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Your advice is good, and I agree that you didn't use specialized software to reverse the blur, but this > I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Ma
by function_seven 6y ago
Your advice is good, and I agree that you didn't use specialized software to reverse the blur, but this
> I didn't use any specialized software; it was just Mathematica with its built-in ImageDeconvolve function with guessed parameters for the Gaussian kernel.
is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :)
- mroche 6y ago> is one of the most HN comments I've come across recently :) That gave me a laugh. I don't have any experience with Mathematica, but everytime I see it mentioned (usually on HN) I'm amazed at the sheer breadth the system is capable of. The amount of use cases and possibilities blows my mind.
- sellyme 6y agoThe top solution on this Code Golf question is possibly the most comical example of Mathematica's scope that I've ever seen: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or-downgoat https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...
- jtchang 6y agoThat answer is absurd yet awe inspiring what Mathematica can do.
- pmiller2 6y agoYeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight.
- squibbles 6y agoThat statement really intrigued me. Since I like goats, I had to know how to do this. Use ImageInstanceQ[image, object], where image is the image and object is "caprine animal". [0] [1] [0] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageInstanceQ.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ImageInstanceQ.ht... [1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or-downgoat/71680#71680 https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...
- kiddico 6y agoThat's a very unique nerd-snipe you just experienced. https://xkcd.com/356/ https://xkcd.com/356/
- nullsense 6y agoTIL Mathematica is the GOAT.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- brobdingnagians 6y agoThe other answers are also very clever and interesting. There are quite a few ways to determine whether the goat is up or down, and some are very simple.
- leokennis 6y agoThe one that used reverse image search on Bing is so deliciously relatable. On the one hand, it's perfectly built to spec and satisfied all requirements given by the customer. On the other hand, you know it's incredibly fragile, and that the customer actually wants something different.
- batsigner 6y agoYet another example of someone mistaking the quality of a single person for the quality of a platform
- zwayhowder 6y agoReminds me of the Simpson's 3D episode. Professor Frink's >"Well, it should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology..."
- 1f60c 6y agoThat reminds me of this legendary comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- function_seven 6y agoHa, I knew what that comment was before I clicked. (“Is it that rsync/ftp comment? Yup.”) ((EDIT: but it was curlftpfs, not rsync))
- toyg 6y agoThe HN equivalent of "I put on my robe and wizard hat".
- eee_honda 6y agogod, YES! i needed this reference in my life today :)
- juliansimioni 6y agoI never realized how low that comment's ID was until now. We've all said a lot since then :)
- billforsternz 6y agoMe too. The canonical HN comment, forever.
- ignoramous 6y agoYou'd love this follow-up Drew Houston and BrandonM thread shortly after Dropbox's IPO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140
- function_seven 6y agoThanks for that. I hadn't seen it when it was new. Now show me the thread where Steve Jobs gave a shoutout to CmdrTaco :) (https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257 https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257)
- gus_massa 6y agoIf it is in the installable version now, it will be in Wolfram Alpha in 5 years if you can guess the right command, and in 10 year Wolfram Alpha will just automatically select the blurred part and make a fake unblurred versions of the jpg.
- astrec 6y agoWhatever knocks this exchange off the top spot will be really special: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079