RE: paleonet Need some fun on this list: Here a suggestion

[Peter Paul Smolka <smolka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Andy Rindsberg wrote:

> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:44:18 -0600
> From: Andy Rindsberg <arindsberg@gsa.state.al.us>
> Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: paleonet Need some fun on this list
> 
> Well, it's probably true that most of these luxury homes don't have
> paleontologists living inside.

Time-series are common in paleontology.

Thus: Did you ever try to write a self-adapting Fourier-Transform or
apply a neural net not only for interpolation but for extrapolation?

Relation to above: The Dow-Jones forms a time-series. Internet-brokers
are affordable. Trading warrants (calls or puts) is also affordable.

If somebody is bored, needs some fun (or possibly money): Above a
suggestion.

Disclaimer: I am liable for nothing if it goes wrong. Utmost care and
reading the fineprint (such as American-type warrants, maximum loss:
100% vs. European-type warrants: Even more than 100% is possible).

A "dry" application, e.g. what would the result have been if one
would have engaged in it, is however possible, can lead to fun
and might raise interest in respective classes among students who
otherwise regard FFTs, neural networks etc. as boring stuff of the
curriculum (and if somebody thinks about bridging unconformity-caused
gaps in time-series by this, or even by analyizing fractal propertiies
of the part below and above an unconformity: The better).

>
> Andy

Have fun,

Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf
> Of Michael Kishel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:11 PM
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: paleonet Need some fun on this list
>
>
> Only $2.8M.  Let me check my change jar.  I just might have enough.  If only
> right?
>
> -Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Rindsberg" <arindsberg@gsa.state.al.us>
> To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:59 AM
> Subject: RE: paleonet Need some fun on this list
>
>
> This reminds me of the German university that solved part of its storage
> problem by mortaring large fossil slabs (crinoids, ichthyosaurs, etc.)
> directly into the walls of classrooms. It seems that, in the case at hand, a
> collector not only solved his storage problem but even found a way to profit
> from it.
>
> I especially like the "large amethyst cave". It reminds me of "Jaws".
>
> Say, Jere, is that yellow-green sandstone in the wall over the large
> trilobite cemented with carnotite, or just epidote? I would suggest a radon
> inspection before buying this house.
>
> Andy
>
> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> Geological Survey of Alabama
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf
> Of Jere H. Lipps
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:13 AM
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: paleonet Need some fun on this list
>
>
> Here's something that may interest PaleoNetters that's a bit lighter and it
> sure doesn't look like it involves ID --
>
> A house of rocks and fossils:
> http://calabashviews.com/DinosaurHouse/Minerals-Fossils.htm
>
> And you can buy it for $2,800,000 more or less.
>
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