The top 10 funding application errors Many charities see their applications for funding be rejected The Directory of Social Change estimates that ineligible applications made to the largest trusts in 2010 equated to seven years of wasted effort. This pointless exertion seems not to have lessened since then. According to the latest figures from the Big Lottery Fund, 46 per cent of applications to its Reaching Communities programme between May and July this year were ineligible. 1. "If only they had read our eligibility criteria, they would clearly see we don't fund that" is a perennial complaint from funders. The trust also gets a lot of applications from people who want to run welfare projects, even though it clearly states in its entry criteria that it does not fund such schemes. Comic Relief has received applications on behalf of an HIV project in Tanzania for a fund that operates only in Stoke-on-Trent. 2. Receiving applications for unrealistic sums of money is another bugbear of funders. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Visualizing Algorithms The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. —Donald Norman Algorithms are a fascinating use case for visualization. To visualize an algorithm, we don’t merely fit data to a chart; there is no primary dataset. Instead there are logical rules that describe behavior. This may be why algorithm visualizations are so unusual, as designers experiment with novel forms to better communicate. But algorithms are also a reminder that visualization is more than a tool for finding patterns in data. #Sampling Before I can explain the first algorithm, I first need to explain the problem it addresses. Light — electromagnetic radiation — the light emanating from this screen, traveling through the air, focused by your lens and projected onto the retina — is a continuous signal. This reduction process is called sampling, and it is essential to vision. Sampling is made difficult by competing goals. Here’s how it works:
Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution Doug Engelbart knew that his obituaries would laud him as “Inventor of the Mouse.” I can see him smiling wistfully, ironically, at the thought. The mouse was such a small part of what Engelbart invented. We now live in a world where people edit text on screens, command computers by pointing and clicking, communicate via audio-video and screen-sharing, and use hyperlinks to navigate through knowledge—all ideas that Engelbart’s Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) invented in the 1960s. To Engelbart, computers, interfaces, and networks were means to a more important end—amplifying human intelligence to help us survive in the world we’ve created. Engelbart’s vision for more capable humans, enabled by electronic computers, came to him in 1945, after reading inventor and wartime research director Vannevar Bush’s Atlantic Monthly article “As We May Think.” Engelbart’s failure to spread the less tangible parts of his vision stems from several circumstances.
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Aliasing - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Properly sampled image of brick wall. Aliasing can occur in signals sampled in time, for instance digital audio, and is referred to as temporal aliasing. Aliasing can also occur in spatially sampled signals, for instance digital images. Aliasing in spatially sampled signals is called spatial aliasing. Description[edit] Aliasing example of the A letter in Times New Roman. When a digital image is viewed, a reconstruction is performed by a display or printer device, and by the eyes and the brain. An example of spatial aliasing is the Moiré pattern one can observe in a poorly pixelized image of a brick wall. Temporal aliasing is a major concern in the sampling of video and audio signals. In video or cinematography, temporal aliasing results from the limited frame rate, and causes the wagon-wheel effect, whereby a spoked wheel appears to rotate too slowly or even backwards. Bandlimited functions[edit] Bandpass signals[edit] Sampling sinusoidal functions[edit] = 1. = 0.9 and = 0.1. are and is where ).
A few words on Doug Engelbart Bret Victor / July 3, 2013 Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain. Technology writers, in particular, tend to miss the point miserably, because they see everything as a technology problem. Here's the most facile interpretation of Engelbart, splendidly exhibited by this New York Times headline: Douglas C. This is as if you found the person who invented writing, and credited them for inventing the pencil. Then there's the shopping list interpretation: His system, called NLS, showed actual instances of, or precursors to, hypertext, shared screen collaboration, multiple windows, on-screen video teleconferencing, and the mouse as an input device. These are not true statements. Engelbart had an intent, a goal, a mission. The problem with saying that Engelbart "invented hypertext", or "invented video conferencing", is that you are attempting to make sense of the past using references to the present. Here's an example. "Ah!" "Ah!" No.
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Just my type | Typography news, resources and lessons The Psychology of Collaboration - Dr Irene Greif for Technology Review As part of their series on collaboration, Jodi from Technology Review interviewed Irene Greif at IBM about the psychology of collaboration. The focus of the interview was about the non-technology aspects of collaboration, and they discussed: - Too much automation leads to process breakdowns. The system can't see what people can see. - More informal interaction in the office is now online, meaning that combining informal and formal things may be more possible. - Knowledge management failed; social software does knowledge management as part of work. - Dogear gave better search results on the IBM intranet than intranet search. - Why collaboration requires the sharing of pre-finished thinking and artifacts. The most interesting comment to me from Irene was this: "Jodi: What qualities will make or break the next big thing in collaboration? My Comments 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Milestones in the emergence of a city If you are a regular reader of our Heeley's history booklets, you will be familiar with the name of Mr. Don Ross, for he has contributed many items for inclusion in several of them, which have been most welcome and interesting. As a man born and brought up in Heeley arid with a keen interst in history, he has enjoyed spending some of his spare time in retirement in looking up various aspects of past events which are of local significance. From finding out about the early years of Heely, as a village, he went on to find out about how it was made a part of Sheffield, and what changes arose from that. Eventually, what started off as a list of dates with reference to Heeley gradually expanded to include Sheffield arid all the other villages that were included in it. So, his list expanded, and then he began to wonder what he could do with it! Our regular booklets are still being produced at intervals, and are eagerly looked forward to by many of our readers.