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6/17/2009 Permalink
  Hydrogen powered car ready to go and it's design is open source  A new hydrogen-powered mobile pod, whose designs will be open source and posted for free use in the cloud, was unveiled in London. The open-source approach means entrepreneurs around the world could download the designs and manufacture the two-seater prototype locally for free. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
6/16/2009 Permalink
Pictures from the front line of the war on religious/state tyranny and how cloud-crowd is helping The latest pictures from the front line of the war on religious/state tyranny. And Clay Shirky gives a TED talk about how the world's cloud-crowd net is helping us all push back against the increasingly oppressive and corrupt elites running the world's nation states and the other failing old order institutions. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
5/20/2009 Permalink
Computer models of bank runs are identical to those of contagious diseases  An analysis of social networks and minute-by-minute customer transactions during a run on an Indian bank has found that computer models of bank runs spreading through a community are identical to those showing the spread of contagious diseases.  Duke University finance professor Manju Puri and co-author Rajkamal Iyer of the University of Amsterdam assembled a unique data set on the bank run and then employed epidemiological techniques to determine connections between bank depositors The researchers used Google Earth to map the locations of depositor's home addresses. Following the failure of a larger, neighboring bank, the customers of the bank studied, which was fundamentally sound, were withdrawing funds out of a fear that they might not be able to access their money in the future. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
5/19/2009 Permalink
Crowd-cloud open science breakthrough - 13,000 genome database Northwestern University is reporting that 13,000 people are in the process of enrolling in the project to have the coding region of their genomes sequenced. To be shared, along with their medical records and other information, in an open-access database for analysis by geneticists and others around the world. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
5/13/2009 Permalink
In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' Discover Their Inner Frankenstein In Massachusetts, a young woman makes genetically modified E. coli in a closet she converted into a home lab. A part-time DJ in Berkeley, Calif., works in his attic to cultivate viruses extracted from sewage. In Seattle, a grad-school dropout wants to breed algae in a personal biology lab. These hobbyists represent a growing strain of geekdom known as biohacking, in which do-it-yourselfers tinker with the building blocks of life in the comfort of their own homes. Some of them buy DNA online, then fiddle with it in hopes of curing diseases or finding new biofuels. But are biohackers a threat to national security? Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
3/25/2009 Permalink
In Civilization 2.0 all markets, all data accessible in the cloud Regulators can't stop corruption, an offer of a $10 million per year job after they leave government is too enticing. Only the total transparency that can be achieved by moving all markets and economic data into the Cloud, freeing the Crowd do the do its own regulation has any real chance of stopping corruption.... MORE Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
3/13/2009 Permalink
From the web's inventor: forget web pages, the future is smart bots filtering & displaying the data cloud  Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web 20 years ago, explains in a TED talk how we can revolutionize our lives far more powerfully than we did by creating the web. By linking all our raw data out in the cloud, and building bots that can filter, interpret, intelligently display and generally maximize the usefulness of all the world's data to each of us.... watch Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
2/25/2009 Permalink
Web site uses crowd to track censorship of cloud  Internet censorship occurs worldwide, but until now the exact dimensions of the problem has been unknown. A new website is designed to solve that problem by tapping the power of "crowd sourcing" -- fielding and aggregating reports from volunteers -- to collect and provide real-time data on the activities of those trying to control your access to data ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
2/24/2009 Permalink
How to use COG (Cloud Organization Generation) to create a cloud crowd to solve any problem too big for you to solve alone  Here is a great talk architect Cameron Sinclair gave at the 2006 TED, where he explains how he successfully used COG (Cloud Organization Generation) to spawn an open cloud crowd organization of designers and architects covering 104 countries, dedicated to finding locally constructable and affordable habitat solutions for every part of our world. Nothing could illustrate the bankruptcy of our old institutions and the need for COG solutions any better than the story he tells of how it took the UN 20 years to add a flap to the standard tent they send to disaster areas to stop their tents from getting too hot to use inside. While the new cloud crowd that he triggered into existence was able to generate many far better tent designs, raise resources, manufacturer and started deploying a tent customized to the locality and circumstances in just a matter of days. Our old institutions are far worse than merely inept. Many have a fundamental flaw in their design that causes them to often generate immoral results. As when food relief is rushed in willie nillie after a famine, such that prices for local farmers' output collapses, they are unable to plant the next year, and the cycle of famine-rescue-famine-rescue gets forever perpetuated ... watch Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
2/19/2009 Permalink
Fixing governments by forcing them to compete for citizens  With the nation state concept of government, the level of services seems to constantly decline over time, while the level of taxation and national debt constantly rise. Waste and corruption seem endemic to nation states, whether democratic or dictatorial. We need a new design for government that promotes improvement, rather than insuring a steady decline. If it were possible to easily move yourself and your home to another government's jurisdiction, then all governments would be forced to keep taxes low and service levels high to continue their existence. They would have to compete for citizens. There are 4,000 oil rigs that will be abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico over the next 50 or so years as the oil is all pumped out. Morris Architects has a plan to turn these rigs into luxury hotels. "There are approximately 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico varying in size, depth and mobility that will be decommissioned within the next century. If a deck on one of these rigs is about 20,000 square feet, then there is potentially 80 million square feet of programmable space just off the coast of the United States. The current method for rig removal is explosion, which costs millions of dollars and destroys massive amounts of aquatic life. What if these rigs were recommissioned as exclusive resort islands? Could the Gulf be America's Dubai and the rig the artificial island on which to build it? This project examines the possibilities of creating a self-sufficient, eco-friendly high-end resort experience in our own backyard -- the Gulf of Mexico."But consider this possibility for a moment. It is possible to build apartment towers with modular apartments that can easily be detached and moved to another similar tower. What if instead of luxury hotels, those Gulf of Mexico oil rigs were turned into 4,000 competitive proprietary communities designed just like those modular Tokyo residential apartments. Imagine living in a small city state that HAD to provide you with good value for your tax money or you could simply have your habitat lowered onto a barge and floated over to another proprietary community that was willing to treat you fairly. Ending the tyranny over their citizens exercised by our ever more bloated and inefficient nation states would change the world ... more ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
2/14/2009 Permalink
Iowa student engineers develop hand-held water sanitizer for a thirsty world Nearly one billion people, according to UNICEF, lack clean water on a daily basis, so 15 student engineers at the University of Iowa rolled up their sleeves and designed a $5 hand-held device to solve this problem. The old obsolete economic system incentivizes the best and the brightest to go off to Wall Street and wreck the world's financial system by building in opaqueness to let certain people prosper at the expense of others and removing all redundancy. In the Humods Era, that won't be profitable anymore, and the best and the brightest will tend to take on open source projects to solve problems like this one ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
12/24/2008 Permalink
Augmented Intelligence & Open Source Collaboration in the New Year The universe we live in acts as an intelligence creation engine, wiping out any lifeforms that do not get smart enough fast enough. Humods are all that stand between the human cognitive line and extinction ~ see Humods Worldview. Bio & nano molecular modding technologies have undreamed of power that can extend our line for millions of generations, but they can also destroy us unless we are thoughtful about how we apply them. The old human institutional tools can be of no help, the two tools that can get us through this safely are the new humods institutional tools of Augmented Intelligence and Open Source Collaboration. Make it your new year's resolution that you will do all you can to speed the development and application of both these tools. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
12/12/2008 Permalink
Always up-to-the-minute textbooks with open source net education Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute this open source educational material ... more ... watch Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
11/11/2008 Permalink
Open source & cloud-computing allowing cheap, flexible business startups In what could be a major breakthrough that accelerating new company development and the pace of future change, open source software and cloud-computing platforms such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft's Azure Services Platform, and Google App Engine are making business startup much cheaper ... cheap & flexible ... open cloud Labels: Crowd Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
11/04/2008 Permalink
Lost in news about the presidential race is the big win for open networks The cable and telecom stranglehold over the internet that has most of America paying twice as much for only 10 or 20% of the download speed enjoyed by citizens of more advanced nations took a blow today, when the Federal Communications Commission voted to authorize the unlicensed use of so-called "white spaces" spectrum for a new open source internet ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
10/27/2008 Permalink
Asteroids can end humankind or make us fabulously rich  On Earth, Mars and our Moon gravity sinks minerals down toward the core with only a small amount close enough to the surface to be recovered. But out in the asteroid belt there are minerals galore, floating around in nice chunks ready for recovery. Just one asteroid, scientists say, could destroy our species if it smacked into Earth or provide us with recoverable minerals equal to the entire world's annual income -- and there are millions of them out there for the taking. A few of us are already playing the ultimate cosmic game with the survival of humankind really at stake. Stay stuck on Earth and an asteroid or something else will eventually kill off our kind, go to the Moon or Mars, still stuck on level 1. But head out to the asteroids, colonize and grow rich enough, and we bump up to level 2, where an entire galaxy can be won if our team plays well enough. Epsilon Eridan, only 10.5 light-years from our sun, was recently discovered to sport not one but two asteroid belts. Could that be our second big move? Humods are dedicated to making that happen, read our our Open Source Worldview, then start learning about ... Asteroids ... Asteroids ... More space colonization concepts can be found in this gallery of space settlement art ... photo from JPL-Caltech Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
9/22/2008 Permalink
Bio-SPICE open source modeling & simulation of cell processes Bio-SPICE is an open source framework and software toolset for Systems Biology, intended to assist biological researchers in the modeling and simulation of spatio-temporal processes in living cells. It is a user community committed to using, extending, and exploiting these tools to further our knowledge of biological processes ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
9/10/2008 Permalink
Hobbyists contribute to making bots seem more human-like  The French company Aldebaran Robotics is offering an interesting humanoid bot with mechanical, electronic, and cognitive features to hobbyists. The Nao bot is based on a Linux platform and scripted with Urbi, an easy-to-learn programming language, with the option of a graphic interface for beginners or code commands for experts offers hobbyists a great platform for coding more human-like bot behaviors. Putting bots like this one into the hands of lots of hobbyists is a great way to get open source behavioral code developed that can make bots more acceptable to humans ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
9/09/2008 Permalink
Open source project to create capable personal bots  The PR2 is the hardware platform currently under development at Willow Garage. It is designed to be the ultimate platform for research on and development of component technologies (algorithmic, software, controls, sensors...) and applications in mobile manipulation. PR2 has a mobile base, two human-scale 7-dof force-controlled arms, stereo and laser sensors, and integrated power, computation, and communications ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
9/08/2008 Permalink
The meme-set of the HUMODS open source worldview Humods are beings able to proactively modify and enhance their own designs : seekers of more resilient designs for their own minds, bodies and meme-sets : homo novo - the species one step beyond homo sapiens on the phylogenetic tree. [Latin : homo = man : sapiens = wise, rational : novo = to make anew, refresh, revive, change, alter, invent] The Humods open source meme-set Meme 1: Our Cosmos generates within itself an endless abundance of unique lifeforms and places those lifeforms in a survival of the fittest threat matrix that spawns the constant evolution of increasing levels of complexity and resilience. Meme 2: By intermittently generating mega-challenges for the lifeforms and systems within it, our Cosmos functions as an generation engine for resilient intelligence. Rogue asteroids, comets and black holes, ice age causing super volcanoes, species-ending plagues, atmosphere stripping cosmic dust clouds, planet scorching mega solar flares and gamma ray burst -- all serve to insure the extinction of any species that fails to quickly enough develop sufficient intelligence to anticipate and deal with such threats.Meme 3: In our Cosmos, extropy is life. Using our open minds and open science to delve into the nature of the Cosmos is the key to our survival. Those that constantly rethink, refine and adjust their techniques to better meet the opportunities and challenges ahead are richly rewarded with knowledge that cures their diseases, lengthens their lifespans, makes their tools more powerful, their toils less burdensome and their lives more rewarding.Meme 4: Dogmas are death, the destroyer of extropy. Struggles over idealogical and religious dogmas have taken an uncountable millions of innocent lives, often plunging entire civilizations into darkness, superstition and famine. Meme 5: Fostering, embracing and thriving on rapid change is essential to developing the resilience necessary for you to thrive and our species to avoid extinction. Meme 6: Pursue and apply technologies that empower you by extending your cognitive capability and lifespan. Constantly improving these upgrades is vital to the survival of our kind. As is striving to discovery, develop and maximize your own unique talents. Meme 7:Oppose the utilization of super-empowering technologies for destruction, terror, surveillance and control. Meme 8: Systems should be designed to be open, resilient, and foster the fastest possible creation of new knowledge, innovation and utility. Meme 9: State intellectual property monopolies said to foster innovation, actually tend to stifle it. Meme 10: Large concentrations of power are a form of entropy, power concentrations should always be kept as small as practical. Meme 11: Regularly reassess the material clutter around you. If you don't use it, lose it. If you use it often, get the best quality you can afford. Meme 12: Spreading these memes to as many other capable minds as possible is vital to the survival of our kind. Pass them on at every opportunity. CLICK HERE to forward a link to these memes to your crowd. Or suggest revisions to this open source meme-set by writing to HUMODS at GMAIL dot COM. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
9/08/2008 Permalink
Dogmatic old science geezers holding back open science future Many young scientists and older scientists that are less concerned with protecting their own prerogatives and more concerned with advancing science are fed up with the dogmatic old, net-clueless, geezers that are delaying the move to open science. Kudos to those that value the acceleration of scientific progress enough to risk the ire of the geezers to speak out. Despite the value - and the impact - that blogging can have in communicating science to the public or in engaging the community to discuss ideas, university hiring committees and others who evaluate scientists are more likely than not to have a negative view of it. Time spent not researching is considered time wasted ... moreAnd even more kudos to those that are simply bypassing the old farts and their ossified institutions by creating the open science tools of tomorrow, see: Open source science is the wave of the future and The wikiomics movement is the future of science ~ open Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
9/04/2008 Permalink
The wikiomics movement is the future of science ~ open From an article in Nature: Pioneering biologists are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data, reports Mitch Waldrop. But will the wider research community go along with the experiment?Wikiomics-style open science projects allow the top people in any field, worldwide, to collaborate in real time over the net, rather than waiting months for journals to be published or conferences to be attended to exchange vital data and ideas. Scientific journals, like all of the old dead-tree media, wish the net would just go away, but open source science over the net is the future of science ... more See also: Open source science is the way of the future Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
8/25/2008 Permalink
OpenCog development tutorial sessions available OpenCog is a free and open source software project aimed at providing a generic framework for the development of smart bot code. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence's Director of Research, Dr. Ben Goertzel, will be running weekly tutorial sessions on OpenCogPrime from September 2008 through January 2009. Each session will center on a chapter of the OpenCog Wiki book. OpenCog is a promising open source code platform for developing useful smart bots ... more See also: Project aims for open source bots as smart as humans Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
8/17/2008 Permalink
Open source science is the wave of the future Open science, analogous to open source software development, is the way of the future. It greatly increases diversity and speed of work by lowering the cost of information, and thereby allowing many more people to participate in research. In a world in which information transmission is easy, it makes no sense to lock up scientific data. Publish early, publish often should be the mantra. Open science projects include: Epernicus, JournalFire, Nature Precedings, OpenWetWare, Science Commons, UnPubDatabase, Wikiomics ... more Labels: Crowd Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
8/08/2008 Permalink
Source code for two-legged bot made available  ZMP Inc, a Japanese home robot developer, will sell the source code for "nuvo," a two-legged humanoid robot developed and sold by the company, exclusively for research purposes. Users (universities, companies and individuals) of the program will participate in the community operated by ZMP and share the research results obtained through usage of the source code. ZMP aims to accelerate various researches on robots through this program. Not, apparently, completely open source, but a step in the right direction ... more ... more
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7/31/2008 Permalink
Project aims for open source bots as smart as humans Earlier this year the OpenCog project was launched, with seed funding from SIAI and code and manpower donations from Novamente LLC. OpenCog is a free and open source software project aimed at providing a generic framework for the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) software. The first formal code release is planned for Fall 2008, but the project has already gained considerable momentum. Most notably, through the Google Summer of Code project, Google Inc. has supported 11 student interns to work this summer on OpenCog-related projects. Several of these student projects have been extremely successful, yielding code and ideas that will form an important part of OpenCog going forwards ... more ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
7/28/2008 Permalink
DNA "Scissors" Go Open Source Imagine you're trying to find a cure for a disease, such as cystic fibrosis, which results from a single defective gene. Using "traditional" gene therapy, you'd infect the patient with a virus containing a good copy of the gene, hoping the DNA inserts into the person's genome in a spot that doesn't trigger cancer. "There's got to be a better way," you tell yourself--and there is. About a decade ago, researchers began developing a new strategy that relies on proteins called zinc finger nucleases that bind to a very specific place on a chromosome. The nucleases work like scissors, cutting the DNA at this precise location--say, the site of your defective gene--so that the gene can be repaired ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
7/05/2008 Permalink
Is your GPS device a spy eye for Big Brother? Well, alas, it could be. New Scientist has an article titled Why satnavs are a detective's best friend explaining how GPS devices (and certainly the more sophisticated RES, Reality Enhancement Systems that are in your future) can be a significant threat to your privacy. Many don't properly erase past trips. This could be sloppying programming or governments may have put pressure on a company to include this "feature," as with the spy capabilities built into every American communication system. The solution to maintaining your privacy is to always insist on using open source code in all of your devices. Because of it open nature, open source code always tends to be much more privacy friendly and much less accomindating the efforts by Big Brother to spy on us all. Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon - - - - - - - - -
6/25/2008 Permalink
Closed cell phone operating systems open up Symbian the software that dominates the world market for cell phone operating systems is going open source. With Apple also opening its iPhone to developers and Google's Android already wide open, all major cell phone operating systems are now open. So instead of the handful of crappy apps on your phone today, you will soon be seeing tens of thousands of available applications, many of which will no doubt be fully RES (Reality Enhancement Systems) and net enabled. Nokia's announcement. Labels: Cloud, Crowd, Mods, RES Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - -
6/05/2008 Permalink
Our brains evolved to be great at picking up and correlating survival data Our brains evolved to be great at picking up and correlating survival data in fast moving, real time situations. Yet most of our brain dead educators still insist on trying to sit kids down in class rooms and lecture at them, making learning extremely difficult by working against the nature of how human brains actually work. At long last a few innovative educators have awakened to the lunacy of the system they are using to teach and developed Immune Attack TM to teach in exactly the same way that our brains evolved to learn best ... more Maybe this will help: Sugar the highly acclaimed open source educational software developed for the OLPC XO laptop to continue development under a foundation ... more Home + What are Humods? + Subscribe + Twitter + Post To: Delicious + Digg + Facebook + Reddit + StumbleUpon- - - - - - - - - Send comments to: humods [at] gmail [dot] com |