A Centaur in Salaryman's Clothing: Parody and Play in est em's Centaur Manga

CentAUR Central

CentAUR Central

Many recent papers have documented the existence of periodicities in returns, return volatility, bidask spreads and trading volume, in both equity and foreign exchange markets. In this paper, we propose and employ a new test for detecting subtle periodicities in time-series data based on a signal coherence function. The technique is applied to a set of seven half-hourly exchange rate series. Ov...

CentAUR Central

A Universal Serial Bus (USB) Mass Storage Device (MSD), often termed a USB flash drive, is ubiquitously used to store important information in unencrypted binary format. This low cost consumer device is incredibly popular due to its size, large storage capacity and relatively high transfer speed. However, if the device is lost or stolen an unauthorized person can easily retrieve all the informa...

Centaur biology

I have been reading John Horgan's entertaining book The End of Science. Entertaining, because the book is based on interviews with scientists and philosophers, many of whom are familiar figures and all of whom emerge as large as, if not larger than, life. The thesis is that the physicists' dream of a Final Theory of Everything — The Answer to all Riddles — will soon be realized, whereupon every...

CENTAUR 3rd Annual Webinar

s: Detecting tracking errors via forecasting We propose a tracker-independent framework to determine time instants when a video tracker fails. The framework is divided into two steps. First, we determine tracking quality by comparing the distributions of the tracker state and a region around the state. We generate the distributions using Distribution Fields and compute a tracking quality score ...