there are people, who research migration patterns of humans. humans migrate toward countries/places with more developed economy, also to the places with a better climate, to the places where many people already live.
do you aware, of a internet human migration related researches? how do they choose places, how they migrate between services?
i wrote “internet human”, because the “user”, well, doesn’t really express all the people on the internet.
#internet #migration #people #humans #research #web #tendencies
In one study that set out to investigate this question, young chimps observed a researcher using a stick to retrieve candy from a clear plastic box, employing both effective and ineffective motions. The chimps quickly discerned the candy-releasing moves and proceeded to repeat only those. Four-year-old children who watched the same demonstration, however, imitated the entire routine, including the unnecessary moves. The children seemed to put their trust in the experimenter and thus invest some magical significance or “blind faith” in actions of no practical value—perhaps a symptom of the human predisposition for superstition, de Waal posits.
The ease with which our brain suspends reality—call it irrationality, imagination or faith—has been crucial to the development of religion in human culture, according to de Waal, a respected primatologist and avowed atheist.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reviews-bonobo-and-atheist/#
#religion #atheism #study #research #bonobo
I was searching for this film since I noticed it was cited in one youtube video, which did not mention the origin. google images, tineye, etc search did not reveal anything. after several weeks i’ve repeated the search. google brought only one link to the xml file, which was generated just in the late october and contains links to 791 screenshots.
after a couple of unsuccessful tries to extract only images list from the file with xmlstarlet, i decided to switch to more known to me tools. eventually this, of course far from being the optimal, way helped:
wget https://halfacanyon.com/sitemap.xml
cat sitemap.xml | sed -ne '/<image:loc>/s#\s*<[^>]*>\s*##gp' | sed -e 's/http/\nhttp/g' | sed -e 's/jpg/jpg\n/g' | grep jpg > images.list
mkdir img
cd img
wget -i ../images.list
Then I’ve looked through all downloaded files and vouala, the film is called ‘the son’s room’.
Why did this part drawn my attention?
It looks like photos I imagine and would like to make. I believe that the normal state (normality42) of human being is sadness, and loneliness. This is conditioned by human existence/experience. In particular because he lives among other humans, and that’s the best destiny he can have. (:
I also believe that the most authentic way of human connection is sharing sadness, not sharing fun.
I tend to dislike photos with smiling people. It makes me surprised each and every time, when I take for a walk western friends, and they readily prepare the smile when I point camera to them. I guess this is more deep and unconscious way of hypocrisy. To show they have fun. To show that they feel excellent. (Which, by the way may make their facebook friends even more sad, because it looks like everyone around is having fun, but only them are not). I believe that if person usually feels good, then the person doesn’t understand many things or is delusional. (Is this why we need alcohol, to make us less rational and more happy at the same time? Douglas Adams claims to get normality we have to use tea?). Well, this is completely okay and legal to feel happy all the time.
The question is what am I doing around the happy ones? Not may way of connection. (:
#photography #film #screenshot #script #sed #research #cinema #frame #normality #people #shining
the divided brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI
#brain #science #research #humans #animals
Social media have provided instrumental means of communication in many recent political protests. The efficiency of online networks in disseminating timely information has been praised by many commentators; at the same time, users are often derided as “slacktivists” because of the shallow commitment involved in clicking a forwarding button. Here we consider the role of these peripheral online participants, the immense majority of users who surround the small epicenter of protests, representing layers of diminishing online activity around the committed minority. We analyze three datasets tracking protest communication in different languages and political contexts through the social media platform Twitter and employ a network decomposition technique to examine their hierarchical structure. We provide consistent evidence that peripheral participants are critical in increasing the reach of protest messages and generating online content at levels that are comparable to core participants. Although committed minorities may constitute the heart of protest movements, our results suggest that their success in maximizing the number of online citizens exposed to protest messages depends, at least in part, on activating the critical periphery. Peripheral users are less active on a per capita basis, but their power lies in their numbers: their aggregate contribution to the spread of protest messages is comparable in magnitude to that of core participants. An analysis of two other datasets unrelated to mass protests strengthens our interpretation that core-periphery dynamics are characteristically important in the context of collective action events. Theoretical models of diffusion in social networks would benefit from increased attention to the role of peripheral nodes in the propagation of information and behavior.
The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests
via @{Արգելիոն Argelion ; aragev@spyurk.am}
#paper #protest #twitter #social_media #internet #research
By analysing signalling messages exchanged during a WhatsApp call using an Android device, the researchers were able to closely examine the authentication process of WhatsApp clients; discover what codec WhatsApp is using for voice media streams (Opus at 8 or 16 kHz sampling rates); understand how relay servers are announced and the relay election mechanism; and understand how clients announce their endpoint addresses for media streams.
A paper about the study, entitled WhatsApp Network Forensics: Decrypting and Understanding WhatsApp Call Signaling Messages, was published in the scholarly journal Digital Investigation. The article was co-authored by F. Karpisek of Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic, and Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger, co-directors of the Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group at the University of New Haven.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/27/whatsapp_forensic_analysis/
via John van Gils.
#whatsapp #android #research #opus #reverse_engineering #forensic
he came to our room and asked what can i or my co-workers suggest as a theme for his phd researh. they became excited and got engaged in the process of inventing a research topic.
i think making someone’s homework is not as bad as suggesting a research topic. and asking for one is the same as asking what he should write about, if he’s a writer, or what should he paint, if he’s a painter. you’ve got the idea.
and what’s even more amazing is that he didn’t even think that asking questions like that, and especially answering that questions is not something fair.
i mentioned that i do not ask for themes for my photo or IT projects because i do what i am interested in. i didn’t even think ‘what to do?’. if i remember it right he said that i am hypocrytical, because i talk about free software, but keep my ideas away from others. sigh.
#homework #research #relationships #people
very interesting resource for those who are interested in compilers: http://turbopascal.org/turbo-pascal-internals
#internals #compiler #source #code #programming #compilers #pascal #turbo_pascal #book #analysis #reverse_engineering #research
Today I’ve got a warning that there is shortage of space on SD card. Was surprised, started to check. It turned out there is a file in the root, called “stream.wav”, and information is actively being written to it. I’ve listened the content - every event, talks, recording from the microphone for last 2 days. Checked my tablet - the same shit. As I am using CyanogenMod on my tablet, I have found out the reason pretty soon(see screenshot). Spying app is Yandex.Navigator. Now I’ll check logs of my home router, happily I have FreeBSD there, and I log everything, will check where my information went. Block this app or better uninstall it for good!
Yandex commented that it’s a bug.
Yes I believe it’s a bug indeed. We weren’t supposed to know that it spies, and it wasn’t supposed to eat such amount of space probably to remain unnoticed. Yandex will fix the bug and it’ll be harder to notice that it’s apps are spying after people. (:
#android #yandex #navigator #screenshot #surveillance #spyware #spy #software #freedom #cyanogenmod #console #research
#ashtarak #armenia #radio_telescope #telescope #satellite #antenna #science #evening #research #history #architecture #photo #physics #radio
Finding the Original Azerbaijan, or Aran
Ara Ghazarians talks to CivilNet about his English translation of Dr Enayatollah Reza’s book “Azerbaijan and Aran” that explains how political motivations, historic ties and and ethnic connections lie behind the use, or abuse, of the names Azerbaijan and Aran on two historic territories in the Caucasus and Iran — the Republic of Azerbaijan and the province of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKalUVotH_Y http://civilnet.am/ara-ghazarians-azerbaijan-and-or-aran/
#conflict #Azerbaijan #Aran #Caucasian-Albania #Iran #Armenia #Caucasus #history #geography #ethnography #archeology #translation #English #Enayatollah-Reza #Ara-Ghazarians #civilnet #azeri #azari #research #book #history-abuse #naming #politics #Turkey #expansionism #motives #absurdity #pan-turkism #fake #books #study #education
Running 4 copies of an operating system at once
Dick explained to me that they were using an operating system from a company called Telesoft. Telesoft, headed by UCSD Pascal author Ken Bowles, was building an Ada compiler on top of its ROS (Renaissance Operating System) product. He told me (and I remember this clearly) that they had the operating system running in single user mode but that they wanted to run it in multi-user mode. At that point I was barely 21 years old. I had written a whole bunch of system-level 6502 assembler code and I had a really good ground-up understanding of the way that contemporary computer hardware worked. After studying the manual for the SUN board, I decided that I could simply break the 2MB of physical memory in to 4 chunks of 512KB each and run 4 copies of the operating system, gaining control via interrupts and device drivers.
#6502 #telesoft #pascal #ada #operating-systems #ucsd-pascal #compiler #ros #renaissance-operating-system #programming #history #computing #programming-languages #sun #intellimac #unix #msx #motorola68000 #68000 #68k #motorola-68k #ibm #stanford #research #memory
Depixelizing pixel art
#research #pixelart #depixelization #science #paper #art
Rasterizing and Antialiasing Vector Line Art in the Pixel Art Style
site | paper | youtube demo
#pixelart #raster #rasterization #pixel #algorithm #research #paper #video #science #art
Lightweight parametric polymorphism for Oberon.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cszypers/pub/jmlc97.pdf
#oberon #oberon-2 #polymorphism #programming #research #paper #oop #development #software
I mean, in iOS world, we don’t believe in garbage collectors, and we think the Android guys are nuts. I suspect that the Android guys think the iOS guys are nuts for manual memory management. But you know what the two, cutthroat opposition camps can agree about? The JavaScript folks are really nuts.
There is absolutely zero chance that you can write reasonable mobile code without worrying about what is going on in system memory, in some capacity. None.
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
#garbage-collection #garbage #programming #memory #speed #performance #mobile #research #ios #iphone #ipad #memory-management #memory
essentially on the iPhone 4S, you start getting warned around 40MB and you get killed around 213MB. On the iPad 3, you get warned around 400MB and you get killed around 550MB. Of course, these are just my numbers–if your users are listening to music or running things in the background, you may have considerably less memory than you do in my results, but this is a start. This seems like a lot (213mb should be enough for everyone, right?) but as a practical matter it isn’t. For example, the iPhone 4S snaps photos at 3264×2448 resolution. That’s over 30 megabytes of bitmap data per photo. That’s a warning for having just two photos in memory and you get killed for having 7 photos in RAM. Oh, you were going to write a for loop that iterated over an album? Killed.
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
#garbage-collection #garbage #programming #memory #speed #performance #mobile #research #ios #iphone #ipad #memory-management #memory
In particular, when garbage collection has five times as much memory as required, its runtime performance matches or slightly exceeds that of explicit memory management. However, garbage collection’s performance degrades substantially when it must use smaller heaps. With three times as much memory, it runs 17% slower on average, and with twice as much memory, it runs 70% slower.
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/
#garbage-collection #garbage #programming #memory #speed #performance #mobile #research
Researchers have discovered a cause of aging in mammals that may be reversible.
http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/new-reversible-cause-aging-12-19-13
#aging #science #health #life #genetics #research
#փաստորեն, #հայերեն ֊ը աշխարհի ամենա #փախած #տարօրինակ լեզուներից մեկն է, եթե հավատալ սրան։
hehe, so #Armenian is one of the weirdest languages according to this
#լեզու #լեզուներ #հետազոտություն #languages #research #language #պահ #ասումա #ուահ #քարտեզ
Our #research has provided an answer to an age-old question highlighted by Dr Jill Tarter of the #SETI Institute, ‘Are we alone?’ We can now unequivocally answer, ‘no.’ SETI’s search for non-human #intelligence in outer space has been found right here on #earth in the graceful form of #dolphins.
http://wakeup-world.com/2011/11/28/the-discovery-of-dolphin-language/ #dolphins #language #deciphering #seti #intelligence