Very cool! My second consulting job (that resulted in my first published paper) was writing an analysis program for lower-GI studies in rhesus monkeys. I took the raw data, and basically performed a FFT on it and graphed the results (this was a lot of work "way back in the day" -- the input data was analog, which had to be sampled and turned digital for analysis, then the analysis simulated analog conditions and produced a graph that had to be printed to an analog plotter).
We also had memory constraint issues in that we couldn't analyze an entire data set at once (this was on a PDP 11/23, I think we only had like 2 MB RAM and 10 MB HD) so the FFT had to be modified to take "hints" for starting and ending conditions. Ah, those were the days. Good riddance. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: For your intellectual delectation... Even fundamentals change once in a while... http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transforms-0118.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
