... Germans will soon be able to sate their appetite for the yellow metal as easily as buying a chocolate bar after plans were announced on Tuesday to install gold vending machines in airports and railway stations across the country.
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A prototype vending machine on display in Frankfurt Airport on Tuesday appeared to be a converted version of the dispensers typically used to sell snacks. For €30 airport shoppers could buy a 1g wafer of gold, with a larger 10g bar priced on Tuesday at €245 and gold coins also on sale.
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When the Financial Times bought the cheapest product it was dispensed in an oblong metal box labelled “My Golden Treasure”, with a certificate of authenticity signed by Mr. Geissler but no receipt and the wrong change. Mr. Geissler said he hoped to have a more advanced prototype available this month.
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ACCG Secures Heavily Redacted FOIA Release of Materials Related to
"Invitation Only" Roundtable to Sign Controversial MOU with Saudi-Supported
Faction in Yemen
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The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has secured heavily redacted materials in
response to its FOIA request relating to a controversial "invitation only"
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Some more robotic analysis -- well, not quite, but perhaps of interest:
"The ‘proof of the pudding' of his technique for automatic image analysis is a system for the automatic analysis and recognition of archaeological material such as pottery, Roman coins and glass from the Middle Ages"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090630163529.htm
Thanks RJO! When I can find out more I will make a post about this new research.
via Google, I learned that last week van der Maaten defended his PhD thesis Feature Extraction from Visual Data in conjunction with a symposium on 'dimensionality reduction'.
His personal web site allows download of Matlab extensions that implement his techniques and a technical report on how to use it.
I am not familiar with the techniques but the symposium announcement says “The goal of dimensionality reduction and manifold learning is to construct a low-dimensional representation of the data in such a way that the structure of the original data manifold is preserved as good as possible. The resulting low-dimensional data representation can ... be employed in classification...”
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