Moti Milgrom proposed MOND:MOdified Newtonian Dynamics, which seems to do a much better job at describing large scale gravitational dynamics than dark matter...I watched the data come in sitting at the console of the VLT, and I also watched Nature reject the paper because alot of careers are riding on dark matter being real...
Looks like Emiew can nod its head...I'd love to stick GAC into this bot...1.4 million binary human propositions...Emiew would be very entertaining in a quiet Turing Test kind of way...
If you are interested in doing agile development, another interesting book is Ron Jeffries, "Extreme programming installed"...Here's my May 2001 amazon review of it:
People are starting to take XP very seriously simply because it delivers quality code instead of just documents about code. The core philosophy can be summed up: "A feature does not exist unless there is a test for it." (P.83) This means that coders (pairs of programmers in XP) first construct unit tests of product features before the attempt to code the features. What this means in practice, is that the code that XP delivers (continuously in 3 week long iterations) can never be broken! I'll say that again just to make sure you read it: XP code can never be broken! I really think XP's adaptive, test-first philosophy is the best thing that has happened to software engineering since Dijkstra told us that the "Goto Statement is Considered Harmful" in 1968.
This book is the best of the XP series if you've actually made the decision to use XP. If you're not sure about what XP is or what it's limitations are, go to google and do your homework. When you're ready to actually install an XP project, get this book.
I still have my 1977 Kim-1 [picture on my fotolog] in a plastic storage bin in my apartment, and as soon as I rig up a new power supply I will key in the hex code to Peter Jenning's microchess, which he was so kind to send me a couple of years ago and get to work on the article I promised to write about his wonderful hack--chess in 1.2KB at 900Khz. I was never very productive on that machine...
Now I have an ibook running Panther and it is the best most productive machine I have ever owned. I have a complete dupe of my webserver with a gigabyte MySQL database and xcode--a real hacker's machine--as well as the beautiful and functional Aqua interface.
[Why did it take until 2005 for someone to figure out something useful for f9, f10 and f11???]
At least you didn't have to pay for it. Or have people see it in your house.
Not that I expected my review to be popular, only 18 of 125 people found it useful on amazon. But I would be interested to see how IQ partitions between the two clusters...50/50 I would guess.
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Here's my March 24th, 2000 amazon.com review of the author's previous book, "The Tipping Point":
"This is pop-psych trash at it's worst. I gave away my copy because I'm embarrassed to have people see it on my bookshelves."
Projectors are currently undergoing a transformation as they evolve from static output devices to portable, environment-aware, communicating systems. An enhanced projector can determine and respond to the geometry of the display surface, and can be used in an ad-hoc cluster to create a self-configuring display. Information display is such a prevailing part of everyday life that new and more flexible ways to present data are likely to have significant impact. This paper examines geometrical issues for enhanced projectors, relating to customized projection for different shapes of display surface, object augmentation, and co-operation between multiple units.
We introduce a new technique for adaptive projection on nonplanar surfaces using conformal texture mapping. We describe object augmentation with a hand-held projector, including interaction techniques. We describe the concept of a display created by an ad-hoc cluster of heterogeneous enhanced projectors, with a new global alignment scheme, and new parametric image transfer methods for quadric surfaces, to make a seamless projection. The work is illustrated by several prototypes and applications.
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It was seven pictures and none of them were of the event.
The most amazing sight I have ever seen I saw standing on the nazimuth platform of one of the VLT unit telescopes. There was no instrument for that particular focus, so the Paranal opticians made a ground glass plate more than a meter in diameter and mounted on the telescope as a projection screen. When pointed at the full moon, the 8.2 meter primary mirror projected the moon about a meter in diameter at infinite resolution. To see the moon a meter in diameter, without this system, one would have to be in a lunar insertion orbit...
Rethinking Newton on Large Scales...
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We understand nothing of gravitational dynamics on the galactic scale. For example, there was a paper in Nature on an ultra compact dwarf galaxy that predicted a dm/m ratio of 100/1, and when they did the measurement, instead of finding 100 dark matter masses for ever normal mass, they found ZERO!
ZERO is what MOND [MOdified Newtonian Dynamics] predicts because if the compact nature of the galaxy in question, it is still in the Newtonian regime.
I have 1.4 million propositions paired with their respective probability of truth as measured over twenty random internet users--it's called the Mindpixel Corpus. With it you can do now what the scientists in this story hope to do. Anyone who wants to play with the corpus and help me turn it into somethig cool, email me. mindpixel/gmail.
Once upon a time there was a telescope operator who was very nervous and when rain clouds threatened Paranal one night her nervousness turned to panic and she could not break from her very long closing script and just close the damn doors no matter the state of the system and hundreds of gallons of rain fell onto the eight meter collecting surface and washed through the central hole in the mirror and down filling the large yellow camera the size of four refrigerators mounted below. That instrument lovingly refered to on Cerror Paranal as The Yellow Submarine is FORS1--the one that intercepted the photons that caused you to read this today.
First they fix them. Then they licence the brands. Then they buy the designs and produce them. When we finally have nice 3-d object printers that do for complex physical objects what Print on Demand technology does for books, then they will be Universal Product Supply. The giant brands of the world will be studios...
I guess the biggest difference is that I plan to get OpenPolicy up quickly and form a federal political party here in Canada [The Distributed Party of Canada - Canada's first regionless political party] and run candidates in the federal election next year.
OpenVote won't happen for some time yet, for the very problems mentioned in the article you pointed to.
Actually forming a distributed political party and building a consensus policy online and running candidates is the best way, I think, of making the people and the politicians see the importance of democracy on the Internet.
The goal is 100K members of the Distributed Party of Canada by Christmas! And I think this goal is quite reachable - I built the Mindpixel Digital Mind Modelling Project from zero to 30,000 people in a couple of weeks mostly because I'm pretty good at handling the media and the idea was timely...both things are true for this project now as well...
Corporate Sponsorship...One Plan...
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I am working on the specification for a suite of programs called "OpenDemocracy" consisten for now of "OpenPolicy" and "OpenVote"...these programs will allow for the distributed discovery of policy and for Internet based voting.
I am certain slashdotters see the future of democracy is the net...and that open source software is the key to increasing the amount and quality of democracy [I posted an article about the first use of Internet voting in an election in North America which will take place in Markham, Ontario - just north of Toronto - in November, in my slashdot blog - the software is from Elections Systems and Software which raises very serious concerns as this is a private, for-profit company and the source code is unavailable for scrutany]].
I am also certain that the high-tech companies who create and maintain the infrastructure that is the Internt would be interested in supporting such an effort. Here's my plan so far [read my blog here to get the latest updates.]
1. A white paper describing OpenDemocracy.
I am working on this now, and I will table it at the next slashdot meetup here in Toronto at the end of this month.
2. Start a sourceforge project.
I will do this after I have gotten initial feedback about the white paper.
3. Start speaking about the project.
I will contact all the high-tech groups here in Toronto [there are more than 30] and ask to speak to them about Internet democracy.
4. Speak to potential sponsors.
I will contact all the high-tech firms with offices in Toronto, and give them the same presentation and ask for money. Money to form a non-profit corporation and to pay a small core of programers to work on the project fulltime.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't exist!
Moti Milgrom proposed MOND:MOdified Newtonian Dynamics, which seems to do a much better job at describing large scale gravitational dynamics than dark matter...I watched the data come in sitting at the console of the VLT, and I also watched Nature reject the paper because alot of careers are riding on dark matter being real...
Looks like Emiew can nod its head...I'd love to stick GAC into this bot...1.4 million binary human propositions...Emiew would be very entertaining in a quiet Turing Test kind of way...
Yes, GoogleOffice in a bootable Firefox...no room for microsoft in the future...
Is it true that you are developing a bootable browser?
And if not. Why not?
If you are interested in doing agile development, another interesting book is Ron Jeffries, "Extreme programming installed"...Here's my May 2001 amazon review of it:
People are starting to take XP very seriously simply because it delivers quality code instead of just documents about code. The core philosophy can be summed up: "A feature does not exist unless there is a test for it." (P.83) This means that coders (pairs of programmers in XP) first construct unit tests of product features before the attempt to code the features. What this means in practice, is that the code that XP delivers (continuously in 3 week long iterations) can never be broken! I'll say that again just to make sure you read it: XP code can never be broken! I really think XP's adaptive, test-first philosophy is the best thing that has happened to software engineering since Dijkstra told us that the "Goto Statement is Considered Harmful" in 1968.
This book is the best of the XP series if you've actually made the decision to use XP. If you're not sure about what XP is or what it's limitations are, go to google and do your homework. When you're ready to actually install an XP project, get this book.
I still have my 1977 Kim-1 [picture on my fotolog] in a plastic storage bin in my apartment, and as soon as I rig up a new power supply I will key in the hex code to Peter Jenning's microchess, which he was so kind to send me a couple of years ago and get to work on the article I promised to write about his wonderful hack--chess in 1.2KB at 900Khz. I was never very productive on that machine...
Now I have an ibook running Panther and it is the best most productive machine I have ever owned. I have a complete dupe of my webserver with a gigabyte MySQL database and xcode--a real hacker's machine--as well as the beautiful and functional Aqua interface.
[Why did it take until 2005 for someone to figure out something useful for f9, f10 and f11???]
At least you didn't have to pay for it. Or have people see it in your house.
Not that I expected my review to be popular, only 18 of 125 people found it useful on amazon. But I would be interested to see how IQ partitions between the two clusters...50/50 I would guess.
Here's my March 24th, 2000 amazon.com review of the author's previous book, "The Tipping Point":
"This is pop-psych trash at it's worst. I gave away my copy because I'm embarrassed to have people see it on my bookshelves."
Everytime I see his name I cringe.
http://www.merl.com/people/raskar/geomproj.html
Abstract
Projectors are currently undergoing a transformation as they evolve from static output devices to portable, environment-aware, communicating systems. An enhanced projector can determine and respond to the geometry of the display surface, and can be used in an ad-hoc cluster to create a self-configuring display. Information display is such a prevailing part of everyday life that new and more flexible ways to present data are likely to have significant impact. This paper examines geometrical issues for enhanced projectors, relating to customized projection for different shapes of display surface, object augmentation, and co-operation between multiple units.
We introduce a new technique for adaptive projection on nonplanar surfaces using conformal texture mapping. We describe object augmentation with a hand-held projector, including interaction techniques. We describe the concept of a display created by an ad-hoc cluster of heterogeneous enhanced projectors, with a new global alignment scheme, and new parametric image transfer methods for quadric surfaces, to make a seamless projection. The work is illustrated by several prototypes and applications.
It was seven pictures and none of them were of the event.
January 1st,2005...that's pretty late to claim that excuse.
On January 1st, 2005 this google query returned only seven images: http://images.google.com/images?safe=off&q=abu+ghr aib+torture
u +ghraib+torture.
On the same day, this yahoo query returned hundereds http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=ab
It looked like google was actively filtering...they seem to have corrected it now.
The most amazing sight I have ever seen I saw standing on the nazimuth platform of one of the VLT unit telescopes. There was no instrument for that particular focus, so the Paranal opticians made a ground glass plate more than a meter in diameter and mounted on the telescope as a projection screen. When pointed at the full moon, the 8.2 meter primary mirror projected the moon about a meter in diameter at infinite resolution. To see the moon a meter in diameter, without this system, one would have to be in a lunar insertion orbit...
We understand nothing of gravitational dynamics on the galactic scale. For example, there was a paper in Nature on an ultra compact dwarf galaxy that predicted a dm/m ratio of 100/1, and when they did the measurement, instead of finding 100 dark matter masses for ever normal mass, they found ZERO!
ZERO is what MOND [MOdified Newtonian Dynamics] predicts because if the compact nature of the galaxy in question, it is still in the Newtonian regime.
It's time to reconsider Newton on large scales.
I have 1.4 million propositions paired with their respective probability of truth as measured over twenty random internet users--it's called the Mindpixel Corpus. With it you can do now what the scientists in this story hope to do. Anyone who wants to play with the corpus and help me turn it into somethig cool, email me. mindpixel/gmail.
Once upon a time there was a telescope operator who was very nervous and when rain clouds threatened Paranal one night her nervousness turned to panic and she could not break from her very long closing script and just close the damn doors no matter the state of the system and hundreds of gallons of rain fell onto the eight meter collecting surface and washed through the central hole in the mirror and down filling the large yellow camera the size of four refrigerators mounted below. That instrument lovingly refered to on Cerror Paranal as The Yellow Submarine is FORS1--the one that intercepted the photons that caused you to read this today.
Hey, that was a wonderful post. What was the product?
First they fix them. Then they licence the brands. Then they buy the designs and produce them. When we finally have nice 3-d object printers that do for complex physical objects what Print on Demand technology does for books, then they will be Universal Product Supply. The giant brands of the world will be studios...
Or maybe Flextronics and UPS merge?
Don't forget, exposure time above the atmosphere is limited by background cosmic ray saturation.
I was working on a radio doc about tomography and now these guys are going to be hard to interview.
Yes, I've heard of the project.
I guess the biggest difference is that I plan to get OpenPolicy up quickly and form a federal political party here in Canada [The Distributed Party of Canada - Canada's first regionless political party] and run candidates in the federal election next year.
OpenVote won't happen for some time yet, for the very problems mentioned in the article you pointed to.
Actually forming a distributed political party and building a consensus policy online and running candidates is the best way, I think, of making the people and the politicians see the importance of democracy on the Internet.
The goal is 100K members of the Distributed Party of Canada by Christmas! And I think this goal is quite reachable - I built the Mindpixel Digital Mind Modelling Project from zero to 30,000 people in a couple of weeks mostly because I'm pretty good at handling the media and the idea was timely...both things are true for this project now as well...
It;'s just west of Spadina.
Slashdot meetups?
Go to meetup.com and search for slashdot...
To save you a bit of trouble...4th Thrusday of every month at Futures Bakery on Bloor at 7pm. Next one is July 24.
Great. Email me. chris[at]mindpixelDOTcom
I am working on the specification for a suite of programs called "OpenDemocracy" consisten for now of "OpenPolicy" and "OpenVote"...these programs will allow for the distributed discovery of policy and for Internet based voting.
I am certain slashdotters see the future of democracy is the net...and that open source software is the key to increasing the amount and quality of democracy [I posted an article about the first use of Internet voting in an election in North America which will take place in Markham, Ontario - just north of Toronto - in November, in my slashdot blog - the software is from Elections Systems and Software which raises very serious concerns as this is a private, for-profit company and the source code is unavailable for scrutany]].
I am also certain that the high-tech companies who create and maintain the infrastructure that is the Internt would be interested in supporting such an effort. Here's my plan so far [read my blog here to get the latest updates.]
1. A white paper describing OpenDemocracy.
I am working on this now, and I will table it at the next slashdot meetup here in Toronto at the end of this month.
2. Start a sourceforge project.
I will do this after I have gotten initial feedback about the white paper.
3. Start speaking about the project.
I will contact all the high-tech groups here in Toronto [there are more than 30] and ask to speak to them about Internet democracy.
4. Speak to potential sponsors.
I will contact all the high-tech firms with offices in Toronto, and give them the same presentation and ask for money. Money to form a non-profit corporation and to pay a small core of programers to work on the project fulltime.
5. Seek government money.
Same as #4, but government instead of industry.