Monthly Archives: March 2004

Random Numbers

Offers the possibility to request a sequence of random numbers. The length and the bounds of the sequence can be specified by the user. A quantum random number generator connected to the server is used to produce the numbers on … Continue reading

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Random Numbers on demand

RandomNumbers.info is a site that generates random number sequences on demand using a quantum optical process. Not exactly what we’d call software, but still cool enough to be added to our Probability section!

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XStar

A Unix program that simulates the movement of stars. It starts by putting a bunch of stars on the screen, and then it lets the inter-body gravitational forces move the stars around. The result is a lot of neat wandering … Continue reading

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Celestia

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects. Find Celestia at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/

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The Sleuth Kit

The Sleuth Kit and The Autopsy Forensic Browser are open source file system digital forensics tools that analyze NTFS, FAT, UFS, EXT2FS, and EXT3FS file systems. Find The Sleuth Kit at: http://www.sleuthkit.org/index.php

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Forensics and Space

Time to populate some of the sparser sections. Forensics sees an interesting addition today, The Sleuth Kit is a file system digital forensics tool. Also seeing new links is the underpopulated Space section, which adds Celestia, a space simulator that … Continue reading

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CMU Sphinx

A set of reasonably mature, world-class speech components that provide a basic level of technology to anyone interested in creating speech-using applications without the once-prohibitive initial investment cost in research and development; the same components are open to peer review … Continue reading

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SphinxTrain

SphinxTrain is a suite of programs, script and documentation for building acoustic models from data for the Sphinx suite of recognition engines. Find SphinxTrain at: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/SphinxTrain/

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CMU Sphinx and SphinxTrain

Two new entries today in the Speech Communication section. CMU Sphinx is a set of components for speech processing, and SphinxTrain is a suite of programs for building acoustic models from the data generated by the Sphinx recognition engines.

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POOMA and Blitz++

Two new entries today, both numerical libraries in C++ that specialize in linear algebra. POOMA and Blitz++ both use Expression templates, and POOMA appears to support parallel computation with MPI.

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