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by kakali 12y ago
A similar but different idea is the TOAST projection. However here it starts with an octahedron instead of a cube. The benefit is the texture can all be stored on a square and is argued has a more uniform sampling that equirectangular proje
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by kakali 12y ago
This is also available in Google Earth's Moon Mode. Switch to 'Moon', then select the layer 'Geologic Charts' under Moon Gallery -> Historic Maps. Click on each tile will bring up the original USGS sheet which ca
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Accessing the DepthMap from Google's Lens Blur(lunokhod.org)
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by kakali 13y ago
They don't advertise it as a general programming language. The end of the video they specifically state it only works with optimizing algorithms that deal with images. General stuff like trees, they have no application towards.
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by kakali 13y ago
You're comparing the death of 3 astronauts to a fire in a for profit company's product? Your emotional scale needs calibration.
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by kakali 13y ago
I know the poster before you got a lot of down votes. But I thank you both for asking and answering a serious question. It's hard to comprehend that situation until you are stuck in the middle of it.
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by kakali 13y ago
A minor correction; the phrase is usually "pot committed". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pot%20committ...
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by kakali 13y ago
Why is there a Railroad Retirement Board in the US budget? Shouldn't that somehow be combined with Social Security?
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by kakali 13y ago
My $100 Hacker Dojo membership sounds like a steal in comparison to their rates.
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by kakali 13y ago
This appears to be the original image from MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems, the company who built and operates the mastcam for MSL). I don't believe it is a lizard. But sometimes rocks can resemble life just like clouds look like faces so
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by kakali 14y ago
That tracking is amazing! Is there an open variant so that I can look under the hood? Or could anyone cite what their implementation is based off?
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by kakali 14y ago
* Not associated with NASA.
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by kakali 14y ago
You have it slightly wrong. You make it sound like there are only 9 focus points. When in fact it can post process focus at any point. It just needs to bundle the pixels (rays) that coincide with a synthetic lens that is focused at that poi
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by kakali 15y ago
They do, hence Pleiades, the 7th fastest supercomputer. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html
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by kakali 15y ago
Collaboration I think. It was for NASA's cloud infrastructure called 'Nebula'. Those developers have moved on and have now started 2 new companies.
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by kakali 15y ago
Not quite what you're looking for, but there is Spice. http://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html It is used for general astrometry (coordinate frame transfer and time references). It also can help you point your camera in the right spot
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by kakali 15y ago
What does this have to do with SpaceX? They're not DoD and they don't fly drones.
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by kakali 15y ago
A quick follow up, from those same sites you can work out that NASA costs Americans about $55/yr per person today. Not bad, maybe others would like to buy a video game instead. I however enjoy the pretty pictures from around the solar syste
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by kakali 15y ago
Can you provide a link for that dollar amount? At its peak in 1966, NASA was 4.4% of the federal budget. That's 5.9 billion dollars for that year. The population of the United States was 196 million at the time. This puts the cost of NASA a
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by kakali 15y ago
Thanks for linking Steve Novella articles. That guy is awesome along with the Skeptics Guide the Universe.
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by kakali 15y ago
There will never be enough proof for those that rather have a conspiracy.
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by kakali 15y ago
There are also government and commercial jobs for research engineers that don't require a PhD. You play as second fiddle but you still get time to work on improving algorithms or coming up with your own. Willow Garage has a job opening that
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by kakali 15y ago
You are too late to be looking for an internship. Most are assigned back in December through February. You need to know somebody at this point.
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by kakali 15y ago
Well that was a worthless article.
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by kakali 15y ago
It seems a downside would be that this uses more space. The racks are mounted horizontally. Convert an old data center to this and they'd only be able to install roughly half the amount of machines as before.
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by kakali 16y ago
Isn't the printf also introducing a rounding error? This all seems like a futile test.
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by kakali 16y ago
Many. Ames uses Windows, RHEL, and OSX. The choice is up to the user and division they are in.
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by kakali 16y ago
Honestly I don't know enough about ITK to compare it to VW. VW's original developers just wanted to make a cool way of doing lazy image evaluation. This is its primary difference compared to OpenCV. VW leverages that ability to handle reall
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by kakali 16y ago
Government doesn't make anything easy. However VW is trying to be relicensed under Apache 2.
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by kakali 16y ago
Forget that, use ZeroMQ. Much faster without a buggy erlang server in the middle.

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