Unique Achivemnts, that you, uh achived!

[Kenchii]

Well, I just relized that I had a strange achivment in my life. I have aten All the diffrent foods at Taco Bell. (not at the same time). & I only weigh 123 pounds

[uc pseudonym]

In 6th grade you were supposed to make a "don't do drugs" poster. My art teacher threatened to give anyone in his class a zero if they didn't make one. I put something down in a few minutes, and had a really corny phrase. It won.

[MasterDias]

I can't think of anything offhand.

[Ashley]

I will be president of the latin club...and I was a member for 4 years. That makes me pretty dorky, eh? Oh, this is rather unique...every year I compete in the mythology section. Freshman year I won 3rd, Sophmore 2nd, and Junior year 1st.

[Stephen]

...beat Metal Gear Solid for the PS1 in 3 hours, 16 min. (best I know of)

[Technomancer]

Developed a new extension to a supervised clustering method and applied it to the automatic recognition of active sonar returns. The idea was further taken up by some people in the mine countermeasures group.

I've also developed a novel ICA method based on the Unscented Kalman filter. This worked, but proved to be completely impractical for real problems.

[Retten]

Developed a new extension to a supervised clustering method and applied it to the automatic recognition of active sonar returns. The idea was further taken up by some people in the mine countermeasures group.

I've also developed a novel ICA method based on the Unscented Kalman filter. This worked, but proved to be completely impractical for real problems.

in english please

lets see acomplishmets um my baseball team took 1st place a year ago
and i came in second yesterday at a shotgun shooting turnament

[Technomancer]

in english please

Umm..I did some sonar stuff for the navy. The I did some hearing aid stuff, it worked but just not for real problems. I also got to present the idea at a conference in Lake Tahoe.

[Retten]

thats cool! its sounds rather advance

[andyroo]

I was finally able to beat Sonice Adventure after a span of three years of not knowing why I couln't catch froggy. I had already beat the second one a few months after it came out well before I beat the first one.

[Rev. Doc]

I am the current president of our Lion's Club, the treasurer of our Minister's association, and Chairman of the Florence Baptist Association/Romania Partnership which oversees mission work in the Piatra Neamt region of Northeastern Romania.

[shooraijin]

First one in my high school to take two foreign languages at the same time (German and Spanish).

[sskg0tt0]

i did a cooking demonstration at the national oragne show about 3 years ago,ive won silver in a state cooking event.....
commanded an online panzer div. of over 200 real players in world war 2 online...
thats about it sadly LOL

[Christianotaku]

Ive scored 100 frags in 15 minutes................um well beside that nothing

[Aibou]

I had for Art a 10 (the highest score) two times in a row..

[Bobtheduck]

Navy Tech? Wow... That's awesome... I was almost in the Navy, they were going to put me in nukes, but despite my 99 on my asvab, I got rejected due to the school I graduated from: A charter school. The government has a weird sort of hatred for them, calls them "Christian Schools in Disguise" despite evolution being taught, the teachers not being allowed to share their faith (those that have it) and, well, being publically funded and taking highly intelligent students despite their faith and upbringning. Also, the academic requirements for graduating my charter school was more stringent than the public school requirements (though, like public school, spelling was not a focus... ehehhe)

In any case, I don't know if I would have been able to focus on math for 12-16 hours a day, it would drive me insane... And working on the nuclear engines is dangerous... But I would have made 100 thousand or more year when I got out, if I went to work at a nuclear power plant... If i survived Boot camp and advanced training (for me it would have been a year at a university, taking a cram course in nuclear physics and health...)

Man, I get teary eyed every time I see the navy commercials... I think "I could have been on a sub or, even better, an aircraft carrier right now... well, not now... in a few months..."

[EireWolf]

I turned in an exegetical (biblical research) paper a year late and still managed to get an "A" on it, even though I disagreed with one of the teacher's pet theories. I guess that's an accomplishment... heh...

[Spencer]

Beat the Earth Temple in the Wind Waker, walkthrough-free?

Not really a rare amazing accomplishment, but I somehow feel the need to look up a walkthrough to see if I'm missing anything...

[LorentzForce]

i invented the magnet-pencil. you stick a magnet at the back of the pencil, and if you use metal pencil cases, the lead pencil will hardly break ever again because it's literally stuck. unless you dump it from like 10 storey building, which sane people don't.

that invention won me an award to state level, coming in 2nd after some washing machine power saver device this guy made in some high school. come on, i was only year 4 then!

[Shadrack]

Umm..I did some sonar stuff for the navy. The I did some hearing aid stuff, it worked but just not for real problems. I also got to present the idea at a conference in Lake Tahoe.

where did you work? I was at the naval research lab doing stuff with the atomic clocks this past summer and did some work with kalman filters (not that I really understood what I was doing.....)

[Technomancer]

I was with DREA (Defence Research Establishment Atlantic) which is located in Dartmouth, NS.

What was the work you did with Kalman filters?

Also, an announcement! I have now been published (along with many co-authors)! An article entitled "Development of a Realistic Hearing in Noise Test Environment (R-HINT-E)" by Laurel Trainor, Ranil Sonnadara, Karl Wiklund, et al. is to appear in a forthcoming special issue of Signal Processing. My own contribution was the data collection/analysis and the actual MATLAB software for the test environment.

[Shadrack]

I was with DREA (Defence Research Establishment Atlantic) which is located in Dartmouth, NS.

What was the work you did with Kalman filters?

Also, an announcement! I have now been published (along with many co-authors)! An article entitled "Development of a Realistic Hearing in Noise Test Environment (R-HINT-E)" by Laurel Trainor, Ranil Sonnadara, Karl Wiklund, et al. is to appear in a forthcoming special issue of Signal Processing. My own contribution was the data collection/analysis and the actual MATLAB software for the test environment.

well, I was working with the At1 time-series algorythm trying to get it to run with what we have here since the guys up in boulder didn't want to help us, and neither my boss nor I knew much about it and we came across some stuff that *looked* like kalman filters, so I had to read up on them and try to get it working in the program. turns out we were wrong, but oh well....

[shooraijin]

> Also, an announcement! I have now been published (along with many co-authors)!

Hey, congrats!

[Technomancer]

Thanks!

I'm not familiar with the algorithm you mentioned. What was the nature of the problem? There are other tracking/prediction algorithms available. If your problem is non-linear or non-gaussian in nature, you may want to look into Unscented Kalman filtering, or maybe particle filters (or other forms of Bayesian estimation)

[Shadrack]

Thanks!

I'm not familiar with the algorithm you mentioned. What was the nature of the problem? There are other tracking/prediction algorithms available. If your problem is non-linear or non-gaussian in nature, you may want to look into Unscented Kalman filtering, or maybe particle filters (or other forms of Bayesian estimation)

well it was just a summer job so it's over and done with, but AT1 is a pretty simple and pretty problem-specific thing. I think the guy just really really likes kalman filters and wants everyone else to as well.

edit/ AT1 is for (basicly) creating a weighted average of clocks based on allan deviations.

[Technomancer]

Well Kalman filters are pretty cool

[Michael]

<...beat Metal Gear Solid for the PS1 in 3 hours, 16 min. (best I know of)>

Whoa.

I learned how to play Trombone in a month.

[Mimichan]

I was the recipient of a memorial award for being the most outstanding English student in the 7th grade. *sigh* So long ago...evidently, I've lost that particular talent somewhere in life, but hey! I still have a nifty plaque...it even has my name 'ngraved on it...see? *points at award*

[majanthehun]

ummm.... lets see. i had a term paper in english due on friday and i wrote and typed it on thrusday night (well i guess friday morning) at three a.m.

my english teacher thought it was good enough to tun into a competition, and i won an "excellent" award (red ribbion ie secnd place).

the next year i spent all of two hours on my competition peice and won two blue ribbions on it (one in district, one in regional).

yeah. funny stuff.

hmmm... i watched both of the LoTR:FoTR "extra" discs (from the four cd expanded edition) in one sitting.

thats about it.

[Spencer]

I forgot one! I memorized the movie Wayne's World! The whole thing! Of course by now I've forgotten it, but I had it memorized at one point.