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Prototyping and testing in scientific programming

December 11th, 2008 alex 4 comments

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”.

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Visual Interactive System for Annotation and machine LearnIng, data mining, analysis or clustering

December 9th, 2008 alex No comments

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

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Bug or feature of western union money transfer service

December 9th, 2008 alex No comments

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:

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p><<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.

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Oblong, looks superb

December 8th, 2008 alex No comments

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


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Croquet Consortium – future is here.

December 8th, 2008 alex No comments

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

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Another interesting article about open source

December 7th, 2008 alex No comments

Managing bibliography

December 7th, 2008 alex No comments

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.

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I am playing with Google friends connect

December 7th, 2008 alex No comments

It’s a private social network aka open social which you can make in about 10 minutes.
If you want to join sci-blog social network click here

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Color management support added to Firefox 3

December 1st, 2008 alex No comments

Found on :
mozillalinks

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.


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