"Some analysts suspect that Somali pirates used AIS to locate and hijack the 1,000-foot supertanker Sirius Star, which was transiting 450 miles off the coast of Kenya in November 2008 when it was hijacked and taken to Somalia. The Liberian-flagged vessel, which is owned by Aramco in Saudi Arabia, was carrying 25 seafarers and more than $100 million in oil cargo bound for the U.S. For many areas, however, particularly near the restricted entrances to congested ports and harbors, the AIS provisions of SOLAS are an important component for strengthening maritime situational awareness."
- Ho John Lee
Brace is a dialect of C that looks like Python. Brace has coroutines, hygenic macros, header generation, #! scripting and cached executables, and libraries with graphics and sound. Brace runs on GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, GNU/Hurd, MinGW/Windows, and Mac OS X with X11 (hopefully). Brace translates (fairly) cleanly into C.
- Ho John Lee
Sample of some social network analysis using R. "The figure below is the 2-core of the full network. As you might imagine, the full network is quite large, but the vast majority of nodes are pendants; therefore, visualizing the 2-core is much more useful. Those that twittered with #rstats are in red and labeled, while all of the intervening nodes are in blue."
- Ho John Lee
Google Maps + marine traffic updates for ship positions worldwide, with some gaps (missing Alaska, Korea, and India among others). US, Europe, Japan covered.
- Ho John Lee
Unlike in established companies where the problem is known, and the focus can be on optimizing a solution, in startups both the solution and the problem are unknown. Startups don’t know if they have sufficiently defined the problem and the solution until customers vote with their wallets.
- Ho John Lee