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I love the reddit team's presentations. Does anyone have a video to the whole thing? I'm guessing reddit uses BeautifulSoup just for crawling for images? I've

• kn0thing 18y ago
  We certainly got a lot of feedback on our thumbnail-ification process. Try reading the twitter feed with the presentation: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=reddit+%23pycon http://search.twitter.com/search?q=reddit+%23pycon And we'll blog.reddit.com the video and embed the ppt once everything goes live. A big thanks to everyone who got up early for our talk.
  • ivankirigin 18y ago
    If the thumbs were really cut off (hard to tell from the slides), you should use the Python OpenCV hooks and center the thumbnail on the likeliest face. http://www.google.com/search?q=opencv+haar+cascade http://www.google.com/search?q=opencv+haar+cascade
• iamelgringo 18y ago
  The presentations were all shot on video, so they should be online soon.
• juanpablo 18y ago
  A couple months ago, Ricardo Galli - spanish hacker and creator of the open-source reddit-like "Meneame" - posted an explanation of his algorithm for doing that. Original link: http://gallir.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/encontrando-patrones-en-entradas-no-controladas/ http://gallir.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/encontrando-patrones-... Poorly translated by Google: http://translate.google.com.pe/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgallir.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F04%2Fencontrando-patrones-en-entradas-no-controladas%2F&sl=es&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8 http://translate.google.com.pe/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgall...