Friday, August 7, 2015
hype cycle for emerging technologies
Big data has been descending toward the trough of disillusionment of hype cycle for emerging technologies. "Internet things" is at the top of hype cycle in 2014. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2819918
3D Xpoint memory
Memory 10 times denser than DRAM but at the same speed, non-volatile, bit-addressable (rather than block-addressable as in NAND) and no transistor in each bit cell (therefore, low-power) seems a holy grail. Intel and Micron announced this memory structure, 3D Xpoint, this week and will start shipment in 2016.http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/intel-and-micron-announce-revolutionary-memory
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Walter Cronkite, that is the way it is
Just watched a PBS documentary about Walter Cronkite, a legendary TV anchorman. His composure and the moral fiber of a journalist to cover the assassination of JFK in 1963 is still vividly remembered by most of the Americans. After Bob Schieffer retired two months ago, there is no well-respected old-school TV anchormen left in America's TV networks. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/jfk-one-pm-central-standard-time-watch-the-full-episode/1091/
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Kids at age 4 can start to program robot
Scratch Jr is designed for kids aged 5 and up and is basically restricted to the 2-D screen. If parents are eager to train their kids under age 5 with the critical sequencing logic concept, a necessity in coding, there are a lot of choices on the market. Children can learn coding by programming, e.g., a cute robot to tease or scare an unwitting family dog. However, these programming robotic kt still costs $200-400 and may not be affordable to a majority of families. http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21660077-how-teach-computer-science-nursery-school-no-assembler-required
Elephant in almost every room
中國在全世界的影響力，已經越來越明顯了。 去年(2014) 中國在海外的投資(FDI,Foreign Direct Investment) 已經超越日本, 僅次於美國 (世界各國對中國的投資,在去年已經超越美國, 高居聯合國貿易發展協會的首位)
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Lucky cancer patients with Lazarus-like recovery
For some unsuccessful cancer drugs, there are some few patients with Lazarus-like recovery. Why the same type of cancer can lead to drastically different treatment results? It turns out that same cancer originated from the same organ can be hailed from different mutated genes. A lucky patient with the specific mutated gene that can be blocked by the experimental drug will have remission and even be cured. Iceland already has one-third of its population have genome sequencing. That genome database may be the treasure trove for the future cancer curing. http://www.newsweek.com/2015/07/31/linkedin-cancer-354877.html
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