emanuelev

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When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens?(nybooks.com)
2 points by emanuelev 10y ago|0 comments
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by emanuelev 10y ago
Precisely how I feel. Also, what's the deal with the ports? At the moment it seems that you have to carry a dongle/adapter for every single Apple device, that's crazy. After eight years with my macbook it's time to give
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by emanuelev 10y ago
Although that might change real soon. There are a number of ongoing works that attempt at using CNNs to estimate both geometry and movement.
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by emanuelev 10y ago
Regardless the impact machine learning techniques are having on the field, I still think is valuable to know and understand what are the classic methods that they are allegedly replacing.
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by emanuelev 10y ago
Agreed. I think that's the key, you learn by first grasping a basic understanding of a concept and then reinforcing it through application repetition. But the initial understanding is absolutely vital, otherwise chances are you end-up
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by emanuelev 10y ago
You might want to add the ICL-NUIM dataset for SLAM/Visual Odometers: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ahanda/VaFRIC/iclnuim.html
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by emanuelev 10y ago
I've got both a Nespresso and a simple manual Gaggia at home. The Nespresso is just accumulating dust. No matter what capsules you buy it doesn't get any closer to the taste of just average coffee (that would be Lavazza Oro) on th
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by emanuelev 10y ago
Not sure if it's just melancholia, but I do think rdio is still totally unbeaten in terms of personalised playlists. It was absolutely amazing! Also, the audio quality seemed far superior compared to Spotify or Apple Music.
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by emanuelev 10y ago
Yep, possibly. This approach has been successfully exploited in real-time SLAM for instance [1][2][3] [1] http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-33786-4... [2] http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ahand
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by emanuelev 10y ago
> Although, in my experience of using vim, the mental effort of working out what character I needed for t/f tended to be far more disruptive than just using arrow keys/mouse. I think you maybe didn't give it enough time. W
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by emanuelev 10y ago
If you are referring to Morton's interleaving, then it's quite simple. You can compute the third operand's code and OR it with the others using the appropriate shift. Something like: (z << 2) | (y << 1) | x
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Gravitational Waves Explained(phdcomics.com)
6 points by emanuelev 11y ago|1 comments
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Don't quite agree, most recent works produce 3D models of very decent quality. Have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XySrhZpODYs for example, but there are others based on volumetric data-structures that
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by emanuelev 11y ago
In the UK it is used in several schools to introduce children to programming. Notable project: https://www.codeforlife.education/rapidrouter/ (developed by Ocado) and here's the github https://github.co
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by emanuelev 11y ago
I'm sorry, I don't really have a source. My observation is based on the fact that during PhD/PostDoc years you have more time to spend on actual research. As you climb the academic ladder it is very probable that administrati
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by emanuelev 11y ago
I quite agree that the post PhD job market is kind of challenging as there are few companies tackling big questions. However, if you forget the job market, the argument the guy is making is absolutely spot on. There's a solid trend in
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Great guide, thanks for sharing. Although that B and E remapping.. man, it hurts!
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Yes I do agree with you. ACL is just an example of as the devotion of one or two persons can bring unexpectedly successful results. Achieving the same in bigger organisation is a much harder challenge.
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Totally agree. Just wanted to stress how the grant funding systems is totally nonsensical. While as a PhD you could get funding for your entire 3/4 year program (at least here in the UK), if you decide to go for a post-doc things get d
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by emanuelev 11y ago
J Strother Moore would disagree with you, the development of ACL [1] is going on from 40 years! [1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/acl2/acl2-doc.html
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by emanuelev 11y ago
This looks actually pretty cool and something I might want to use. Is there any way to load .ply/.vtk with the voxel structure description?
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by emanuelev 11y ago
I can't think of anything more standard than /usr/local/.
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Great article although I think maybe the title could be a bit misleading. The way I see it, boredom is not a state in which you want to be, but rather the initial condition that triggers the need of doing things. One word that I think is r
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Yeah that might work for programming mistakes, but not sure it can help with bad design choices.
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Can't even imagine the amount of crap in their code-base. I bet that amount of commits is necessary to continuously correct the shitload of mistakes coming from their "Hacking" culture.
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by emanuelev 11y ago
Just out of curiosity, what kind of writing are you doing? I always wonder if the combination vim+latex is something used outside the scientific area.