http://www.youtube.com/watch?v±cz8IasV4w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

thanks, Bob.

On 9/24/12 3:03 PM, Robert Adams wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v±cz8IasV4w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>



brings new meaning to the term "kernel of the algorithm".




dunno how fat anyone will get with just one kernel per lunch.

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On 9/24/12 4:50 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
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> thanks, Bob.
>
> On 9/24/12 3:03 PM, Robert Adams wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v±cz8IasV4w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>>
>
>
>
> brings new meaning to the term "kernel of the algorithm".
>
>
>
>
> dunno how fat anyone will get with just one kernel per lunch.
>

i meant to say "... just one kernel per launch".

could it be a Freudian slip?


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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Excellent!

Sadly someone informed me this is a guerilla ad and is faked. Too bad. When you think about it,
a few people would almost certainly choke on the flying popcorn so the lawyers would never allow
such a product to exist. On top of that, before I discovered it was fake, I wondered how you
would decode the distance based on just 2 microphones. Doesn't seem possible.
This reminds me of an April Fools edition of a hifi magazine years ago where they reviewed a
miniature car that ran around a vinyl record and dragged a cartridge behind it to play the
record. The amazing thing is that someone went ahead a built a bunch of these. They worked
pretty well except on records that were badly warped, which would cause the car to briefly go
airborne. 

Bob

On 9/25/12 3:11 PM, Robert Adams wrote:
> Excellent!
>
> Sadly someone informed me this is a guerilla ad and is faked. Too bad. When you think about
it, a few people would almost certainly choke on the flying popcorn so the lawyers would never
allow such a product to exist. On top of that, before I discovered it was fake, I wondered how
you would decode the distance based on just 2 microphones. Doesn't seem possible.

well, there are papers that talk about the perception of distance from 
binaural information.  it has to do with the ratio of energy of the 
direct signal to the energy of the reverberant component.  dunno how 
they separate the two.

but that, plus the HRTF of both ears (which deal with the azimuth and 
zenith component), have a way of placing a sound at a point in 3-dim 
space around your head, not just on some imaginary sphere around your 
head where the theta and phi are a total specification.


> This reminds me of an April Fools edition of a hifi magazine years ago where they reviewed
a miniature car that ran around a vinyl record and dragged a cartridge behind it to play the
record. The amazing thing is that someone went ahead a built a bunch of these. They worked
pretty well except on records that were badly warped, which would cause the car to briefly go
airborne.

the image of a stationary berlin disk and a little car driving around it 
seems pretty warped to me.

there have been similar dubious audio products sold for real.  probably 
Monster Cable can be mentioned.


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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."