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by krisw 14y ago
The article is going on about how it's unimaginable to be running Windows in that environment, but I recall a few instances of military vessels running Windows in previous years/decades. Some report of US submarine(s) being dead in the wat
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by krisw 15y ago
This is disappointing. We have a webapp and (small) GPU datacenter that can extract tens of billions of polygons per day from remote sensing imagery (gis.incogna.com). I felt quite happy to see SimpleGeo working on a decentralized approac
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by krisw 15y ago
I seem to remember that they were using a customized version of Cassandra to store the geodata
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Plant RNAs Found in Mammals(the-scientist.com)
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by krisw 15y ago
It's fascinating to read another company having evaluated NoSQL and come to an identical conclusion as we did internally. I love the idea of NoSQL, but Cassandra was horrible (just look their source code or Thrift) and Mongo lost data. I g
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by krisw 15y ago
If you want an "easy" way get into GPU development, AMD recently launched an interesting (open source) project that transparently compiles JVM bytecode into OpenCL: http://blogs.amd.com/developer/2011/09/14/i-dont-always-writ... Definite
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by krisw 15y ago
Click the gear (top right), then click "Use the classic look"
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by krisw 15y ago
I compared/contrasted TinEye against Google CBIR for a bunch of images (I use TinEye a lot) and I have to say TinEye looks better than Google CBIR so far. TinEye has less "zero results" and more search results overall, I get the feeling Ti
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by krisw 15y ago
Either way, hopefully they've improved it - I was never able to get Goggles to work very well at all (versus TinEye).
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by krisw 15y ago
What a fascinating topic, it's too bad that Gazopa (mentioned at the end of the article) just announced that they're shutting down their CBIR service: http://gazopablog.blogspot.com/2011/05/shut-down-notice-from...