Re: [FRIAM] H-P TouchPad Tablet Review - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD

2011-07-01 Thread Grant Holland
Owen, Here 's a different take on the new HP tab offering from Galen Gruman of InfoWorld. Grant On 7/1/11 9:16 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: Interesting review

Re: [FRIAM] LANL surveillance system used to show LA evacuees situation in LA right now

2011-07-01 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus- Thanks! It looks like you ran this on photsynth on the published data? I was working on a project to apply SIFT (the algorithm underlying photosynth) to intell problems at LANL before I left... I don't know if it went forward... I suspect not. The pointcloud and overhead view are i

Re: [FRIAM] Helicopter flyover of fire from Rio Rancho pilot.

2011-07-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Argh, I hate it when people add gratuitous soundtracks to things. Except this is kind of funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaQan4O0K_Q&feature=player_detailpage On 7/1/2011 7:59 PM, Steve Smith wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9rzhQ5UE7M =

[FRIAM] Helicopter flyover of fire from Rio Rancho pilot.

2011-07-01 Thread Steve Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9rzhQ5UE7M FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] LANL surveillance system used to show LA evacuees situation in LA right now

2011-07-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Hi, Here are Photosynths for the raw data. There may be dense textured 3-D models (e.g. viewable with WebGL) in progress, but these were easy to run, so I ran them. I imagine it is hard for the LANL experts on this to do the fancy reconstructions because the lab is empty, important comput

[FRIAM] LANL surveillance system used to show LA evacuees situation in LA right now

2011-07-01 Thread Victoria Hughes
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/article/2385/12142/ Laboratory-Developed Military Technology Put to Use Incident: Las Conchas Wildfire Released: 40 min. ago News Release Noon News Media Information: 505-820-1226 NR#28 Laboratory-Developed Military Technology Put to Use for Las Conchas Fire E

[FRIAM] another WebCL implementation

2011-07-01 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
http://code.google.com/p/webcl/ http://www.youtube.com/user/SamsungSISA FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Re: [FRIAM] "thought experiments"

2011-07-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Nicholas Thompson wrote at 06/30/2011 05:51 PM: > By the way, I have always thought of mathematics as the field in which > people do formalized thought experiments. That depends on what you mean by "formalized". -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com =

[FRIAM] H-P TouchPad Tablet Review - Walt Mossberg - Personal Technology - AllThingsD

2011-07-01 Thread Owen Densmore
Interesting review of the HP tablet. http://allthingsd.com/20110629/touchpad-needs-more-apps-reboot-to-rival-ipad/?mod=digits-touchpad One thing to note is that this new tablet runs neither Android nor iOS thus is a third platform for tablets/phones. Either this is going to make a great market f

[FRIAM] students made 17 foot size blimp with remote control and camera in 2005 -- plans for big ones near space: Rich Murray 2011.07.01

2011-07-01 Thread Rich Murray
students made 17 foot size blimp with remote control and camera in 2005 -- plans for big ones near space: Rich Murray 2011.07.01 http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2005/0904-blimps_in_space.htm FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Me