MC2 Post 634: Kinda Gives You That Sinking Feeling, eh?

Grounded submarine 

 photographed with sonar

Nice detail about this sub in the Wired Article that will be out in May. 

The online version of Wired Magazine has the articles availble First. 

Pretty Nice.

I suscribe to the Print version.

( I Have for Years: Wingman )

More about the Photograph and the Sub below:

Link: http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/05/start/grounded-submarine-photographed-with-sonar.aspx

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The Trudeau Vector Book cover: 

Very similar to a scene in Juris Jurjevics's wonderful first novel: Trudeau Vector, where a Russian sub has serious problems with a pathogen.

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Amazon.com: The Trudeau Vector (9780670034376): Juris Jurjevics: Books
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Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Trudeau-Vector-Juris-Jurjevics/dp/0670034371

MC2 Post 623: TECH Anniversaries

TECH Anniversaries

iPod, PSP, Wii, and YouTube's 

Charlie and Lady GaGa

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iPod October 23, 2001
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1st Gen iPod is a little over 8 years Old
Friday, October 23, 2009 10:55PM

Apple is so old in the MP3 player market that its already the iPod’s 8th anniversary. 

Eight years ago, Apple announced the first iPod, a clunky brick with a click wheel. 

The original iPod held only 1,000 songs, weighed 6.5 ounces and synced songs through Firewire, which took a while. 

Now, iPod Classics can hold 40x the amount of music and videos than the original, revolutionizing the way we interact with our music libraries.

Link: http://blog.ziggytek.com/2009/10/23/ipod-celebrates-its-eighth-anniversary-apple-not-so-happy/

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Sony PSP March 24, 2005
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Happy 5th Anniversary PSP!

Link: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/24/happy-5th-anniversary-psp/

Link PSP Blog: http://blog.us.playstation.com

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Google's YouTube February 16
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On YouTube's 5th anniversary, 

video of 'Charlie' reigns

February 16, 2010, 5:35PM

In honor of the fifth aniversary of YouTube, here's the video-site's 
most-watched video of all time. As of this date, the video, 

"Charlie Bit My Finger --Again!," 

has been viewed more than 160 million times.

Link: http://blog.syracuse.com/indepth/2010/02/on_youtubes_5th_anniversary_vi.html

Well Yeah, but that was A Whole Month Ago...

Lady Gaga Tips the Scales of 

YouTube Views to Over a Billion...

One Billion online views for Lady Gaga

According to Visible Measures, an internet video tracker, the singer’s videos from the album have attracted more than one billion hits, making her the first artist 
to achieve this phenomenal target. And yes, these figures do not include the statistics for the song ‘Telephone’. They announced this startling news on the 24 March, 2010.

Link: http://www.planetradiocity.com/musicreporter/news.php?newscatid=1&newsid=2213

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Article on YouTube's success in April's WIRED Magazine, where 

it also 

has a very lengthy article on how iPAD will change everything.

It's Anniversary will be April 3, 2010.

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Stay iTuned.

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Nintendeo Wii Nov 19, 2007
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Published Nov 18, 2007

Tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary for the Wii !!(I think) Hopefully Nintendo will realize this and give us a great VC game and maybe

something extra special on the shop channel. (Like a new channel, or maybe a secret wiiware game that wasnt announced oooh). Any

ideas on what they have planned? if anything?

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The Price of Publishing: 

10,000 a gallon for Printers Ink?

Wis. college says new e-mail font will save money

A Wisconsin college has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail — by changing the font.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font on its e-mail system from Arial to Century Gothic. 

It says that while the change sounds minor, it will save money on ink when students print e-mails in the new font.

Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one.

That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about 

$10,000 per gallon.

Link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hxYdUmrxaBDpCplWZdQgyOKE7nOgD9ELP2M80

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Wingman Keeping an I on Tech Anniversaries Too !!!

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MC2 Post 609: CS

CS Compressed Sensing

CS Compressed Sensing, it's been around for decades, 

but 4 scientists have brought it back into the limelight.

Another way of saying what it does is "Less Can Mean More."

I learned about it in my latest issue of Wired Magazine. The reason I get Wired is for pieces like this.  Not for their idea of the "Best SF Movies of All Time" which is churlish to say the least.  I've wanted to use that word for some time now, and there was my chance.  

Anyway, back to CS.

The article in the 1803 (It means March) issue was on page 62 was titled: "Fill In The Blanks" by Jorden Ellenberg who stated: A revolutionary algorhythm can make something out of nothing.

The touching story at the begining of the piece had to do with an MRI that needed to be done in Less time than was needed to get a highly detailed reading of a problem liver.  They needed a full two minutes.  The young patient had to be under anesthesia to keep from breathing during the scan.

By trying an alogorithm of CS they were able to get a scan in 40 seconds that could be computationally expanded to give the detail of a two minute scan.

The algorithm stated that if there are a million ways to reconstruct an image, the simplest option is always the best.

Take a picture of say 1 million pixels.  That requires a million measurements to reconstruct.  In CS, take a subset of that, like 100,000 randomly selected pixels from various parts of the image.  From that,  there is an infinite number of ways to fill-in the missing 900,000.

The way to come up with the right answer is something in mathematics called sparsity, which describes the complexity or lack thereof of the image.

That my friends is the tip of the iceberg of this new tool to create more out of less.

Read the article.

Wikipedia Logo:

Wikipedia had this opening line to say about it:

Compressed Sensing, also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling and sparse sampling, is a technique for acquiring and reconstructing a signal utilizing the prior knowledge that it is sparse or compressible. The field has existed for at least four decades, but recently the field has exploded, in part due to several important results by David Donoho, Emmanuel Candès, Justin Romberg and Terence Tao.



Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing

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Wingman, a Calculating kind of guy.

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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

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Link: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/highspeed_gallery/

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They say a Picture is worth a Thousand Words...

What is A Moving Picture Worth?

How About A High-Speed Camera's Moving Picture?

Wired magazine, a favorite of mine for many years has a video picture gallery of Slow motion Action captured by High-Speed Cameras costing as much as $100,000 dollars.

Like the Hummingbird Pictured Above from an episode of Time Warp, a show whose premise is to make the ordinary Extraordinary with just one trick: Slowing things Down.

Link above.

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Wingman has is now Following Wired's GadgetLab on Twitter

Link: http://twitter.com/gadgetlab

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Wingman, the Quick and the Ready...

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