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by dchichkov 14y ago
Looks like this Aug/2011 prediction is being fulfilled: http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2011/08/advertising-and-fut...
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Oh. I remember reading some vision paper and in the supplement materials there've been a couple of videos with letters moving. Doubt, I'll be able to find it that easily. Should be relatively easy to code with any library that can draw a te
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Just move letters slightly. And make them morph a bit. Would still be obvious to a human, but a computer trying to average anything would fail miserably. This is an unsolved computer vision problem.
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Here is an example of a problem that would be hard for computer to solve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4y79ZbaBs
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by dchichkov 14y ago
This is computer vision, an I'm somewhat an expert in the area. I can tell that video sequence recognition is _much_ harder problem than image recognition. For example, if you would show an letter made out of random noise moving through ran
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by dchichkov 14y ago
1) Asking a computer to do a computation is not such a great idea. Low powered devices (think iPads) running javascript would be at a great disadvantage to highly efficient botnet clusters that spammers own. 2) Requesting a small amount of
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by dchichkov 14y ago
I see a possible solution that may work in a short term: Instead of displaying a static captcha, display a dynamic one, with letters going through elastic transformations. Humans are pretty good with video sequences. Computers are not. As a
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by dchichkov 14y ago
"I want my sane interfaces back. I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3." - Linus :) Personally I'm sticking with Gnome 2. Simple, predictable, stable...
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Can multiple users run tasks simultaneously? Can they set task priorities?
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by dchichkov 14y ago
I'd guess what one could try realistically with the current technologies is linking two mice [via Ed Boyden like devices] and observing, if that could produce an effect of extended awareness between these mice [like pain stimuli, etc].
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Just get them indestructible python-controlled helicopter (ages 7+) or slower moving car (ages 5+). Once they've get the connection between car movements and writing statements in iPython it'd be a lot of fun for them. And time to find so
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Really liked the Burrito tool. I'll definitely give it a try. It feels like it could be a perfect companion with iPython notebook (which sadly lacks version control and lab notes).
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by dchichkov 14y ago
From the article: "It is worth noting that our network is still tiny compared to the human visual cortex, which is 1,000,000 times larger in terms of the number of neurons and synapses."
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After experiment seven(nature.com)
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Find a new place. And either move on, or try renegotiating your position at your current company. This post might help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323
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Aerial robot performing a perching maneuver(boingboing.net)
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by dchichkov 14y ago
Nice, but just like Google Predict you are trying to violate the "no free lunch" theorem.
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by dchichkov 15y ago
>> ... like so many other HNers but the economic reality just doesn't add up. It's very difficult to predict what technology is gong to be available in 15-25 years. And making long-term economic predictions in the techy areas is eve
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by dchichkov 15y ago
From doi:10.1038/nature10872: "From a technological perspective, energy dissipation per logic operation in present-day silicon-based digital circuits is about a factor of 1000 greater than the ultimate Landauer limit".
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by dchichkov 15y ago
You are right, reversible and quantum computing could take things further.
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Self-powered cyborgs(nature.com)
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by dchichkov 15y ago
There is a physical limit on the efficiency of computation - the Landauer limit. Modern chips already got within 3 orders of magnitude to that limit. So this exponential trend is not gonna last long term... A decade at most.
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Waiting for Landauer, only two decades left(nature.com)
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by dchichkov 15y ago
Every line of the code is a constraint working against you.
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by dchichkov 15y ago
Cheap daytime solution could be a 'solar balloon'... Like these: http://www.solar-balloons.com/howto.html