well...found a nice cool thingig. Its the....*drumroll*...The YAMAHA AVANTGRAND N3 PIANO! To you, meh nothing much. But, actually, its a much better one than all the other digital grand pianos out there. In fact, the only different thing than a regular grand piano ofthe same size and make is well, the strings. Yep. Only the strings. This digital grand piano emits sound from all over its body. 4 pairs of subs and high pitched speakers. Plus, these speakers are placed in such positions that if you play a key in the bass section, the speaker nearest that would play from there, different from many other digital pianos, which has only 2 positions. THIS HAS 4!!!!! woot. Even the keys vibrate a bit after each note, like a real piano. That's because of the transducer under the keyboard.
THE FULL ARTICLE AND SOUND HERE: http://www.popsci.com/piano
Oh and there is also the BOWED PIANO. Well, its not a new instrument of course, its more of uh...modification of the way its played. But, I'll get back to the bowed piano later....
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Another random stuff blog?
Well, I was invited to post on this blog. Mini-asian is a busy person with lots of interest. It is not surprising for him to name this blog this way since he is not going to just post about a few things and target a specific audience. Anyone with an inquiring mind like Mini-asian will be very excited to learn new things, especially those one encounters in daily lives. This blog, as I understand is not to make personal diaries, but instead, is to share what we learn in everyday events, it may be our notice of new events, technologies or current trends of thinking.
Personally, I am particular interested in advocating the empowerment of knowledge in looking after one's health and in new technologies. I am delighted to contribute to this blog. Stay tuned!
Raimouse
Friday, June 26, 2009
Geographic Profiling On Sharks
In order to find out and prove that sharks don't actually hunt at random, a Thornhill researcher and a groupo of American colleagues used a forensic profiling technique known as geographic profiling, which is often used to find serial killers, to find the exact hunting places of some sharks.
It had been recently discovered that sharks might have much in common with human killers, such as stalking prey.
Geographic profiling can't determine where a specific shark is, but it can show info that sharks' hunting ways are not random. If sharks' hunting skills were random, then sharks would be a primitive species, going to where its food (mainly seals) are most concentrated. Actually, sharks tend to have one place where they stalk prey, without having to travel directly in their prey's path.
The idea to use geographic profiling for tracking sharks came to R. Aidan Martin (died February 2007) of British Columbia, while reading a CSI crime novel about a cop using geographic profiling to hunt down serial killers. The guy who invented this technique lived in Vancouver. He is Kim Rossmo, former Vancouver beat cop, currently professor of criminal justice at Texas State University.
Geographic profiling works by locating the scenes of various linked crimes, then, computational models help locate the criminal's base of operatons, an "anchor point". This then reduces the search area into smaller search area to look for the suspect.
Geographic profiling has been done on bats and bees before, and have worked. Same with the sharks. It turns out that they do have central hunting point. They kept returning to the same point to feed.
The scientists plotted the sites of 340 shark attacks on seals around the Seal Island off the coast of South Africa. Also, with sonar maps of the reefs and sea floors in the area, they plotted the points of the shark attacks. Then, they sent the info into Kim Rossmo's program. They found out that the points added up to some distinct and commonized hunting patterns..
The program can churn out info if search patterns are affected by an anchor base, and also where the base is. The anchor base is somewhat of a balance of being able to detect prey, being able to get prey, and have less competition while feeding.
Another thing is that only the bigger sharks have anchor points for feeding. Smaller sharks are more spread apart while feeding.
It had been recently discovered that sharks might have much in common with human killers, such as stalking prey.
Geographic profiling can't determine where a specific shark is, but it can show info that sharks' hunting ways are not random. If sharks' hunting skills were random, then sharks would be a primitive species, going to where its food (mainly seals) are most concentrated. Actually, sharks tend to have one place where they stalk prey, without having to travel directly in their prey's path.
The idea to use geographic profiling for tracking sharks came to R. Aidan Martin (died February 2007) of British Columbia, while reading a CSI crime novel about a cop using geographic profiling to hunt down serial killers. The guy who invented this technique lived in Vancouver. He is Kim Rossmo, former Vancouver beat cop, currently professor of criminal justice at Texas State University.
Geographic profiling works by locating the scenes of various linked crimes, then, computational models help locate the criminal's base of operatons, an "anchor point". This then reduces the search area into smaller search area to look for the suspect.
Geographic profiling has been done on bats and bees before, and have worked. Same with the sharks. It turns out that they do have central hunting point. They kept returning to the same point to feed.
The scientists plotted the sites of 340 shark attacks on seals around the Seal Island off the coast of South Africa. Also, with sonar maps of the reefs and sea floors in the area, they plotted the points of the shark attacks. Then, they sent the info into Kim Rossmo's program. They found out that the points added up to some distinct and commonized hunting patterns..
The program can churn out info if search patterns are affected by an anchor base, and also where the base is. The anchor base is somewhat of a balance of being able to detect prey, being able to get prey, and have less competition while feeding.
Another thing is that only the bigger sharks have anchor points for feeding. Smaller sharks are more spread apart while feeding.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Sunday's random post!
random post!.
so...soft drink names! :
Pepsi, diet pepsi, coca-cola, diet cola, sprite, cola, cherry coca cola, pepsi throwback, mountain dew, 7-up, nestea, nestea green iced tea, lipton green ice tea, cream soda, orangina, c plus, mleh...all that i can think about...
so...soft drink names! :
Pepsi, diet pepsi, coca-cola, diet cola, sprite, cola, cherry coca cola, pepsi throwback, mountain dew, 7-up, nestea, nestea green iced tea, lipton green ice tea, cream soda, orangina, c plus, mleh...all that i can think about...
first post....
so....random thought o fthe day.....pepsi!. what would happen? if you droped a jumbo pack of mentos into a bowl of pepsi? meh.
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