laex

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   by laex 12y ago

   I'm curious if 3D scanners are cheaper/portable/widely available now ?
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   The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository(graphics.stanford.edu)

   30 points by laex 12y ago|14 comments
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   by laex 12y ago

   I highly recommend Ray Tracing from Ground Up by Kevin Suffern. The book assumes no prior knowledge. http://www.raytracegroundup.com/ I took the raytracing course taught by Kevin at UTS. It was great.
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   A description of a simple Ray Tracer (1995) [pdf](maths.tcd.ie)

   29 points by laex 12y ago|8 comments
5. 125.▲
   by laex 12y ago

   Looks just like Slack.
6. 126.▲
   by laex 12y ago

   @girvo suggested installing gnu units, which does the trick. > brew install gnu-units > gunits
7. 127.▲
   by laex 12y ago

   Didn't work.
8. 128.▲
   by laex 12y ago

   I tried the 'units' program on OSX. It seems that it does not recognise the 'millilightseconds' unit.
9. 129.▲
   by laex 12y ago

   This repo went from 1 Star to 433 in a single day.
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    by laex 12y ago

    I was watching last night. Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?, with Seth Lloyd and others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atMuFCpxnUQ
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    by laex 12y ago

    Some time back, I wrote a simple convex hull computing code in Go. If anyone's interested: https://github.com/hemantasapkota/go-convexhull
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    OpenLearning targets 1M users. Primarily focuses on Asia(e27.co)

    2 points by laex 12y ago|0 comments
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    by laex 12y ago

    This bothers me lot. Why would they block it for UK and AU ?
14. 134.▲
    by laex 12y ago

    Tor Browser to the rescue. Thanks.
15. 135.▲
    by laex 12y ago

    Video not available for Australia.
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    by laex 12y ago

    This reminds of the blog post by Adam Brimo, the founder of OpenLearning ( http://www.openlearning.com ) - a MOOC startup heavily focused around creating communities. It's short, so I'll just post it here: --BEGIN POST--
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    by laex 12y ago

    Unknown.?
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    GPU-accelerated Path Rendering (2012) [pdf](graphics.rwth-aachen.de)

    19 points by laex 12y ago|10 comments
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    Henry Reich explains why computer color is broken(youtube.com)

    4 points by laex 12y ago|0 comments
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    by laex 12y ago

    Is this going to be supported on Android ?
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    by laex 12y ago

    I use VIM + Tmux for the most part. That being said, editors like Sublime, WebStorm, Atom etc are great and are a part of my tools collections.
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    The Pigeonhole Principle and Hashing [pdf](ugrad.cs.ubc.ca)

    5 points by laex 12y ago|0 comments
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    by laex 12y ago

    Are you using it for writing codes ?
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    How Slack Became the Fastest Growing B2B SaaS Business (Maybe) Ever(growthhackers.com)

    3 points by laex 12y ago|0 comments
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    by laex 12y ago

    Facebook is huge influencer in the open-source world. I don't see anything wrong with learning the tools/languages that it adopts. There are far smarter people working there. In context of this question, It seems that learning bot
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    by laex 12y ago

    Should I learn oCaml instead ? Looks appealing because companies like Facebook are using it create tools like Flow ( https://github.com/facebook/flow ).
27. 147.▲
    by laex 12y ago

    Nice. I had a an idea for something similar. More like a library that takes in markdown formatted CSV and outputs well-formatted XLS/Pages document.
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    by laex 12y ago

    When I was a kid, I saw the movie Takedown, which impressed me a lot. I wanted to know how to be a hacker. According to ESR's How to be a Hacker, picking up a programming language was the way to start. I started with a relatively unkno
29. 149.▲
    by laex 12y ago

    Is the idea behind the app validated ? Has your partner talked with the potential customers ? Is the problem you're solving really an important problem ? Have you already built an MVP ? I've been in similar situations where my non
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    by laex 12y ago

    Taken from The Design and Implementation of Speech Recognition Systems. See http://asr.cs.cmu.edu/spring2014/lectures/class4.DP.pdf Slide 2.