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Virtual Pere-Lachaise

nwal — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:44:44 +0000

I’ve been on that famous Paris cemetery Pere-Lachaise a couple of years ago, pilgrimaging to Jim Morrison. Now I stumbled upon a nice flash site with an interative virtual walk through that place and lots of 360° panorama views.

Gapminder

nwal — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:16:07 +0000

Gapminder: Great tool to visualize data. From my point of view it’s still the beginning of what could and should be done to “free data”. At the moment it is restricted to some UN-data, but why shouldn’t it be opened to other data, too? Unfortunately was eaten by Google, but I hope they keep and further develop its main idea. Don’t miss the entertaining presentation by Hans Rosling.

Four Eyed Monsters

nwal — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:04:42 +0000

Four Eyed Monster: Although highly promoted as the first full length (71 min) feature film on Youtube, this movie is a nice piece of modern story telling. Nice camera, telling a multi level story about being anonymous in a city but desiring a relationship, which in the end of the day leaves you alone with lots of questions.

Multi-touch interface design

nwal — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:07:12 +0000

A video talk by Jeff Han from New York University presenting a multi-touch, pressure sensitive screen. The mid-near future of human-computer interaction?

Orion quantum computing system

nwal — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:43:33 +0000

d-wave just announced a public demo for an 16-qubit superconducting adiabatic quantum computer on rose.blog. I haven’t read the recommended papers yet but as far as I understood it is realized by a set of SQUIDs in a 4×4 array. Should next read the arxiv paper: arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0211152.

Will post some more about this promissing and scalable approach for commercial quantum computation applications as soon as I finished my diploma thesis on experimental quantum information coding in polarisation-entangled photon states.

finetune

nwal — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:31:59 +0000

finetune: I am no that sure whether it’s a worthy page to start this blog with but I just stumbled upon this web radio and playlist creation page. Is run by some ex-Napster & Co. guys. Especially I like the iTunes like CD-case navigation view. It is an alternative to Pandora, where playlists are created automatically by finding songs with musical similarities to a selected song.

Hello world!

nwal — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:32:32 +0000

Welcome to asking answers!