I just finished taking a class on objective analysis which covered spectral analysis, EOFs/SVD, and wavelets. Tentatively, I would be happy to collaborate with someone on a July talk but June is out of the question. Most of my work was done in Matlab but this would give me some good motivation to look at SciPy's signal processing guts and PyNGL. This topic is pretty hairy so hopefully everyone would come in expecting a high-level view. Most of my experience from class was looking at geophysical processes but as far as I understand the tools are the same whether one is dealing with electrons, pressure waves, or any other time (and possibly space) data. Alternatively, EOF/SVD could be applied to a domain such as x-people and y-survey questions, etc.
I'm not really clear on what is meant by radio programming so maybe someone could elaborate? Cheers, Matt On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > In yesterday's meeting we heard Ingy's Package talk, and an update on > the server bill. There was a request to discuss "signal processing and > radio programming" but we didn't have time for it. Since there is no > other topic scheduled for June, I propose a signal processing meeting. > Could somebody put together a talk and/or discussion agenda for that? > Remember that people like me don't know what signal processing is, we > have vague connotations of audio editing, so a short introduction for > newbies would be welcome. > > The server bill was originally $239.40. It's now down to $199.99. > Thanks for donations from Wilhelm Fitzpatrick, David Dyck, John > DeRosa, Randolph Fritz, John Mark, and several people who put dollar > bills in a pile too fast for me to keep track of. The bill covers May > 2010 - April 2011. It's a linode.com virtual server running Ubuntu. > There was a bit of discussion about moving to a cheaper provider or > cloud provider, but it was auto-renewed and may be difficult to get a > refund, and we do get some extra disk space for our annual payment. In > any case, the server is fine and there's no need to move, but we can > revisit the issue next year. > > This also brought to mind that the nonprofit status would have been > useful for this. I thought SeaPIG's only expenses were the occasional > Python Day, but I forgot about the server bill until it came. > > The Package talk is in my next email. > > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> >
