f_sav

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by f_sav 17y ago
Reminds me of that _old_ game from MS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker Couldn't do text-to-speech, but you could record voices.
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by f_sav 17y ago
Also, having read a few (first year grad student here), I'm starting to think it might sometimes be a simple matter of lack of space. Explaining algorithm and method correctly requires examples, precisions etc. which might take away space t
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by f_sav 17y ago
He had me at "code/history" division. I really don't like the way I must usually enter functions in the basic interpreter (line by line, can't go back... unless I missed something?). To me that's an interesting cross between an IDE (with co
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by f_sav 17y ago
As much as this would make for a nice concert/show gizmo, I'm also interested in those tiny helicopters themselves. To control them with such precision would be impressive (well from a non specialist point of view). Yet I can't seem to find
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by f_sav 17y ago
To me it really depends on the type of material. Obviously if I'm reading a math paper, I may re-read the same sentence half a dozen times, so it doesn't apply. But there are clearly cases where I want to read as fast as possible, without n
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by f_sav 17y ago
To add to the list, for those who don't know about it, there's spaced repetition software. There are some situations where rote memorization is indeed useful, e.g. learning vocabulary (well _using_ the vocabulary is better, but memorizing i
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by f_sav 17y ago
I get a MySQL error, but from the URL, I guess that's the product (manufacturer page): http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/micro-digital-storage-oscil...
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by f_sav 17y ago
Makes sense (esp. these last few years where device come with the least physical switch possible, e.g. the iPhone), but given the benefit, I personally wouldn't mind the added clutter. One good first step would be to cut the link to the mic
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by f_sav 17y ago
True. At least with cameras there's an obvious way of disabling it. Yet there's just no enough market pressure to get manufacturers to include a clear electronic switch-off mechanism. Maybe with a few more stories like this one...
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by f_sav 17y ago
So that'd mean some schools (or is it the same one?) did such spying without even trying to conceal it. That it hadn't occurred to students to cover the camera with something is a bit troubling too (either they don't realize the possibility
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by f_sav 17y ago
Oh, and having tried it a bit with a twitter search feed, maybe you could have some options for formatting too (with replacements like %t for title, %u for url etc.). (But of course both these suggestions break the simplicity of it, which h
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by f_sav 17y ago
Overall good idea, but I'd say: obviously I wouldn't use this for my regular feeds, only for some specific ones for which I want live notifications. So maybe some basic filtering options would be good (by keyword, by author...). (Or maybe i
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by f_sav 17y ago
Yeah those equations flying around seemed _real_ useful :)
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by f_sav 17y ago
Well there's this MIT student's project which looks similar to that Caprica thing (from what I've seen of it): http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/ted-digital-six/
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by f_sav 17y ago
The technology looks very nice, if a bit slow to react at times (from the video). But maybe that's just a voluntary kind of "momentum" introduced in their software. (And getting to make choices for a movie based on his research is one heck