{"id":57,"date":"2007-12-20T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T09:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lookingatnothing.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-01-04T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T07:58:59","slug":"interesting-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/57","title":{"rendered":"Interesting stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Ok, so I&#8217;ve been on holiday and haven&#8217;t updated the site in a while. My apologies for that..<\/span>\u00a0I&#8217;ve been looking at some presentations from other groups and other organisations, and I see some very inspiring stuff there. Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve stumbled across in general:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"TED Talks\">The TED talks<\/a>\u00a0are a collection of talks on a broad range of topics that have to do with technology. The talks can provide a nice bit of background information on interesting stuff besides one&#8217;s thesis topic. One can find, for example, excellent presentations on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/184\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Mind\">The mind<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/178\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Fly me to Saturn\">The Cassini-Huygens mission<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/189\" title=\"Electroshock Therapy, a personal account\">Electroshock therapy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/167\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Armageddon\">The end of the world<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/187\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Copyright\">Copyright<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0A good friend has posted about a new site that aims to provide video tutorials to some of the (often poorly documented with a limited UI) academic software out there:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk\/blogs\/adams\/?p=90\">Screencasts for scientists. &#8211; November 15th, 2007<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk\/blogs\/adams\/?p=90\"><\/a>I&#8217;ll post more individual videos as I come across them. Off course,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scivee.tv\/\" title=\"SciVee\">SciVee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\" title=\"YouTube\">Youtube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Video\">Google Video<\/a>\u00a0cannot be absent from this list.\u00a0B.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ok, so I&#8217;ve been on holiday and haven&#8217;t updated the site in a while. My apologies for that..\u00a0I&#8217;ve been looking at some presentations from other <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/57\" title=\"Interesting stuff\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gZ2v-V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}