Thursday, April 13, 2006

Pinko

Stowe Boyd endorses Pinko Marketing

The Manifesto is cute but..

This seems to be another example of 'It's obvious to us, so it must be a legitimate market phenomenon.' There's something to this, but every manifesto has an author., and therein lies the paradox.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Reed-Solomon

Reed-Solomon error correction is a coding scheme which works by first constructing a polynomial from the data symbols to be transmitted and then sending an oversampled plot of the polynomial instead of the original symbols themselves. Because of the redundant information contained in the oversampled data, it is possible to reconstruct the original polynomial and thus the data symbols even in the face of transmission errors, up to a certain degree of error.

Monday, April 10, 2006

Histogram

A histogram is constructed from a frequency table. The intervals are shown on the X-axis and the number of scores in each interval is represented by the height of a rectangle located above the interval. A histogram of the response times from the dataset Target RT is shown below.