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It is hard to resist a project called ‘Sam I Am’. Sam I Am (Sensitivity Analysis Modeling Inference and More) provides GUI Java tools for designing and experimenting with Bayesian Networks. They do not appear to be open source, but they are…
The Awareness project researching self awareness in systems. There’s a pretty good amount of interesting articles online along with interviews with several people in the field. Awareness is a Coordination Action (CA), supporting research under th…
NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You c…
Photo Credit “We show that exposing tomato plants to some level of caterpillar herbivory will increase resistance for future plants—it’s sort of like a plant vaccine,” says Sergio Rasmann, a biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerlan…
Mercer’s March Mart is coming up soon. Today the staff at Mercer was kind enough to give members of local garden clubs a tour of the greenhouses where they grow plants for Mercer and for the sale. I’m told they will have a ‘Trunk sale…
1. Plan to count birds for at least 15 minutes on one or more days of the count. You can count for longer than that if you wish! Count birds in as many places and on as many days as you like—one day, two days, or all four days. Submit a separate chec…
Sebastian Thrun enjoyed teaching his Stanford AI class online so much he left to start an online, free computer science university. We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, weR…
PDL (“Perl Data Language”) gives standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. PDL turns Perl in to a free, array-oriented, n…
I received an email a week or so back asking about good locations to find plants in Houston. Here are where almost all of my plants have come from: Fountains and Ponds and Supplies ( * worth the trip, amazing stuff here ) Nelson Water Gardens Unusual P…
NASA has begun to open source some code if you are looking to dig into a cool project you might start there: Today we are launching code.nasa.gov, the latest member of the open NASA web family. Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand …
Processing huge amounts of data is going to be the next big thing. One of the open source tools for doing so is Apache’s hadoop: What Is Apache Hadoop? The Apache™ Hadoop™ project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distribu…