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Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE)

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:14:38 -0800

"Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution."

Tango and Chaos in Buenos Aires

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:21:47 -0700

"Tango and Chaos in Buenos Aires"

http://wisebits.nl/

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:16:00 -0700

Short Animation sequences which might teach you something.

IREX Digital Reader | DR800

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:15:31 -0700

IRex, it could be the new TomTom.

Personality Tests and Tools

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:43:12 -0700

2005:

Lots of serious tests

My Global Personality Test Results
Stability (82%) high which suggests you are very relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.
Orderliness (60%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, reliable, neat, and hard working at the expense of flexibility, efficiency, spontaneity, and fun.
Extraversion (28%) low which suggests you are very reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

This means
* I don't think you will do anything bad with these results.
* I straightened the layout of the results before posting.
* I don't think you should read this.

2009:
INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

Main type Variant

Enneagram Test Results
Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||||| 60%
Type 2 Helpfulness |||||| 30%
Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Type 4 Sensitivity |||||| 30%
Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||||||| 80%
Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||||| 63%
Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||| 36%
Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||||| 46%
Type 9 Calmness |||||||||||| 50%
Your main type is 5
Your variant is self pres

CATcerto

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:04:18 -0700

"The CATcerto is the current project of the lithuanian conductor, composer and artist Mindaugas Piečaitis. The world premiere was performed by Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra in the Klaipėda Concert Hall in Klaipėda (Lithuania) on 5th June, 2009. It gained recognition in the international media, a.o. the BBC, Lithuanian TV, Baltic TV and the First Baltic Chanel (russian).

Mindaugas Piečaitis composed and directed the Catcerto for Nora The Piano Cat and orchestra, where Nora, the soloist, was brought in via video.

On this site you will find interviews with Mindaugas Piečaitis and Nora The Piano Cat. We also present a selection of videos from the rehearsal and the premiere and links to the actors.

Thank you for visiting catcerto.com. Have fun!"

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0907/0907.0455v1.pdf

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:40:30 -0700

The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study

"In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced the apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: 'Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her level of maximum incompetence'. Despite its apparent unreasonableness, such a principle would realistically act in any organization where the way of promotion rewards the best members and where the competence at their new level in the hierarchical structure does not depend on the competence they had at the previous level, usually because the tasks of the levels are very different between each other. Here we show, by means of agent based simulations, that if the latter two features actually hold in a given model of an organization with a hierarchical structure, then not only the Peter principle is unavoidable, but it yields in turn a significant reduction of the global efficiency of the organization. Within a game theory-like approach, we explore different promotion strategies and we find, counter intuitively, that in order to avoid such an effect the best ways for improving the efficiency of a given organization are either to promote each time an agent at random or to promote randomly the best and the worst members in terms of competence."

Run the simulation yourself.

Meditation May Increase Gray Matter

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:27:18 -0700

"Meditation May Increase Gray Matter
That's the finding from a group of researchers at UCLA who used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of people who meditate."

Why marrying a younger woman can save your life (even if it sends HER to an early grave) | Mail Online

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:14:07 -0700

"Choosing a wife 15-17 years younger can cut men's risk of dying prematurely by 20 per cent"

Planet Tango

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:57:13 -0700

"To preserve, foster, and advance the fundamental ideas and values of the Argentine Tango culture and social backgrounds through friendship, leadership, and expertise"