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Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers. It's possible that under certain situations it may be up to ten times faster than the current way we do these. At this point you are probably wondering: What the hell is he talking about? Here's a quickie explainer: Fourier transforms are a mathematical trick to simplify how you represent a complicated signal--say the waves of sound made by speaking. How so? Now, you should remember that sound waves, and both picture and video signals, are all handled by processors in your TV, PC, and phone, and that the radio waves that whizz through the air to keep us all connected to the Internet need digital processing too. So calculating FFTs up to ten times faster is a big deal. It's almost impossible to scope how enormous an impact this new FFT technique could have. [Image: Flickr user hazure]
Impressive LEGO Wall Divider
The genius men at NPIRE, a small agency in Hamburg, Germany have truly stuck to their philosophy: “Work and Live.” It took over a year to complete their LEGO wall divider, and it was definitely worth the precious time and effort. In addition to their daily duties, they worked on this project. Of course, cleaning up the office would have been easier, but that’s not living. “That would be clean but dull, not creative at all,” they say. The impressive wall is made of their personal LEGO bricks from childhood in addition to 80 brand new packs. NPIRE's website via [Design Made in Germany]
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Kinect RGB+Depth Filmmaking at the STUDIO for @creativeinquiry #fitc
Golan Levin was invited by the FITC conference to answer a series of “Ask Me Anything” questions posted by Reddit visitors. At the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Golan’s video was created by Fellows James George and Jonathan Minard, artists-in-residence researching new forms of experimental 3D cinema. Their work explores the notion of “re-photography”, in which otherwise frozen moments in time may be visualized from new points of view. Despite the sometimes wildly moving camera, the video was in fact shot with a stationary Kinect-like depth sensor coupled to a digital SLR video camera. This experiment developed out of concepts and collaborations born at Art && Code, a conference on 3D sensing and visualization organized by Golan’s laboratory, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. Watch the interview below. In addition, James with Alexander Porter will also host a workshop with the title “RGB+Depth filmmaking”.
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Visual Trace Route Tool - Find, Track, and Map the Route to an IP Address
Awaiting IP trace initialization. The visual tracert tool displays the path Internet packets traverse to reach a specified destination. The tool works by identifying the IP addresses of each hop along the way to the destination network address. To get more specific info about an IP address you can use this IP tracer tool from IP-Tracker.org. The estimated geophysical location of each hop is identified using MaxMind's GeoIP database. After all of the hops locations' are identified, the path to the destination is plotted on a Google Map. Concerning trace routes The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network hardware connected together by gateways. Every time a host forwards a packet, it decrements the TTL value of the packet by one. A “trace route” works by increasing the TTL value of each successive packet sent. Unfortunately for those performing trace routes, sometimes hosts will just drop the last packet and not return a destination unreachable response.
Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life. The drunk history of Tesla is quite awesome, too. History.com has a great article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.
Peter McLaren - Critical Pedagogy, Social Justice and the Struggle for Peace - 1/6
Weekly Wisdom
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Ashok Gangadean, who has been a professor of philosophy at Haverford College for more than 45 years. Ashok investigates the primal internal logic of human reason and the deep dynamics of communication between diverse worldviews. Download »Read Transcript » more from Ashok Gangadean:
VIDEO: Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan talks "A Mindful Nation"
"Now's the time for us to implement this." It isn't every day that we hear a U.S. congressman talking about mindfulness, much less in these terms: "I felt like I would be derelict in my duty as a member of the United States Congress if I didn't try to push this stuff out into society. We've got a responsibility, when we get sworn in to be a member of congress, to try and help our constituents and help our country. [...] That's just a sample of what Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan has to say about mindfulness in this book trailer for his book A Mindful Nation. Transcription: "Growing up I spent about 12 years in Catholic school -- Our Lady of Mount Carmel grade school, and John F. "Or to listen to their teachers. "I don’t care how much money we spend on education, it doesn’t matter what programs we’re trying to teach our kids… if they don’t have the fundamental building block of learning, which is being able to control your attention span, all the rest is not going to be effective.
