Countdown to PDC2008: Rick Rashid, a Researcher’s Researcher
- Posted: Oct 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM
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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!
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Just let me know... Am I on the wrong track?
This challenge was not easy! The winner should receive two shirts.
/JiNX - See you at PDC...
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
If all goes well I'll be seeing you all too. I'm so excited.
Captain JiNX...sounds like you know exactly what you're doing.
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.
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
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.
DaleRoss...you have me laughing out loud at that comment.
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.
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.
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.
@DaleRoss - you won't be single for long - I hear that hard hat t-shirt is a real chick magnet... (maybe not).
Here's my next set of tips:
Hope tht helps!
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.
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