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Monday, May 3, 2010
What’s More Accurate Than GPS? Photographs
The Matrix is forth coming ... Eller noget andet sludder i den retning ...
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A global point cloud? Google Street View and others have plenty of data to reverse engineer reality ... Using 'standard' positioning techniques as a first step you'll probably get a quick and functionel millimeter location accuracy ...
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Locations identified within the 10 or 20 meters possible by GPS today are far too inaccurate — we need to know where we are we are right down to the millimeter! That was the gauntlet thrown down by Michael Liebhold, distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, speaking at aGigaOM Pro Bunker Session on locationat the GigaOM office this week. With millimeter accuracy, augmented reality — digital information overlaid on a real-time view of the world — will actually become possible. “Right now we have all this toy AR,” said Liebhold. “This is useless.” [...]
Locations identified within the 10 or 20 meters possible by GPS today are far too inaccurate — we need to know where we are we are right down to the millimeter! That was the gauntlet thrown down by Michael Liebhold, distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future, speaking at aGigaOM Pro Bunker Session on locationat the GigaOM office this week. With millimeter accuracy, augmented reality — digital information overlaid on a real-time view of the world — will actually become possible. “Right now we have all this toy AR,” said Liebhold. “This is useless.” [...]
Intrigued as to how soon millimeter accuracy might happen and what it could enable? Here’s the video:
Read more: http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/whats-more-accurate-than-gps-photographs/
Device shows bus location - Used in 1938
Enhver løsning kan løses med den forhåndværende teknologi ... Det er kun et spørgsmål om hvor svært, brugbart og tidskrævende at det er ...
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Artistic Renditions of the Science of the Impossible
The Bureau of Subliminal Images [from The London Institute of ’Pataphysics]A subliminal image is an image that is inadvertently concealed within a natural feature or manufactured object. It can be revealed only by an act of imagination on the part of the observer. Once found, its existence can be demonstrated to another: it can be solved. An imaginary solution par excellence (and an imagery solution as well!). Subliminal images constitute a sort of rational hallucination, and Alfred Jarry was fond of this quotation from Leibniz: “Perception is only a hallucination that is true.” (Days and Nights)
Such a definition implies various exclusions. Deliberately manufactured visual puzzles, illusions and the familiar “duck/rabbit” tests employed by psychologists do not qualify as subliminal images. Likewise, innumerable devotees of belief systems - religious enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists - are capable of, indeed they often cannot avoid, perceiving evidence of their monomanias in the most unlikely corners of external reality (the arrangement of pips inside vegetables, the products of mass-advertising). Too often, unfortunately, these images are only perceptible to their fellow zealots, which disqualifies them as objects for our investigation.
'Pataphysics is a faux science dreamed up by the turn-of-the-20th century absurdist writer, eccentric, and bicycle enthusiast Alfred Jarry.'Pataphysics is a pseudophilosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. It is a parody of the theory and methods of modern science and is often expressed in nonsensical language. The term was coined and the concept created by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), who defined 'pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments".
Jarry provides inspiration for More Often Than Always, Less Often Than Never, a present day art exhibition curated by Noxious Sector,an ongoing collaborative endeavor by Canadian artists Ted Hiebert, Doug Jarvis and Jackson 2Bears, dedicated to the exploration of alternative cognitive function, the paranormal and the absurd. Conceived as a formalized forum for informal inquiry, Noxious Sector projects take the form of performances, curatorial initiatives and artistic collaborations.The show will be held at the Richmond Art Gallery [BC, Canada] later this year (Nov 26, 2010 - Jan 23, 2011).
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSMORE OFTEN THAN ALWAYS, LESS OFTEN THAN NEVER invites artists from around the world to engage with notions of impossibility, uncertainty and the imaginary. Situated on the impossible side of probability, the project invites renderings of improbability, of disregarded possibilities, phantom conjectures, plausible insanities of one sort or another, all of which challenge standardized formulations of what is allowed, acceptable, logical or feasible. This is a call for imaginary solutions to real questions, however artists define the respective places of the imagination and reality for themselves. The curatorial process for the exhibition will also engage these themes, mobilizing UNRESOLVED METHODOLOGIES to problematize its own conceptual framework...DEADLINE: JUNE 11, 2010See these guidelines for more information. And don't forget the 2010 World Telekinesis Competition (DEADLINE EXTENDED until MAY 16, 2010)!
Google acquires BumpTop: Will Android get a 3D facelift?
Jeg har længe anvendt BumpTop og været rigtig godt tilfreds ... et godt produkt, som nu skal re-inkarneres som et fremtidigt Google produkt ...
/Sik I've been using BumpTop for a while now ... and it's been great ... Grab a copy while you still can:
For the next week, we're keeping BumpTop Free available for download at bumptop.com/download to give BumpTop fans one last chance to grab a copy.
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Google is acquiring BumpTop, a startup that aimed to improve the interface of your computer desktop.
BumpTop launched its first productabout a year ago. The idea, as founder and chief executive Anand Agarawala described it during a talk at the 2007 TED conference, was to do away with the “same old crap” found in the layout of both the Windows and Mac operating systems. By turning the desktop into a three-dimensional space, users can arrange things more naturally and creatively. [...]
More than three years ago, we set out to completely change the way people use their desktops. We're very grateful for all your support over that time — not just financially but also through all the encouraging messages from people who found BumpTop inspiring, useful, and just downright fun.
Today, we have a big announcement to make: we're excited to announce that we've been acquired by Google! This means that BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products are planned. [...]
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Coordinates, Consensus, Cooperation: Towards a Cumulative Science of Human Brain Function
The first symposium at Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2010 Annual Meeting two weeks ago was an important and ambitious one, a call for the neuroimaging community to advance beyond the current piecemeal single-study approach to produce comprehensive, structured, and searchable databases. The session was chaired by University of Colorado Boulder post-doc Dr. Tal Yarkoni, author of the excellent blog, [citation needed].
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Symposium Session 1
Sunday, April 18, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, Westmount et al BallroomTowards a cumulative science of human brain functionChair: Tal Yarkoni, Columbia University, University of Colorado at BoulderThis symposium is designed to promote development of a cumulative science of human brain function that advances knowledge through formal synthesis of the rapidly growing functional neuroimaging literature. The first speaker (Tal Yarkoni) will motivate the need for a cumulative approach by highlighting several limitations of individual studies that can only be overcome by synthesizing the results of multiple studies. The second speaker (David Van Essen) will discuss the basic tools required in order to support formal synthesis of multiple studies, focusing particular attention on SumsDB, a massive database of functional neuroimaging data that can support sophisticated search and visualization queries. The third and fourth speakers will discuss two different approaches to combining and filtering results from multiple studies. Tor Wager will review state-of-the-art approaches to meta-analysis of fMRI data, providing empirical examples of the power of meta-analysis to both validate and disconfirm widely held views of brain organization. Russell Poldrack will discuss a novel taxonomic approach that uses collaboratively annotated meta-data to develop formal ontologies of brain function. Collectively, these four complementary talks will familiarize the audience with (a) the importance of adopting cumulative approaches to functional neuroimaging data; (b) currently available tools for accessing and retrieving information from multiple studies; and (c) state-of-the-art techniques for synthesizing the results of different functional neuroimaging studies into an integrated whole.
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Tal has compiled this helpful list of links and slides from the CNS symposium.
In future posts, I'll try to summarize the major points of each speaker.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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