StrangeMaps, Nuclear Power, HASP, ML in Space, GPU with Matlab

Taking a break from Compressed Sensing for a moment, here is a strangely addictive site reviewing different types of maps. It's called Strangemaps. Quite timely my first blog entry was about maps and it was about four years ago. Google Maps did not exist then. Things changed indeed, now environmentalists are cheering for nuclear power this is quite a turn of event for those of us who have been in the nuclear engineering field.
Talking about Mississippi, LSU is accepting application for the next HASP flight and the deadline is December 18th. The big difference between a HASP flight and that of a sounding balloon can be found here:

A sounding balloon project I am following with much interest is project WARPED. They have an excellent technical description of what they are doing.


In other news from the KDnuggets weekly e-mail, some items caught my attention: Maybe the birth of a new kind of Journalism in What Will Journalist-Programmers Do?and there is a CFP on the subject of Machine Learning in Space, (Mar 31)

Via GPGPU, AMD is talking about introducing double precision in frameworks using GPUs (Graphics Cards). On the other hand, the NVIDIA CUDA compiler now has a Matlab plug-in where whenever you use a function in Matlab like FFT, this plug-in takes over the job and send it to the Graphics card (GPU). Maybe we can do faster reconstruction in Compressed Sensing using a Partial Fourier Transform and a GPU. Oops I did it again, I spoke about CS.