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Communicating Data Beyond the Speed of Light(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
2 points by apu 15y ago|0 comments
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Jitendra Malik, the instructor for this course, is a giant in the field of Computer Vision. I've heard he's also a fantastic teacher.
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I think it's not just a matter of "exceptions to every norm." There are significant differences in the teaching philosophies of different countries, and this article argues that India's priorities are even worse than those in the US with
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by apu 15y ago
The dates seem to suggest otherwise: the TOI article is from February 2007, the blog post from April 2007.
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Lyons sounds more like a rival mafioso to me.
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Depending on how much money you need to raise and how good you are at it, fundraising can take from 10% - 80% of your time. Note that even at the high end, you still get 20% of your time to work on scientific problems, which is better than
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A promising direction to go would be to generate gradients using the polygons instead of colors directly and use Poisson blending [1,2] with gradient mixing [e.g. 3] to generate the final image from that. It would lead to many fewer noticea
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by apu 15y ago
I wrote a more advanced fluid solver a few years ago -- maybe I should see if it's easy to port to JS...
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Bridging Python and Matlab: Passing callbacks and optimization(elazungu.wordpress.com)
1 points by apu 15y ago|0 comments
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I'm all for new publishing models in academia, but this post doesn't address the fundamental difference between the web in general and academic papers: expert curation. The web's "curation" works (to whatever degree it does) because there a
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by apu 15y ago
I'm currently inventing a jet engine with no moving parts A ramjet?
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In big cities in the US it's very common for many businesses to either have a minimum for card purchases, or charge extra for small purchases, or offer "cash discounts" -- regardless of what the actual law is.
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Uh, what?
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Can you give an example or two of mistakes that you had read about "in the abstract" and how they manifested in your particular case? Like you, I've found myself in situations where I realize after the fact, "oh, that's what they were all w
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by apu 15y ago
The cliches are strongest from a distance.
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From a comment I made 2 years ago when this paper was brought up: I've been fairly skeptical of this paper ever since reading Alan Kay's rebuttal: http://www.secretgeek.net/camel_kay.asp I trust Kay much more than these authors on matter
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by apu 15y ago
This is all kind of obvious You're probably much more experienced than I am, but I thought a good 80% was new to me, and incredibly useful. Perhaps in the abstract I knew many of the principles, but to see them elaborated down to the leve
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The Double Helix by James D Watson – book review(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by apu 15y ago|0 comments
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bring innovative ideas to a trillion dollar market that is ready for a paradigm shift by bringing it to the mass market There is no way this can be real, is there?
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Almost identical!
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by apu 15y ago
I think that depends on compiler, although it's been a while since I've done C, so I might be wrong.
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I'm not quite sure by what you mean by "this is true," but computation is not the bottleneck here. It's an unsolved research problem.
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It's not nearly good enough for this. While I don't know what they're doing, it doesn't matter -- the state of the art in face recognition is far lower than what this requires. I would also assume that Facebook's recognition performance is
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by apu 15y ago
FYI, you can put quotes inside asterisks to italicize them, rather than python-style triple-quoting. *This is an example* This is an example
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by apu 15y ago
Please be nice.
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Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users(shirky.com)
5 points by apu 15y ago|0 comments
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Nice idea -- more automation would be awesome. I wrote a simple script at one point for dealing with constant offsets by doing simple analysis on the audio track of a movie and the subtitle file to match up peaks. It worked...okay, although
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Part of being a good writer is making arguments that make sense. If you use such a broken premise as this, then it casts your whole argument into doubt.
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10KLOC per team is admirable, but one of the long-term projects I'm most excited about is Alan Kay's "Inventing Fundamental New Computing Technologies" project. They're trying to get under 20KLOC for an entire operating system + all "common
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by apu 15y ago
I know that "more lax" languages like python make static code analysis much tougher, but does anyone have any experience with good tools for it?

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