Nature Publishing Group Releases Linked Data Platform for Articles Dating Back to 1869!

Nature is releasing primary metadata on all of its articles since 1869 - official announcement here.  There’s been a ton of work on analyzing article citation patterns in research journal corpora (for example, check out David Mimno) and the release of this information will greatly expedite efforts in this subfield.  They even add a handy way to explore the data through your browser!

The best song I’ve ever had stuck in my head is on Singular Value Decomposition.

“It had to be U” - the SVD song (by StatisticalSongs)

Tutorial: Kalman Filter with MATLAB example part1

This 3 part video tutorial series provides an intuitive (and quirky) explanation of the Kalman Filter.  Although it lacks a derivation, it will get you up and running with the Kalman Filter in no time.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7nYv9Ri2Y&NR=1 

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUgKnoiRoY0&feature=related

The Learning Brain Gets Bigger--Then Smaller: Scientific American

Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning 

Data without borders: why I want to change the world | Jake Porway | News | guardian.co.uk

Bot shows signs of consciousness - tech - 01 April 2011 - New Scientist

xkcd: Tree

Rollover Caption:

“Not only is that terrible in general, but you just KNOW Billy’s going to open the root present first and then everyone will have to wait while the heap is rebuilt.”

'Jeopardy!' to pit humans against IBM machine - Yahoo! News

Watson will finally make his television debut.

Quadrotor Ball Juggling (a Preview) 

This is footage taped in the Flying Machine Arena in Zurich, Switzerland.  The FMA is a dreamy testbed designed specifically for aerial robotics and autonomous systems.  Some ideal features include padded floors allowing flying machines to safely crash as they learn autonomous behavior, a co-pilot navigation system that prevents crashing against glass walls and charges the quadrotor’s battery as needed, and a reliable tracking system to provide the quadrotors with reliable position information.