Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Technology Behind the Tupac Hologram at Coachella





http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tech-tupac-hologram-rock-world-makeuseof-explains/


According to MTVDigital Domain is the company responsible for recreating the virtual form of Tupac, but it has also worked on Hollywood movies. Its credits including The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, in which it managed to convincingly age and de-age Brad Pitt, and Tron: Legacy, in which it shaved years off Jeff Bridges’ age. AV Concepts is responsible for actually projecting the hologram onto the stage, though it’s being careful not to reveal too many of its secrets.


The technology behind the Tupac hologram is both amazing and simplistic at the same time. The technique being used actually dates back to at least the 19th century and is called ‘Pepper’s Ghost‘, named after John Henry Pepper. While he didn’t invent the technique, Pepper popularized it and the name stuck.


The technique was first described by Giambattista della Porta in the 16th century, and Henry Dircks is known to have used it in his Dircksian Phantasmagoria performances before Pepper brought it into mainstream theaters.

In those days the Pepper’s Ghost effect, which conjures a ghostly image in one room from an actual object in another, was brought to life using a sheet of plate glass. When the glass was angled correctly and had a light source aimed at it, a realistic image was displayed to the audience without them ever seeing the source.


http://vimeo.com/7047856

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

What To Do In Miami



Top Restaurants


Joe's Stone Crab


http://www.joesstonecrab.com/


News Cafe Restaurant


Cafe Prima Pasta


Tobacco Road Bar


Tropical Chinese


Shorty's Bar-B-Que


Miami Children's Museum
Two floors of hands-on exhibits at the Children’s Museum aim to teach and entertain toddlers and grade-schoolers alike. Young kids like the walk-in sandcastle and six-foot piggy bank, as well as the climb-aboard fire truck and cruise ship. Older kids learn about broadcasting at the interactive television and recording studios, as well as attend to their more star-struck needs.
Miami Children's Museum: 305.373.5437, www.miamichildrensmuseum.org

Miami Metrozoo
This 300-acre zoo presents animals in their natural habitat, confined by moats and landscaping instead of cages. Highlights include the white Bengal tiger, the Caribbean Flamingo lake, the daily pelican feeding, 300 exotic birds in the Aviary Wings of Asia exhibit, and the Children’s Zoo with its petting farm.
Miami Metrozoo: 305.251.0401, www.miamimetrozoo.com

Everglades National Park
About 20 miles from Miami you can experience the unspoiled natural beauty of the Everglades, a 1.5-million-acre subtropical wilderness of mangrove swamps and saw-grass prairies cut by watery channels. These rivers of grass harbor alligators, herons, pelicans, plus the endangered American crocodile and manatee. The easiest way to get a feel for the region is to take a boat or tram tour. Bring water, sun block, insect repellant, and a hat.
Everglades National Park: 305.242.7700, www.nps.gov/ever/

Jungle Island
This Florida classic, great for young kids, is now located on a small island between downtown Miami and South Beach. Meander along its 1.35 miles of lushly planted trails and see vibrantly colored parrots, macaws, cockatoos, and parakeets. The Serpentarium’s reptiles include an albino alligator. White tigers, wolves, and chimpanzees perform at the Jungle Theater. And don’t miss the Parrot Bowl show, famous for its tricycle-riding cockatoos and chariot-racing macaws.
Parrot Jungle Island: 305.2.JUNGLE, www.parrotjungle.com


Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Take a quiet break from Miami’s excitement in this tropical paradise that boasts an extensive collection of tropical plants spread over 83 acres. There are two self-guided tours designed for kids age’s four to ten—the Nature Notebook tour encourages kids to create drawings of the plants they see, while the Adventure Pack takes them on a nature hunt. Both tours end with children planting seeds in a small pot they can take home, a nice touch to an educational experience.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: 305.667.1651, www.fairchildgarden.org


Miami Seaquarium
At this collection of 26 specialized aquariums, plus exhibits and animal shows, kids get to discover things like what the largest mammal on Earth, the blue whale, eats and what it feels like to touch a friendly manatee. Crocodile Flats houses the Nile crocs, one of whom is 20 feet long, and Tropical Wings showcases exotic birds. At the daily whale and dolphin shows, these elegant sea mammals put on a show for the crowd by arcing, diving, tail-walking, and responding to other commands.
Miami Seaquarium: 305.361.5705, www.miamiseaquarium.com

Vizcaya
Vizcaya is a National Historic Landmark; we're also a museum owned by Miami-Dade County and accredited by the American Association of Museums. We invite you to visit this serene and stunningly beautiful retreat in the heart of Miami.  Built by agricultural industrialist James Deering in 1916, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens features a Main House, ten acres of formal gardens, and a rockland hammock
Vizcaya: 305.250.9133, www.vizcayamuseum.org
                                      

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

New Meds

> D A M I T O L
> Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up
> to 8 hours.
>
> St. M A M A' S W O R T
> Plant extract that treats mom's depression by
> rendering preschoolers
> unconscious for up to six hours.
>
> E M P T Y N E S T R O G E N
> Highly effective suppository that eliminates
> melancholy by enhancing the
> memory of how awful your kids were as teenagers and
> how you couldn't
> wait till they moved out.
>
> P E P T O B I M B O
> Liquid silicone for single women. Two full cups
> swallowed before an
> evening out increases breast size, decreases
> intelligence, and improves
> flirting.
>
> D U M E R O L
> When taken with Peptobimbo, can cause dangerously low
> I.Q. causing
> enjoyment of country western music.
>
> F L I P I T O R
> Increases life expectancy of commuters by controlling
> road rage and the
> urge to flip off other drivers.
>
> M E N I C I L L I N
> Potent antiboyotic for older women. Increases
> resistance to such lines
> as, "You make me want to be a better person ... can we
> get naked now?"
>
> B U Y A G R A
> Injectable stimulant taken prior to shopping.
> Increases potency and
> duration of spending spree.
>
> Extra Strength BUY-ONE-AL
> When combined with Buyagra, can cause an
> indiscriminate buying frenzy so
> severe the victim may even come home with a Donnie
> Osmond CD or a book
> by Dr. Laura.
>
> J A C K A S S P I R I N
> Relieves headache caused by a man who can't remember
> your birthday,
> anniversary, or phone number.
>
> A N T I-T A L K S I D E N T
> A spray carried in a purse or wallet to be used on
> anyone too eager to
> share their life stories with total strangers.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Sights and Sounds of Plasma Tornadoes On The Sun

Plasma tornados on the sun



Sounds of energy vibration from sun's tornado activity


Thursday, February 16, 2012

Stubbornly High Unemployment as of January 2012

Here you see the depth of our recession by the stubbornly high unemployment data.  Many are jobs permanently lost, requiring re-training for people to adapt by learning new skill sets




http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE/

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Three Stages of Bipolar Aisorder

This video explains the three stages of bipolar disorder: Crisis, Managed, and Recovery. It reveals the results of an important recent study by the National Institute of Mental Health

Friday, January 27, 2012

Android sneaks up on Apple in tablet market

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/26/apple_loses_ground_to_android_in_world_tablet_market/


Google's Android increased its share of the tablet market from 29% to 39% in the fourth quarter compared with the year-earlier period as Apple's iPad declined from 68% to 58%, according to a Strategy Analytics report. The research firm also found that Microsoft achieved a 1.5% share, up from zero in 2010. Overall, tablet shipments reached 27 million units during the fourth quarter, a 150% increase from the year before

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Shortpaw Acronyms Translated

From Sally to Doreen With Love, these are really cute.





Some Favorite Shortpaws (Acronyms) 


BOL: Bark Out Loud


BBO: Big Bark Out


BAYL: Bark At You Later


BMTO: Barking My Tail Off


BMJTO: Barking My Jolly Tail Off (this is for the Christmas Season)


BMNYTO: Barking My New Year’s Tail Off!


BMBTO: Barking My Bilingual Tail Off!


BMKTO: Barking My Kingly Tail Off


BMFTO: Barking My Flat Tail Off


BIMMO: Barking In MY Mind Only


BUMB: Barking Under My Breath


BBB: Bummed Beyond Belief


BLAM: Bark Like A Maniac


HBB: Happy Beyond Belief


BDFF: Best Dog Friend Forever


BLWM: Bark Less Wag More


LWW: Lick – Woof – Wag


JFI: Just Fetch It


GSY: Go Scratch Yourself


GW: Guilt Works


HATM: Howling At The Moon


TOPA: The Original Party Animal


FDMM: Flat Dante Mini Me


MHLC: Missing HER Like Crazy


MMDRNF: My Momma Didn’t Raise No Fool


TTB: The Traveling Boy


SUAB: Sit Up And Beg


SBB: Spoiled Beyond Belief


PBB: Proud Beyond Belief


SBALC: Sit Back And Look Cute


ROAPD: Roll Over And Play Dead


OLAL: Out Like A Light


ITDO: In This Dog’s Opinion


IGTBM: It’s Great To Be Me


IAAM: It’s All About Me


ICHW: I Can Hardly Wait


HLCOLGG: How Lucky Can One Little Guy Get


BSMLGH: Be Still My Little Guy Heart


IGBWALHFH: I Get By With A Little Help From HER


HWTMF: Having Way Too Much Fun






TP: Think Pawsitive


TPU: Two Paws Up


TILAM: Take It Like A Man


TILALG: Takin’ It Like A Little Guy


TCOB: Takin’ Care Of Business


TGTBT: Too Good To Be True


TSCLG: Tech Savvy Cute Little Guy


PCQ: Personal Cuteness Quotient


MYLC: Missing You Like Crazy


PFA: Paws For Applause


TTTP: Talk To The Paw


TCDI: The Cat Did It


TCFW: Too Cute For Words


WTCFW: Way Too Cute For Words (this one from MTM)


TCFWWOAD: Too Cute For Words WithOut A Doubt (Thanks to MTM for this one!)


TCLGITH: The Cutest Little Guy In The Hood (another one from MTM…ye haa)


PTP: Pounding the Pavement or Pushing the Pedals


HITR: Human In The Room


CITA: Caught In The Act


CSB: Can’t Stop Barking


CPOP: Completely Pooped Out Pup


GUMB: Growling Under My Breath


GUMJB: Growling Under My Jolly Breath


GUMVB: Growling Under My Virtual Breath


NBFALG: Not Bad For A Little Guy


SAYN: Smiling At You Now






RMT: Read My Tail


TNTB: Trying Not To Bark


WMLO: Working My Legs Off


WWW: Who’s Walking Who


CLG: Cute Little Guy (that’s me!!!)


LGL: Little Guy Lovin’


LH: Love HER (I really, really do)


DE: Dante Effect


4-L: Four-Legged


TFFFC: Too Fit For Fat Clothes (this one’s for HER)

Monday, January 23, 2012

On eBay, It Pays to Snipe - Game Theory - Free Sniping App

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For users who are frustrated by being outbid in the last seconds of an eBay auction, BayGenie makes you that last-second bidder. This unique software lets you automatically bid on a product as the clock winds down, no matter where you are.


This freeware program has a very basic interface that shouldn't take long for any user to understand. The bulk of the screen is dominated by a two column check list detailing a user's options with the free version of the software and with the paid version. However, the bottom right corner of the program will be what interests most users. Here you can set up your future eBay victories by entering your eBay ID, password, the item number you wish to bid on, your maximum bid, and how many seconds before the close of the auction you would like your bid to be placed. From here, a screen outlines your choices and asks you to be positive this is your choice.


This program is simple to use, but its major complaints come from its limitations without purchasing the Pro version of BayGenie. The biggest drawback is that users can only bid on one item at a time with the free version. However, if you don't bid on multiple items at once, this is a great download.


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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2006-06-25-ebay-physics_x.htm

On eBay, it pays to snipe
Posted 6/25/2006 6:21 PM ETE-mail | Print |

 RELATED PAPERS
Roth, Alvin E. and Axel Ockenfels, "Last-Minute Bidding and the Rules for Ending Second-Price Auctions: Evidence from eBay and Amazon Auctions on the Internet," American Economic Review, 92 (4), September 2002, 1093-1103.
Ariely, Dan, Axel Ockenfels, and Alvin E. Roth,"An Experimental Analysis of Ending Rules in Internet Auctions," Rand Journal of Economics, 36, 4, Winter 2005, 891-908.
Axel Ockenfels and Alvin E. Roth, "The Timing of Bids in Internet Auctions: Market Design, Bidder Behavior, and Artificial Agents," AI Magazine, Fall 2002, 79-88.
Thank goodness for science. How else would we know the best way to nab those barely-used weed whackers, dumbbells or duck-shape salt shakers on eBay? In a study that gives the lie to the notion that eggheads don't like to eyeball online auctions like normal folks, a study by South Korean physicists confirms via some elaborate mathematical modeling that "sniping" — waiting for the very last second to submit your bid on that Elvis-shape throw rug — is indeed "a rational and effective strategy to win in an eBay auction."
Founded in 1995, eBay is the king of online auction sites. Sellers put up items for sale and buyers bid up the price. Thanks to the Internet's lack of state sales tax and the public's thirst for other people's garage sale items, the company has grown into a firm that amassed $4.55 billion in revenue last year. The service sets a deadline on bids for items, which has given rise to the practice of "sniping," bidding at the last minute to deny other bidders time to outbid you.
Savvy buyers have taken to the practice in swarms. Some companies even exist to snipe for you. Sellers, however, have grumbled that the practice keeps winning bid prices lower than they would be in a more open-ended auction, in which prices may be driven up by competition between buyers. If nobody bids until the last second, it's inevitably just a (relatively) low-bidding person who puts in the highest-price bid and walks away with the item.
To test whether sniping is a smart way to do things or just truncates normal bidding, the South Korean team at Seoul National University produced a "master equation" for how bidding proceeds (it's nk(t+1) — nk(t) = w(k-1)(t)*n(k-1)(t) — wk(t)*nk(t) + sigma(k,1)*u(t), if you really want to know), and then tested it against a massive number of auction records, some 264,073 items sold in one day on eBay and another 287,018 items sold in one year by eBay's Korean partner.
Plugging all those data into the model and testing the outcome in terms of how the auctions turned out, the team found that the probability of submitting a winning bid on an item indeed drops with each bid. "Our analysis explicitly shows that the winning strategy is to bid at the last moment as the first attempt rather than incremental bidding from the start." The study appears in the current Physical Review E journal.
The finding is no surprise to Harvard economist Alvin Roth, who has studied sniping from an economics viewpoint since 2002 with colleague Axel Ockenfels of Germany's University of Cologne. They came to similar conclusions. "I think you might do the most good if you advise bidders to form an opinion of how much they are willing to pay for an item, so that they don't get caught up in a bidding war and pay more than they will be happy with," says Roth, by e-mail. "But, that being said, if they know what proxy bid they want to submit, it won't hurt them to submit it very near the end (but neither will it help them much, or often ...) So, sniping is a good strategy, for those with the time to do it," he adds.
A statement on the eBay site says: Sniping is part of the eBay experience, and all bids placed before a listing ends are valid — even if they're placed one second before the listing ends.
BONUS MATERIAL: Dan Vergano's Q&A with Alvin Roth and Axel Ockenfels
1. Do you view sniping as a problem? Some eBay sellers have complained that sniping works to artificially lower auction prices. What is your view?
Ockenfels: Sniping can help bidders to get better prices on eBay. But sellers too can profit from sniping, because the possibility of sniping may attract more bidders. For instance, sniping can lead to more bidding from experts, because by bidding late, experts can avoid giving information to others through their own early bids. Sniping can also increase the excitement and entertainment value of bidding, which again attracts more bidders.
Roth: Sniping is a feature of the auction that eBay bought into when it chose to have a hard close. They must think it adds enough to the auction, in entertainment value, in allowing experts to protect their information, etc. to make up in increased bidders what it loses in lost bids and bidding wars.
2. If your work and this South Korean paper show that sniping is rational and effective, why doesn't everyone use the strategy?
Ockenfels: On eBay, not the last bid but the highest bid wins. Furthermore, last-minute bids sometimes come in too late, after the close of the auction. So, it can be a perfectly sensible strategy to submit a bid early. In fact, depending on the situation, game theory supports both early and late bidding strategies. However, we are also seeing a lot of non-rational, naive behaviors on markets such as eBay. There is no reason to suppose that everybody always behaves in a rational and effective way. This is especially true for eBay, where many experienced and sophisticated traders interact with many unexperienced, naive bidders.
Roth: EBay isn't an English auction, it is a second price auction with proxy bids. If you're a busy guy, you might find it better to put in an early proxy bid, high enough to have a chance of winning. The winning bidder isn't the last bidder, it's the bidder with the highest proxy bid (and the earlier bidder in case of ties). So sniped bids only get lower prices when other bidders would have been willing to raise their proxy bids, but don't have the chance. That happens often enough so that sniping is a good strategy for those with the time ....
3. How does this new study's approach strike you compared to the one you published in 2002? My understanding was that it rested on game theory, so I'm just trying to see how you see things.
Ockenfels: We closely intertwine game theoretical, laboratory and field analyses. Taken together, our studies help in understanding how the market microstructure qualitatively influence participants' strategies and overall market performance. The new study looks at bidding phenomena from a very different perspective and thus takes a very different approach. It quantitatively analyzes statistical properties of dynamic bidding patterns on eBay — without addressing institutional complexities or equilibrium aspects of behavior.
Roth: We take a lot of approaches, empirical, theoretical, experimental. And so we are able to look into the multiple causes of sniping, and how they are influenced by the auction rules (and why, therefore, there's so much less late bidding on other kinds of auctions, for example.) But the big divide between physics and economics is that physicists tend to study processes that don't have any human volition in them. Molecules do what they do without forming opinions about what other molecules do. Sometimes this physics approach can also yield some insights into large markets, where each player is small enough to be inconsequential. And eBay must have looked that way to the authors of this article, since they report that in one day they have data from 264,073 auctions involving 384,058 distinct bidders. On the other hand, when I look at those numbers, what strikes me is that there were fewer than 2 bidders per auction in their data. To put it another way, a lot of auctions in their dataset had only a single bidder. Obviously conclusions about sniping are going to be different in such auctions (and in our analyses we normally exclude them).
4. Do you see a better auction strategy for online auction?
Ockenfels: What is a good bidding or selling strategy in online auctions depends on the context, such as the degree of competition and the available information about the value of the object. However, there is a fast-growing applied literature in economics on auction/market design and bidding strategies. (See Roth:http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/engineer.pdf.)
Roth: I think you might do the most good if you advise bidders to form an opinion of how much they are willing to pay for an item, so that they don't get caught up in a bidding war and pay more than they will be happy with. But, that being said, if they know what proxy bid they want to submit, it won't hurt them to submit it very near the end (but neither will it help them much, or often…) So, sniping is a good strategy, for those with the time to do it. (You can also pay a fee to third party sniping software on the web, like esnipe.com or others ....)
5. What do you see as the key point(s) to make to readers about a study like this one? How do the results apply to other auctions?
One of the general lessons that comes out of our research in "economic engineering" is: details matter! For instance, our studies demonstrate that replacing eBay's hard close by a soft close, which allows bidders to always respond to late bids, would remove the strategic incentives to snipe and thus substantially affect bidding behavior. Bidders respond to incentives, and incentives can be strongly affected by the details of the auction rules and algorithms. This is true for all auctions, including, for instance, spectrum, electricity and procurement auctions.
Each week, USA TODAY's Dan Vergano combs scholarly journals to present the Science Snapshot, a brief summary of some of the latest findings in scientific research. For past articles, visit this index page.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

I love my country, that's why I feel it's important to post this




http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yuC_4mGTs98




Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.
(Watch FrenchGermanSpanishItalian or Portuguese translations of this video.)
TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.
These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcoholsnort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst officewhere DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.
Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidenceliterally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.
The investigation was delayedunderfundedset up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimonyextracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7Able DangerPtechSibel EdmondsOBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secretoff the recordnot under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.
The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.
The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.
NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7′s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.
The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.
This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise himhimhim, and her. (and her and her and him).
Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFK and incubator babies and mobile production facilitiesand the rescue of Jessica Lynch.
If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.
This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBICIANSADIASECMSMWhite HouseNIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.