomFilms.com: Funny Videos &#124; Funny Cartoons &#124; Comedy Central
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