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"My educational career began in business studies, and I’ve continued to explore how the business world can integrate insight and compassionate activism. I’ve been drawn to work with contemplative education organizations including Naropa University, InsightLA, and Sounds True. I am also part owner and Community Director at Buddhist Geeks, a for-benefit company dedicated to...

The entire play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.

Kurzweil's title will be director of engineering. In a long statement on his Web site, he said he would focus on machine learning and language processing:

"I've been interested in technology, and machine learning in particular, for a long time: when I was 14, I designed software that wrote original music, and later went on to invent the first print-to-speech reading machine...

When, after a long day of running around, you finally find the time to relax in your favorite armchair, nothing seems easier than just sitting still. But have you ever considered how fast you are really moving when it seems you are not moving at all?

When we are on a smoothly riding train, we sometimes get the illusion that the train is standing still and the trees or buildings are...

This link, and the associated video, demonstrate how to create Play Framework CRUD forms, in this case using a tool named Cato.

Wim Hof (born 20 April 1959, in Sittard, Limburg) is a Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil, commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold. He is considered a master of "Tummo" meditation and is the first individual to achieve scientific validity for this practice.

Today, Dec. 8, is Bodhi Day, the day of the Buddha's enlightenment. The story -- and it is a story, an unverifiable tale used to educate his followers -- is that while meditating under the Bodhi tree, the Buddha was harassed and tempted by the god Mara (literally, "Destroyer" in Sanskrit), demon of illusion. In an attempt to dissuade the Buddha from his path of awakening, it is...

“Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate,” Crist said at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

“I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me. Then again, as my friend Jeb Bush recently...

“Do it for the puppies”

Those words came from 500 Startups co-founder Dave McClure. In his opening remarks, he stated that most app designs suck — take a look at the most popular ones out there, like Twitter and Facebook: their mobile experience “sucks” and McClure questioned why that is. Josh Brewer, Principal Designer at Twitter, agreed on the spot and...

Play Framework 2 RC2 has been released and it is quickly becoming a mature and productive way to build modern web apps.

Note: This example shows how to use a Play Pk field to handle the 'id' field in a database table, i.e., the serial field, or auto_increment field.

Here's a list of some of the toys recently launched by Boulder-based startups. Included are the product name, developer, cost and website.

ATOMS Express Toys: Seamless Toy Co.'s electronics-equipped blocks that can be used alone or with other toys to result in creations such as robots and "magic wands," $49 to $99 for kits; kickstarter.com/projects/atoms/atoms-express-...

On school-day mornings, I walk my grade-school-age son 400 meters down the hill to the bus stop. Last winter, I fantasized about sitting at my computer while a camera-equipped drone followed him overhead.
 So this year, I set out to build one. For the basic airframe, I selected a quadcopter design for its maneuverability and ability to hover. Construction was straightforward: You can buy a...

This is a sample app to show in a few lines of code how MongoDB can be used to build a simple (yet full featured) web application. This example use the following:

• MongoDB
• ReactiveMongo, a non-blocking and asynchronous Scala driver for MongoDB
• Play 2.1 as a web framework
• Play ReactiveMongo module

Reaction Engines Ltd (REL) of Culham, Oxfordshire, ran a series of tests on key elements of its Sabre propulsion system under the independent eye of the European Space Agency (Esa).

Esa's experts have confirmed that all the demonstration objectives were met. REL claims the major technical obstacle to its ideas has now been removed....

ReactiveMongo - Asynchronous & Non-Blocking Scala Driver for MongoDB.

ReactiveMongo is a scala driver that provides fully non-blocking and asynchronous I/O operations. With a classic synchronous database driver, each operation blocks the current thread until a response is received. This model is simple but has a major flaw - it can't scale that much.

In incoming Play2.1 version, a huge re-thinking has been done about JSON API provided by Play2.0.x which provides some great features but is clearly just the tip of the iceberg…

Here is a first presentation of those evolutions aimed at unleashing your JSON usage in Play2 and revealing new forms of manipulation of web dataflows from/to external data systems.

A use case of...