... Archives . ... X-ray summer school is on going. ... Recently I went to JSM 2007 and tried to attend talks about (bayesian) change point problems, which frequently appears in time series models, often found in economics. ... Tags: ARCH , Bayesian Block , challenges , change point problem , GARCH , light curves , summer school , X-ray . ... I received another type of changing point problem, defining a peak precisely, from a x-ray school student, who tried bayesian block but said it didn?t work. ...

... Editing this wiki . ... Access keys (See also Wikipedia:access keys ) are keyboard shortcuts for tasks that would otherwise require a mouse click. ... Key Name . ... In this case one must edit the template file itself in order to change the access keys. ... The list of access key assignments in default PmWiki installations generally work throughout a site because links have been created in PmWiki skins and editing screens that incorporate access key parameters using the access key translation...

OptInt PmWiki : Pm Wiki / Access Keys . ... On Windows with Internet Explorer, press ALT + the access key. With Firefox, press SHIFT + ALT + the access key. ... Example: <a href="http://example.com" accesskey="x">Example</a> would create a link to example.com that could be triggered by clicking on the linked word "example" or using the access key Akey+x. That same action key link could be created in PmWiki markup by typing %accesskey="x"%[[http://example.com|Example]]%% , like this: Example . ...

... The predictive power of current models (the so-called meteor forecasting) has given us the exact timing of the Leonid storms of 2001 and 2002 to the nearest hour and are now used to predict the arrival times of major annual showers such as the Perseids . ... Towards this goal, the Observatory has installed a sky-monitoring system, consisting of one medium angle (MA) and two wide-angle (WA) video cameras linked to software designed to detect motion. ... Bright Taurid Meteor . ... Meteors on Mars . ...

... I am now working on the documentation. ... In the morning I finished writing comments for the methods of drizzle. ... I made some more changes to the Drizzle classes and finished documenting all the Python code. ... Anew argument to write will add a set of header keywords and I need to make the drizzled image the primary header. ... I finished the documentation and started working on the problems with tests. ... I also wrote two tests for the compute_area function in a different branch. ...

To change to using another printer for the current login session: PRINTER=ps2 . ... To change to using another editor for the current login session and inform (export) this value to other programs which use it: EDITOR=vi export EDITOR . This changes the user's default editor to vi and exports this value to other programs - such as electronic mail - which make use of it. To change to using another pager for viewing files the user adds the following lines to their .profile file. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... I think I will break from my usual format of Bad Astronomy/ Good Astronomy by saying that the way we define seasons currently is not strictly bad, but I feel (in my opinion!) that it could be better. The definition of when the seasons begin is at the moment of solstice or equinox; that is, winter (in the north) starts on December 22 nd and summer starts on June 22 nd . ... Now imagine breaking up the Sun's 46 degree up-and-down yearly swing into 1 day intervals. ...

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Changing a World . What did the students learn from all this? ... The students found this unsatisfactory -- some of them would not be able to fit another astronomy class into their schedules, but they wanted to know about our planetary neighbors, and this project gave them the opportunity to find out without spending valuable class time on the subject. ... The students also learned to learn for themselves, perhaps one of the most important milestones during formal education. ...

... This project was my personal idea quite some time ago: to port XFree86 , the free and optimized X11R6 implementation to OS/2. ... XFree86/OS2 is now available as a public version 3.3.6, which does not expire and for which full source code is available. ... x.physics.usyd.edu.au Please send a mail to me with a complete URL if you have set up a ftp server or a mirror for XFree86/OS2. ... Available ported software . ... I'll still be available as the mediator between XFree86/OS2 and general XFree86. ...

... Over the 2.5 kernel development series, the USB driver api has changed a lot. As LWN has graciously allowed me to write a kernel article this week, and I know a bit about the USB kernel code, I thought I would discuss a short summary of the major changes that have happened with it for anyone wanting to port a 2.4 USB driver to 2.5. ... The biggest change in the USB api between the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels is much improved documentation. ... Changes to the USB driver API for the 2.5 series kernel . ...

... Version 1.14 - 2001-03-29 (GV) ------------ + ( test /Makefile) actually add the new test harnesses ;-) Version 1.13 - 2001-03-26 (GV) ------------ + (deceit.pl::fillColumn) support variable length vector columns, support padding of vector columns if not enougyh elements are available in the ascii file . + ( test /stringcolumns) simple test harness for string columns. + ( test /variable_length_vector_column) test ... Lacks documentation and explicit test harness. ...

... Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 . ... htpasswd is used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames and password for basic authentication of HTTP users. ... Resources available from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted to just the users listed in the files created by htpasswd . ... Files managed by htpasswd may contain both types of passwords; some user records may have MD5-encrypted passwords while others in the same file may have passwords encrypted with crypt() . ... Delete user...

In this chapter we will consider an example of visual expert system written on the Actor Prolog language. ... There are a lot of methods of oil field bed stimulation that increase output of the oil production: thermal, physical-chemical, gas, microbiological, and others. ... Fig. ... The Top-Most diagram consists of three blocks: the "Describe parameters of hydrocarbon field" block, the "Check adaptability of existed methods of oil production" block, and the "Display solution" block. ... Gas methods. ...

... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Problems posed by massive stars . ... These questions were at least part of the motivation when CУЕssio Barbosa of Brazil's University of SУ?o Paulo and Donald Figer of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore surveyed observers and theorists to see what they believed were the most pressing problems concerning massive stars. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ...

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... psrfits2fil converts AO psrfits files from the pdev spectrometer to sigproc filterbank program. This standalone routine will probably one day be incorporated in the sigproc filterbank program. psrfits data taken with the mock pdev spectrometer is scan based. ... The routine will read all of the psrfits files from a scan and output a single sigprog.fil file. ... Output to a single file with same format as input: . ... The psrfits files for the test data are located in /share/pdata1/pdev/ . ...

... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...