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Quantum Computers LLC - http://www.quantumlaptops.com/
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Who knew?: "Quantum Computers LLC has been producing Custom Built Computers since 1997. We originally started building High End Desktop models for customers who wanted Top of the Line Systems. In 2002 we began producing computers for Medical Offices, Chiropractors and Biofeedback Specialists. Today we design & build both Desktop and Notebook computers for almost every application. In just a short period of time, our reputation has travelled the globe, and we have become one of the best Specialty Computer suppliers in the USA. Quantum Computers are currently being used in 28 countries that we know of"
- Michael Nielsen
Someone better tell D-wave.
- Dave Bacon
Conversation Hackers - http://www.cognitionandculture.net/index...
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Article about online trolling. Uneven, but worth skimming and dipping in and out: "But what really happens in the virtual lobbies of the Flat Earth Society is more twisted. There is probably not a single sincere proponent of Flat Earth Theory on the whole site. Rather, the forum seems to have been designed as a gigantic Troll bait. The presence of Trolls is openly acknowledged on the forum, as some important moderators of the site, Flatters and Rounders alike, have been unmasked. They have been spotted on hacked private forums, where they were boasting about their hoax. Apparently, the 'Flat-Earthers' who created the site were really Trolls who planned to attract Round-earthers, and confound them with silly arguments. Instead, other Trolls showed up and began arguing for both positions."
- Michael Nielsen
Zooniverse - http://www.zooniverse.org/
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The Zooniverse launches! A home for the ever-growing suite of projects inspired by Galaxy Zoo.
- Michael Nielsen
Submitted CAREER proposal & posted to Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc... Open proposal for an open science project!
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Thank you to everyone who helped and encouraged on this and offered future support! Among many things, one thing I'm a bit embarrassed about is the lack of details in the "broader impacts" and open science parts of the proposal. Definitely it needs more planning and better writing, and the panelists are going to point that out. Hopefully you all understand that it's a product of spending all my time trying to make the research parts as good as I could.
- Steve Koch
good luck Steve!
- Jean-Claude Bradley
A small step for a team, but a giant leap for #science .
- Daniel Mietchen
Good luck!
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Thanks everyone! I sort of dropped off the map after submitting the proposal. One of my most successful attempts at actually vacating during a vacation.
- Steve Koch
Bummer! Just found out tonight that the proposal was not funded. I have done one read-through of the reviews. First of all, I am once again amazed at the time and effort the reviewers put into reviewing my proposal. There were 6 reviewers in total and they all had a page or more of feedback. And they all pretty much agreed on the main points: (a) interesting proposal that is worth...
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- Steve Koch
Thank you Jean-Claude, Andy, Cameron, and Drew for the Open Science support letters! I am sure that was key to the very positive reviews for Open Science. Thank you to everyone else on friendfeeed who supports me and our other lab members. We now have 7 months to obtain the preliminary data and get a couple publications, and indeed we are now poised to do so. I am confident the lab members can do this, and by eliminating (b) and (c) above, all signs point towards this being a very strong proposal next time.
- Steve Koch
well done all 'round! next time you'll knock 'em dead.
- D0r0th34
for the CAREER third time is often the charm - good luck for next round
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Thanks, Jean-Claude and Dorothea. The CAREER "3rd time's a charm" effect is part of the reason I submitted without strong preliminary data. (But I also thought we'd be able to generate the data in time for the 2nd submission. Now, though, I'm SURE we can before July :) )
- Steve Koch
After thinking about it for a couple days now, I am still very happy that they viewed the open science so positively. I think that's a big deal.
- Steve Koch
absolutely Steve - very good feedback about OS being a positive to the funders
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Steve, this looks really really promising. If you can come up with interesting data for the next resubmit, I think you have a great chance to get funded. Congratulations!
- Bill Hooker
Thanks, Bill!
- Steve Koch
There are more words in the Wikipedia article about Glennallen, AK then there are people in the town.
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Meeting with two Media Arts majors at UNM, discussing ideas for collaborations on science outreach. Thinking that a video explaining Open Science to the general public may be a good idea?
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Definitely!
- Mr. Gunn
We were mulling over a few ideas: (1) Like I mentioned in the title of this post: A combined video / screencast to explain what scientists are doing nowadays to make progress towards open science. Audience would be general public and scientists. Could use friendfeed as a starting point and then show things like open notebook science, etc...
- Steve Koch
(2) Making a 5 minute video explaining the Open Notebook Science we're doing in Junior physics lab here. Target audience: other science instructors around the globe who'd be interested in using our experience to add open notebook science to their own courses.
- Steve Koch
(3) (This what inspired our meeting, but then we thought up 1 and 2 above while talking) Making science videos explaining the research in our lab. Target audience: general public.
- Steve Koch
(4) (This just occurred to me, we didn't talk about it): We could collaborate on making high-quality protocols videos. Something like in JoVE, but produced locally. I like all of these ideas and glad I met these students!
- Steve Koch
Very cool, Steve. What can I do to help?
- Mr. Gunn
Why don't you make a similar video explaining Open Science to scientists? I bet you will find a larger (or smaller) audience.
- Paulo Nuin
I agree it would be larger or smaller :). @Mr. Gunn, thanks! I don't know what help -- the barrier now is to know what to do. Which of those #1-4 seem most worthwhile to you and most in need of digital media experts? #4 is the easiest for me to imagine, since I actually know what I'm trying to convey. #1 is the hardest, since I'm not sure how to coherently explain that.
- Steve Koch
I am going to put a bit in my NSF CAREER budget for these projects. Talking with the students today, it seems like they could get academic credit for the project in the Media Arts programs, and also get access to the equipment. So, even there, I'm not sure what I'd need to budget for.
- Steve Koch
And BTW: Both of these students took my Physics 102 "Conceptual Physics" course and did very well. So, this is cool validation for the whole teaching/research synergy idea.
- Steve Koch
What is Open Science?
- Paulo Nuin
I'll give this some thought, Steve. I've got my hands busy right now in terms of developing a presentation, but of course you're welcome to reuse any of my or Mary Canady's slides.
- Mr. Gunn
@Paulo: what I mean by the term is the application of the free-as-in-speech principles of Free/Open Source Software to the entire enterprise of science. The Blue Obelisk folks refer to ODOSOS (http://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki... Open Data, Open Source, and Open Standards); to this I would add Open Access (publishing) and Open Licensing, to give the "five pillars" of Open Science.
- Bill Hooker
Hmm. Open Data, Open Source, Open Access, and Open Standards are all forms of open licensing, aren't they? Or is there something specifically called Open Licensing that I'm not aware of?
- Michael R. Bernstein
What I mean by Open Licensing is CC-style explicit permissions for re-use in copyright, and things like Science Commons' MTA or CAMBIA's BiOS licenses for stuff that's covered by patents. So yes, that's all part of Open Foo, but I think there's more to Foo than just the licensing and more to licensing than Data/Source/Access/Standards.
- Bill Hooker
Ah. Open Content covers CC licenses, I'm not sure what to call MTA and CAMBIA BiOS.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Other possibilities might be to include a citizen science project as an example of what can be done with greater collaboration -- such projects are good entryways into outreach since they seem to make science "closer" to a non- or emerging scientist. You could even go so far as to tailor portions of your own projects to younger audiences (K-12) -- and by doing so entice classrooms of...
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- Mickey Schafer
Sounds like a great idea and one I'm all in favour of. An idea, Steve. You might want to alert SciVee's Prof Phil Bourne http://www.scivee.tv/user/phil as I'm pretty sure he'd be [1] interested and [2] willing to lend a hand in hosting/promoting this type of project.
- Graham Steel
Hey Mickey, Thanks for those ideas! Definitely interesting to me and will think about it. @Graham -- thanks for that link, I will definitely contact him when we have a clearer idea of what we're wanting to do.
- Steve Koch
If you're looking for additional inspiration, try googling "digital ethnography" -- you should get to the Kansas State stuff (both their blog/web pages and youtube videos) -- you may or may not like the science-y part (anthropology -- the first video ever produced in the series was fairly annoying to me, though the subsequent ones are quite interesting), but they have some great teaching experiments using web re/sources that you might find useful.
- Mickey Schafer
Second Mickey's recommendation. Very interesting stuff - e.g., a short presentation at: http://www.youtube.com/watch.... I really like the idea of doing something of similar impact for open science. The longer 55 minute Library of Congress talk from the same channel is well worth watching, IMO.
- Michael Nielsen
That's spectacular!
- Steve Koch
STeve - It'd be really nice to have something similar for open science. Some visual ideas I like are to make a movie of the version history on, e.g., OWW, or the Polymath wiki; visualizations of the evolving network of relationships from, e.g., GeneWiki... I'll bet things like diseases gradually being understood are actually visible in the network of links on Wikipedia.
- Michael Nielsen
Steve - Jon Udell does an awesome Wikipedia movie at http://jonudell.net/umlaut.swf Things get really fun a couple of minutes in...
- Michael Nielsen
Hey Michael, that too is very cool. And I really like your idea of adapting that for OWW or the other sites. I don't know if the students I talked with are good at that or not. Looking at the things you linked me made me realize that if I'm going to be heavily involved (say as "producer" with the $), then I think I'm missing some talents to lead those kinds of things. So, maybe I'm not...
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- Steve Koch
Demonstration is a more effective way of explaining a concept than just explanation is anyway! Hmm. That could've been more elegantly expressed. In any case, Demo of what you are doing with some discussion of implications (pedagogical to philosophical) also sounds like a great project.
- Mickey Schafer
Hi All -- Met again with Noel and Leslie (the Media Arts peeps), and we've planned to start making the video on November 23. We're planning on short video showing what we're doing in Junior Lab with Open Notebook Science. General plan can be seen here: http://docs.google.com/Doc... and a list of potential interview questions is being generated here: http://docs.google.com/Doc...
- Steve Koch
Muchas excellentos
- Graham Steel
Minimalist X window managers on Apple OS X « Lantern Three, LLC - Vimperator - http://www.lanternthree.com/blog...
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Minimalist X window managers on Apple OS X Perhaps you have used a full-time *NIX box as your main desktop in the past. In many cases, you will probably find that many of those folks are just using Apple machines now, due to the aesthetics of the hardware, ease of native use of Windows and *NIX applications, giving you the best of all three worlds (licensing is another topic . . . ). This is a great way to stick with your normal OS X install, but be able to switch back to just X11 so you can have tons of windows open and be able to read everything quickly. This setup does not require any dual-booting, nerfing of copy/paste, etc. I’ve been doing this with Leopard and Snow Leopard. I prefer xmonad, but haven’t succeeded in building it cleanly on fresh installs of Snow Leopard, so am providing two sets of instructions.
- Karl D'Adamo
The Open PhD – What a Concept - http://openphd.wordpress.com/2009...
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"I am going to create my own Ph.D. program via open education using open courseware. My degree will be in Educational Technology with an emphasis in (what else?) Open Education as the Great Equalizer. As the tagline to my blog states: it will be all the learning, with none of the “doc”-uments. (Or none of the “cred”-entials). But I will have the knowledge; and, in the end, isn’t that the most important thing? (Oh, and I will still have my $45,000)."
- Michael Nielsen
A Computational View of Market Efficiency - http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4580
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"We propose to study market efficiency from a computational viewpoint. Borrowing from theoretical computer science, we define a market to be efficient with respect to resources S (e.g., time, memory) if no strategy using resources S can make a profit. As a first step, we consider memory-m strategies whose action at time t depends only on the m previous observations at times t-m,...,t-1. We introduce and study a simple model of market evolution, where strategies impact the market by their decision to buy or sell. We show that the effect of optimal strategies using memory m can lead to "market conditions" that were not present initially, such as (1) market bubbles and (2) the possibility for a strategy using memory m' > m to make a bigger profit than was initially possible. We suggest ours as a framework to rationalize the technological arms race of quantitative trading firms. "
- Michael Nielsen
Thanks for pointing out this paper Michael...I'm writing a rant paper and this fits in perfectly!
- Dave Bacon
What's the rant, Dave?
- Michael Nielsen
(Incidentally I'm reading Jane Jacobs' awesome book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" at the moment. It appears to be entirely rant. At least, the first 80 pages are. Very highly recommended.)
- Michael Nielsen
Explicit semantic analysis (pdf) - http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/%7Egabr...
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Very interesting paper on extracting concepts from a very large corpus of data (e.g., Wikipedia), using ideas based on latent semantic analysis. The rough idea seems to be to do a singular value decomposition (SVD) of the word-frequency matrix, and then to truncate the SVD to a much smaller "concept space". The isometries appearing in the SVD can then be used to define a rotation into concept space. These rotations can then be used to compare general phrases, e.g., "the author wrote a blog post" versus "the essayist penned an essay", seeing how closely they overlap in concept space. For more details, see the paper. I wonder how much the results would be improved by starting with a larger corpus (e.g., Google's cache of the web).
- Michael Nielsen
I'm pretty sure this xkcd flow chart describes many more processes than just tech support... - http://xkcd.com/627/
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xkcd - Tech Support Cheat Sheet
- Noah Gray
from Bookmarklet
Actually, I will print this out. Several times...
- Björn Brembs
very like
- Richard Akerman
from BuddyFeed
i wonder if i could somehow slip this to someone at work... hm.
- Christina Pikas
I just emailed this to my dad, shattering his worship of my "mad tech skills"
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
I pretty much just tell everyone to "google it" these days
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Exactly, Paulo, haha, forgot that site existed.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Cosma Shalizi's course on Data Mining - http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshali...
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Lecture notes included. I wish I'd looked at these earlier - the bits I've read are very informative.
- Michael Nielsen
11 Famous People Who Were in the Completely Wrong Career at Age 30 - 11Points.com - http://www.11points.com/Persona...
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"At age 30, [Julia] Child wasn't cooking... she was working for the U.S. government as a spy. She went on clandestine missions to China and Sri Lanka (which, at the time, was called Ceylon) to get intelligence documents to agents in the field. She didn't enter cooking school until age 36."
- Michael Nielsen
Encouraging for someone who recently passed 30 :)
- Andrew Perry
Must not fall behind Jesus.
- Dave Bacon
As I said in my defense last week, "I'm in my 30s, married, with a kid on the way. I'm probably not in contention for a Nobel." Maybe!
- Mr. Gunn
F*cking annoying popup on that site.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
What browser Jack ? Using Firefox, I can't say I've actually seen a popup successfully pop-up to annoy me in many years.
- Andrew Perry
Firefox in Linux, Andrew. I know, it surprised me, too. Took 5 clicks to close it. It was only momentarily irritating.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Nice. Now find me a list of folks who still hadn't found their career by 45. :(
- Spidra Webster
so, Julia Child was that blonde woman in the Bourne movies? *headexplodey*
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"The biggest lesson learned, according to members of the two top teams, was the power of collaboration. It was not a single insight, algorithm or concept that allowed both teams to surpass the goal Netflix, the movie rental company, set nearly three years ago: to improve the movie recommendations made by its internal software by at least 10 percent, as measured by predicted versus actual one-through-five-star ratings by customers. Instead, they say, the formula for success was to bring together people with complementary skills and combine different methods of problem-solving."
- Michael Nielsen
Fwd: Virtual conference quandary for researchers - http://www.rsc.org/chemist... (via http://friendfeed.com/hiroshe...)
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Love the quote from the Elsevier person. "Karel Nederveen, publishing director for chemistry at Elsevier, agrees that pre-publication is a tricky problem: 'The community, including the publishers, needs to hammer it out and agree on what constitutes publication.'" (Am I the only one that hears "and that model better include us making $" after this :) )
- Dave Bacon
FriendFeed has been almost completely blocked in Iran as far as we can tell. We have a large number of very active Iranian users, and we noticed a steep decline in activity yesterday. Graph below.
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:(
- Paul Buchheit
:( :(
- Rachel Lea Fox
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Related to the election?
- τorƍue
:(
- Ross Miller
that's so bad...
- Eren Emre Kanal
:-(
- Kevin Fox
τorƍue: Yes, as far as we know
- Bret Taylor
این نمودار نشاندهنده افت فرندفید به دلیل بسته شدن آن در ایران است
- Mycaptain
Bret: Is this based on IP numbers located in Iran, or actual activity from those users? If it's IP based, it'd be interesting to see the activity on a user basis and see if they've been able to route around the blocking.
- Ken Sheppardson
:(
- Marina Remi
Could it be related to Twitter being blocked (and therefore the twitter traffic import being blocked)?
- Stephan Osmont
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- Jim Norris
Some users are definitely going through proxies. This is total # of unique visits from IPs originating in Iran
- Bret Taylor
That tells it's own, sad, story.
- WorldofHiglet
:(((
- Oğuz Serdar
Wow.
- Rochelle
If Twitter were blocked and FriendFeed weren't, I'd expect an uptick in FriendFeed activity, not a 92% drop.
- Kevin Fox
I.e. given all the users who've previously accessed the site from an Iran IP number, how many have been active from different numbers in the past 2 days.
- Ken Sheppardson
Sad.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Instead of "liking" this, shouldn't we have an "unlike" button?
- Steven Melfi
:( Bret: According to Stephen fry, these are the iran proxies: 218.128.112.18:8080 218.206.94.132:808 218.253.65.99:808 219.50.16.70:8080 . Can you track these IPs?
- Roberto Bonini
I knew this day was coming. Too bad.
- Robert Scoble
Steven - same feeling here. I always feel weird "liking" bad stories on FF
- Mike Bracco
How does traffic from China look? Or North Korea?
- τorƍue
:(
- Helen Sventitsky
do not like :(
- Tamara
@τorƍue Twitter has been restored in China
- Stephan Osmont
Hey... we saw issues with blogfa.com as well: http://blog.spinn3r.com/2009...
- Kevin A. Burton
like for spread but not like for the situation
- Imprenditore
I wonder what the international community can do about stuff like this. Eventually the "bad guys" will lose.
- Michiel Sikkes
Hopefully, we'll never see a graph like this for Turkey...
- Onur Şentüre
that's because the government has blocked access to friendfeed,twitter,facebook,youtube and ... after election and after protests in Iran cities !
- Farshad
Man... :( That's really a corrupt government. Hope it gets better soon.
- Peter
That's horrible.
- Barış (beyn.org)
Kheyzaran mentioned over the weekend that both Twitter and FF were blocked for Iran starting I believe on Friday. He is using a proxy when possible to keep us updated
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bret, any analysis about how many people unable to access FF directly are still able to access it via proxy?
- Daniel Dulitz
:-(
- bookmeister
:( Let the voices be heard!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
So sad...
- Luka
Sigh :(
- Havang
can you suggest a way in friendfeed to show the situation in iran to the world ? its very important
- Farshad
I doubt any regular North Koreans have computers τorƍue
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Daniel: Well, we are still getting a bunch of Farsi comments and posts. They may be Persians from outside Iran or from Iranians using proxies. We don't have a detailed analysis breaking those down at this point.
- Bret Taylor
The stigmata of evil.
- Tim Tyler
all cominucation devices are blocked .even phone & cell phones !
- MohammadReza
see this for example : http://abcnews.go.com/Interna...
- Farshad
Watching the "guerrilla cyberwarfare" aspect of the elections and reactions has been fascinating. Iran's universities are obviously full of resourceful, passionate geeks.
- John Craft
not good in terms of freedom
- Sheri Fresonke Harper
this is really bad. i hope there's some resolution to this. the people or iran have shown a lot of strength and courage to protest the illegitimacy of recent events. i don't think this will stop things
- Cee Bee
Is it possible that the same folks from Iran that are active on Friendfeed are the ones out protesting?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
please help us , we are under attack ,change friendfeed logo if you can
- فرزاد
we need a new way
- Semiramis
@MVB we all are Protests
- MohammadReza
That's sad.
- EricaJoy
:( Dislike.
- Ruchira S. Datta
:(
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
P.S. Kevin should turn the logo green in support of the Iranian's being disenfranchised.
- EricaJoy
:((
- ramin
For those that are in Iran: Have you tried http://fftogo.com as a workaround?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
make a room for us, invite your friends we will fill it with latest news
- Farshad
I'm completely for having a fair vote, but I'm not sure that I'd want to try and align FriendFeed with a particular candidate, which is what a green logo would imply.
- Kevin Fox
Many iranians using proxies to access FF. and therefore their IPs changes to fake IP .
- آدمیرال
MohammadReza: Maryam's mom is still able to call her relatives and friends in Tehran, so they are keeping some voice traffic open, if not all.
- Robert Scoble
Farshad, I'm trying to post news here: http://friendfeed.com/world-n...
- Kol Tregaskes
No words for that...
- Frank
thanks kol :)
- Farshad
If Iran thinks they have nothing to fear, then why block Friendfeed?
- Frode Stenstrøm
Frode: because the government is like China: they believe that by retarding the flow of information they will reduce the threat of protests and governmental overthrow.
- Robert Scoble
Very reminiscent of the prelude to the fall of the Shah
- Alan Morris
I don't speak Persian, so I don't know all the searches, but there are still (luckily) a lot of Persian users posting: http://friendfeed.com/search.... If you are Persian and looking for updates, try our search engine to find the few users who still have access.
- Bret Taylor
Frode: and in Iran's case, they are run by conservative religious authorities and they don't like the fact that they are not in control of information flow like they used to be. They like to think they can still control information sources and, since they can't, they try to block places where their citizens can go to share information.
- Robert Scoble
is it a joke? iranian users seems the %90 of friend feed. it could not be real!
- Fırat DEMİREL
Firat: There are no units on the vertical axis of the chart.
- Ken Sheppardson
Firat: This is a chart of traffic from Iran, not of FF's total traffic.
- Kevin Fox
Firat, i doubt that this graph is a percentage graph... probably more likely that it's measuring hits, sessions, or total data transfered (mb, kb, etc)
- Chris Heath
Kevin: what impact did this have on FF's overall traffic?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Iran is the #6 country for FriendFeed in terms of page views per day.
- Bret Taylor
something is cooking out there...
- mehdi
Thanks all for answers. i told that it could not be real.. :) excuse me, i ve just read Bret's notice and looked at breaking point. i saw what i've missed before.. bad news for ff and iran.. :(
- Fırat DEMİREL
These statistics are incredible, especially the normally heavy useage of FF in Iran.
- Curt Mercadante
Bret Taylor, we can tag our pix and vids about iran election by an english keyword such as 'iran' or 'iranelection'. I think it will help to ff non-persian users to find out more about unrests in iran.
- آدمیرال
Iran restored cell phone service Sunday that had been down in the capital since Saturday. But Iranians still could not send text messages from their mobile phones, and the government increased its Internet filtering in an apparent attempt to undercut opposition voices. Social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter were also not working.
- Üstün Üzüm
Do *not* like. :(
- Pete Delucchi
:(
- Russ Jackson
:(
- Mitch
آقا یکی توضیح بده اینکه من(ما) لایک میزنیم! عملا دیسلایک ه ! :(
- younes
Younes says that our likes to this graph mean dislike to tehran's regime censorship
- آدمیرال
I can't find any evidence of Twitter being blocked in Iran. Anyone?
- Martin Bryant
TechCrunch just picked this up: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for the translation آدمیرال !
- Ross Miller
ممنونم آدمیرال عزیز
- younes
خواهش دوست من.
- آدمیرال
martin: those words are not mine actually from a news article from washinton post.
- Üstün Üzüm
On twitter people are retweeting the IPs and ports of unblocked proxies, can we do something like that here?
- Canageek
martin, i'm from iran. twitter is blocked. what evidence you wanna? screenshot!?
- آدمیرال
yes Canageek. we use proxies for tweeting
- آدمیرال
Authorities blocking the internet are just reinforcing solidarity between people, can't they understand ?
- Stanislas Jourdan
Stanislas: not to mention they encourage their smartest and richest people to leave (the ones who have technical skills). There's a reason why Silicon Valley has 10,000 or more Iranians living here. Their government sucks and the people are getting tired of it. Of course if their government was great I would never have met my wife (who grew up in Tehran). So, there is good to come out of a crappy government! :-)
- Robert Scoble
it has always seemed to me that the iranian user base is ENORMOUS here. wow. unbelievable.
- edythe
It is interesting how much civil unrest that is brewing across the globe towards their governments. The knee jerk reactions in attempting to block certain websites shows how much they didn't expect the net to become such a widespread conduit for cutting through the bs and informing those that wish to know. I wish those who take a stand all the best.
- alphaxion
:(
- Roberto
Another way for those that are in Iran is to access through Netvibes (but I don't know if it works or if it's blocked too), adding Friendfeed, Gmail and so on such as modules
- Roberto
Thanks for sharing this, Bret. It's valuable evidence of what's going on, evidence which wouldn't have been available even a few years ago.
- Michael Nielsen
sad
- Pedro Beltrao
Very interesting...so much for democracy and voting rights in Iran...
- freedom fighter mom
If anybody in Iran feels up to it, can you temporarily disable your proxy and run a traceroute to friendfeed.com and twitter.com then post the results here?
- EricaJoy
Bret and Paul, can you let us know if the traffic comes back, which would tell us they've unblocked FriendFeed?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: absolutely, we will let everyone know when it comes back up
- Bret Taylor
from email
Steven: You Like that it was posted, not the content of the post.
- Tanath
Bret, thanks for sharing the info about the dive. Shame, but what could we have expected from the Iranian status quo?
- Jon Osterholm
البته یه چیز هم هست اونکه بعد از فیلترینگ همه با آی پی غیر ایرانی می ان فرندفید و برای همنی آمارشون اینجا ثبت نمیشه ... وگرنه فکر نمی کنم از لحاظ تعداد نفراتی که میومدن کم شده باشه ... بلکه هم بیشتر
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
Yes, it happend and we have to use proxy to access friendfeed. Look at democracy in Iran...
- Zahra (raoros)
The coversations and comments here are educational.
- Seek Ground
@بی بی, you might try https://friendfeed.com/
- Jim Norris
:(
- imabonehead
Damn.
- Steven Perez
http://mojipage.com register in this website and add ff widget! twitter is blocked in iran so I am posting twitts by a script or choqok(http://choqok.gnufolks.org/)
- ★amin.m★
from MojiPage
Good luck to all of you trying to get around the censorship. I hope the big sites are doing what they can to help out.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Looking at the potential of this event in the future for numerous causes is mind-boggling. Really amazing.
- Charlie Anzman
Come to think of it, does FF have a presence in China? I'd imagine it's blocked there. I've seen Chinese on here, but never sure if that's from China or speakers outside.
- anna sauce
Tnx Bret
- Conformist / Unforgiven
Thnaks :)
- Exir
این چی میگه؟
- Lord hozeh
ببین شب انتخاباتی چکار کردیم با این فرفر. wow!
- ali
چه همه لااااااااااااااااایک!
- ali
:((
- AJ Batac
Damn.
- Derrick
Expected.
- Michael W. May
Yes, Friendfeed is blocked in Iran. Right now the papers and TV channels here are controlled by the government and our access to satellite channels is blocked too. Friendfeed and Twitter are quite vital for us now. Our main source of exchanging information and news is Friendfeed. Via Friendfeed we let everyone know that where people need help and where to go and how to help them and...
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- Selma
Selma: does https://friendfeed.com/ work for you?
- Bret Taylor
Nope, they have blocked all https addresses, we have had to sign in to Friendfeed via anti-filters for the past few months.
- Selma
its a shame. it was one the main media we used to inform ppl. thats why they filtered it. now many users cant sign in
- Myri∂m
Can't we "help" in some way? Providing proxies, I don't know, the kind of stuff pirates do. Pirates, and people trying to make a Revolution happen....
- Zackatoustra
It may not be long before Turkey joins the party.
- Sarp Tüzün
It's very sad to see this happen
- Michael Fidler
tnx all of you...
- emin
internet was our last hope ...but it block...and we cant use it easily...
- Opium
:(
- Caroline
I just spoke with my friend Andres, the main BBC correspondent for the Middle East/Afghanistan, and he mentioned the web is being fire walled in Iran much the same as the the "Great Firewall" during last year's Olympics in China.
- sofarsoShawn
The Iranian websites that people used to exchange information about the election protests in Iran are under cyber-attacks by the government forces and from anonymous sources. Many of them are down right now. These Iranian websites were our few last remaining channels to inform people. What can we do about that? Is there anyone out there who can help us with this?
- emin
i was 53rd active user in friendfeed until this filtering. now i can open FF with proxies and if i can fine. a Vpn but many Vpn here come from companies that have relations with security services, i thunk they allow us to bypass filternig and then, they will arrest who has wrote against their goals
- خیزران kheyzaran
Can't we transfer the data/databases of the sites you, iranian guys, use to any new domain we could buy? I want to help. Not by throwing rocks to "security service" forces, but, at least, by making possible for what YOU have to say to go public, worldwide.
- Zackatoustra
FF is a useful website for Iranian People to get reliable information about demonstration against presidential election.
- پارسـا
so so sorry for iran people... I hope they will win...
- Tanaydin Sirin
and Now Yahoo messenger and google talk blocked in iran :((((
- پارسـا
Some amazing images from Iran - http://ff.im/42pgD
- Brent - Loving Life
Does http://fftogo.com work still?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Selma: 1- I don't use a proxy but clearing all but one (deleting them all logs me out) instance of each friendfeed.com cookie name and refreshing the page always solves this for me in Firefox. Has never happened on Lunascape or IE. Good luck.
- Alexandros Georgiadis
google block fftogo for iranian users!!!
- ★amin.m★
Friendfeedがイランでblockされているというコトらしい。いったいどういう理由でだか分からないけれど……もし、国内のゴタゴタの影響であればいずれtwitterも、ということになりかねないのかも。／でも、fftogoを使えば迂回できるのかな？
- Sakurai.Catshop
What about email, amin.m? Are you able to post to FF by emailing share@friendfeed?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I don't know about email. now I am using freegate or another site like http://mojipage.com
- ★amin.m★
Could http://dev.ctor.org/f2p, http://frienddeck.com or http://peoplebrwsr.com work for friendfeed?
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Very sad.
- Parth Awasthi
The reason I ask is because if you can email a post, then try sending it to share@friendfeed and also to YourUserName@friendfeed. Then when someone comments you'll receive an email about it and you can comment back to the thread via email as well.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No wonder why !
- Pelin
+ don't use your ISP's DNS server, verify your Firewall, search for rootkits.. + If you really wanna use Tor, be 'mobile', check the onion's status, don't be too confident, continue to use encrypted protocols & 'mobile' ports. At least, read Tor's docs and articles about Tor & privacy/security..
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
now chat like gmail or yahoo messenger are blocked too
- egza
I don't know if these can help but I put them here anyway http://www.noiseriver.com/ http://moopz.com/
- M F
Alexandros: Frienddeck could work for certain parts - posts and queries against user accounts are proxied through the App Engine, searches are direct against Friendfeed so they could probably not work.
- Paul Kinlan
Thanks :((
- مـهدی معتمد
:( booooooo
- Duncan Rawlinson
:o
- FKU
DAMN!
- Vicey
whoa, NOT good
- Susan Beebe
We wish the people of Iran well in these difficult times
- Marc
Not good at all. Best wishes to the Iranian FFers. I hope this whole mess gets cleared up quickly and with as little violence as possible
- Kamilah Gill
this is terribly wrong
- Francisco Costa
A government that takes away people's Friendfeed will not last long.
- Goran Zec
WOW CRAZY
- Matt Kaufman
I like that 667 people liked this, that's 667 people hoping it all gets resolved justly and peacefully.
- Steve C
now we are 676 people who liked that =) hoping too everthing gets resolved peacefully.
- Ibrahim Tarlig
Bret, is there any update on this? Is activity still low?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes, we are still being blocked
- Bret Taylor
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
:-(
- Arif Siddiquee
definitely DON'T LIKE this... >_< ...would love to be able do more than retweeting proxies
- Daniele
Best regards from Chile to all iranian people, we know a lot about bad government and human rights. Good luck, strength and courage to all of you.
- Roberto Arancibia
:(
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
It's to bad there is such attempts to block free flow of information, how long will it be before there is more amazing differences happening? Such limits, hmm.
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
They have to keep the militants in check. Thank goodness for the pipes that were broken.
- tony
بیا بالا ای فید من
- egza
Digg.com is block in Iran now.
- Sahandram
:-(
- Paolo Valzania
:((
- Mitchell Tsai
Interesting censorship- same can happen in America - I would like to talk to you abt Friendfeed and bringing over some large groups do you have time?
- JanSimpson
I've seen those censorship about FriendFeed (Iran). Do you know some interesting and objective blogposts about it?
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
:(
- Rachel Lea Fox
Do you have a similar graph as ff's been blocked in China?
- K.D.
And China now has a similar blockage. You should also check on it.
- Kenyth
Sometimes we forget how easy we have it than other countries. But until people revolt & I mean a HUGE revolution injustices will still go on.
- Gabriella Sannino
ای بابا این فید رو شخم زدن :))
- egza
پرلایک ترین فید فرفره این
- ramin
jeddi?
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
from IM
آره حامد آمارشو قبلا در آورده ام
- egza
che jaleb , oonvaght por comment dartarin feed kodoome? bebinim mishe feed 2khtare mardom e farzad davan davan ro be oon beresoonim?
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
from IM
حامد اینجا رو ببین http://friendfeed.com/amirsem...
- egza
ba mobile am ... to bebin bara manam tarif kon :D
- HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ
from IM
بعد از این فید که هستمی این http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... در رده دوم لایکه ,اینجا شش هزار و خورده ای کامنت داره http://friendfeed.com/ideali... این فید از فارسی زبانان فرفر همین نیما خودمون http://friendfeed.com/nimaa... در لایک 204 تا این هم از آیدا http://friendfeed.com/elaheye... بیشتر از 2400 کامنت داره
- egza
Solving a Hamiltonian Path Problem with a bacterial computer - http://www.jbioleng.org/content...
Dave Bacon, Juvenn Woo and Nikhil Dandekar liked this
What's emphasized in the abstract is the NP-completeness, which I think is a pity, because it doesn't seem to be what's really interesting here. What's interesting is that this is another step in using synthetic biology to approach universal computation: "We successfully designed, constructed, and tested a bacterial computer capable of finding a Hamiltonian path in a three node directed graph. This proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates that bacterial computing is a new way to address NP-complete problems using the inherent advantages of genetic systems. The results of our experiments also validate synthetic biology as a valuable approach to biological engineering. We designed and constructed basic parts, devices, and systems using synthetic biology principles of standardization and abstraction. "
- Michael Nielsen
I wonder if those in synthetic biology get mad about articles. I mean it's very cool stuff, but the emphasis on solving a (thought to be) computationally intractable problem just seems...oddly misguided?
- Dave Bacon
There's a healthy discussion on this on the Guardian newspaper's blog (I've never seen complexity classes mentioned on a mainstream newspaper site before!) http://bit.ly/V0lmz
- Dan Browne
I am concerned that the number of particle theorists who have tasted sweet blood from a clean kill has dwindled dangerously low.
Dave Bacon liked this
The Project for Non-Academic Science : Uncertain Principles - http://scienceblogs.com/princip...
Neil Saunders, Dave Bacon, Geoff Wozniak and 2 other people liked this
Great idea, and the first few interviews are now up: "I plan to post a series of short interviews with people who have science degrees, but are not working in academia. The idea here is to provide information on career options for scientists and science majors beyond the "go to grad school, do a post-doc, get a faculty position" track that is too often assumed to be the default. Accordingly, I've sent each of the volunteers ten questions about their careers, and I'll be posting their answers to those questions over the next several days."
- Michael Nielsen
So when are you submitting yours Michael? ;)
- Dave Bacon
The Quantum Theory of Library Budgets « socialWring - http://cpwilson.wordpress.com/2009...
Deborah Fitchett, Christopher Granade, John Dupuis and Dave Bacon liked this
"From the decrepit, dust-ridden shelves of the KB Library comes the dirt speckled copy of Introduction to Quantum Theory: Third Edition by David Park, a book that introduces the field of quantum theory. While from the clean, well kept new shelves of the newly renovated Main Library we have Introducing Quantum Theory: First Edition by the team of J.P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate, an “international bestseller” that also seeks to introduce the field of quantum theory. Fun now follows."
- Chad Orzel
The Ken Griffey Jr Experience - http://gradness.blogspot.com/2009...
Dave Bacon and Steve Koch liked this
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
Zach Landes, Andy Bakun, Robert Felty and 19 other people liked this
The man below says, "Yes, you are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 40 feet above this field. You are between 46 & 48 degrees N latitude and between 52 & 56 degrees W. longitude." "You must be an engineer," says the balloonist. "I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
- τorƍue
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct but I have no idea what to make of your information and the fact is I am still lost."
- τorƍue
The man below says, "You must be a Manager" "I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," says the man below, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met but now it is somehow my fault."
- τorƍue
*ROFL*
- Rene Wirtz
Then Mark, who must be a pedant, came along and replied to the engineer, "yes, but he asked if you could help him, not for you to tell him where he was." Thank you, I'll be here all week!
- Mark Trapp
The engineer finishes with "...and you got where you are on a lot of hot air".
- Frère Noël
"I strongly suspect" - http://www.google.com/search...
Chad Orzel, Dave Bacon, Nikhil Dandekar and 4 other people liked this
A nice Google catch about Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science", from Danielle Fong.
- Michael Nielsen
OK, Stephen Wolfram definitely seems to like this expression. But what do you make of it? Anything wrong with strong suspicions?
- François Dongier
Yeah, I don't get it either. What's the point here?
- Bill Hooker
I strongly suspect that those who strongly suspect are themselves quite suspect.
- Dave Bacon
I smell some circularity in this argument: if Wolfram bases his criticism of OKS on "a need for new intuitions", shouldn't he be allowed to describe his own world view in subjective terms?
- François Dongier
Field-sensitive addressing and control of field-insensitive neutral-atom qubits : Abstract : Nature Physics - http://www.nature.com/nphys...
Dave Bacon liked this
"Here, we demonstrate the selection of individual qubits with external fields, while the qubits are in field-insensitive superpositions. We use a spatially inhomogeneous external field to map selected qubits to a different field-insensitive superposition, minimally perturbing unselected qubits, despite the fact that the addressing field is not spatially localized. We show robust single-qubit rotations on neutral-atom qubits located at selected lattice sites. This precise coherent control should be more generally applicable to state transfer and qubit isolation in other architectures using field-insensitive qubits."
- Chad Orzel
Is P=NP an Ill Posed Problem? « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009...
Christopher Granade, Daniel Lemire, Matt Leifer and 2 other people liked this
Nice post from Richard Lipton, pointing out that the P vs NP question is more subtle than it at first appears.
- Michael Nielsen
"For every polynomial algorithm you have, I have an exponential algorithm that I would rather run."
- Dave Bacon
Newton, P.I. | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicv...
Dave Bacon liked this
"Happily, Tom Levenson (of The Inverse Square, and one of our honored guest bloggers) has provided us with a fascinating peek into a telling episode in Newton’s later life — his career as a criminal investigator. Not really “P.I.”, as Newton was acting in his capacity as a government official, the Warden of the Mint. The story is closer to something from Law and Order or CSI — remarkably close, in fact. "
- Chad Orzel
JISC (UK) and funding for new technologies in higher education - http://michaelnielsen.org/blog...
'Mummi' Thorisson, Paul Bacchus, Mike Chelen and 5 other people liked this
Interesting comment from Andy McGregor about UK funding for new technologies in higher eduction, thought it might be of interest to many here. Here's an excerpt: "I work for an agency in the UK called JISC (http://www.jisc.ac.uk) that is set up to support education and research in higher education by promoting innovation in new technologies. We fund a lot of innovation projects in the area of scholarly communication, and it struck me reading the post how much of the work we are funding relates to the points you make in your article We have funded 40 rapid innovation projects these are short agile projects that have just started and are designed to experiment and try out solutions to user problems, similar to start ups you mention in your post. A couple which sprang to mind as I read your post and are worth mentioning are a way to manage and publish data sets which uses a notecard metaphor: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwed... and a way to use bayesian filtering...
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- Michael Nielsen
from Bookmarklet
JISC is one of the most innovative funders in this space in the UK (or indeed internationally). I dislike the way and the mode in which they fund (very short notice calls, far too little money) but nonetheless they have imagination an actually act on it in a way that other UK research councils rarely do. I have the usual sour grapes from not getting things which I thought were important funded obviously but even so the idea of the Rapid Innovation call was very cool.
- Cameron Neylon
How much is far too little money?
- Michael Nielsen
tends to be limited to around £50k which isn't enough to employ a new person. Which means in turn that if you don't have local staff on rolling contracts that you can bring up then you can't play. Have been a couple of exceptions recently, but that was no good because they gave the money to something else. It can be a very difficult game to break into from the outside of the existing community.
- Cameron Neylon
I wonder if you could talk with JISC about using the 50k to start spinoffs? YCombinator (Reddit, Backtype,Scribd and loads of other companies) typically starts companies with about 15k US, for 5-10% equity. The result is fantastically talented and motivated developers, with real ownership over the project (and thus determination to make it work). Of course, the money doesn't last long, but it's long enough to see if there's a there there, so to speak, and to attract further money.
- Michael Nielsen
Perhaps, although startups isn't really their remit. They are more focused on infrastructure for higher education so projects often have to use pieces of previously funded services. Thinking more and more that the only way to get those kind of things started is to get right out of the academic sector.
- Cameron Neylon
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