Last weekend I noticed that one of the big Japanese soft drink companies has replaced the old vending machine in close-by station and put up a high-tech softdrink spender. Instead of showing the products (can faksimile) this machine is equipped…
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Tornadoes cross the US, leaving behind devastation and cause hundreds of casualties every year. Recently an Earth observation satellite (Landsat 5) documented the scar of destruction by showing the ground trace of one tornado as it made its way through…
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Today I stumbled over this interesting paper which describes the usage of the Karhunen-Loève Transform (KLT) for (weak) signal detection in time-series. Although there are many similarities with wavelet analysis, the KLT seems to be less computationally demanding (but its…
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After quite a lot of trouble one one of my last business trips, and an email to their service center without an answer for weeks I did not expect any further feedback. Thus, I was even more surprised when I…
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