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High-energy Physics day

Posted on March 24, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Wednesday is High-Energy Physics day. Today we add CalcHEP, CompHEP and Fermitools links.

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Simbrain

Posted on March 23, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

SIMBRAIN is a freeware tool for building, runnning, and analyzing neural-networks (computer simulations of brain circuitry). Simbrain aims to be as visual and easy-to-use as possible. Also unique are its integrated "world component" and its representation of the network’s activation … Continue reading →

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SIM_AGENT

Posted on March 23, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

The SimAgent toolkit provides a range of resources for research and teaching related to the development of interacting agents in environments of various degrees and kinds of complexity. It can be run as a pure simulation tool, or installed in … Continue reading →

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New CogSci links

Posted on March 23, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Today we’ve been searching for some new Cognitive Science software, and have found some interesting entries. SIM_AGENT is a tool for studying cognition and affect. Simbrain is a freeware tool for building, runnning, and analyzing neural-networks.

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Random Numbers

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Offers the possibility to request a sequence of random numbers. The length and the bounds of the sequence can be specified by the user. A quantum random number generator connected to the server is used to produce the numbers on … Continue reading →

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Random Numbers on demand

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

RandomNumbers.info is a site that generates random number sequences on demand using a quantum optical process. Not exactly what we’d call software, but still cool enough to be added to our Probability section!

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XStar

Posted on March 18, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

A Unix program that simulates the movement of stars. It starts by putting a bunch of stars on the screen, and then it lets the inter-body gravitational forces move the stars around. The result is a lot of neat wandering … Continue reading →

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Celestia

Posted on March 18, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects. Find Celestia at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/

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The Sleuth Kit

Posted on March 18, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

The Sleuth Kit and The Autopsy Forensic Browser are open source file system digital forensics tools that analyze NTFS, FAT, UFS, EXT2FS, and EXT3FS file systems. Find The Sleuth Kit at: http://www.sleuthkit.org/index.php

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Forensics and Space

Posted on March 18, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Time to populate some of the sparser sections. Forensics sees an interesting addition today, The Sleuth Kit is a file system digital forensics tool. Also seeing new links is the underpopulated Space section, which adds Celestia, a space simulator that … Continue reading →

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