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by apu 13y ago
This is a really cool project from my former PhD lab. It's a camera kit that teaches kids how cameras work by letting them assemble one themselves. The website [1] includes a lot of educational material describing how and why each comp
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by apu 13y ago
This is a really cool project from my former PhD lab. It's a camera kit that teaches kids how cameras work by letting them assemble one themselves. The website [1] includes a lot of educational material describing how and why each comp
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Bigshot DIY camera aims to teach kids tech basics(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by apu 13y ago|1 comments
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by apu 13y ago
Agreed, from someone who was there at roughly the same time. (I was AE 2000-2005...I wonder if we overlapped?)
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The Decline and Fall of the Book Cover(newyorker.com)
1 points by apu 13y ago|0 comments
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by apu 13y ago
$60 million is an acqui-hire?
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by apu 13y ago
Wow this is so out of line. I can't believe you'd write something this awful as a direct personal attack.
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by apu 13y ago
Strong agree (for both rayiner and tptacek). It's amazing how much abuse has been heaped on them for simply putting things into perspective, for questioning stories, for thinking carefully about what's actually being stated and cl
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by apu 13y ago
Adding the initial http links it automatically: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
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by apu 13y ago
I think it's from this PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html : One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate tha
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Google Starts Using Computer Vision To Let You Search Your Google+ Photos(techcrunch.com)
2 points by apu 13y ago|0 comments
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by apu 13y ago
I don't believe I took the quote out of context, as I wrote what Friedman said, almost verbatim without commentary. "Out of context" means you omitted other text that changes the meaning of the text you did quote. See rayiner's comment ab
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by apu 13y ago
Heh, have you seen the source of this site, the one you're posting on? Also, if the new site can avoid comments like this, it might actually have a chance =)
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Beyond The Hiss(dropbox.com)
1 points by apu 14y ago|0 comments
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by apu 14y ago
The relevant table on the results page is Table 3, which is detection performance. Classification is actually an easier problem (see Table 1), in part because the types of scenes in which different classes appear are often quite different,
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by apu 14y ago
It's not quite what you want, but I worked on Leafsnap [1], which automatically identifies trees by their leaves, using computer vision techniques. We focused on leaves since they are present throughout much more of the year than flowers. O
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by apu 14y ago
Looks like this is using training data from the PASCAL VOC object detection challenge [1], which is the standard benchmark for evaluating object detection performance in computer vision. Object detection is an extremely tough problem (some
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by apu 14y ago
This is probably the only time this link is relevant here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGvNE9y5POI
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by apu 14y ago
If you read his comics [1], you'll see that he's quite self-aware of his own failings and realizes that he is often a jerk himself (sometimes unknowingly). I also got the sense from just this article that he was quite aware of the fact that
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by apu 14y ago
Also, iHackerNews has links to 'viewtext' on the article, which works on about 75% of articles that I've tried, and saves a lot of badnwidth/cpu/ram. The viewtext service is also incredibly awesome for printing out articles on paper -- I've
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by apu 14y ago
Yes, predictions can greatly improve recognition performance. Not only can you focus the bulk of your computations on the expected region of interest, but you can also potentially reason about appearance (e.g., if you know the frame-rate/in
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by apu 14y ago
What about TARP's big brother, TALF (at least $1 trillion)? We don't even know where most of the money has been spent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALF "The way TALF loans were set up, 100 percent of any profit is retained by the borrow
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by apu 14y ago
Tell that to the Bear Stearns equity holders, who were 99% wiped out, or the Lehman Bros. equity holders who were completely wiped out. Goldman Sachs? Citibank? AIG (to pay back Goldman Sachs)?
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by apu 14y ago
For a slightly different perspective on Bridgewater: http://nymag.com/news/business/wallstreet/ray-dalio-2011-4/
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by apu 14y ago
This work is based on a fairly old research paper. Since then, there has been significant progress on detecting dogs and cats more reliably. Two prominent groups that are working on it are Andrew Zisserman's group at Oxford: www.robots.ox.a
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by apu 14y ago
Why do systems need millions of lines of code? If you can build a complete operating system + major programs in 20,000 lines of code, what system should need a million? http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf (They're not quite down
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by apu 14y ago
Muphry's law
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by apu 14y ago
Forgive me if this was not your intention, but I feel like the way you phrased this (and the fact that it's currently the top comment on this story) is symptomatic of some of the negativity that's recently been rising on HN. The first sente
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Glacier: Engineering for Cold Data Storage in the Cloud(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
1 points by apu 14y ago|0 comments
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What Pair-Programing is Not(misko.hevery.com)
1 points by apu 14y ago|0 comments

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