Tarps are data, writes Nigel Snoad in his blog From the Edges In: I was reading (as you do) the Rochester Institute of Technology pages on Haiti geodata and disaster-risk analysis and noted a side-project: the Blue Tarp Detection Scheme, where Dr Dave Messinger used remote sensing and spectral analysis to detect and plot the locations of […]
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Further advances in brainless writing
There’s a new advance in the effort to write prose without any direct involvement of a human brain. Until recently, writing was thought to be a skill that required at least some levels of understanding. The first giant breakthrough was Professor Philip M. Parker‘s automatic book-writing machine, which has produced several hundred thousand books (and […]
Farmer’s alligator bytes
“They cannot argue with this data,” she said. “I have three lines of evidence. If they don’t believe it, they need to get an alligator and make their own measurements.” — from a LiveScience report, by Andrea Thompson, about the research of C.G. Farmer of the University of Utah. (Thanks to investigator Naomi Ray for […]
Wang: Data from underpants
“U.S. scientists design smart underpants that could save lives“, says the headline on a June 9, 2010, Reuters report. (Thanks to investigator Randy Dotinga for bringing it to our attention.) Details: SAN DIEGO – A team of U.S. scientists has designed some new men’s briefs that may be comfortable, durable and even stylish but, unlike […]