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by apu 16y ago
The computer vision aspects to the Kinect (and there are a lot, and very well done), were headed up by Andrew Blake at MS Research Cambridge, who's one of the foremost vision scientists in the world. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/
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The Crackpot Index(math.ucr.edu)
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
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by apu 16y ago
Shouldn't text be judged on its own merits, rather than who the author is? And who is the author? I have no idea. But I do know from reading the article that he sounds bitter/jealous and a little bit clueless.
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by apu 16y ago
After roughly 8 years, how do DJB's predictions/comments hold up on ipv6? http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
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by apu 16y ago
Off-topic, but why do so many blogs not have any indication whatsoever of the date posted? It's at least partially understandable for more "essay-like" posts which contain essentially timeless information, but particularly when your post us
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by apu 16y ago
Any chance of getting antirez for a Redis talk? I did see someone else on the future list talking about Redis at use in a company, but it's not quite the same thing.
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Gigapixel Computational Imaging(cs.columbia.edu)
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by apu 16y ago
There's a slideshow linked from the bottom of the 2nd page (bad placement, IMO). Here's a direct link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=gigapixel...
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by apu 16y ago
This is a nice article about some recent work from my research lab. I'd be happy to (try to) answer any questions people have.
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Gigapixel Cameras Create Highly Revealing Snapshots(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by apu 16y ago|4 comments
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by apu 16y ago
Wow salesforce is really on an acquiring spree right now.
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by apu 16y ago
Not directly, but there was some work on animating speech in virtual avatars[1] (constructed from a single image of a face) which uses the cubes to make animated 3d avatars. What I found especially interesting is that even though the point-
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by apu 16y ago
Sadly, one cannot give trolls the benefit of the doubt. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963971
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by apu 16y ago
Our research lab recently created a more involved version of this using fairly cheap materials that's much more expressive: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/3d_display/ (Don't miss the video at the bottom of the page.)
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by apu 16y ago
I just get a blank page in between the top bar and bottom bar. This is in both Chrome & Firefox (on Linux).
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by apu 16y ago
After a bit of experimenting myself, I think these numbers can be quite misleading. It appears that execution times change drastically depending on function names and orderings! (This is in both firefox and chrome, on a macbook.) I tried co
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by apu 16y ago
Redis. Fucking awesome database. Does exactly what it's advertised to do, with no unexpected surprises. Great documentation. Finally we can go beyond the simplistic key-value map/reduce datastores, for when you don't need all the guarantees
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by apu 16y ago
Hmm I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic. I've known just about as many people who would say this seriously as would sarcastically... [My experience with Dell has been quite mixed...I have the impression they used to make fairl
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by apu 16y ago
Interesting, although it's not clear what's wrong with using Redis. I would store the object id's in a list, and each object as a hash. I'm not familiar with the Ruby client for Redis, but in python, storing objects to a hash is trivial.
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by apu 16y ago
Yes, as mentioned in the very first line of the linked article.
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by apu 16y ago
This is a fascinating look at some of the science that has been funded, but also I found 2 meta-points interesting: 1. The fact that there is such careful evaluation going on is reassuring. But then this was to be expected from Gates. 2. Th
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Yahoo Has Hit Rock Bottom And Is In “Absolute Disarray”(techcrunch.com)
7 points by apu 16y ago|1 comments
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Lessons from London – and a few UK Start-ups that aren’t Rubbish(techcrunch.com)
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Anyone know what face recognition system they are using? Is it from face.com?
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by apu 16y ago
Interesting paper, but for future reference, please post non-shortened links here. Thanks!
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by apu 16y ago
...ever-expanding OAuth connections... Uh, what? How does OAuth have anything to do with the singularity?
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by apu 16y ago
Is this a joke? I can't tell.
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by apu 16y ago
I dunno how they were calculated, but the education vs. military spending numbers you quote are really out of whack. For education vs. military (dod + homeland security), I see the following from different sources: [1] reports 45.4 bill
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by apu 16y ago
This is such an amazing discussion between two legends, who are both watching the same events unfold, but with widely varying perceptions of them. What I find particularly fascinating is how much more real this feels, and how much more I th

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