Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/433948_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher 17 years in the same job?  Yep, Senior Vice President of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid has been doing the same thing since the first day he joined the firm, and he’s still loving it.  Listen to Rick talk about all of the cool innovation coming out of MSR, and he foreshadows his PDC keynote warning audience members to be thoughtful about where they sit during his speech. Hmmm.  Whatever in the world could that possibly mean?  Who cares!  Mike’s got apple pie in this, his final PDC Hard Hat Challenge.  Bonne chance! en Thu, 23 May 2013 22:32:17 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 22:32:17 GMT Rev9 Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher here you go.

posted by mswanson

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633599770410000000 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:37:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633599770410000000 mswanson Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher posted by DaleRoss

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633601139980000000 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:39:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633601139980000000 DaleRoss Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift_keying#.CF.80.2F4.E2.80.93QPSK
Just let me know... Am I on the wrong track?
This challenge was not easy! The winner should receive two shirts. Wink

/JiNX - See you at PDC...

posted by Captain JiNX

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603034780000000 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:17:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603034780000000 Captain JiNX Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher .

One more night....It shall be revealed!  The positions of those zeros must mean something, it must!!!

Quite a bit of the numbers are divisible by 3 as well. What does that mean to me? NOTHING Smiley

 
If all goes well I'll be seeing you all too. I'm so excited.

posted by DaleRoss

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603105670000000 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:16:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603105670000000 DaleRoss Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher Captain JiNX...sounds like you know exactly what you're doing. Smiley DaleRoss...JiNX won our sixth Hard Hat Challenge, and unfortunately, he can't win a second time, so you still have time. I'll hold off on the hints unless others would like a couple.

posted by mswanson

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posted by Decorum

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603366100000000 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:30:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603366100000000 Decorum Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher
  • The food we were served
  • And what we did

posted by mswanson

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603402270000000 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:30:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603402270000000 mswanson Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher Based on Jinx's analysis I'm assuming what you ate "Pie" referred to the type of PSK Modulation that was Wiki'd.  I here trying to see if the type of "Pie" (apple) could be of any significance.  After trying to use a variation of the method wiki'd I came up with a new sequence of numbers that are ALL divisible by three.  Could just be a mathematical co-incidence that resulted from the operations performed but could it mean something? Anyhow I've divided by 3 and still nothing of significance.

CEREAL/SERIAL?? APPLE??? PIE/PI?? ROTATE ONE????  |

Good thing I'm single Smiley.

posted by DaleRoss

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603417200000000 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:55:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603417200000000 DaleRoss Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher You choose a bit from here, you choose a bit from there,you choose a bit from here and you write code for hours. You do this hokey- pokey after you've turned the bits around. That's what it's all about!!!

Off to bed! All the best to all those who are still on the quest.

posted by DaleRoss

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603430250000000 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:17:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603430250000000 DaleRoss Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher
DaleRoss...you have me laughing out loud at that comment. Smiley

The other tip I'll give is that you don't have to be very good at math (at all) to figure this one out. You don't even need to own a computer. I'll be quiet now and let the brains work on it.

posted by mswanson

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603731780000000 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:39:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633603731780000000 mswanson Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher What's really throwing me at the moment is the idea that phase-shift keying is on the right track, but the puzzle does not require being good at math or having a computer.

Representing digital information using sinusoidal waveforms seems to beg for math skills or a computer. Then again, we appear to have binary, so unless the answer is a waveform...

Or, what we have is a digital sampling of a waveform...but that's still math.

Clearly I've derailed somewhere.

posted by DECramlet

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I'd already done all kinds of bit-shifting and bit-rotating operations I can think of (shift vs rotate, per octate vs. per the whole stream, right vs. left, 1-7 positions, etc), but nothing comprehensible comes out. However, the meaning of the pie I have not been able to figure out...

Next clue please. Wink

@DaleRoss - you won't be single for long - I hear that hard hat t-shirt is a real chick magnet... (maybe not).

posted by Decorum

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posted by Decorum

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633604161390000000 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:35:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633604161390000000 Decorum Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher Here's my next set of tips:

  • I said that Captain JiNX seemed to know what he's doing. But, you can easily solve this challenge without knowing anything mentioned in the article he linked to.
  • My wife Elizabeth, who is a computer user, but certainly not a developer, could probably solve this on paper, if she only looked up a single item.

Hope tht helps!

posted by mswanson

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Decorum,

That's assuming I'm able to crack the code and win the chick magnet. I got a chance to practise my newly obtained perl skills. I even generated a 20 X 6  bitmap in C# using the decimal values of each octet as the red component for each pixel. It was fun and who knows. Maybe on that long flight to LA tomorrow the answer will just pop into my head.

Rotate one with an apple pie
You don't need a PC, Just use your eye.
If the bits are aligned, the answer you'll see.
Somebody's gonna get it. I hope it's me.

posted by DaleRoss

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633605540530000000 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:54:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Countdown-to-PDC2008-Rick-Rashid-a-Researchers-Researcher#c633605540530000000 DaleRoss Re: Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher , I'm amazed it's still unsolved. I saw some braille symbols on an elevator that resembled some of what I saw when messing around but right now my brain needs rest.

posted by DaleRoss

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