PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd
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“Smart Siri” – Voice Answer for $1.99 instead of $3.99
Works on iOS devices and Android, powered in part by the all powerful Wolfram Alpha.
The next Voice Answer update will integrate the above robot animation, as well as much of the
functionality of Sparkling Apps‘ other app, Place.
Examples of topics and specific questions:
- Mathematics:
‘Integrate sin x dx from x=0 to pi’ - Units & Measures
‘U.K. men’s size 11 shoe in Japanese size’ - Money & Finance
‘What is the Apple stock price’ - Statistics & Data Analysis
‘geometric mean 12, 17′ - Dates & Times
‘What is the current time in Tokyo?’ - Socioeconomic Data
‘What is an Intercity bus driver salary?’ - Current Weather
‘What will be the high temperature today?’ - Health & Medicine
‘What is the life expectancy of a U.S. female age 30?’ - Places & Geography
‘Where is ZIP 60637?’ - Chemistry
‘Show the 3D structure of ibuprofen’ - People & History
‘When did Ghandi die?’ - Food & Nutrition
’2 slices of swiss cheese’ - Physics
‘What is the speed of light?’ - Materials
‘Show me Topaz’ - Education
‘How many kids are repeating primary school in Mexico?’ - Culture & Media
‘US constitution’ - Organizations
‘New York University’ - Engineering
‘Doppler shift 300Hz, 75mph’ - Astronomy
‘Star chart’ - Music
‘Key of Aflat minor’ - Transportation
‘What is the total length of all roads in Spain?’ - Technological World
‘Frequency allocations 900MHz’ - Words & Linguistics
‘Show me words that rhyme with bear’ - Earth Sciences
‘When was the Jurassic Period?’ - Life Sciences
‘Compare puma, lion, red fox’ - Sports & Games
‘San Francisco Giants’ - Web & Computer Systems
‘What is the cheapest tablet?’ - Colors
‘What do you get when you mix red and blue’
The answers are spoken out, and relevant images are given.
The Present/Future of Teaching is Online and Free (01): The Khan Academy
Salman Khan on TED
The Khan Academy YouTube Channel
Learn almost anything FOR FREE
THE KHAN ACADEMY WEBSITE
with a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 315 practice exercises…
129,520,088 lessons delivered!
on my END (sur ma faim) [updated: to be continued/against stupidity]
[I can't go on, I will go on. - Samuel Beckett
After more than two years of existence (1740 posts and 37,500 views later), the PM_uoʇɹɐɯ_ɹǝıd blog had stood for what I had found worthy of notice, a sort of time-capsule, more efficient than any tombstone.
I had thought of stopping this, but I will continue]
Those who know me know why I have had to focus on “the stupid topic of stupidity,”
- Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. Albert Camus -
there is so much else in the world but…
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte
- Az emberi butaság végtelen/Human stupidity is infinite/La bêtise humaine est infinie. Hungarian Saying
- La bêtise humaine est la seule chose qui donne une idée de l’infini/Human stupidity is the only thing that gives an idea of the infinite. Ernest Renan
- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
I had thought of stopping this…
I had hoped to dislodge some of it (cf. Stephen Crane’s poem about pursuing the horizon)… but (criminal) stupidity exists in every corner - and will continue to do so – from the religious to the secular, from the streets to universities, and within every continent, nation, ethnicity, individual, in women and in men, including myself.
I had thought of stopping this…
Our only hope is kindness and to remain humane towards each other – and not just humans.
Let the so-called animals, the mountains, the trees, the plants, the sky, and everyone, teach us.
I do believe that this time here online IS NOT time passed elsewhere or more directly that:
Life is elsewhere/La vie est ailleurs… Arthur Rimbaud
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch
I remain available for speaking/writing/teaching and all sorts of creative activities to challenge “what is.”
Sur France Culture, en Podcast – Grand Témoin: Jack LangWNYC/PRI on Former Extremists Conference
Google Ideas Gathers Former Extremists to Target Radicalization.
Ai Weiwei’s Challenge
A petition for his release from the Chinese authorities.
And Dangerous Arts, a letter by Salman Rushdie in the New York Times.An excerpt —>The lives of artists are more fragile than their creations. The poet Ovid was exiled by Augustus to a little hell-hole on the Black Sea called Tomis, but his poetry has outlasted the Roman Empire. Osip Mandelstam died in a Stalinist work camp, but his poetry has outlived the Soviet Union. Federico García Lorca was killed by the thugs of Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but his poetry has survived that tyrannical regime.
Juhani Pallasmaa in St. Louis!
Juhani Pallasmaa has written many wonderful books with great illustrations – and one on film and architecture, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema (out of print but in the WU art library).
He is that rare person these days, unafraid to present his lively humanist ideas, and he comes all the way from Finland.
Don’t miss his visit!
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At Washington University in St. Louis, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 1, distinguished Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa, a former Ruth & Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture will present a keynote address, titled “Landscapes of Architecture.”
More about him here.
“I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience”
