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the Company Powerset, which has been repeatedly mentioned over the last couple of years as a promising startup, yesterday still "labored" the eponymous search service . Unlike standard search engines, Powerset offers the user a search for the facts, interpret the meaning of values and the answers to the questions. At the moment, as the database search engine uses the resources of Wikipedia and Freebase. / > "Playing" a while with queries and flipping through the list of issue, I'm not that enthused. But emotions are generally positive. For starters, the cons. First, it stated in the Freebase list of issue could not be found. The search is only for Wikipedia articles. Secondly, the search only by key words in the English language. Russian language Powerset refuses to understand. Well, okay, the developers did not initially plan support for multiple languages. I hope in the future they have this "defect" will fix it. Also note that all quest

I was always surprised by the attitude of many to anonymity and cryptography, as a universal means of combating the evils of the world. It is necessary to receive the news that somewhere the government is tightening the screws, or copyrighters pushed another stupid law, necessarily raises the review in the spirit of “Ha! Here we are right now, I2P and TrueСrypt of the wide leg will get and they will wipe...” No, of course, in certain situations, be encrypted. Anonymity can save lives in a country where they execute people who disagree with the current ever-living the wise leader leads his people to prosperity, and temporary shortages of food supply is just annoying little thing. But going underground is the last hope, the respirator dying for freedom, not the weapon of victory. I once came across a wiki with the strange name “Iconism”. Something about a new social order and a bright future. But after talking with the author of the project and absorbed in reading, he was convin

A very lively interview with Igor Solfoton. Igor lives in San Francisco, has created 10 startups: Epsilon Games Fotki.Com TMT Investments and others. he is Now engaged in a new start-up, investment in the Fund TMT Investments, and also teaches at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Started the project Fotki.Com with his co-founder ω Dmitry in the late 90s with the idea that sooner or later people will start keeping your pictures on the Internet. The guys were among the first to come up with tools to promote with different viral mechanisms. Hello, Igor. Can you tell us about what you are doing, and how you came here in San Francisco? With a great pleasure. Born in Siberia, grew up mostly in Moscow. Spent 12 years in new York, a year and a half in my beloved city of Boston. Three years ago, at the urging of my friend and partner Fotki.Com Dima don, moved to San Francisco and since then has been happy. Now working on the 11th his startup. But before we

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. For a long time my partner and I hatched the idea of organizing a bar-oriented IT professionals. We developers live in Saint-Petersburg and often after work like to go for a couple (if lucky) glasses of any alcoholic beverages, discussing various work and simple questions. At one point we caught ourselves on the fact that the market is not lack of institutions specifically targeted at us. There are Irish pubs, sports bars, biker bars. But the workers are such an important industry, for some reason, I forgot everything. When I was in Holland, I noticed drinking establishments for doctors, police officers, firefighters, gardeners, scavengers, and a bunch of places with a professional concept. In our country such a focus is not yet developed. In fact, yesterday and writing it all down on paper, it added. the Chips Any self-respecting institution should be your "chips" that make visitors to come again, to tell

Functional — it's a service that answers questions of the user without having to search on the Internet. In Yandex it is called "search goldenstate", well, we liked the word "Wizard". Today we have a few wizards. 1. Wizard for jobs from the website job.qip.ru : 1.1 Request Job or Vakansii shows jobs in your city (if you are from Russia); 1.2 you Can also specify the city, for example work in Moscow ; 1.3 Or search for a job in a particular profession: the programmer ; 1.4 Or even all together: vacancy of Manager in Yekaterinburg ; 2. There is a wizard on weather weather specific city ; 3. Wizard site horo.qip.ru : 3.1 for Example horoscope for Leo ; 3.2 Or so had a horse ; 3.3 And yet so the mystery of the name Faith , the value of the name Hope and so Love ; 4. The wizard at the maps shows your city 4.1 But can show another city 4.2 Or the entire area 4.3 Well specific address too; 5. And a little bit

a Post relevant to Petersburg students in grades 8-11 and their parents. I , along with the organization the Centre of technical creativity of youth in St. Petersburg state Polytechnical University and a mug of "Do it Yourself!" FML №239, engaged in scientific activities associated with computer modeling of various physical processes: the Brazilian test , vibration drilling , artificial ceramics , a couple of months ago I defended my master's on the subject ( poster ). Despite the complexity and knowledge intensity of computer simulation, many aspects can be mastered by the students. This opens up for students a new path for solution of physical tasks (using programming) teaches you to competently implement the physical model in its programmistam work (for example, useful when creating his toys); and for some, a computer simulation may become a future profession. At the moment there is a shortage of educational courses on the basics of computer modeling