[Geowanking] mapping with GPS and Mathematica

[SteveC]

I had a cube with the optical drive. And the NeXT printer. For free  
because the uni was throwing them out.



On 6 May 2009, at 22:09, Eric Wolf wrote:

> You could also buy a NeXT. They all came with Mathematica. Of course,
> that was the late '80s version.
>
> -Eric
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> Eric B. Wolf                          720-209-6818
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> Center of Excellence in GIScience
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> CU-Boulder - Geography
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> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> I cannot recommend enough trying Mathematica if you never have, and  
>> even if
>> you've played with other functional languages. I had the extreme  
>> luck and
>> privilege to work there as an intern a decade ago otherwise I would  
>> never
>> have learnt or taught it.
>>
>> Your nearest major university will have a site license if it's any  
>> good, and
>> the home edition is a new license option and relatively cheap  
>> compared to
>> what it used to cost you. I would work through the Mathematica book  
>> too,
>> it's brilliant. It's included electronically with Mathematica  
>> itself, but
>> you really want the hard copy.
>>
>> You will find Mathematica references in books like Cryptonomicon and
>> Information Rules, too.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On 6 May 2009, at 19:21, P Kishor wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Mike Liebhold <mnl at well.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A Wolfram Research person's hard working Mathematica hacks to map  
>>>> his
>>>> outdoor excursions:
>>>>
>>>> http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/04/17/mapping-gps-data/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> as much skepticism I have for Wolfram Alpha, I have even more
>>> amazement at the stuff Mathematica can do. Here is a post from
>>> Wolfram's blog that I noted a few months ago
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/12/01/the-incredible-convenience-of-mathematica-image-processing/
>>>
>>> If only remote sensing had been so much fun. Just for the above, I
>>> will buy Mathematica and futz around with it.
>>>
>>> Now, that same Theodore Gray (the one who shows fun ways of doing
>>> image processing in the link above) has this to say about the role  
>>> of
>>> Mathematica in the creation of Alpha
>>>
>>> "This is the essence of what has made Wolfram|Alpha possible. It’s  
>>> not
>>> so much that it would have been impossible to do without  
>>> Mathematica,
>>> but that it would have been impractically difficult. In fact, the
>>> easiest way to create Wolfram|Alpha without Mathematica would have
>>> been to write Mathematica first, then use it. Which is precisely  
>>> what
>>> we have spent the past 23 years doing"
>>>
>>> See
>>> http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/01/the-secret-behind-the-computational-engine-in-wolframalpha/
>>>
>>> Wolfram seems to have a mindset similar to the Goog's... the  
>>> solution
>>> to every problem lies in data. The more data you can gather and
>>> analyze, the better solution you can create. Google's approach seems
>>> to be that the world is their data, and they analyze it as is,
>>> programmatically, more less with the internet and its openness as
>>> their modus operandi, while Wolfram wants to take the data, dice it,
>>> prep it, dress it using their own finite experts and their own
>>> proprietary code. I am not expressing it well, but that is my
>>> uninformed but intuitive gist of what I think the difference is
>>> between Google and Alpha. And then there are the breed of new
>>> aggregators/filter-ers such as kosmix and the ilk (see
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15ping.html). In any  
>>> case,
>>> fine by me... as long as data can be free, we will see Wolfram's
>>> Alpha, someone else's Beta, and everyone's Gamma.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/
>>> Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/
>>> Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/
>>> Science Commons Fellow, Geospatial Data http://sciencecommons.org
>>> Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
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