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Is it me or does news like this throw anyone else into a frenzy of daydreaming for a short while: using my computer expertise to enhance infrared images to reve
by Jun8 15y ago
Is it me or does news like this throw anyone else into a frenzy of daydreaming for a short while: using my computer expertise to enhance infrared images to reveal hitherto unknown pyramids (combining images from multiple spectral bands, SIFT object detection), battling with corrupt local authorities and looters, digging for the pyramid (and unfortunately losing a few of the team when the tunnel gives in), deciphering the Old Egyptian hieroglyphs on the door (with some help from my hardy MBP and my custom linguistic text analysis tools, written in a mixture of C++, Perl, and Scheme), going in and getting stumped by an empty chamber, but wait, there's a small tunnel leading away, investigating it with a remote controlled Arduiono-based robot I control with my Android tablet (e.g. http://www.gizapyramid.com/hidden.htm http://www.gizapyramid.com/hidden.htm) and awakening a long-sleeping evil force within. Then, the final battle to save Earth.
OK, back to a rainy day in Chicago and trying to understand Puppet.
- phlux 15y agoINDY! NOOOOO
- saurabh 15y agoYes. It's a curse.
- awj 15y agoFWIW, the puppet book [1] was pretty good. Didn't end up using it for the project, but it seemed readable/informative. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Strings-Puppet-Automated-Administration/dp/1590599780 http://www.amazon.com/Pulling-Strings-Puppet-Automated-Admin...
- Jun8 15y agoThanks a lot for the link. I've started to read Pro Puppet by the same guy.
- NickPollard 15y agoObligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/208/ http://xkcd.com/208/ It seems we've reached the point where there's an xkcd for every situation (on HN at least) now. Maybe a corollary to rule 34[1] is needed. [1] http://xkcd.com/305/ http://xkcd.com/305/
- Jun8 15y agoDefinitely! BTW, wetriffs.com is gone but .org is available
- NickPollard 15y agowetriffs.com was registered by Munroe, wasn't it?
- daniel1980fl2 15y agomy wild prediction (that will get me downvoted big time) is that if a professor at university can get high-quality infrareds of entire country from a "simple" satellite, then a new military satellite that was shoot month ago (secret one) can probably scan an earth surface and take high quality photos of people brains' tumors... in real time!