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by kghose 15y ago
The old tendencies surface again ... But seriously, uniformity in tech is sometimes good (standards) but standards can also constrain innovation. Standards are good in a mature industry. Is CPU design a mature industry? Kind of I guess.
512.
by kghose 15y ago
I'm disappointed. I was thinking some one had optimized a template matching algorithm and implemented in an ASIC that you could slot into a camera.
513.
by kghose 15y ago
Awesome. The thread is more informative and entertaining than the article! This is Hacker News!
514.
Iranian government claims to have accessed drone data(cnn.com)
1 points by kghose 15y ago|1 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
This is awesome. The part about picking your project is just like picking a research program as an independent researcher in the sciences!
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by kghose 15y ago
Sociopaths have always been in power. There is not much socially unique about our times. Scales have changed (there are so many people!) but not the principles.
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Alien reboot(youtube.com)
2 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
What happens for IMAP accounts? e.g through Mail.app or Thunderbird?
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Deep brain stimulation shows promise for treating major depression(cnn.com)
2 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
Wait: margins on used games are higher than on new games?
521.
by kghose 15y ago
Texmaker is great for all platforms. When I was on windows, I used texniccenter a lot.
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by kghose 15y ago
You can crash it by having a page with empty content.
523.
by kghose 15y ago
Don't forget the Stanford name drop.
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Depressed? Moi?(cnn.com)
1 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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A boy and his father playing portal.(youtube.com)
1 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
FWIW a PAN card is a photo id document that has a tax payer identification number. You can use it to open bank accounts too. Cash deposits into a bank above a certain amount need a PAN number. It is widely used as an id document in India (w
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Merging two python dictionaries(stackoverflow.com)
8 points by kghose 15y ago|3 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
If you are interested in this sort of thing (memory storage in the brain, recall etc.) you might be interested in Wilder Penfield's work. (e.g. http://primal-page.com/penfield.htm )
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Abstract of Bin Laden's final ramblings(cnn.com)
2 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
Not a deep link, but a link to the site directly http://www.gapingvoidart.com/ignore-everybody-11x14-p-69_0.h...
531.
by kghose 15y ago
I could write a bit more, but the summary of what I would say, having lived in India for about 10 years, mostly during my turbulent teens, is: 1. Poverty is not a virtue. 2. There was evil in the old days too
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Send your code to the final frontier and catch objects tubling in zero-G(darpa.mil)
1 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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Visual simulation of the MOS 6502(visual6502.org)
6 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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Speech jamming gun (arxiv article)(arxiv.org)
2 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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Google search with voice recognition on Chrome(google.com)
1 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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Mathematical Sign Language(lh4.googleusercontent.com)
2 points by kghose 15y ago|1 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
I'm trying to think how I would use it. I, like everyone else, use shallow DOF to emphasize different aspects of the image. If I want to emphasize background and foreground in different shots I just take two shots at different focus points.
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The evolution of female body shape (psychologytoday.com)
4 points by kghose 15y ago|0 comments
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by kghose 15y ago
The description on the page reminded me about how nervous systems might compute. Neural firing is stochastic on small time scales. People fight over whether the fine timing between spikes is important for computation, but largely it seems r
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Tesla: Not so easily bricked(idc-insights-community.com)
362 points by kghose 15y ago|154 comments

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