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by Toenex 12y ago
I'm an engineer and have worked in medical imaging for my entire career (20+ years) writing software to transport, analyze and report on images from MR, CT and X-ray systems. I originally did a PhD in computer vision and jumped into m
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by Toenex 12y ago
Yah for the Arts Tower paternoster! I was based in the Mappin building but still found time to lark about on that thing. Sadly the Arts Tower also had a reputation for jumpers.
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by Toenex 12y ago
Yes I thought of Pace too. I second a visit to Salts Mill. Great collection of Hockney's.
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by Toenex 12y ago
The internet is how we maintain dialogue between peoples when our Governments behave like posturing (arse|ass)+holes. The worse a Government behaves the more (not less) internets the country should receive.
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by Toenex 12y ago
> A big (2B+ $) company. The division in the middle of UK. They make Set Top Boxes - they are somehow good at that. So, despite what the author thinks about their methods and their technology choices and despite anecdotal intermediate pe
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by Toenex 12y ago
There are also some practical reasons to favour Clojure over Racket, specifically if you work in Java shop. The inertia to move to Clojure but remain on the JVM is going to be considerably lower than moving to whole new infrastructure as w
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by Toenex 12y ago
A lot of media isn't designed to last. I saw 'Snakes on a plane' it's a trash movie but I enjoyed it. I wouldn't watch it again but I'll go and see another trash movie soon I'm sure.
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by Toenex 12y ago
> What exactly do you mean by going through an exit and not cashing out? Essentially I'm interested in hearing about the consequences and outcomes of an exit for technical staff who don't get rich and therefore can't take
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Ask HN: Employee experiences after acquisition
6 points by Toenex 12y ago|2 comments
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by Toenex 12y ago
Because otherwise you leave the decision to those that do. Vote. Spoil your ballot paper if you must (these get counted, at least in the UK) but take part in the process. Otherwise you are indistinguishable from those that couldn't b
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by Toenex 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw More appropriate I think
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by Toenex 12y ago
As an aside, I'll note that working on stuff that I needed has fared quite a bit better than working on stuff that I was told others need. Someone once told me something similar, "always be customer number one".
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by Toenex 12y ago
I read this once and didn't stop until I finished it about 5-6 hours later. At the time my son was similar age to the boy and I found it deeply affecting. I regard it as a one of the finest books I have ever read, yet cannot imagine
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by Toenex 12y ago
Seriously? Have you visited the internet?
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by Toenex 12y ago
Open Source = The kindness of strangers.
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by Toenex 12y ago
Competition is what drove our species. As a species who are we in competition with now? What if we have reached a point where co-operation should take over?
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by Toenex 12y ago
> Its inadequacies are very well documented. Which is a very useful trait for a tool to have.
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by Toenex 12y ago
As an electronics undergraduate most of us preferred digital electronics, analogue seemed like black magic. I'll always remember one of our analogue electronic lecturers scoffing at us when he had to cover a digital lab one day, sayin
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by Toenex 12y ago
I'm English and my first exposure to John Oliver was the segment he did on Civil Forfeiture which I found both interesting and entertaining. What struck me was how more like a British satire the show was. Do others think it matters th
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by Toenex 12y ago
One piece of information that helped me understand eigenvectors and values was to learn that eigen is a German word meaning own as in characteristic or distinct .
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by Toenex 12y ago
I've always seen networking in relation to the saying 'Luck favours the prepared'. Networking is part of the prepared bit.
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by Toenex 12y ago
Absolutely. Every hacker knows its all about libraries these days. (sorry I'll stop now)
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by Toenex 12y ago
Yes, but what framework should I use for that? ;)
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by Toenex 12y ago
Actually that's a cool screenshot. It looks retro-cool rather than old. Nice work.
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by Toenex 12y ago
Weirdly I wrote a blog post on this last year ( http://www.toenex.net/2014/04/08/information-super-highway/ ). I only say weird as I don't really write blog posts, preferring to keep my demons to mys
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by Toenex 12y ago
Your observation is known as 'Founders Syndrome' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder%27s_syndrome )
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by Toenex 12y ago
I sympathise with your point but I think there is a role for patterns of all forms; the advisable and the inadvisable. Essentially they attempt to encapsulate and share experience in a form that can help guide the less experienced. Obvious
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Kickstarter for sandbox open world sim 'Identity'(kickstarter.com)
3 points by Toenex 12y ago|0 comments
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by Toenex 12y ago
I certainly agree with this. The computer vision field is awash with papers proposing a 'new' algorithm which is then poorly compared to some select group of existing techniques under criteria chosen by the author. A paper is a
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by Toenex 12y ago
Sorry but this is wrong. Statistics and probability theory underpin most of AI and machine vision.

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