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by vilya 16y ago
There's an ongoing effort to add 3D reconstruction into the OpenCV library: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/EffortFor3dReconstructio... If you're not already familiar with OpenCV, it's a rather good (and well documented!) open source
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by vilya 16y ago
That's odd - while browsing it just now I noticed Autodesk's Sketchbook has both "Pro" (paid-for) and "Express" (free) versions on there. Seems like they're not applying that rule consistently, if at all.
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by vilya 16y ago
No, but every year the class is filled with a new and different group of people who learn at different rates & respond in different ways.
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by vilya 16y ago
The chip architecture described in the article reminds me of the DEC MasPar system [1] we had at uni back in the mid-90s. 2048 processors (IIRC), where each processor could only communicate directly with it's 8 neighbours. If you wanted to
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by vilya 16y ago
Re #4, there's a spectrum of reading and comprehension ability - it's not just that some people can read and others can't. That may simplify your problem: you can still provide instructions in text form which are useful for your target audi
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by vilya 16y ago
"Those should not run in a Browser, they should on a real OS (or Emacs)." Why? It was not so long ago that people would have said the same thing about an email client.
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by vilya 16y ago
Thanks! I knew about CTRL-v but didn't know about line-wise block mode ('V').
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by vilya 16y ago
I'd put myself in the same category, math-curious. I missed the TV series, but bought the book instead: http://www.musicoftheprimes.com/thebook.htm It's a good read. BTW I hadn't seen that website until I went looking for a URL for the bo
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by vilya 16y ago
I believe (but cannot prove) that it's to prevent the police abusing their powers. If illegally gathered evidence were admissible, then they could argue - with some justification - that the end justifies the means.
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by vilya 16y ago
That's the main thing I use visual mode for in Vim: to avoid having to count the number of lines. From the start of the block you just press 'v' then move the cursor to the end of the block; once you've got the lines highlighted, the yank a
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by vilya 16y ago
Now that IS interesting. Thanks for the links!
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by vilya 16y ago
"And I point it out because even SIMD can have conditional branching (using the CPU's branch predictor.)" This doesn't sound correct to me, but perhaps I'm missing something? I can't see how the branch predictor is relevant here. Can you ex
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by vilya 16y ago
Encryption and decryption for https could benefit quite a bit, I would think.
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by vilya 16y ago
You've mentioned twice now that GPUs can't do conditional execution; that's incorrect. GPUs have had branch instructions for quite a while now. The limitation is that every thread on a core is executing the same instruction. If some of them
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by vilya 16y ago
"It's much like Xcode being the best IDE for using an Apple computer to write software that runs on Apple computers. It certainly is." Actually, so long as I'm writing C++, I greatly prefer QtCreator over XCode. It actually helps me navigat
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by vilya 16y ago
I think it's probably got more to do with an (understandable!) nervousness by policymakers about what would amount to a second semi-official chain of command inside such an organisation. The union leaders would have an awful lot of leverage
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by vilya 16y ago
The API also allows a number of different syntaxes for query parameters: question marks, %-style format codes and one or two others as well and support for any particular style is optional. Last time I checked - a few years ago now - the st
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by vilya 16y ago
I've interviewed a fair few people in my time. First impressions count, but they can and do get overturned in the course of the interview. With hindsight, although it was never a conscious choice, if someone made a good first impression I t
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by vilya 16y ago
"The value the person is bringing to Google was never close to $6m, otherwise she would have already been getting that (or close to it)." This is rarely true, unfortunately. Salaries are determined when you join a company, before you've had
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by vilya 16y ago
Well-formedness is a separate issue from validation. All XML parsers are required by the spec to reject documents that aren't well formed. You can think of it as the lexical analysis rules for XML, whereas validation is the parsing (if that
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by vilya 16y ago
It's always seemed a little odd to me that there is such a culture of secrecy around salaries. It seems so counter-productive: it means that salary doesn't really reflect competence, effectiveness or anything else related to the work someon
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by vilya 16y ago
Even if you never use it in directly, knowing a functional language can give you a new way of thinking about how you structure your code in procedural or OO languages. That can sometimes lead to more elegant code. Apart from that detail I a
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by vilya 16y ago
James Gleick explores this theme in his very enjoyable book Faster, as part of a broader look at the accelerating pace of modern life. For the interested, the book's website is at http://fasterbook.com/ and the chapter about door close bu
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by vilya 16y ago
This is the sort of thing that trace-based optimisation can help with. It's able to observe that the value bound to chr doesn't change between invocations and inline the lookup accordingly. I believe Mark Shannon's HotPy runtime ( http://ww
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by vilya 16y ago
Sony seems to be doing OK with the PS3 and their A/V equipment sells pretty well too. They also developed the Blu-Ray format; possibly they get licensing fees for that?
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by vilya 16y ago
Given the tone of your post I can't tell whether you're genuine or just trolling, but see my reply to papaf (it was just below, at time of writing) for more details about what I think is broken in it, if you're interested. Of course if you
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by vilya 16y ago
Calling it error handling was actually a deliberate choice: since defer/panic/recover isn't an exception mechanism, it wouldn't have made sense to call it one. What I've read about it so far is the original "Proposal for an exception-like m
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by vilya 16y ago
Exception-like is not the same as proper exceptions. From what I've read about it (there's the caveat: I haven't used it yet), the error handling model in Go sounds pretty badly broken.
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by vilya 16y ago
Jonathan Edwards' Subtext programming language might be of interest to you: http://www.subtextual.org/
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by vilya 16y ago
> Media is also far less complex. How do I know if my video is correct? I simply play it. If there any errors, they are all possible to detect in the minutes it takes to play the video. There's actually a level of complexity to video we

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