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by jcl 10y ago
There are educational projects that focus on providing the benefits of the internet to communities that have poor or no connectivity, like: http://internet-in-a-box.org/ While internet failure mitigation isn't an expli
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by jcl 10y ago
I've assumed the same is true of the "views expressed on this DVD do not necessarily reflect those of (studio)" unskippable disclaimer that is on every DVD these days. But I'm still curious what specific event motivated
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by jcl 10y ago
For those unaware, "hipster" turns out to be an excellent analogue to "macaroni"... In the 1940s and 50s the term had positive connotations as someone fashionable or in-the-know, but it has since come to be a term of ri
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by jcl 10y ago
It might be better to use the "Scratch Holograms" link at the top of that paper, as it has better exposition and a video. :) http://amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
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by jcl 10y ago
Actually, the Renderman denoiser is based on work from Disney Research. https://renderman.pixar.com/view/denoiser PCA would be one way to do that. This recent paper suggests that they may be decomposing the samples mo
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by jcl 10y ago
I found this tutorial was a good overview for both the Metropolis algorithm and for Metropolis Light Transport: https://facweb.cs.byu.edu/graphics/publications/metropolisTu...
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by jcl 10y ago
FWIW, it's also the only model available with a Kensington lock slot and an Ethernet port.
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by jcl 10y ago
A step closer to the Sandbenders computer from William Gibson's "Idoru": ...he used to tear up her hardware, the designer's, and put the real parts into cases he'd make in his shop. Say he'd make a solid bronz
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by jcl 10y ago
I thought this might have had something to do with the Cyclone safety-oriented C dialect, but apparently the similar name is coincidental. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language)
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by jcl 10y ago
FWIW, William Gibson's Spook Country has a protagonist who researches virtual geotagged art exhibits.
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by jcl 10y ago
Some of the walks took place in June, whereas others took place in January; most people didn’t particularly enjoy trudging through the harsh Michigan winter, but their scores jumped just as much as in the summer trials. I found this the m
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by jcl 10y ago
For some reason, I thought this was going to be about the Lorenz Attractor... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lorenz_attractor_yb....
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by jcl 10y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of "solution" and "MSAA moral equivalent". What you're essentially asking is, "Is there a way to approximate the combined contributions of overlapping polygons to a set of
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by jcl 10y ago
FWIW, SFO uses a private contractor to conduct security in lieu of TSA. I've noticed that they do not have the "TSA" shoulder marks on their uniforms that actual TSA have at other airports. Presumably SFO hired them because
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by jcl 10y ago
It's actually not that dissimilar from the plot of "Alien". Or "Prometheus". Or "At the Mountains of Madness".
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by jcl 10y ago
...which, for what it's worth, is an Electron app. :)
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by jcl 10y ago
It is linked in the second update at the bottom of the article: https://bugs.python.org/issue23702
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by jcl 11y ago
Per the article, the 12 million records were disclosed to "regulators", not law enforcement. From "transparencyreport.uber.com", it looks like the primary consumers were California (~5M) and NYC (~3M), followed by vario
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by jcl 11y ago
One thing that I didn't know prior to moving to California is that if your car meets certain specifications, it gets a sticker that allows you to drive in diamond lanes (carpool lanes), regardless of the number of passengers. I imagin
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by jcl 11y ago
I think the author's point is that the Netflix of today was only able to afford proper licensing and DRM for digital content because they made so much money mailing around discs, against strong objection from the content providers. An
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by jcl 11y ago
If you want to learn to draw from life, the biggest hurdle is learning to interpret visual signals directly -- what artists refer to as "learning to see". Your brain naturally wants to turn visual input (edge, color, pattern) int
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by jcl 11y ago
The paper isn't explicit about it, but I'm guessing "...among Ivy League college students" is an implicit part of the title. Drawing from a population that has spent most of their lives competing and winning may skew the
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by jcl 11y ago
If anyone is interested in how the game's beautiful lighting works, Ignacio Castaño wrote several articles about his work on it: http://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/tag/witness/
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by jcl 11y ago
Yeah, I got the same impression. The mapping it seems to have discovered is: vegetation texture -> greenish sky texture -> blueish everything else -> brownish ...which is not a bad set of defaults for most photos.
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by jcl 11y ago
Here's the original blog post, for anyone who was interested in reading it after Springer decided to reinstate its $30-per-chapter charge: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html (While I know th
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by jcl 11y ago
Use of "bug" to mean "defect" goes back a lot further than the computer age: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bug&allowed_in_fram... At the time of Grace Hopper, the term was used in engineer
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by jcl 11y ago
Presumably, C interop is the cause of C++'s problems because it was the impetus for carrying forward all of C's warts into C++. And it is the solution because it allows you to put C++ code behind a C-compatible interface so that
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by jcl 11y ago
I did not vote you down, but your comment doesn't really add much. It's a common sentiment that could have been posted on any article about Flash. And it makes even less sense on this particular article, since, if you read betwee
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by jcl 11y ago
Assuming the source code posted in the article is the only code doing the blocking, it's only blocking links where a domain or subdomain is "telegram", although the regex could easily be altered to block other links, too.
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by jcl 11y ago
For what it's worth, .NET was chosen at the peak of the .com boom, when Microsoft was trying to hide the fact that they were late to the party -- and COM was already taken. :)

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