Disney’s new Production Renderer ‘Hyperion’ – Yes, Disney!
With Disney as the owner of Pixar & thus RenderMan, it may surprise some to know that Disney Animation has developed a completely new production renderer: Hyperion - with some very cool tech & clocking a million render hours a day on Big Hero 6.
Hasnain says:
This is a really cool article on state of the art rendering.
Posted on 2014-10-14T04:48:16+0000
No Smoke, No Mirrors: The Dutch Pension Plan
In the Netherlands, a system rests on the idea that each generation should pay its own costs — and that those costs must be measured accurately.
Hasnain says:
"But something else happened: Dutch young people found their voice. No matter their employment sector, they could see that their pension money was commingled with retirees’ money, then invested that way by the outside asset management firms. In the wake of the financial crisis, they realized that they and the retirees had fundamentally opposing interests. The young people were eager to keep taking investment risk, to take advantage of their long time horizon. But the retirees now wanted absolute safety, which meant investing in risk-free, cashlike assets. If all the money remained pooled, young people said, the aggressive investment returns they wanted would be diluted by the pittance that cashlike assets pay."
Posted on 2014-10-13T22:39:31+0000
Hungry Planet: What The World Eats
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio traveled the world documenting that most basic of human behaviors -- what we eat. Their project, "Hungry Planet," depicts everything…
Rise and Shine
What do kids around the world eat for breakfast? It’s as likely to be coffee or kimchi as it is a sugary cereal.
Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
07 Oct 2014 Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket One of the coolest features of Rust is how it automatically manages resources for you, while still guaranteeing both safety (no segfaults) and high performance. Because Rust is a different kind of programming language, it might be difficult to un…
Cox–Zucker machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines if a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S where S is isomorphic to the projective line.
Hasnain says:
I'm not sure why these two people decided to work together...
Posted on 2014-10-13T00:27:47+0000
Microsoft’s Strange Quest for the Topological Qubit | MIT Technology Review
Can an aging corporation’s adventures in fundamental physics research open a new era of unimaginably powerful computers?
A Promising Pill, Not So Hard to Swallow
Researchers found that oral capsules containing human feces may be an effective and safer alternative to fecal transplants for patients with Clostridium difficile infections.
Giant leap against diabetes
Harvard stem cell researchers announced a giant leap forward in the quest to find a truly effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, a disease that affects an estimated 3 million Americans.
Hasnain says:
This is a massive breakthrough in the fight against diabetes.
Posted on 2014-10-12T21:38:00+0000
Home — Leandro Pereira
06 October 2014 Life of a HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server When learning a new programming language, I tend to write two things with it: a language interpreter (usually a FORTH-like language or Brainfuck if I’m feeling lazy), and a HTTP server. Sometimes, just as a challenge or a way to qu…