For Winning The Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr Got A House With Free Beer

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Niels Bohr is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived and a personal hero of mine. He was also a favorite of his fellow Danes when he lived in Copenhagen. Today, however, I found out just how much they loved him. Apparently, after he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located next to the brewery. And the best perk of the house? It had a direct pipeline to the brewery so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.

via For Winning The Nobel Prize, Niels Bohr Got A House With Free Beer – Forbes.

So was free beer the reason why Bohr was able to make great strides in developing quantum mechanics? Okay, probably not – but I’m sure a few late night drinking sessions with other physicists didn’t hurt.

Perl/Tk Tutorial – Create GUI with Perl’s Tk Module

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In Unix/Linux you can execute your perl scripts by typing “perl <filename>” at command prompt. But before you do that make sure you have both Perl and its Tk module. Most linux distributions have perl – but quite a few don’t have the Tk module. Make sure that the system you are using have the Tk module. If you don’t have it, go to http://www.cpan.org and download the perl module. Or you can use the perl’s CPAN module to install the Tk module. To do this, open a terminal and enter the following command
perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> install Tk

via Perl/Tk Tutorial – Create GUI with Perl’s Tk Module.

Alcatel-Lucent Takes SDN to the Enterprise

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AlcaLu wants to see policy infused into SDN early on. Ideally, the network would tap a user profile — or a virtual machine’s profile — to help it make on-the-fly decisions about what to do with traffic coming from (or being sent to) a virtualized application.

via Alcatel-Lucent Takes SDN to the Enterprise – IP & Convergence – Telecom News Analysis – Light Reading Service Provider IT.

.mobi

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The domain name mobi is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from the adjective mobile, indicating it’s used by mobile devices for accessing Internet resources via the Mobile Web.

The domain was approved by ICANN on 11 July 2005, and is managed by the mTLD global registry. It was originally financially backed and sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia Mobile, Orascom Telecom, GSM Association, Hutchison Whampoa, Syniverse Technologies, and Visa, with an executive from each company serving on mTLD’s board of directors.[1][2][3]

In February 2010, Afilias acquired mTLD Top-Level Domain Ltd. (known publicly as “dotMobi”).[4]

via .mobi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Google Must Pay For Libelous Search Result, Says Court

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The jury at the Supreme Court of Victoria agreed with Google up to a point. The company wasn’t responsible for the results until Trkulja asked it to take them down, it said. (Read the decision in full here.) Because it stuck to its guns, Google must pay $200,000 in damages..

via Google Must Pay For Libelous Search Result, Says Court.

Netflix Gives Data Center Tools to Fail

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Netflix has released Hystrix, a library designed for managing interactions between distributed systems, complete with “fallback” options for when those systems inevitably fail.

The code for Hystrix—which Netflix tested on its own systems—can be downloaded at Github, with documentation available here, in addition a getting-started guide and operations examples, among others.

via Netflix Gives Data Center Tools to Fail.

Netflix will also release the real-time dashboard it uses for monitoring Hystrix. That dashboard relies on a traffic-light system to display service dependencies for the last ten seconds, with colors measuring latency and the size of the circles showing traffic.

Halving day is almost upon us!

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Bitcoin is built so that this reward is halved every 210,000 blocks solved.  The idea is as bitcoin grows the transaction fee’s become the main part of the reward and the introduction of new bitcoin’s slows down to a trickle.  This also means that there will only ever be 21,000,000 bitcoins in circulation.

Well, in less than 4 days the block count will reach the first of these 210,000 block milestones and the reward for solving a Bitcoin block will half from 50BTC to 25BTC. (Have a look at bitcoinclock.com)

via Halving day is almost upon us! | Mineforeman.

Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence

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Last year, for example, a program created by scientists at the Swiss A. I. Lab at the University of Lugano won a pattern recognition contest by outperforming both competing software systems and a human expert in identifying images in a database of German traffic signs.

The winning program accurately identified 99.46 percent of the images in a set of 50,000; the top score in a group of 32 human participants was 99.22 percent, and the average for the humans was 98.84 percent.

via Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence – NYTimes.com.

Orange Finds Its Web Services Voice

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The app has been launched for iOS in 95 countries and will be ready for Android early next year. It is free for anyone to download, no matter which mobile network they are on. It enables users to make free high-definition voice calls and send instant messages to other Libon users over mobile or Wi-Fi connections, as well as set up three personalized visual voicemails that can be set to respond to certain individuals or contact groups. In addition, voicemails can be updated with the user’s most recent Twitter of Facebook status messages (converted into a voicemail using a text-to-speech tool — that could be interesting…).

via Orange Finds Its Web Services Voice – 4G/LTE – Telecom News Analysis – Light Reading Mobile.