Monthly Archives: December 2009
connections
I realized that the plan I posted makes the implicit assumption that every search parameter is linked by a logical AND–“look for events that are X AND Y.” This is flawed. It would be a much more powerful system if … Continue reading
helioinformatics plan
Helioinformatics Project: Faceted Search and Inferencing Background and Motivation Astronomy is among the fields of scientific endeavor that have recently begun to generate data on a massive scale. A prime example of this data-intensive astronomy is the Large Synoptic Survey … Continue reading
getting a handle
I’ve been feeling somewhat bogged down in regards to project planning lately. I think a big issue is that my past programming projects have all been in class, with problems laid out, perfectly defined, by the text book or the … Continue reading
Ptolemy and Kepler
Again the the vein of “do not reinvent the wheel,” some preliminary work has been done with this project using Kepler and Ptolemy. Besides being already there, using these gives me the potential to explore new software architecture paradigms besides … Continue reading