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    In fact, I didn´t give all the details, in my previous post: the GLONASS satellites also implement a CDMA code, although it is not necessary to distinguish each satellite; they just implement it, so that their signal could be tracked in Earth at the same minimum power level as GPS.

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    In the US GPS system, this is done by means of a CDMA code. All the GPS satellites transmit their signal at the same frequency; in fact, there are more than one signal transmitted; there are five, so called from L1 to L5, but, in common receivers, just one is used (L1). The said L1 signal is transmitted at a frequency of 1575.42 MHz. Then, each satellite in the GPS system is ready to generate the signal modulated with a different CDMA code, that allows to the receivers on Earth to know what signal corresponds with what satellite; in the GPS system, this is known as the PRN code. Each satellite has its own PRN code. These codes are defined in the GPS ICD (Interface Control Document) and are saved inside each GPS receiver, so that it is able to distinguish between different satellites.

    In fact, another bundle of different PRN codes exist, just known by the US Army, so that they could manage GPS data in a secret way, including some kind of satellite communications posibility.

    In the other side, a russian parallel global positioning satellite system exists. It is called GLONASS. The principles of both systems are the same, but in the russian case, each satellite of the constellation transmits in a different frequency, all of them around 1602 MHz, with a bandwidth of 0.5625MHz per satellite.

    In this case, no CDMA code is needed, as the satellites are distinguished by frequency, as it is explained at the beginning of Q1 lecture.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS

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  • amyzhou 5:22 pm on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Yep this is after the cutoff but it… 

    (Yep, this is after the cutoff, but it also might be interesting to some people…)

    In class we were talking about the map of the whole internet, and how it was unclear what the nodes actually represented. There is, of course, a very simple solution to this: get the original-size version, in which the legend will be readable!

    Here follows a discussion of the failings of the internet. (More …)

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  • kwok 6:13 am on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    ReTargeter is a start up focusing on retargeting audiences for advertisements. What does retargeting mean? It means that they target customers who had shown previous interest in the company (e.g. opened an email from them, browsed their site, provided their information but haven’t made a purchase in a while). The company that wants to be advertised provide ReTargeter with emails or even mailing addresses, and ReTargeter tracks down anonymized groups of these people’s via cookies and delivers the ads.

    Busted Tees used ReTargeter’s service, and experienced a very positive outcome. They provided ReTargeter with emails of customers in their database who had not made a purchase, visited the website, or opened an email from the company in a given period of time. Within one month, Busted Tees had earned a 390% return on their investment.

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  • amyzhou 4:55 am on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Bidirectional social networks over time 

    Conventional wisdom dictates that in a social network with bidirectional links, users who don’t produce content should have much greater out-degree than in-degree — that is, more followees than followers. This is because there’s no reason to follow someone who produces no content, and by default most edges in the graph are set to not-following, and people have no reason to change that.

    Interestingly, however, I have almost twice as many followers on Quora (101) as people I’m following (52). Why?

    The answer is probably because Quora is heavily tied to Facebook, and pulls follow relationships from your friends there. Also, I joined Quora a fairly long time ago, but my account lay dormant. That means that I had relatively few friends using Quora at the time I joined, because it was so new, and those were the only ones I followed. As it became more popular and more of my Facebook friends joined, Quora of course suggested that they follow me.

    This raises the question, is this a good thing? Should following be skewed so heavily toward older users, or should users perhaps be encouraged more heavy-handedly to follow their newly-joined friends?

    There are a few reasons why this skewing is a good idea. If new users mostly see the posts of older users, this lends a sort of inertia to the community, meaning that once standards of tone and answer quality are established, they are more stable. Also, the challenge in retaining new users is usually the lack of interesting content, for which a heap of interesting answers to read is a pretty good solution. With long-term low-frequency visitors like me, though, we are unlikely to be wooed back in by a storm of uninteresting content, and if such users have followed only a few other users, the “dilution” effect of adding that user’s other friends is much more harmful than for a new user.

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  • kanika 4:30 am on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    We talked about taxes a little bit while talking about fairness in the last question. The following articles seem to take opposing views on the debate:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577537250318931044.html and http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/tax-fairness

    While the WSJ mentions that the top 1% or top 20% are shouldering an unfair portion the tax burden, the Economist says that the poor cannot pay any more because there is no more: and that federal taxes are skewed because they don’t tax the children or the elderly (who, they argue, should not be taxed). The WSJ seems against the philosophy of “spreading the wealth” – which is deemed unfair, and supports its claim with quantitative data, while the Economist claims that high incomes are growing the fastest and so that’s the bracket that should see the increases. This is an interesting debate, and I would like to see if people have arguments on either side, and would like to post comments.

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  • ban 4:22 am on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Distributed Algorithms, Atomic Commits, and the Two Generals Problem 

    For my last blog I had started off thinking about some of the major themes that pervade the course, one of the most prominent being the importance of distributed vs. centralized algorithms (distributed algorithms having the better chance of scaling up as the problems grow larger).

    An important operation in computer networking and transaction processing that highlights the interplay and dependences between distributed and centralized schemes is the “atomic commit,” which is essentially the problem of getting two or more changes in different parts of a system to occur concurrently as a single process, or not at all. A common example is a transaction involving the exchange of money, say $10, from account A to account B: we had better ensure that the balance is BOTH removed from A AND placed in B, otherwise, if either step fails, we should want both operations to be rolled back (lest we have $10 just lost forever, or generated miraculously). We assume that the sections of the system that handle A’s account and B’s account are separate, and can only act on its local account. How can this be accomplished in a completely distributed way? A might pass a message to B saying that it will deduct $10 from its balance and B should then add it, but any of the processes by which B would receive, parse, and execute on that message might fail, and then A wouldn’t know whether or not it should go ahead with the deduction. So perhaps B should, upon receipt of the message, return an acknowledgement or confirmation message back to A. But likewise, B cannot know if A has received its message – and knowing that A is hesitant to act without receiving the confirmation message, B also cannot go ahead with full confidence on its end. So A might send a confirmation of confirmation message… and so on and so forth.

    This, in a nutshell, is the “Two Generals Problem” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem – and the impossibility of its deterministic resolution is the reason why such a problem can never be solved in a completely distributed way. In fact, the most common approaches to the atomic commit problem in practice are still NOT deterministic, but they are aided in efficiency by a centralized coordinator who can, in any number of steps (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_commit_protocol) facilitate the transaction by handling execution command and rollback command, while each node handles its own local execution upon clearance by the central controller.

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  • mmltwo 2:37 am on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    Browsers and the Web 

    What is a browser? To many of us, this question may be simple to answer — we may even have our own favorite, from Google Chrome to Firefox to Internet Explorer. But as detailed in a recent NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/technology/browser-wars-flare-again-this-time-for-phones-and-tablets.html?), many consumers don’t even know what a browser is, let alone how a browser can revolutionize the way we interface with the Internet. However, these online gateways represent an interesting take on how we interact with one of the largest networks in our lives. Tech companies are beginning to catch on: the companies behind the various browsers are increasingly competing for our market share.

    As people do more of their shopping and browsing online, now with mobile phones as well, companies are looking to seize on the potential to grab a share of the expanding market. By being the browser of choice, they can control how people use their products, as well as record data about how people use the web, which indirectly adds up to more revenue for internet companies. A senior vice president of Chrome at Google, which is currently the most popular browser in the world (with 36% market share), has stated that Chrome is “the underlying layer on which all our cloud operations run”. With the potential to improve mobile browsers with the adoption of HTML5, their market could expand over the mobile market, as users will become more accustomed to using their browsers to shop/play games on the Web.

    One surprising thing to note is that browsers make very little money for their creators: some, like Firefox, make their money through search engines which pay to have their search bars built into the browser. However, companies look to increasingly link their browsers to mobile devices, social networks, and cloud-based apps, all important networks used by internet users today. Perhaps this indicates the actual source of power on the web: the networks that people use.

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  • dpshah 2:27 am on December 10, 2012 Permalink | Reply  

    NFC and how the smartphone will become the center of our lives 

    There were a lot of rumors regarding the presence of NFC in the recent release of the new iphone and although Apple did not seem to go with it, near-field communications (more commonly known as NFC) is increasingly being prospected as the next big thing to change the smartphone-real world interactions.

    The biggest application of NFC is the use of smart phones to replace the plastic Card in our lives.Google is currently toying with the idea with the introduction of Google Wallet and its induction into the Nexus line of smart-phones.Google partnered up with MasterCard paypass, a system that is already using NFC on its cards in order to make payments on the fly without the hassle of actually having to go through the process of swiping. Imagine going through the subway gates and just flashing your phone on the sensor to gain access or going grocery shopping and having the check-out register automatically sense your phone on your person and generate a bill, with entering a PIN being the only thing that you need to do.

    Apart from Digital Wallets, NFC can also replace all the Keys in our life – new car models already have keyless entry and start and all we have to do is extend the capability to a standardized programmable digital key on our smartphone so that we can use it to start our cars or open our room doors.

    However, the advent of NFC is not without its risks. As we rely on one device more and more to do everything for us, it will be extremely hard to maintain security and restrict misuse as most of the current capabilities of NFC is rather flimsy. However, this is definitely something to look out for in the future!

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    • Joao Rostli 12:56 pm on December 11, 2012 Permalink | Reply

      “biggest application of NFC is the use of smart phones to replace the plastic Card in our lives”
      Or.. maybe better; to replace small change with our phones?
      The specialty of contactless payments is small and fast without pin.

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