I am just worried that they are picking up part of information from camera mic. Maybe camera mic output is not totally independent from the video sensor, and is encoded in the final video.
Does anybody know about software for simulation of this kind of mechanical devices? Is it even possible, for example to simulate all parts of mechanical clock? Add 3D printing to that and ... :-)
Very nice article, it resonated with me. It seems that talented people have a great burden, which comes in form of often asking yourself "have you done enough with all the talents you have?". It seems to be quite common, and it even made it to the Bible (I think it is called story about three servants). Funny that money in that story is called talent :)
This article resonated with me, and I agree with the main points. It is interesting to look at etymology [1] of the word passion. It goes along the lines of suffering, etc. Why would anyone recommend to anybody to go and suffer? Unless it is a "suffering" related to the effort you need to make in order to learn something new.
Thanks for the reference. Are you aware of any (commercially available) handdrawing to CAD software? I need to do a bunch of relatively simple figures for my thesis, and it would be much easier if I could just use handdrawings and than transform them to professionaly looking figures.
For example does PyPy always warm up, or can it store "warmed up" version of some function (where type of objects is inferred)? I know that this is not in accordance with highly dynamic nature of Python, but not all functions are highly dynamic.
Can someone knowledgeable compare PyPy, Numba and Cython? I mostly use Cython. Tried Numba also, it has very nice workflow when it works with autojit (when it doesn't error messages are pretty cryptic). With PyPy I don't understand why for example all that type information obtained from jit wouldn't be used to make something like Numba specialized functions or Cython modules (noob question but please answer).
Is it possible to use similar algos for meshing (used in finite element analysis)? Shape recognition wouldnt be needed as the first step, since CAD files are input in FEA.
Say he gives you a list of 300 students who can't go together in rooms. You say, good, I will take the remaining 100 students, and give them rooms. It even has unique solution :)
Is example about finding accommodation for 100 from 400 students, given in article, well formulated? Say dean gives you an empty list, then what is so difficult in selecting 100 random students?
Thanks for the link. I also like minimalism, I can say that it is my favorite style in modern classical music. Found this little clip while I was preparing my music history exams few years ago, it really explains Philip Glass nicely :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNiOqa1nWgI
I never quite understood why music went this way. My take is that, as always, musicians had to have some kind of sponsorship, and it slowly shifted from musician being sponsored by noble family (for example Liszt and Esterhazy) to getting a stipend from some institutions board (for example Arnold Schoenberg who worked as a bank clerk and got his first stipend through intervention of friends). That is why nowadays you get much more quality from say jazz than you get from classically trained composers.
I remember watching Google tech talk by Alex Martelli, where he mentions Wittgenstein as his favorite philosopher. Always wanted to learn more about Wittgenstein since than, but I guess I will have to find something more beginner friendly than Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus :)
Wonder how they managed to measure such weak signals from the flowers. Also not sure if signal is the right term to use, because from the article it seems that no information (in conventional sense)is being transferred. Charged particle q (bumblebee) feels some force (F=q*E1 since we can neglect magnetic field) that is the consequence of static field E1 from flower :) Although it could also be the other way round, i.e. the bumblebee could produce field E2 etc.
When someone reduces human intelligence to one number, that is really a good indicator of that someone's intelligence. We don't know much about intelligence except that it is diverse. There is a bunch of excellent ideas about intelligence, talent and creativity in [1]. I particularly liked a bit where current model of education is compared to strip mining of Earth for commodities i.e. only small fraction of human talents is developed while others are ruthlessly squandered.
[1] TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson, "Do schools kill creativity".
If anybody has simple and beautiful :) use cases of QEMU please share. I used it to run Debian Squeeze MIPS images, so that I could have gcc output in MIPS assembly.
Nice work. Is anybody aware of automatic music performing software? I think that this is similar to automatic generation of music but more structured and therefore easier to implement. I remember reading some studies about software performing classical compositions, but never found working prototype to play with.
I think there exists a terrible confusion about emotions in general fueled by pop culture. People should understand that emotions are just a form of motivation and not something magical. Unpleasant emotions don't have purpose to make you feel bad, they are here to help you to better adapt to your environment. Pleasant ones mean that you are well adapted. Simple as that. Also I would like to add that on the topic of happiness and other stuff related to positive psychology there is an excellent course from prof. Tal Ben-Shahar.
I remember watching lectures by prof. Tal Ben-Shahar few years ago about happiness (yes happiness :)). He also mentioned gratitude, and a ritual of writing down 7 things that you are grateful for each day before bedtime. Namely, it should increase your base level of happiness. Other stuff he mentioned is having regular physical activity and listening to your favorite music tracks (this is something he called peak experience and it also gradually raises you base level of happiness). But I guess these two are obvious compared to practicing gratitude regularly.
That was also my theory, but it results in a cruel zero or one binary world. Here is a more friendly one. Imagine a probability distribution (lets say a Gaussian :))over all possible partners. Now, there is a small number of people that really, really like you (they are at the right end of the Gaussian). Also there is a small number of people that you will never have, no matter how hard you try (left end). Now, for anyone in between the two opposites you will need to actually do some work :), and in the process you can make them shift to the left or right. By improving yourself, you can also improve the shape of you distribution :)
Prof. Dan Ariely mentioned Hot or Not website in one of his books. He used the website to get his attractiveness score and other interesting data. The book is a great read, and analysis of how people percieve you by the looks. As for the website, I think that judg.me looks very promising as a source of social data, which is otherwise very difficult to obtain.
This is an interesting project, however having your simulations and schematics in a cloud does seem a little bit careless for any serious work. It doesn't seem like a real alternative for various version of PSPice and other software. Am I missing something?