Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Selecting k smallest or largest elements
Another fundamental selection problem is that of selecti ...

Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium t... in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Int... Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No...
* Browser compatibility testing. Test your applicati ...
* Syste

Self-Referential Aptitude Test
by Jim Propp (propp@math.mit.edu)
A few years ago I wrote a "Self-Referential Aptitude Tes ...
The solution to the puzzle is unique, and in some cases ...
... all of the above

Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in...

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWik... wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search,... browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While tr... contain only texts which computers can neither understan... SMW adds se

SEMIC.EU is a participatory platform and a service by th... Commission that supports the sharing of assets of intero... used in public administration and eGovernment

Semiotics, Communication, and Cultural Theory:
Basic Assumptions

Seshat: Global History Databank
✓ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history
✓ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time
✓ offers the means ...

SF Public Library
Carville was an impromptu neighborhood in what is now th ...

Shadows are the topic of a book recently reviewed on the... website (The Shadow Club by Roberto Casati) - it's nothi... book, but here's a stunning optical illusion featuring s...
This optical illusion is reproduced with the permission ...
This is sim

Sharp today announced its upcoming "Free-Form Display" t... allow the company to nearly eliminate the traditional be... LCD displays. As a result, Sharp will be able to build L... any shape to conform to the display area of the intended...
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She said that consultants coming in were more useful as ... delivering work themselves, so that skills could be pass... advocated deconstructing designs, by working out which p... had created the outcome. 'How do I need to think to do t... teach peopl

Shelter :: The Hobbit House
This is a house I built for our family in Wales. It was ...
The house was built with maximum regard for the environm ...

Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co... Submitted by Jonathan Levitt. More of his excellent phot...
Shingled cottage on Monhegan Island, 12 miles off the co ...

Shoplifting is at its highest recorded levels, £4.88 bi... according to the Centre for Retail Research. Internet Ey... designed to combat this rise by detecting these crimes a...
Internet Eyes is an online instant event notification sy ...

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when as...

Significant

Signs and notices
Created by on-the-run.
View as slideshow
(New window open in a new window)
... rance Toc6 half-sign protest1 site London Road Eid cards

Silk isn’t just another browser. We sought from the s... the power and capabilities of the AWS infrastructure to ... limitations of typical mobile browsers. Instead of a de... software application, Amazon Silk deploys a split-archit... browser sub

Silo free living.
Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnec ...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the cr ...
Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing ...
... * …and others

Similarly a page break can be encoded as below:
<pb ed="first" n="159">
* "ed" - Allows the encoder to point to a particular ...
* "n" - Holds the page number.

SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital ... schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services... is that the collections which must inter-operate are oft... across individual, community, and institutional stores. ... to provide

SIMILE Widgets
Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets, and More
This is an open-source “spin-off” from the Simile pr ...

Since the prize in that race is global supremacy, there are few incentives for either side to fret about risks, or sign up to international protocols restricting the uses of AI and mandating transparency in its development. Neither the US n...

Single-loop and double-loop learning
For Argyris and Schön (1978: 2) learning involves the d ...

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b

Siri Technology
A New Interaction Paradigm
Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ...
Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ...
... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.

Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
Josephine Ross with some fascinating anecdotal accounts ...

Slide to Unlock: Wearable Multitouch Interaction Everywhere
Slide to Unlock.
Chris Harrison completed this mesemerizing work while he ...