December 2008 Archives

What we often do in signal processing research is called prototyping. Commonly used tools for prototyping mathematical model is Matlab and Simulink, Mathematica and similar “bricks”.

Cool visualization toolkit from xerox on http://visalix.xrce.xerox.com/

Today, I was trying to transfer money into Russia using my usual account on westernunion.co.uk. My first attempt clearly failed, because Safari (recently updated) isn't supported by website. Second attempt was successful, and results in following page: So, transaction was completed, but in order to complete transfer you need to communicate MTCN to receiving party. I looked at the code of the page and it's there:

<<script language="javascript"> RCPcountry = "RU"; </script>

   <script language="javascript"\> 
         MTCN = "*";
   </script>


   <script language="javascript"\> 
         txnFee = "14.0";
   </script>

and etc. But nicely wrapped in javascript tag. So, my question is it a bug or western union trying to help themselves in a difficult time? It's too nice bug to have.

g-speak spatial operating environment, multi screen interface here and now. For collaboration and visualization

it's just not widely distributed yet. This is my favorite quote.
Fellows real programmers Alex Ott and 13_49 pointed out to absolutely superb IDE for virtual worlds Croquet

I am just wondering how stable this platform on smalltalk is and applicable to researchers. It may be the thing to learn next year - smalltalk

Three Reasons Open Source Will Save The Economy

PLoS Computational Biology: Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web

Interesting review article about using reference tools and digital libraries in modern day and age (and it's not down to bibtex and endnote nowdays)
Fellows be warned, people do check bibliography.

It's a private social network aka open social which you can make in about 10 minutes.
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Color management is turned off by default to prevent subtle color variations affecting the overall look of web sites. To enable it you must set gfx.color_management.enabled to true (via about:config) and restart Firefox.

This is a cool feature and big step forward for browsers to have a proper colour palette instead of usual web-safe.