Raindance - Slashdot User

Submission + - Scientists start mapping the brain (plosjournals.org)

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Raindance

on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @12:02PM

Raindance writes: "A team at the University of Utah has unveiled a system to map and digitize brain tissue, fulfilling one of the long-standing holy grails of neuroscience and enabling for the first time in-depth analysis of how mammalian neural networks function. So far maps for the entire retina and related neural networks have been released; no ETA on a full-brain digital reconstruction yet. And yes, one of the lead authors reads Slashdot."

Submission + - A Look Inside Citizendium

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Raindance

on Thursday October 12, 2006 @04:16PM

Raindance writes: "I've posted an in-depth look at Citizendium, Larry Sanger's new project and Wikipedia's new competitor. In a nutshell, Citizendium isn't just about building a better encyclopedia (though that is their goal)- it's also a pilot project for a new model of expert-guided radical collaboration with implications for things from open peer review to genome wikis. If you'd like to help out, they need both volunteers and donations.

note for editors: Sanger has said of my post, "This is probably the best thing yet written about Citizendium that I've seen. I'm extremely impressed by the clear thinking and research that went into it.""

Submission + - Google on Power Supplies

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Raindance

on Tuesday September 26, 2006 @02:52PM

Raindance writes: "The New York Times reports that Google is calling "for a shift from multivoltage power supplies to a single 12-volt standard. Although voltage conversion would still take place on the PC motherboard, the simpler design of the new power supply would make it easier to achieve higher overall efficiencies ... The Google white paper argues that the opportunity for power savings is immense — by deploying the new power supplies in 100 million desktop PC's running eight hours a day, it will be possible to save 40 billion kilowatt-hours over three years, or more than $5 billion at California's energy rates." This may have something to do with the electricity bill for Google's estimated 450,000 servers."

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