Archive for February 25th, 2009

free association Wednesday

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

I guess it’s a good thing that the Treasury department is releasing more details on the banking “stress tests.”  That said, the engineer (or the circuits lab TA) in me can’t help but hear “smoke test” any time someone says stress test.  In engineering, you wire up your design and power it up for the [...]

notes from a workshop

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

I’m over at the Compressive Sensing Workshop today.  I wasn’t too sure about compressive sensing as a topic, but after reading the abstracts, it seems to have a lot of application to basic image processing.  Or at least the same concepts are applicable. One logistics note.  Attention conference centers everywhere: speaking as a tea drinker, [...]