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by pbw 16y ago
I don't know how their system really works, but surely they extract features from the video and index the hell out of it. So they are not actually comparing frames of video here. With clever features and a good index you can rule-out mill
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The Clock Speed Wall(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 16y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 16y ago
Yes, as an iTunes customer you are paying for the right to be sold as part of the iTunes platform. More customers means a more valuable platform enabling Apple to cut more lucrative deals with its partners. They are right to brag about the
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by pbw 16y ago
Even if you are paying for it you might be the product being sold. Consider hip night club or a star trek convention, in both cases people pay to get in, but the crowd is really the main attraction. People spend hours getting ready for t
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by pbw 16y ago
This is a logical extension of the trend to do ever more computation on every key press. Think spelling correction and auto-complete. But here instead of just a local process every key press invokes hundreds of remote machines, required to
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by pbw 16y ago
Thanks, I like both of those suggestions.
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by pbw 16y ago
clickable: http://www.pdfcal.com/
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Ask HN: weekend project - printable PDF calendars
3 points by pbw 16y ago|3 comments
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by pbw 16y ago
Scratched discs which hang right at the most exciting part of the movie.
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by pbw 16y ago
I agree. I did not depict The Singularity itself in my graphs, because Kurzweil generally does not either. He instead shows projected exponentials as evidence for The Singularity happening: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerati
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by pbw 16y ago
This is a good list. It would be interesting to see a similar list of Singularity detractors. I know Jaron Lanier is one. His claim is that software in general is crap and won't be up to the task, even if the hardware is capable. Kurzweil
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by pbw 16y ago
Link to the deep zoom version (opens faster): http://zoom.it/A8JK#full
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by pbw 16y ago
"And then he woke up" is the ending to every 5th graders first ambitious story. I don't buy it. I did think the little dream machine in the movie looked like game console. You and several of your friends slide in the IV to play a round of,
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The Singularity is Always Steep(kmeme.com)
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Inception Game(kmeme.com)
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Robot Cars: Getting from here to there(kmeme.com)
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Intelligent Designer: Gaia(kmeme.com)
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The Healthcare Diff Part 2(kmeme.com)
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The Healthcare Diff(kmeme.com)
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Pancake Stacker vs. Chinese factory workers(kmeme.com)
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IPad: bring it on(kmeme.com)
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Computational footprint of Avatar(kmeme.com)
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Cancun beach reconstruction pictures(kmeme.com)
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