Daily Archives: August 9, 2016

National Instruments Secret Sauce In Industrial IoT: Getting The Data From The Things

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Much of today’s excitement and press related to the Internet of Things (IoT) revolves around the data and analytics generated from new IoT applications and how to apply them to changing business models. Though we do discuss the “things” in IoT, to me they get short shrift when it comes to the discussion. Obviously without these things there would be no IoT. But just how hard it is to actually measure and gather the data and then adjust the devices is often ignored in our excitement to discuss the value of the data.

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How Did We Fool Ourselves Into Believing In A New Particle That Wasn’t There?

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From the end of 2015 until now, the particle physics community had been all abuzz about an incredible new possibility: a new fundamental particle that the LHC showed hints of. It couldn’t have been a quark, a lepton, or any of the predicted bosons. It appeared to be more massive than anything else ever discovered at 750 GeV of energy, four times the mass of the top quark, the heaviest known particle. And signals of it appeared in both detectors’ data, CMS and ATLAS, independently. Many physicists were touting that this was most likely real, excited that the first fundamental particle beyond the Standard Model was about to be discovered. Some were even giving ridiculously long odds against its discovery, claiming there was less than a 1-in-1,000 chance this wasn’t real. If you looked at the 2015 data, there was very clearly something going on at that particular energy, and it was the great hope of physicists that more data would elevate this hint into the realm of robust discovery.

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“Mobilympics” – How Is Mobile Shaping This Year’s Games At Rio De Janeiro?

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Forbesfone: Your global travel SIM in over 220 countries. Our rates in Rio? $0.11/MB! The Olympic Games in London in 2012 were the first of their kind to board the Social Media wagon with its real-time dynamics. In just 4 years, the media scene has changed drastically yet again, with the

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An Idea For An Interfaith Religious Violence Warning System

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Dr. Dicky Sofjan is a core doctoral faculty of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), which is located at the Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Dr. Sofjan regularly teaches on the topic of Religion and the Politics of Multiculturalism at the Ph.D. level. The consortium is a unique Ph.D. program that celebrates religious diversity and trains roughly 65 Ph.D.s from more than 10 countries. It’s a partnership of three universities and professors from several faith traditions.

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