The early Mars mission were under Goldin's smaller-cheaper-faster program. Curiosity is 50% over budget and 26 months late. Much of this due to a new nuclear engine technology which could be useful for future probes. If it wasnt for the amazing resilency of Spirit (R.I.P.) and Opportunity, NASA would have had a major gap in it surface Mars program. Along with the Webb Telescope cost overruns, NASA is cutting its 2010s probe plans about in half what was earlier expected. And this before the anticipated Tea Party cuts.
A representative of space probe manufacturer in Colorado said that commercial Pu is becoming scarce, i.e. not being refined in the like the dwindling tritium supplies. The 24 pounds of plutonium in the Pluto New Horzion's RTG would cost $50M in today's prices. That is significant cost factor for NASA. Next month's Juno probe launch to Jupiter uses monster (60 feet) solar panels for the first time, partly for cost/availability reasons. Solar energy at Jupiter is 1/16th of Earth or about the distance limit.
Of a long list: ABC & InfoSeek, Time Warner & AOL, MicroSoft & NBC, Fox & MySpace; none is really thriving. AOL is trying to revive by itself again. MSNBC hasnt done much new in a long time.
Then I'd multiple by some power of ten two closest to a human second or year to derive the planck-second or planck-year.
PI not TAU in Euler's identity
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Euler's Identity assembles the five basic constants of math into a compact equation: e, pi, i, 1 and 0.
No two or tau in there. This is sometimes called 'The most beautiful equation in mathematics'.
Up until five years ago I could browse journals on the shelves of several local colleges. But these colleges have found it much cheaper to purchase electronic subscriptions, without need journal shelf space. So the journal shelves are now a fifth or tenth of their previous size. MIT is an example. The "Great Dome", 5th floor of Bldg 10, used to house the engineering new issues shelves. But that has been migrated to small side room. The Great Dome is now a wireless center and reading lounge.
I am wondering if its really "science" if its not easily findable and available. If its in a rare journal in a generally closed library, few can read it and build on it or reproduce it.
Its pretty common now to hear many crimes that the defendant didnt really intend to do - it was just a medical condition. Tony Weiner calims to have gone into meidcal rehad, and so on. Few people are ever responsible for their actions anymore.
A desired output image may be (1) just one of the cameras, (2) a mathematical operation on a subset of cameras, or (3) a mathematical operation on all the cameras. I recall changing the focus is an weighted integral of all the cameras with the weighting kernal a function of depth and camera position. I'd have have to google "synthetic aperture" and "Marc Levoy" of Stanford for the paper. His research summery lists many of the light field algorithms with references to other work.
There has been a fair amount of computer science research over the last decade over what you could do if you took a picture with a plane of cameras instead of just one or two. The resulting dataset is called a "light field". You can re-composite the pixels to change depth of focus, look around or through occluding obstacles, dynamically change point of view, etc. As digital webcams became dirt cheap people started building these hyper-cameras and experimenting with them. people learned you could relatively interesting things with small arrays of 4 or 5 squared cameras. Later on they discovered you do this with one camera, with a multi-part lense, then reconfigure the output pixels in the computer in real time. I've seen all these systems demo'ed at SIGGRAPH over the years. Now someone appears to be commercializing one.
I think the infamous bullet-dodging scene in the first Matrix movie was a type of hyper-stereo camera, a row of them albeit. The output lightfield was reconfigured expand point-of-view into time.
> If Guardians where capable of checking things regularly then they wouldn't need these devices in the first place.
Incorrect. You cant watch someone 1440 minutes a day. These children can still be curious and clever and wander off on adventures.
I just heard rant from a founder of MoveOn.org about web filtering caused by personalization. He suggests it is practically censorship when portals tell you what they think will elicit a commercial response rather than a totally objective search result. They dont really need your name and tax-id number to "know" you, just your surfing history.
I mean people use other people's buggy anonymizing technology. They hadnt invented it themselves nor deeply understand it, so are prone to discovery. And these people are often young, still in school or not in adult positions yet. Find more of a game challenge than a potentially dangerous activity.
In one case the 10-year old girl drowned and the other the other 11-year old boy was found alive overnight. There were media alerts to look for the victims before they were found. Water may have killed the first device or blocked its signal, although its not supposed to. The forensic analysis is not completed yet. Guardians are supposed to check batteries and devices every week.
The fastest computers are 100,000x faster in 25 years. But the typical problem in my discipline (seismic) is a 4D grid. If you increase the side of a grid 18x to the fourth power, then you reach 100,000. I was at a conference earlier month where people are still talking about tricks like custom hardware (GPUs) and data compression to squeeze ever larger problems into supercomputers. This aspect has not changed since I went to grad school a quarter century ago.
Nick Carr wrote a book last year called "The Shallows" about internet causing less "deep reading". Perhaps human attention is normally jumpy and deep reading is a learned behavior.
Maybe some old media "failed" because they they required too much creative imagination to figure out usefulness. Or they were not technologically robust enough and still clumsy. Holograms are an example of the latter. Everyone expects "floating Princes Leah" dynamic holograms in the future. The first single-image holograms used lasers, camera, and a lot of expertise. But its expected you could compute the diffracted wavefield in real time without needing a laser or camera once computers were fast enough. The late MIT professor Steve Bennet had experimented with this in 1990s. And Disney Research was should clever things you could do with multiple pre-photographed or pre-computed holograms at the last SIGGRAPH. At some point we'll cross the feasability threshhold have have something clever.
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The early Mars mission were under Goldin's smaller-cheaper-faster program. Curiosity is 50% over budget and 26 months late. Much of this due to a new nuclear engine technology which could be useful for future probes. If it wasnt for the amazing resilency of Spirit (R.I.P.) and Opportunity, NASA would have had a major gap in it surface Mars program. Along with the Webb Telescope cost overruns, NASA is cutting its 2010s probe plans about in half what was earlier expected. And this before the anticipated Tea Party cuts.
A representative of space probe manufacturer in Colorado said that commercial Pu is becoming scarce, i.e. not being refined in the like the dwindling tritium supplies. The 24 pounds of plutonium in the Pluto New Horzion's RTG would cost $50M in today's prices. That is significant cost factor for NASA. Next month's Juno probe launch to Jupiter uses monster (60 feet) solar panels for the first time, partly for cost/availability reasons. Solar energy at Jupiter is 1/16th of Earth or about the distance limit.
Too expensive said NASA.
Of a long list: ABC & InfoSeek, Time Warner & AOL, MicroSoft & NBC, Fox & MySpace; none is really thriving. AOL is trying to revive by itself again. MSNBC hasnt done much new in a long time.
That virus fried their centrifuges and delay the Iran nuke a couple years.
Then I'd multiple by some power of ten two closest to a human second or year to derive the planck-second or planck-year.
Euler's Identity assembles the five basic constants of math into a compact equation: e, pi, i, 1 and 0. No two or tau in there. This is sometimes called 'The most beautiful equation in mathematics'.
Up until five years ago I could browse journals on the shelves of several local colleges. But these colleges have found it much cheaper to purchase electronic subscriptions, without need journal shelf space. So the journal shelves are now a fifth or tenth of their previous size. MIT is an example. The "Great Dome", 5th floor of Bldg 10, used to house the engineering new issues shelves. But that has been migrated to small side room. The Great Dome is now a wireless center and reading lounge.
I am wondering if its really "science" if its not easily findable and available. If its in a rare journal in a generally closed library, few can read it and build on it or reproduce it.
The acts have been done. These script kiddies will have the police forces breathing down their necks for a while.
Its pretty common now to hear many crimes that the defendant didnt really intend to do - it was just a medical condition. Tony Weiner calims to have gone into meidcal rehad, and so on. Few people are ever responsible for their actions anymore.
Crystal balls, magic windows, etc.
That is the basic text. The really useful stuff like the index, code examples, tables, etc. you could sell for another $4.99.
A desired output image may be (1) just one of the cameras, (2) a mathematical operation on a subset of cameras, or (3) a mathematical operation on all the cameras. I recall changing the focus is an weighted integral of all the cameras with the weighting kernal a function of depth and camera position. I'd have have to google "synthetic aperture" and "Marc Levoy" of Stanford for the paper. His research summery lists many of the light field algorithms with references to other work.
There has been a fair amount of computer science research over the last decade over what you could do if you took a picture with a plane of cameras instead of just one or two. The resulting dataset is called a "light field". You can re-composite the pixels to change depth of focus, look around or through occluding obstacles, dynamically change point of view, etc. As digital webcams became dirt cheap people started building these hyper-cameras and experimenting with them. people learned you could relatively interesting things with small arrays of 4 or 5 squared cameras. Later on they discovered you do this with one camera, with a multi-part lense, then reconfigure the output pixels in the computer in real time. I've seen all these systems demo'ed at SIGGRAPH over the years. Now someone appears to be commercializing one.
I think the infamous bullet-dodging scene in the first Matrix movie was a type of hyper-stereo camera, a row of them albeit. The output lightfield was reconfigured expand point-of-view into time.
> If Guardians where capable of checking things regularly then they wouldn't need these devices in the first place. Incorrect. You cant watch someone 1440 minutes a day. These children can still be curious and clever and wander off on adventures.
I just heard rant from a founder of MoveOn.org about web filtering caused by personalization. He suggests it is practically censorship when portals tell you what they think will elicit a commercial response rather than a totally objective search result. They dont really need your name and tax-id number to "know" you, just your surfing history.
Just enough to thwart search engines. Any competent hacker or court order could break it.
Still never post anything you dont your mother to see -Tony Weiner.
I mean people use other people's buggy anonymizing technology. They hadnt invented it themselves nor deeply understand it, so are prone to discovery. And these people are often young, still in school or not in adult positions yet. Find more of a game challenge than a potentially dangerous activity.
So parents could find them if separated. I heard a story about this two years ago and nothing since. I have no idea of the popularity.
In one case the 10-year old girl drowned and the other the other 11-year old boy was found alive overnight. There were media alerts to look for the victims before they were found. Water may have killed the first device or blocked its signal, although its not supposed to. The forensic analysis is not completed yet. Guardians are supposed to check batteries and devices every week.
for many months while waiting for trail. And most of the people at GITMO havent had a trial yet in ten years.
The fastest computers are 100,000x faster in 25 years. But the typical problem in my discipline (seismic) is a 4D grid. If you increase the side of a grid 18x to the fourth power, then you reach 100,000. I was at a conference earlier month where people are still talking about tricks like custom hardware (GPUs) and data compression to squeeze ever larger problems into supercomputers. This aspect has not changed since I went to grad school a quarter century ago.
Nick Carr wrote a book last year called "The Shallows" about internet causing less "deep reading". Perhaps human attention is normally jumpy and deep reading is a learned behavior.
Maybe some old media "failed" because they they required too much creative imagination to figure out usefulness. Or they were not technologically robust enough and still clumsy. Holograms are an example of the latter. Everyone expects "floating Princes Leah" dynamic holograms in the future. The first single-image holograms used lasers, camera, and a lot of expertise. But its expected you could compute the diffracted wavefield in real time without needing a laser or camera once computers were fast enough. The late MIT professor Steve Bennet had experimented with this in 1990s. And Disney Research was should clever things you could do with multiple pre-photographed or pre-computed holograms at the last SIGGRAPH. At some point we'll cross the feasability threshhold have have something clever.