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Saturday, December 24, 2005

Some Links

How to wrap your gift boxes from eHow.
Vote here for Mahdavikia as the best player in Hamburg footbal team.
And look at some games for Xbox 360 (It is in my wish list!)

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Monday, December 05, 2005

Clinical Judgement

Medicine:
While writing an article I found these nice articles about clinical judgement and how to imrove it from Canadian Medical Association Journal. They are interesting and I recommend physicians to take a look at them.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Tea Tourism in India

Life:
I was reading this article from Reuters Uk about tea tourism in India and their project to absorb tourists for their tea producing estates. They are just following the French and English pattern for Wine and Whisky tourism.
Then I thought why don't we have that in our country, Iran. The best Saffron in the world comes from Khorasan province and a very good rice from Gilan and Mazandaran provinces.
We already have the rose water ceremony in center of Iran but it is just confined to Iranian tourists. But think about Saffron ceremony with all foods and drinks that are made from Saffron and all those beautiful south Khorasan dances and music. It is an excellent way to familarize foreigners with the culture and products of that part of the country and of course for financial reasons. It just needs some people who are familiar with international tourism and peoples will to do it.

Posted at 04:50 pm by Amir
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Deadlines

Quotes:
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)

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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Digital scientific camera!

Science:

1- A graduate student at Stanford University has developed a hand-held camera which takes a shot first and allows you to make the decision about focus point in software after the event. The back has had an array of 90,000 microlenses mounted in front of the sensor . These microlenses create a unique image on the sensor surface which includes not only the amount of light deposited at that location, but how much light arrives along each ray. The image is then reconstructed in software and a focus point can be chosen.
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2-A team of researchers at UCSF have modified E. Coli bacteria to act as together as photosensitive sensor and produce 100 megapixel monochrome images.
> read more

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Friday, November 18, 2005

Uniqueness Of Medical Data Mining

AI:
I had a presentation in a course for undegraduate students and was making some slides. When looking for a reference and some descriptions about why data mining in medicine is different from other domains I found this very nice article which was published in the journal of artificial intelligence in medicine in 2002.
Link to the full text article.
Link to the PubMed page.

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

'One Laptop Per Child' a Really Good Idea

Hardware:
This idea of 'One Laptop Per Child' for poor countries is a great idea. And their ability to be connected to internet is a positive point. This is going to be as a right for any human being: to be able to use the newest technology to imporove the quality of life and eradicating ignorance.

News about these 100 USD laptops from different sources; FAQ about it.

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Thursday, November 03, 2005

System Requirement Lab

Internet:

Are you curious if your PC can handle these new games? And have you ever bought a PC game and then found out that you can not run it in your PC?

There is a site that you can select the game and it checks your computer and tells you comparing to minimum/recommended requirements your PC can handle the game or not.
Then check System Requirement Lab.

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Monday, October 31, 2005

OpenOffice.org 2.0

Software:
It is open-source, it is free and it works fine. Then why we do not use them? It has a word processor, a presentation tool, an spreadsheet and lot more.
This is a short description from OpenOffice.org 2.0 homepage: OpenOffice.org 2.0 is an open, feature-rich multi-platform office productivity suite. The user interface and the functionality is very similar to other products in the market like Microsoft Office or Lotus SmartSuite, but in contrast to these commercial products OpenOffice.org is absolutely free.

Posted at 10:53 am by Amir
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Comparing Documents

Software:
A couple of days ago I sent an article to a professor for his comments and necessary changes. he returned it and it was not apparent that which parts were changed. And I didn't want to put two copies (original and corrected) beside each other and compare them line by line, so I googled "comparing documents" and I found this software: Workshare Deltaview PE. I downloaded the trial version and it worked great. I could see the difference between two copies in different colours. Deleted, added etc.

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