Why not design a connectomics informed system that mimics the neural retina and visual system? Something that takes the results of research like this and uses true biologically informed computing to do what neural systems are good at and silicon based systems are not so good at? After all, what they are looking at is a system that works like a retina works (more like a video camera and not a still camera), so why not go to the biology which is really good at comparing like streams of information and making like or not like decisions.
Seriously though, the Internet is actually where just about everybody goes in academia to stay on top of the latest research and most areas of focus have their own resources like PubMed for biomedical research.
Also, a good way to make sure you keep up with the absolute torrent of work out there (slowing due to budget cuts) is by keeping a blog generated around the area of science interest you have. Webvision http://webvision.med.utah.edu/ is such an effort to keep up with the latest and greatest in vision research. While this one is tuned to be slightly more accessible to the general public, it has not been uncommon for other lay individuals to rapidly become "experts" in their fields through their blogs. This high school kid, Sawyer has established a blog http://www.talkingspaceonline.com/ that already has him winning awards and getting international accolades from folks like Xeni Jardin and Miles O'Brien.
Yeah, I was panning in mode 2 on the lens, handheld with autofocus which is actually pretty good on the 1DMkIV.
Chad was closer with a faster, fixed focal length lens which let him use a lower ISO. The NASA guys get up close leaving the media folks and others far away.
Yes, indeed. Do let me know if you come out for Speed Week.
Those sonic booms were the loudest, sharpest and most clear of any I've ever heard in my life. This is due to the Shuttle being so big and having 1) a large vertical stabilizer (sonic boom) and 2) large wing surfaces (sonic boom). There is apparently a 3rd sonic boom that is sandwiched in there somewhere, but its difficult to distinguish.
For this project, we have multiple multi-terabyte (5-18 terabyte) datasets that need backup. We have online and offline strategies and the offline strategy is simply multiple, redundant copies on hard drives stored in static proof containers onsite and off site.
Hard drives are *very* cheap all things considered, are easy to store, take up very little physical space and if things go badly, restoring from them is faster than just about any other method. For datasets in the GB range, its a no-brainer to go with hard disks.
Absolutely. The algorithms and principles are the same. The issue is that it tends to be more useful when your plane of focus (depth of field) is limited as it in in microscopy. You can experiment with this with an SLR camera by selecting an aperture wide open (f/1.2, 1.4 or 1.8 on a 50mm lens for instance). Take pictures of things close, mid and far away and stack the images. Works great.
As for alignment, Photoshop CS5 contains algorithms that also automatically align your images. Very useful.
Why not? Care to elaborate? We are talking about a shared memory form of parallelism that automatically assesses system resources and allocated threads to appropriate cores, right?
"For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won't hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. "
Say, what? Is this FUD? No, seriously. I am unaware of *any* study that makes a compelling case for OS X being more insecure than Windows. Care to back up that assertion? Link?
I'd love to see the dose-response curves for their protein fragment, KSL vs. something like Xylitol. If it works better, great. If not, Xylitol is cheap and it works.
Ah, I just love it when the self aggrandized call others idiot on the Internet, especially when they can do it from behind relative anonymity.
As.... I.... said... I thought that is what sugarless gum nee Xylitol has been used for years. Xylitol for the laymen out there inhibits bacteria, specifically mutans streptococci, one of the predominant bacteria involved in tooth decay.
I know a little something about proteins and chemistry as I had to take years of coursework in chemistry and biochemistry to get the Ph.D., so please... tone down the arrogance a bit, O.K.? It makes Slashdot a much more pleasant place.
I like to get work done on the plane. Much of my work requires access online and the thought of 5 hours of non-productive time is frustrating... Sure I could read a book or go back to reading journals etc..., but even those are increasingly going online.
Actually, they can frisk you even when there is no body scanner present. I went through a standard metal detector after having removed my jacket, but the vest I was wearing got me a complete frisk.
Nice. Its disturbing to see that the TSA is still behind the curve. Honestly, I am surprised that TSA did not ban underpants after the last idiot that tried to smuggle a bomb in his shorts and if they ban Wi-Fi., that is the only thing that makes cross country flights tolerable these days, especially in coach.
What is it going to take for us to realize that the TSA is simply not effective? All this reactionary effort is not helping us to be competitive in the business space and the costs are not insubstantial. My last flight on Thursday to San Jose got me a grope by the TSA agents who now apparently are permitted to do full on frisk-downs. What's next, squat and cough?
Each to their own. All I am saying is that the tweet by Andy was lost on the *vast* proportion of the population that would use a mobile device. I get his point, but usability is going to say an awful lot.
Yeah, I am aware of the fees and we have a little collective that is developing some apps for iOS. We looked at developing for Android and still may, but the platform diversity there will keep us on iOS for a while.
Again, this is not about market share to me... the mobile platform that best suits ones needs will be the one that gets purchased. For me (and a not insignificant number of others judging by the market) that platform is iOS.
And thanks for not thinking I am stupid.:-) At least I hope that I am more smart than stupid on most days so it averages out in the right direction.
I was and there is always a price to pay for being an early adopter. But then I was also an early adopter of iOS and it has not bitten me yet. It just seems more refined and polished than even the current Android OS, so that is what I am using to get work done.
We'll see what happens then... However, the market seems to indicate that your compass may be a bit off... Don't get me wrong, I am all for diverse ecosystems including portable OS systems. For me this is not about marketshare, but what works for me. The iOS works better for me than the Android. Your milage may vary.
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Why not design a connectomics informed system that mimics the neural retina and visual system? Something that takes the results of research like this and uses true biologically informed computing to do what neural systems are good at and silicon based systems are not so good at? After all, what they are looking at is a system that works like a retina works (more like a video camera and not a still camera), so why not go to the biology which is really good at comparing like streams of information and making like or not like decisions.
More traditional background on retinal design and research can be found here.
Seriously though, the Internet is actually where just about everybody goes in academia to stay on top of the latest research and most areas of focus have their own resources like PubMed for biomedical research.
Also, a good way to make sure you keep up with the absolute torrent of work out there (slowing due to budget cuts) is by keeping a blog generated around the area of science interest you have. Webvision http://webvision.med.utah.edu/ is such an effort to keep up with the latest and greatest in vision research. While this one is tuned to be slightly more accessible to the general public, it has not been uncommon for other lay individuals to rapidly become "experts" in their fields through their blogs. This high school kid, Sawyer has established a blog http://www.talkingspaceonline.com/ that already has him winning awards and getting international accolades from folks like Xeni Jardin and Miles O'Brien.
Yeah, I was panning in mode 2 on the lens, handheld with autofocus which is actually pretty good on the 1DMkIV.
Chad was closer with a faster, fixed focal length lens which let him use a lower ISO. The NASA guys get up close leaving the media folks and others far away.
Yes, indeed. Do let me know if you come out for Speed Week.
Those sonic booms were the loudest, sharpest and most clear of any I've ever heard in my life. This is due to the Shuttle being so big and having 1) a large vertical stabilizer (sonic boom) and 2) large wing surfaces (sonic boom). There is apparently a 3rd sonic boom that is sandwiched in there somewhere, but its difficult to distinguish.
I was at the landing and got another angle here: http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2011/07/final-sts-135-landing/
For this project, we have multiple multi-terabyte (5-18 terabyte) datasets that need backup. We have online and offline strategies and the offline strategy is simply multiple, redundant copies on hard drives stored in static proof containers onsite and off site.
Hard drives are *very* cheap all things considered, are easy to store, take up very little physical space and if things go badly, restoring from them is faster than just about any other method. For datasets in the GB range, its a no-brainer to go with hard disks.
Yeah, but what about derivative works like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwjones/5914210045/ or this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwjones/5914755036/
Absolutely. The algorithms and principles are the same. The issue is that it tends to be more useful when your plane of focus (depth of field) is limited as it in in microscopy. You can experiment with this with an SLR camera by selecting an aperture wide open (f/1.2, 1.4 or 1.8 on a 50mm lens for instance). Take pictures of things close, mid and far away and stack the images. Works great.
As for alignment, Photoshop CS5 contains algorithms that also automatically align your images. Very useful.
Conceptually, its a little like focus stacking http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2009/03/focus-stacking/ only with a compound lens that does all the exposures at once. More examples of focus stacking here: http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/tag/focus-stacking/
Why not? Care to elaborate? We are talking about a shared memory form of parallelism that automatically assesses system resources and allocated threads to appropriate cores, right?
Oh, like Grand Central Dispatch from Apple?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
"For as much as Mac OS X has a reputation for being safer than Windows, security researchers won't hesitate to point out that the opposite is, in fact, true. "
Say, what? Is this FUD? No, seriously. I am unaware of *any* study that makes a compelling case for OS X being more insecure than Windows. Care to back up that assertion? Link?
I'd love to see the dose-response curves for their protein fragment, KSL vs. something like Xylitol. If it works better, great. If not, Xylitol is cheap and it works.
Who said it was?
Ah, I just love it when the self aggrandized call others idiot on the Internet, especially when they can do it from behind relative anonymity.
As .... I .... said ... I thought that is what sugarless gum nee Xylitol has been used for years. Xylitol for the laymen out there inhibits bacteria, specifically mutans streptococci, one of the predominant bacteria involved in tooth decay.
I know a little something about proteins and chemistry as I had to take years of coursework in chemistry and biochemistry to get the Ph.D., so please... tone down the arrogance a bit, O.K.? It makes Slashdot a much more pleasant place.
Hey, I thought thats what sugarless gum has been used for..... years now? Wonder what this development cost the military/US govt?
I like to get work done on the plane. Much of my work requires access online and the thought of 5 hours of non-productive time is frustrating... Sure I could read a book or go back to reading journals etc..., but even those are increasingly going online.
Hard to drive over the Pacific or Atlantic oceans...
Actually, they can frisk you even when there is no body scanner present. I went through a standard metal detector after having removed my jacket, but the vest I was wearing got me a complete frisk.
Nice. Its disturbing to see that the TSA is still behind the curve. Honestly, I am surprised that TSA did not ban underpants after the last idiot that tried to smuggle a bomb in his shorts and if they ban Wi-Fi., that is the only thing that makes cross country flights tolerable these days, especially in coach.
What is it going to take for us to realize that the TSA is simply not effective? All this reactionary effort is not helping us to be competitive in the business space and the costs are not insubstantial. My last flight on Thursday to San Jose got me a grope by the TSA agents who now apparently are permitted to do full on frisk-downs. What's next, squat and cough?
True...true...
Naw. Moved onto the 3g, skipped the 3gs and now on the iPhone 4.
Each to their own. All I am saying is that the tweet by Andy was lost on the *vast* proportion of the population that would use a mobile device. I get his point, but usability is going to say an awful lot.
Yeah, I am aware of the fees and we have a little collective that is developing some apps for iOS. We looked at developing for Android and still may, but the platform diversity there will keep us on iOS for a while.
Again, this is not about market share to me... the mobile platform that best suits ones needs will be the one that gets purchased. For me (and a not insignificant number of others judging by the market) that platform is iOS.
And thanks for not thinking I am stupid. :-) At least I hope that I am more smart than stupid on most days so it averages out in the right direction.
I was and there is always a price to pay for being an early adopter. But then I was also an early adopter of iOS and it has not bitten me yet. It just seems more refined and polished than even the current Android OS, so that is what I am using to get work done.
We'll see what happens then... However, the market seems to indicate that your compass may be a bit off... Don't get me wrong, I am all for diverse ecosystems including portable OS systems. For me this is not about marketshare, but what works for me. The iOS works better for me than the Android. Your milage may vary.