links for 2009-07-08

• Where Do Venture Capitalists Find Their Companies? | Mendelson's Musings
  (tags: vc startup)
• Magnetic “Thinking Cap” Improves Learning | Wired Science | Wired.com
  (tags: brain biofeedback memory)
• Writing On Air Is Not Pie In The Sky
  (tags: mobile ui viapssteam)
• 800TFLOPS Multicore IC for Realtime Ray Tracing — Nikkei Electronics Asia — July 2009 – Tech-On!
  (tags: hardware graphics)
• Galactic Arms Race (GAR)
  GAR is both a multiplayer online video game and a research experiment in automatic content generation driven by player preferences. Unique game content, namely spaceship weapon systems, automatically evolves based on player behavior through a specialized version of the NEAT evolutionary algorithm called cgNEAT (content-generating NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies). In particular, new variants of weapons that players like will be continually created by the game itself. In this way, the game never stays the same. GAR is the first video game to demonstrate that critical content can evolve as the game is played to satisfy its players.
  (tags: evolution games gamedev)
• Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence – tech – 08 July 2009 – New Scientist
  (tags: brain ai memory neuroscience physics prediction hardware)
• Hot, Hot, Hot! A Twitter Augmented Reality App for iPhone
  (tags: twitter iphone augmented-reality geolocation viapssteam)
• Startup Fundraising 101 | VentureBeat
  (tags: startup)
• Aho-Corasick algorithm – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: tree search strings patterns algorithm)
• Statistical Machine Translation Tutorial
  (tags: nlp language linguistics machine-learning)