tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865744788158017532024-03-13T02:15:52.142+00:00Future SoundingsObservation of the environment around us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-71965012768466888472009-12-15T12:22:00.002+00:002009-12-15T12:25:20.247+00:00HR monitor rantWhere the hell is the future of ANT+ ?Where's the open standard, not owned and squirreled away by Garmin?Where's the fiercesomely forward thinking Ergo that links wirelessly an iPhone to a HR meter? Where's the ConceptIII iPhone app?Where's the brass monkey balls to get a damned HR monitor out to the public?Fitbit is just a hint of what tech could actually do.And then it might actually be damned Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-30730270817156066722009-07-23T11:20:00.005+01:002009-07-29T17:40:12.318+01:00Augmented Reality and danceLightstage - need to email to see what's happening. Project Natal is in concept, a one sided version of this.Presumably the next stage is to make Natal comprehend multiple angles. Rig a few cameras up in different corners of the room, and then all sidess are seen. Mocap for the 21st century.Head cam for the 21st century: http://gizmodo.com/5320375/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-8309578052329630342009-07-23T11:17:00.003+01:002009-07-23T11:20:41.205+01:00iPhone App 2 Salsa learningIf Mental Case got n-sided cards (so you could have a card for footwork, card for key points, card for what it linked from and linked to in a routine (or what it could link to/from). That'd be useful - Drew's already talking about audio, and possibly video.With video, you could link snippets of a routine - literally splice out each move, to then allow (you'd have to line up the camera for the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-41194320107605954462009-07-23T11:14:00.003+01:002009-07-23T11:17:18.927+01:00iPhone App 1 SalsaAn example of what Google Maps can do - mapping extreme sports locations on a map. But a pin in a map doesn't help so much, as a rank by wind/distance/quality of sites, knowing where you are and how far it is to drive to the locations - all info you can gather and push to the user. Same with salsa - there are several static lists of events and classes, that get updated at various speeds - but Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-65736480885365886322009-06-19T18:08:00.018+01:002017-11-02T11:13:30.427+00:00Your new phone, and how to improve your dancing
I think a few of you might want to go get an iPhone 3GS.
Or maybe not. Stephen Fry would recommend them - "for the moment however, no one can deny that with the iPhone 3GS the gold standard has been set."
This post is to highlight the possible benefits, if you had one, and you wanted to use it in conjunction with your salsa dancing.
So the question on a salsero's or salsera's lips could beAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-1025692387494597402009-06-13T16:11:00.003+01:002009-06-14T03:13:23.174+01:00Gary Vee needs an iPhone appSeriously - wine buying needs to get much improved, and the G2/ iPhone 3GS could help with this.Google has the tech to warp a distorted image to a straight image (used in their book scanning project, but a company could do something similar, as wine bottles pretty much have a simimlar shape where the label is, and they usually have straight edges, or at least the text is in horizontal lines...)SoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-1158246372713169982009-06-11T18:11:00.005+01:002009-06-11T18:29:09.027+01:00iPhone 3GS - Game changer for the blind and the nagationally challenged?Listening to TWiT Live's repeat showing of MacBreak Weekly, episode 144 - they joked about the feature of maps and a digital compass.But what if you took 3D audio, and then knowing the direction of the phone, and then a map, you could provide a touch screen app that would give street names around you in 3D audio space as well as visually. You could get it to give info about upcoming road Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-80389112062824203812009-05-20T17:59:00.002+01:002009-05-20T18:04:09.391+01:00Masters projectCurrently in the writing stage for Section I - the Introduction and Background section.THe project is about the potential to find out where amino acids could bind to a ligand, and then build a receptor's CDRs from there- using a known framework to link them, not bothering too much about buildiing the whole damn thing, just getting key amino acids in roughly the right position, relying on Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-59167788944513779642009-05-14T14:04:00.006+01:002009-05-18T00:43:56.759+01:00Accessory market for Apple's iPhone and TouchThis is speculation, pure and simple.WWDC 2009For WWDC I see a number of things. Apple could have got China on board. A new iPhone with IMG POWERVR multicore chips if we're lucky.I also see- A new dock- Lots of accessories. If WWDC 08 was apps, WWDC 09 will be accessoriesThis will create a big bow wave of consumer demand, and a large wake.The accessory group is shrouded, and rightly so. The ADC Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-11511126130001259542009-05-07T16:35:00.001+01:002009-05-07T16:36:40.473+01:00Getting more from a paperhttp://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/Visual Data mining - great stuff.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-15163503135570929142009-04-05T05:31:00.003+01:002009-04-05T14:59:56.814+01:00Voice recognition, on a future iPhone?How much power would it need, if it were to delegate the learning to it's syncing computer?Nuance owns:T9 text input (Tegic - AOL owned for a while, but somehow went to Nuance)Dragon Naturally Speaking (Wond a best of show at MWSF 2008)And has it's foot in the medical secretarial door.System requirements:System Requirements Intel-based MacMax OS X 10.5.1 orAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-63209896628539497532009-03-16T20:59:00.011+00:002009-03-17T16:48:37.095+00:00The tweeting dancersA top 100 dancing twitters:Can we reach a 100 tweeting dancers?Are you a dancing twitter user and want to join the list? Tweet me, add a comment here, follow me, or retweet http://bit.ly/danceontwitter - I'll add your website link, bio and/or info.(Thanks for sciencebase for the idea, with http://bit.ly/scientwists which has gone from 100 to >200 folk on the list!)This may evolve - It really Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-12556002797093156232009-03-01T16:34:00.005+00:002009-03-01T17:03:42.244+00:00Bioinformatics Software Engineering Group ProjectWe got our group project brief last Tuesday, with our 1st meeting with the "clients" last Thursday.The brief:CRIC has asked for us to create a prototype web-based application to tender for a contract to create a full program. Our "company" (our group) needs to demonstrate this working prototype in 3 weeks (so we can hypothetically "win" the contract, and design the program).Specification:Papers Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-51949636358812807492009-02-12T16:49:00.005+00:002009-02-12T17:52:41.917+00:00CytoscapeDiversion. An interesting product, and am curious as to whether on the side you could use it for some rough and simple social network analysis:You can get the ID of your twitter followers and who you're following in XML format, strip the format, then use to find these folks followers and who they're following.the useful part would be to add a filter, to be able to check to see if they had at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-22760736391209170222009-02-11T22:20:00.004+00:002009-02-11T23:36:32.066+00:00Could you help with a Perl project?I was wondering if anyone might be able to help a bit, with a current Perl based project i'm working on. Given some peptide fragments from Mass Spec experiments, including duplicate epxeriments on the same protein, and given the gene ID, looking to compare the found peptieds, with what wasn't picked up by Mass Spec, that should have been created by trypsin digest, and potentially shown through Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-81084414356011168172009-02-04T23:01:00.003+00:002009-02-05T10:12:38.396+00:00But first, some PhylogeneticsHappily getting in outside speakers on our course, a recent one was on Phylogenetics, given ably by Julia from GSK,QSci on 27th January. The date is important in part, because the New Scientist had this cover and story for the 21st. No mention of it in the lecture, but it does throw up some points."Darwin was wrong". The full article is herePhylogenetics: what, how and whenSo i'm listening and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-20822861251149776432009-01-28T22:10:00.002+00:002009-01-28T22:15:44.497+00:00http://observationsofanerd.blogspot.com/2009/01/oestradiol-makes-women-hot-and-hard-to.html"The estrogen hormone oestradiol is associated with just about every aspect of female beauty. As well as serving as a growth hormone for female reproductive organs, it's associated with having a symmetrical face, large breasts and a low waist-to-hip ratio. Now, the hormone is credited with one more Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-65561543749102473022009-01-20T14:02:00.002+00:002009-01-20T14:14:52.745+00:00The Unlikely Salsero - Seeing the Dance in Your Head articleInteresting to have a read of this - having had my first ballroom dance lesson recently (Social Foxtrot, Chachacha, some salsa to end). Whilst the best may yet be to come (Rumba, Argentian tango...) it was interesting to be throw into it - learning a start of a new pattern prior to even knowing the basic steps of the social Foxtrot.I know that my partner commented that I kept on looking blank, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-17631779770133387062009-01-19T23:00:00.003+00:002009-01-21T14:13:04.404+00:00Ultimate boys toys 20092008 list from Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5106165/bestmodo-2008?skyline=true&s=xSony BDV-IT1000ES Bravia Theater SystemAcoustic research FPS 10 SubwooferNissan GT-RSerious Materials EcoRockLivescribe PulseAny camera that can do fast fps still shooting. Maybe RED will get there soon. (Not in the league of a Vision Research V12 or Phantom HD).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-12698934718326591042009-01-09T22:43:00.003+00:002009-01-09T23:22:51.564+00:00Deep Brain stimulationThought experiment. If they got accurate Deep Brain Stimulation to work - would you use it? http://is.gd/f4eW- (Syndicate style?)I always pondered - would there be a way to stimulate specific parts of the brain if you had orthogonal stimulators? One one side, another 90 degrees to it?And if you could successfully do implants, why not? Or go through the nasal cavity, or the ears?I remember the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-61711399139960547252008-12-20T11:30:00.003+00:002008-12-20T11:31:32.851+00:00Perl moduleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-27521056479541533762008-12-20T11:11:00.001+00:002008-12-20T11:11:18.513+00:00http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328480/Otto-the-octopus-wrecks-havoc.htmlHeheAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-57338312114383887072008-12-20T11:04:00.001+00:002008-12-20T11:04:50.842+00:00History repeating?http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3p2shHkRrtk&fmt=18Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-66869641123763193052008-12-20T10:32:00.002+00:002008-12-20T12:10:15.846+00:00Science and 10-100 more computing power.Science - is it ready for more computing power?Moore's law for computing power, was for CPUs.Not CPUs and GPUs. I'd make that an additive effect, meaning that if both still follow Moore's Law, then the length of time for a doubling just smaller.And we get the initial bonus boost of the first use of the technology.So what could Science do with this extra boost in power?Have you prepared (a grant) Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-92159655169287862652008-12-04T11:17:00.002+00:002008-12-04T12:02:51.335+00:00Teaching at a Masters levelA close friend from afar once told me her view that the only way to [really] teach science is to have someone that WANTS to teach and CAN CUT IT in science. The catch is the extra requirement - that is really ready to study and work on the psychology/ cognitive processing/ learning techniques/ and the science as well.And I agree with here - it can all make such a difference. More anon.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0