Did submitter actually read his own links?
No one "solved" equation. They proved existence of couple of soulutions with specific properties.
"Penn mathematicians proved the global existence of classical solutions and rapid time decay to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation with long-range interactions. "
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/university-pennsylvania-mathematicians-solve-140-year-old-boltzmann-equation-gaseous-behaviors
"Penn mathematicians proved the global existence of classical solutions and rapid time decay to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation with long-range interactions. "
Which should have been included into TFA from the start:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/leozhu/paper/RCM10cvpr.pdf
The main achievement claimed is that no image labeling or any additional data like viewport position was needed, the learning process was completely automated.
The Soviet approach was also very stereotypical: get an army of mathematicians and engineers to find exact analytic solutions to the problems you're trying to solve.
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But nope, just a lot of brainpower misdirected into a lot of horribly inefficient pursuits.
You are wrong here on both accounts, though somehow close to truth. I was one of those engineers who worked with PDE at and through the end of the Soviet Union. Finding "exact solution" nether was a priority or purpose of research, it mostly impossible anyway. Actual approach was to find more efficient and stable algorithms, that is to compensate lack of computational power with better usage and understanding of underlying math. That was causing emphasis on different multiresolution and adaptive methods and application of stability theory. Not that it was much different from western approach. But I have seen many times books on bifurcation theory and topological dynamics sold by street vendors.
It's more or less clear that modern police, institution evolved in XIX-XX centuries have troubles keeping up with modern society. One way to reorganize it would be separated into several independent structures. Traffic police should have nothing to do with criminal police. Criminal police shouldn't keep order on the streets and answer 911 etc. They should access each others databases only by court order, and could be used to investigate each other misconducts. Some system of checks and balances is needed.
In bizarre move Israel Ministry of Truth... err Communications banned iPad. Custom officials already confiscating iPads at airport. Incompatibility with Wi-Fi standard given as the reason.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162992.html
or place to sit. It's hindered by widespread corruption and still quite criminalized economy. Tax breaks will be used for tax evasion by unrelated businesses and grants will be stolen by corrupted officials. Right now high-tech, which is by its nature quite transparent and vulnerable for extortion can not compete with different shady and semi-shady businesses. The way to grow hi-tech in Russia is not to pour money into it, but clean corruption from the government, especially local authorities. Do it and high-tech will flourish without any outside interventions.
And here is another thought - 1-4cm it's a depth resolution(at 2-3m). For most of finger gestures you need X-Y resolution, which is more fine(5mm at 2m).
It seems it's more like 1cm. Here are Prime Sense sensor (which reportedly licensed by Microsoft) specs:
Field of View (Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal) 58 H, 40 V, 70 D
Depth image size VGA (640x480)
Spatial x/y resolution (@ 2m distance from sensor) 3mm
Depth z resolution (@ 2m distance from sensor) 1cm
Maximum image throughput (frame rate) 60fps
Operation range 0.8m - 3.5m
Color image size UXGA (1600x1200)
And here is tech description
Phone as 3d pointing device This one recognize some simple gestures with phone
And both could be downloaded for Symbian OS 9.*. It seems I did mistake with choice of platform - Symbian OS is in decline now. But if you still keep old Symbian S60 3rd ed around you can download and try.
Those demos use markers, but markerless approach also viable.
If you are in it for money take first.
Computer games, 3d programming, computer vision, image processing, machine learning - whatever cull area are there they all relay heavily on calculus and linear algebra, and often their more arcane derivatives like optimization, groups Lie etc. Even google page rank uses eigenvectors.
From the other hand it's possible to slog through the whole career in business applications/databases without touching calculus or linear algebra.
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.
Word is he made enough money while in the United States to retire for good, before he returned home.
He doesn't looks like a man well off. It's more likely that as former a Soviet citizen he can live economically, off the scarce amount of money.
photo in the train photo on the street
With paper trail banks are accountable of transactions. You can be reasonably sure that bank wouldn't forge paper check, and if you are depositing someone else check you have paper receipt. If transaction is purely electronic your are on sufferance of the bank in case of dispute or bank mistake. Surely you can check bank logs, but only if you obtain court warrant.
You give them transaction number and they can say it was not a bank mistake, it was participant's problem. If bank refuse to recognize mistake in transaction you can't show them paper as a proof. And in my experience bank mistakes are quite often occurrence.
Video Surveillance is Useless
Presentation from prominent computer vision researcher, inventor of phase correlation method
It basically saying, that on current tech level video surveillance is useless for face identification. What follow is that it's actually harmful, due to wrong impression of it's reliability.
Geotagging and Augmented Reality are not the same. Surely AR application can do geotagging, but not necessary, no more than it can produce sound for example. AR also can use publicly geotagged objects, with client not publicly geotagged. AR have no relation whatsoever to problem in question.
Android is more potentiality for now than a real competitor. If Android apps start really bite into App Store pocket Apple will do something, not before. The situation with Symbian OS was absolutely the same. Until iPhone/App Store juggernaut started, Nokia didn't bother with developer complaints about closure of handset capabilities with Symbian Signed, platform fragmentation and general neglect of application market. As soon as iPhone started biting into Nokia market share, and Apple app store proved that there are real money in the applications, Nokia scrambled Ovi application store, Symbian foundation promised to relax Symbian Signed restrictions, and it seems Nokia ended up with dropping Symbian OS for high-end (or may be for all later) smartphones altogether.
If you could identify and classify the Strange Attractors in the system, can you do anything useful? Probably not, at least not in the "solving the problem" sense. Chaos is fully deterministic, but it is utterly unpredictable. The only solution is the whole solution.
That is not entirely correct.
First strange attractor is usually embedded into lower-dimension manifold. Reducing dimensionality can make problem a lot more tractable, especially if original system was infinitely-dimensional (like Navier-Stocks). Estimation of dimensionality of that manifold or any other information about it can help a lot in numerical simulation.
Second strange attractors have non-trivial statistical properties and specific geometry. Exact solutions is not always the target of calculation, statistical properties or averages of solutions, or its geometrical properties could be target of calculations too.
That is probably more potential that practice for now. While I've read paper (long ago) about statistical (ergodic theory) and algebraic-geometrical approach to Lorentz attractor I don't know if there are any works on dimensionality or statistical properties on attractors of other "real world" systems.
That's too much information. Before they know it, their scientists are talking to the competition and trade secrets are leaking out."
I don't think author has a clue. The secrets which could be accidentally spilled are not worth keeping. If it so short it bound to be trivial, really essential results are megabytes and megabytes of data or code or know-how. Treat your researcher as prisoners, get prison science in return.
Having four or five different OS's - iPhone, Android, Maemo, WinMobile etc mean the cost of application testing is to quadruple, and the cost development about the same too. Or application will be restricted to smaller part of the market. Big software developers can sustain multiplatform development more easily, but for small/independent developers that's a problem. One of the biggest strength of the iPhone app market is that there is only one current device and application have to be tested only for one device. Android phones could be Java compatible (that's still remain to be seen), but native android code (now legitimized by NDK) will hardly be transferable between devices.
I *would* like to see augmented reality applied to board gaming. Something that combines the tactile experience of playing with wooden pieces
"Tangible interface" or "tangible space". I tried my hand in it with one of my AR demos. Mostly users ignore it and go for the path of least resistance - play with phone and markers, not bothering with on-board objects. AR novelty by itself seems enough. Probably require a lot of design fine-tuning to entice users actually use non-trivial game interactions.
The Foundation (Al-Quaeda in Arabic) will be created in 12000 years by Harry Seldon, as the result of nuclear proliferation initiated by time-traveling terrorist, inspired by subversive element from Hidden Centuries.
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Did submitter actually read his own links?
No one "solved" equation. They proved existence of couple of soulutions with specific properties.
"Penn mathematicians proved the global existence of classical solutions and rapid time decay to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation with long-range interactions. "
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/university-pennsylvania-mathematicians-solve-140-year-old-boltzmann-equation-gaseous-behaviors
"Penn mathematicians proved the global existence of classical solutions and rapid time decay to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation with long-range interactions. "
Which should have been included into TFA from the start:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/leozhu/paper/RCM10cvpr.pdf
The main achievement claimed is that no image labeling or any additional data like viewport position was needed, the learning process was completely automated.
You are wrong here on both accounts, though somehow close to truth. I was one of those engineers who worked with PDE at and through the end of the Soviet Union. Finding "exact solution" nether was a priority or purpose of research, it mostly impossible anyway. Actual approach was to find more efficient and stable algorithms, that is to compensate lack of computational power with better usage and understanding of underlying math. That was causing emphasis on different multiresolution and adaptive methods and application of stability theory. Not that it was much different from western approach. But I have seen many times books on bifurcation theory and topological dynamics sold by street vendors.
What he basically did was putting haar-like features on the face. Haar-like feature are derived from Haar wavelet.
It's more or less clear that modern police, institution evolved in XIX-XX centuries have troubles keeping up with modern society. One way to reorganize it would be separated into several independent structures. Traffic police should have nothing to do with criminal police. Criminal police shouldn't keep order on the streets and answer 911 etc. They should access each others databases only by court order, and could be used to investigate each other misconducts. Some system of checks and balances is needed.
In bizarre move Israel Ministry of Truth... err Communications banned iPad. Custom officials already confiscating iPads at airport. Incompatibility with Wi-Fi standard given as the reason. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162992.html
or place to sit. It's hindered by widespread corruption and still quite criminalized economy. Tax breaks will be used for tax evasion by unrelated businesses and grants will be stolen by corrupted officials. Right now high-tech, which is by its nature quite transparent and vulnerable for extortion can not compete with different shady and semi-shady businesses. The way to grow hi-tech in Russia is not to pour money into it, but clean corruption from the government, especially local authorities. Do it and high-tech will flourish without any outside interventions.
They should have tried that for billion years, that would be more like real creation of life.
Flying robots zapping criminals with electricity...
And here is another thought - 1-4cm it's a depth resolution(at 2-3m). For most of finger gestures you need X-Y resolution, which is more fine(5mm at 2m).
It seems it's more like 1cm. Here are Prime Sense sensor (which reportedly licensed by Microsoft) specs:
Field of View (Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal) 58 H, 40 V, 70 D
Depth image size VGA (640x480)
Spatial x/y resolution (@ 2m distance from sensor) 3mm
Depth z resolution (@ 2m distance from sensor) 1cm
Maximum image throughput (frame rate) 60fps
Operation range 0.8m - 3.5m
Color image size UXGA (1600x1200)
And here is tech description
Phone as 3d pointing device
This one recognize some simple gestures with phone
And both could be downloaded for Symbian OS 9.*. It seems I did mistake with choice of platform - Symbian OS is in decline now. But if you still keep old Symbian S60 3rd ed around you can download and try. Those demos use markers, but markerless approach also viable.
If you are in it for money take first. Computer games, 3d programming, computer vision, image processing, machine learning - whatever cull area are there they all relay heavily on calculus and linear algebra, and often their more arcane derivatives like optimization, groups Lie etc. Even google page rank uses eigenvectors. From the other hand it's possible to slog through the whole career in business applications/databases without touching calculus or linear algebra.
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted.
http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/
He doesn't looks like a man well off. It's more likely that as former a Soviet citizen he can live economically, off the scarce amount of money.
photo in the train
photo on the street
With paper trail banks are accountable of transactions. You can be reasonably sure that bank wouldn't forge paper check, and if you are depositing someone else check you have paper receipt. If transaction is purely electronic your are on sufferance of the bank in case of dispute or bank mistake. Surely you can check bank logs, but only if you obtain court warrant. You give them transaction number and they can say it was not a bank mistake, it was participant's problem. If bank refuse to recognize mistake in transaction you can't show them paper as a proof. And in my experience bank mistakes are quite often occurrence.
Video Surveillance is Useless Presentation from prominent computer vision researcher, inventor of phase correlation method It basically saying, that on current tech level video surveillance is useless for face identification. What follow is that it's actually harmful, due to wrong impression of it's reliability.
Geotagging and Augmented Reality are not the same. Surely AR application can do geotagging, but not necessary, no more than it can produce sound for example. AR also can use publicly geotagged objects, with client not publicly geotagged. AR have no relation whatsoever to problem in question.
Android is more potentiality for now than a real competitor. If Android apps start really bite into App Store pocket Apple will do something, not before. The situation with Symbian OS was absolutely the same. Until iPhone/App Store juggernaut started, Nokia didn't bother with developer complaints about closure of handset capabilities with Symbian Signed, platform fragmentation and general neglect of application market. As soon as iPhone started biting into Nokia market share, and Apple app store proved that there are real money in the applications, Nokia scrambled Ovi application store, Symbian foundation promised to relax Symbian Signed restrictions, and it seems Nokia ended up with dropping Symbian OS for high-end (or may be for all later) smartphones altogether.
That is not entirely correct.
First strange attractor is usually embedded into lower-dimension manifold. Reducing dimensionality can make problem a lot more tractable, especially if original system was infinitely-dimensional (like Navier-Stocks). Estimation of dimensionality of that manifold or any other information about it can help a lot in numerical simulation.
Second strange attractors have non-trivial statistical properties and specific geometry. Exact solutions is not always the target of calculation, statistical properties or averages of solutions, or its geometrical properties could be target of calculations too.
That is probably more potential that practice for now. While I've read paper (long ago) about statistical (ergodic theory) and algebraic-geometrical approach to Lorentz attractor I don't know if there are any works on dimensionality or statistical properties on attractors of other "real world" systems.
I don't think author has a clue. The secrets which could be accidentally spilled are not worth keeping. If it so short it bound to be trivial, really essential results are megabytes and megabytes of data or code or know-how. Treat your researcher as prisoners, get prison science in return.
Having four or five different OS's - iPhone, Android, Maemo, WinMobile etc mean the cost of application testing is to quadruple, and the cost development about the same too. Or application will be restricted to smaller part of the market. Big software developers can sustain multiplatform development more easily, but for small/independent developers that's a problem. One of the biggest strength of the iPhone app market is that there is only one current device and application have to be tested only for one device. Android phones could be Java compatible (that's still remain to be seen), but native android code (now legitimized by NDK) will hardly be transferable between devices.
"Tangible interface" or "tangible space". I tried my hand in it with one of my AR demos. Mostly users ignore it and go for the path of least resistance - play with phone and markers, not bothering with on-board objects. AR novelty by itself seems enough. Probably require a lot of design fine-tuning to entice users actually use non-trivial game interactions.
I had the same thought while reading TFA. Literal translation of Russian title is "A Billion Years Before the End of the World" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel)
The Foundation (Al-Quaeda in Arabic) will be created in 12000 years by Harry Seldon, as the result of nuclear proliferation initiated by time-traveling terrorist, inspired by subversive element from Hidden Centuries.