Stefan IK

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is. I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis.

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Nasty. Bounce along.

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If you’re ever in a sour mood, try commenting yourself NASCAR style while overtaking other pedestrians on your side of the sidewalk.

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cross sections in architecture form by my homie: Ivan Todorov

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This piece of metal hides about 1/16th of a rodent’s brain computing capacity.

It’s name is TrueNorth and it’s a neuromorphic CMOS chip produced by IBM that consists of 4096 hardware cores, each one simulating 256 programmable silicon "neurons" for a total of just over a million neurons. That will allow researchers to run AI deep-learning algorithms with great efficiency on it, and the best part, due to the non-Von-Neumann architecture, it consumes ridiculously low amounts of power for the processing efficiency it provides - on the order of 1/10 000 that of a conventional processor, be it ARM or x86. That’s 0.07W compared to a typical ~120W - the chips are interlinkable, and with that density and power consumption, stacking them up is a matter of industrial availability more than anything else. Last time I checked, we were very good at making chips.

The Singularity might be closer than we thought. If that concept sounds alien to you, and you’re still thinking about how a brain works, this is a good place to start.

In the meantime, IBM is kicking off a boot camp to get researchers and programmers familiar with the architecture and start writing implementations.

In the words of Dharmendra Modha: 

“Humans use technology to transform society,” Modha says, pointing to the room of researchers. “These are the humans.”

Pop over to this article at Wired for more words.

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This deserved a spot in my blog.

There’s science behind it, now shut up.

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Sparth  -  http://sparth.tumblr.com  -  Nicolas Bouvier

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A wonderful palette of colors, click around

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Love the location, love the process, love the works.

It’s what I’d love to be doing on a summer vacation

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Another classic jazzy hip-hop instrumental delight from Looptroop resident decks magician Embee - with some backing by Filling. Close your eyes and lounge back into this mellow late afternoon masterpiece.

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“The Clock” by Gislain Benoit 

A fully functional clock made only with discrete diodes(1161 of them), transistors(340) and no PCBs or microchips. Puts my modest wire-bending skills to shame!

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Minovo Wang

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The RaspbeerryPi B+ Bel-Aire case - stylish! I want one of those, makes my Pi look valve-driven *__*

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I fail to understand how a man weighting less than 70kg can have his own opinion...

Misha Starodubovs

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A very interesting readup on Hackaday about home(built) computers in Czechoslovakia during the Iron Curtain period, I was excited to take a look back in this ingenious and obscure scene from the past! Mentions the venerable Bulgarian Pravetz computers as well! I wish I had more material to read!  Enjoy!