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by maffydub 9y ago
Are you sure you learnt VHDL? As I understood it, the ATTiny isn't an FPGA but an 8-bit microcontroller. Learning some form of assembly language at university is (probably) reasonably common. Learning VHDL (for programming FPGAs) is l
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by maffydub 9y ago
To save someone googling, the referenced "Is object detection for free" paper is at http://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/cvpr-2015.pdf I also just came across "Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Obj
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by maffydub 9y ago
Open Mined ( http://openmined.org/ ) are looking at this from the other angle - sharing the encrypted neural network with their users so that they can train it without sharing their data at all - the encrypted gradients are c
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by maffydub 9y ago
Can you elaborate? It worked for me (as in was both functional and educational) - was it the function or the education that didn't work for you? I've also found Katacoda a good platform for Tensorflow tutorials (e.g. https:&#x2F
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by maffydub 9y ago
The point is that it's not just about knowledge - it's about agreement. A and B must not attack alone, i.e. A must not attack if B is not going to attack, and B must not attack if A is not going to attack. Now, message 1 (from A t
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by maffydub 9y ago
I found Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications really good. You can download it for free (for personal use) at http://szeliski.org/Book/ .
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by maffydub 9y ago
It looks as though the approach proposed in the article is random, rather than attempting to use consistent hashing (as Vimeo investigated) - that may be why the results the Vimeo engineers found are worse than those the artcile suggests?
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by maffydub 9y ago
I recently went to a talk at the London Machine Learning meetup ( https://www.meetup.com/London-Machine-Learning-Meetup/ ) on "End-to-end Differentiable Proving" ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1705
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by maffydub 9y ago
I don't know about Tinder, but the (telecom) software development company I work for holds internal hackathons twice a year (one in May, one in November). We've been doing this for about 6 years, with over 150 attendees each time
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by maffydub 10y ago
I think whether you feel you need unsafe when you first come to Rust depends on the angle from which you're coming. Coming from C/C++, I know that there are structs in memory and can visualize what they look like - surely I can ju
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by maffydub 10y ago
Interesting! Are you able to share anything about how your algorithm works? I've been playing around with feature detection (using HoG descriptors) plus constrained local models to identify locations in an image and then manipulating
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by maffydub 10y ago
I've used the skeletal animation API (exporting from Blender). It's very cool, but the documentation isn't great (or at least wasn't last time I checked). Key points: * if you use the JSON loader, the animation data is
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by maffydub 10y ago
Sorry, I meant I couldn't find a way to do the same thing as that in Mermaid - I realize my message wasn't very clear, but thanks for replying!
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by maffydub 10y ago
I was quite excited by this - I normally use mscgen ( http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/ ). Unfortunately, I can't find a way to break text strings onto multiple lines in ladder diagrams. Does anyone know how? One o
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by maffydub 10y ago
Good spot, but that's just the video. Unfortunately most screen recorder software (at least free screen recorder software) for Android is very low frame rate.
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by maffydub 10y ago
Interesting read! I wrote a (simple) 3d game using WebGL and released it on the Android app store using Cordova, and found the performance was pretty solid. This might be due to Android vs iOS, WebGL vs plain HTML or something else entirely
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by maffydub 10y ago
Yes, I loved the cut scenes. I think it was from later on (Red Alert 2 or 3?) but Tim Curry's "SPAAACE!" is a classic - even he is struggling to keep a straight face!
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by maffydub 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation - I'll check those out. I mainly listen to the Bonkers and Hardcore Til I Die mixes (and occasionally older stuff like Dreamscape and Slammin Vinyl).
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by maffydub 10y ago
The website timed out on me, but... For me, it's got to be techno - generally happy hardcore - fast, repetitive beats and uplifting but inane (and hence not distracting) lyrics. (I may be the only one. ;) )
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by maffydub 10y ago
> Now if only they would put it away for me. Sounds like an opportunity for a startup! </joke> ... or so I thought.
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by maffydub 10y ago
I unpacked the chunks and there doesn't look to be much more (or it's subtle). The IDAT chunk (which makes up most of the file) is DEFLATE-d but uses full color (rather than palettized color, which would have saved lots of space,
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by maffydub 10y ago
A few minutes fun diversion. A bit of guess work and trial and error, and I have the following bash one-liner: pngtopnm puzzle.png | pnmtoplainpnm | tail -n +4 | sed -e 's/232 3 138/A/g' -e 's/58 185 229&#
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by maffydub 10y ago
Agreed, although I prefer the D1 mini ( http://www.wemos.cc/Products/d1_mini.html ) - it's just a bit smaller (and cheaper?) than the NodeMCU. The ESP-01 (which I started with) is quite painful to program, though -
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by maffydub 10y ago
Yes, there were more than 2 varieties - it's kind of key to the story! ;) I think (or at least hope) that's not a spoiler for anyone who hasn't read it yet - it's worth reading!
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by maffydub 10y ago
I sometimes wonder whether hackathons are in some way an evolution of the LAN party (or the demo party). It does depend a lot on the hackathon - many these days are very business-oriented. :( ...but there are still some where people show up
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by maffydub 10y ago
Can you provide a reference for the "ten times as geoblocked" please? I support "remain", but hyperbole from both the leave and remain sides has made the referendum a bit of a farce.
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by maffydub 10y ago
Does anyone know if it's possible to disable this? For teams like mine, where we want to have only one owner for each issue, it's meant many more clicks to perform a reassignment operation.
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by maffydub 10y ago
Sure, so some documentation isn't great (and, by having lots of documentation, you might be a bit disappointed at how simple it ends up being). ...but going back to my original point, isn't it more valuable to have a common vocabu
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by maffydub 10y ago
I think the word "strategy" encapsulates more about the semantics than "passing in a function". For example, the "visitor" pattern could also be described as "passing in a function", but there's
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by maffydub 10y ago
Agreed. I never really saw design patterns as a reference manual for how to solve problems (as I think some people do/did). Instead, I saw it as a shared vocabulary. For example, if I say that X is a factory for Y or an iterator over

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