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The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) is offering support for resolve 23 mathematical problems, you can read the full rules here (sorry it's a DOC). This is the problems they want to solve: The Mathematics of the Brain . Develop a mathematical theory to build a functional model of the brain that is mathematically consistent and predictive rather than merely biologically inspired. The Dynamics of Networks. Develop the high-dimensional mathematics needed to accurately model and predict behavior in large-scale distributed networks that evolve over time occurring in communication, biology and the social sciences. Capture and Harness Stochasticity in Nature. Address Mumford’s call for new mathematics for the 21st century. Develop methods that capture persistence in stochastic environments. 21st Century Fluids. Classical fluid dynamics and the Navier -Stokes Equation were extraordinarily successful in obtaining quantitative understanding of shock waves, turbulence an...

Today when I was in the bus, a girl close to me was reading, she had a small block of cards, the cards had a hole in one side and a key ring attached together, simple and effective mode to keep the notes, the notes are some chemical formulas, the amino acids charts, one side was the formula, in the reverse of the card was the name, 3 letter abbreviation and the polar class. Yes, I remember when in college I learned all this information, also I build some molecules with my atomic-kit, to see the structure, and now I just see the ACGT codes, missing the 3D beauty. Amino Acid Short Abbrev. Side chain Polar pH Alanine A Ala -CH 3 - - Cysteine C Cys -CH 2 SH - acidic Aspartic acid D Asp -CH 2 COOH X acidic Glutamic acid E Glu -CH 2 CH 2 COOH X acidic Phenylalanine F Phe -CH 2 C 6 H 5 - - Glycine G Gly -H - - Histidine H His -CH 2 - C 3 H 3 N 2 X weak basic Isoleucine I Ile -...

Currently I use every day the best on the world browser: Mozilla Firefox , in all my computers (1 Linux laptop with dual Vista/Mandriva, other old laptop with Puppy Linux and 1 Mac with Leopard), some add-ons "cannot-live-without" I commonly install for Firefox are: All-in-One gestures . Control web actions with mouse movements. Download statusbar . Simple download status. Firefox Universal Uploader . To send/receive images from Picasa and Flickr Gmail manager . To check my mail. Link alert . You can "see" the link targets. Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer . To sync my bookmarks between computers. Ubiquity . Great tool in a web2.0 universe. While Google Chrome doesn't support tools like that (and native Linux/Mac versions), I hardly change the Fox.

Killer Tux from Cenek Strichel on Vimeo . Thanks to Xbit for the link.

BABY(1) USER COMMANDS BABY(1) NAME BABY - create new process from two parent processes SYNOPSIS BABY sex [ name ] SYSTEM V SYNOPSIS /usr/5bin/BABY [ -sex ] [ -name ] AVAILABILITY The System V version of this command is available with the Sys- tem V software installation option. Refer to Installing SunOS 4.1 for information on how to install and invoke BABY. DESCRIPTION BABY is initiated when one parent process polls another server process through a socket connection (BSD) or through pipes in the system V implementation. BABY runs at a low priority for approximately 40 weeks then terminates with heavy system load. Most systems require constant monitoring when BABY reaches it's final stages of execution. Older implementations of BABY required that the initiating process not be present at the time of completion, In these versions the initiating process is awakened and notified of the results upon compl...

Now I'm dad of a very cute girl, I'll be off-line the next 2 weeks.