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ansgri
15y ago
Yet it knows USSR: ☭ recognized just fine.
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ansgri
15y ago
Or maybe a hidden suggestion that this market may soon become very hot?
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ansgri
15y ago
This is too big and lacks hardware 'home' button. I almost like Galaxy S 2, yet it feels slightly too big. I accidentally press sensor buttons all the time, but the home button is really convenient.
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ansgri
15y ago
Interestingly, these horror stories are assumed to be from US by default.
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ansgri
15y ago
As the paper mentions, the relational model is mathematically more general than object or column one, but it is very difficult to implement fully and efficiently. Yet Oracle almost did it! W.E.Wolfengagen, famous russian CS professor, likes
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15y ago
End users NOT only "check their email online and work in spreadsheets occasionally". They use complicated workflow systems, data analysis environments, resource-hungry media editing applications, and very complex yet almost undocumented sci
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ansgri
15y ago
Thanks for the link! Those OpenCV 1.0 dlls in the package really surprise me. They must have used their Canny edge detector, I guess.
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ansgri
15y ago
More Russian than Turkish though. art.lebedev studio is russian.
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15y ago
What I don't like in such articles is that they never give a clue how one can go from the bad category (obsessive passion) to the good (harmonious passion), and whether it's ever possible.
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15y ago
And even tells that you're on Windows (characteristic ClearType).
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ansgri
15y ago
People generally don't like outliers. If not-so-decent people see someone not like them (probably noticeably better), they would have a natural desire to make them harm. At least of envy.
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15y ago
Don't know who to "blame", but either Safari on Windows doesn't play audio or I've muted the browser in the Windows Mixer some long time ago... Yes, browser isn't for audio.
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Chartwell font draws pie, bar and line charts with ligatures
(tktype.com)
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ansgri
15y ago
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ansgri
15y ago
BTW, there's a video of some Mario game upscaled with this algorithm. Looks very modern! http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/supplementary/v... (3MB)
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ansgri
15y ago
It does download successfully if you wait long enough (~5 min).
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ansgri
16y ago
It's not exponential—quadratic at most. With exponential factors cinema wouldn't be possible until quantum computers ^)
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ansgri
16y ago
Unless you're in scientific community, where it's common to have to convert GBs of data from one weird format to another, or possibly analyzing them, nevertheless knowing only e.g. R and Matlab.
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ansgri
16y ago
One more powerful combo is R+Java+C. UI, integration and massive data processing in Java, R for prototyping, plotting and model fitting, and C if you have numerical simulations.
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ansgri
16y ago
Clojure: superior from both Lisp and Java ends ^_-
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ansgri
16y ago
And it directly follows that you can encode any document as 2 numbers: (start-index, length) in the Pi representation. Well, this is also a bad idea since you can always treat the entire document as one binary number...