20Jul 2017 by ericcwagner No Comments
When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees

When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees

Technology
Young love and new relationships can be tough sometimes, but to a website like Facebook, it sees your relationship as a data point. Data scientists at Facebook posted a blog outlining statistical evidence of the platform knowing when a relationship is beginning to form. Basically, two individuals will post more on each others walls during the "courtship" period. This spike in posting is followed by a decrease which signifies that the pair is spending more time together. Read more on The Atlantic.
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11Sep 2016 by ericcwagner No Comments
DJ 51 Builds a Perfect Party Playlist from Everyone’s Spotify Profiles [Via LifeHacker]

DJ 51 Builds a Perfect Party Playlist from Everyone’s Spotify Profiles [Via LifeHacker]

Interesting, Technology, Video
Check Out The Original Post Over On Life Hacker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDZ_grwtXYY Android/iOS: DJ 51 uses shared music from your Spotify account and from all of your friends’ accounts to build the perfect playlist for your party, study session, or any other get-together. As long as everyone’s shares music through the app, DJ 51 mixes it all into a constant stream of tunes all of you will love. To work, DJ 51 creates a “room,” or a small network that you and all of your friends (as long as you all have the app) join together. Connect your Spotify accounts and start contributing music that you think fits the mood, whether it’s a big party, a laid-back cocktail party, or a study session with friends. From there, the app studies where your…
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03Sep 2016 by ericcwagner No Comments
MIT Figured Out How To 3D Print Using Glass Instead Of Plastic

MIT Figured Out How To 3D Print Using Glass Instead Of Plastic

Awesome, Engineering, Interesting, Technology, Video
Check out the original article over on Engadget https://vimeo.com/136764796 Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a new 3D printing method on Friday that employs transparent glass as precursor instead of plastic. The method, called G3DP, works basically the same way that conventional 3D printing does though the team found that they could modulate the light transmission, reflection and refraction qualities by precisely varying the thickness of the print. The system uses a pair of heated chambers stacked atop one another; the 1900-degree F upper chamber acting as a Kiln Cartridge and the lower chamber serving to anneal the constructed structures. Researchers at MIT Media Lab collaborated with the school's Mechanical Engineering Department, the MIT Glass Lab and Wyss Institute to create the G3DP. The team believes that method could…
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28Aug 2016 by ericcwagner No Comments
Google DeepMind: Ground-breaking AlphaGo masters the game of Go [Via DeepMind]

Google DeepMind: Ground-breaking AlphaGo masters the game of Go [Via DeepMind]

Engineering, Interesting, Technology, Video
The content of this article is attributed to the video below. 2828 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbqykXVx0A In a paper published in Nature on 28th January 2016, we describe a new approach to computer Go. This is the first time ever that a computer program “AlphaGo” has defeated a human professional player. The game of Go is widely viewed as an unsolved “grand challenge” for artificial intelligence. Games are a great testing ground for inventing smarter, more flexible algorithms that have the ability to tackle problems in ways similar to humans. The first classic game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also known as tic-tac-toe) in 1952. But until now, one game has thwarted A.I. researchers: the ancient game of Go. Despite decades of work, the strongest computer Go programs only played…
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30Jun 2016 by ericcwagner No Comments
Another Day of Volunteering: The 2016 Tour De Cure

Another Day of Volunteering: The 2016 Tour De Cure

Intern, Life
I went out to the Texas Motor Speedway this afternoon to help support the bike riders in the 2016 Tour De Cure, a charity biking event to help raise money and awareness for the cure of diabetes. All in all, it was a great time hanging out with some other interns and supporting a great cause! To learn more about Tour De Cure, check out the website here.
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27Apr 2016 by ericcwagner No Comments
Podcast Review: How Electronic Stock Trading Came To Be

Podcast Review: How Electronic Stock Trading Came To Be

Interesting, Podcast, Technology
Original Podcast by Planet Money (NPR) "#396: A Father Of High-Speed Trading Thinks We Should Slow Down". This podcast was a great listen. The gentleman that NP discusses in this podcast, Thomas Peterffy, is one of the richest men in the world and he made the first portion of his wealth by option trading. Back in the day before computers were heavily utilized, stock options were essentially guesses created by large players and traders in the market. If people felt that flour option prices were low, then they were. Peterffy used this to his advantage by using algorithms to calculate what the price should have been and then used technology to his advantage. After some serious hardware modifications, he was able to network a computer into a NASDAQ terminal and the…
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