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   by vladoh 13y ago

   From the OpenBR website: "Internally the code base uses the CMake build system and requires Qt and OpenCV."
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   by vladoh 13y ago

   This reminds me of an interesting traffic simulation applet, where you can control things like aggressiveness of the drivers, traffic density etc. and observe the traffic jam that happens. http://www.carbibles.com/trafficmic
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   by vladoh 13y ago

   I actually think that random forests are relatively difficult to tune in comparison to some Boosting methods for example. The typical parameters are the following: - Number of trees - Percentage of data used to train each tree - Maximal dep
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   by vladoh 14y ago

   I like the reasons described in the post. I would like to add one more that was really important for me when deciding to do a PhD in CS - learning to write papers. While it may seem like a burden for some people, I think that describing you
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   by vladoh 14y ago

   Here is a similar calculator implemented in 58 languages including in 16 lines of Python code :) http://www.math.bas.bg/bantchev/place/rpn/rpn.impl.html
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   Amazon job hunt: Frenchman’s creative CV goes viral (rt.com)

   1 points by vladoh 14y ago|0 comments
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   by vladoh 14y ago

   I think car sharing solutions like DriveNow ( https://us.drive-now.com/how-it-works/ ) are much better for this case. Instead of giving your own car to somebody else, it is much easier to drive to the airport in one of the car sharing cars
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   by vladoh 14y ago

   I think such laws are about to go away after big players like BMW start selling their cars directly to customers online: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-24/bmw-bets-mouse-clic...
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   by vladoh 14y ago

   There are 4 edges :) Under the tunnels there is a whole new world ;)
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    The problem with this is that if you rely on the system and there is an error in the map (the curve is not marked) you have a big problem. If you don't rely on the data and drive carefully there is no point anymore :) A possible solution wo
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    I really like the interface - very clear and simple. I wish I had something like this for Munich, where the search for apartments is really a nightmare. What are your plans for expanding your service?
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    BMW also plans to sell the BMW i3 and i8 online: http://green.autoblog.com/2012/07/30/bmw-will-sell-first-car...
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    As far as I know the problem is that the amount of light that goes trough the hole is very low and you cannot see much or you need a very strong light source.
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    I tried the new app on the iPad 1 and personally I still prefer the web page - it still feels smoother for scrolling. Another thing I don't like in the app is the chat list on the right that is always visible even if I'm offline. Is it bett
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    The BMW Track Trainer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Track_Trainer ) can already beat most of the drivers. I think the difficult part is to beat the best ones. I doubt it will happen in the next 3 years, but I like the idea of Formula 0
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    There is unfortunately still a long way to go in cost reduction. The 360 degree LIDAR (Velodyne) that Google uses (the rotating thing on the top of the car) is the most essential sensor, but costs about $80000. Other autonomous cars also us
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    by vladoh 14y ago

    Actually the problem with snow is specific to Google's approach and is not limited to snow, but to all changes of the environment. They use the 360 degree LIDAR (Velodyne) and drive multiple times over each street in order to create a 3D ma
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    BMW overtakes Apple and Google in global reputation ranking(reputationinstitute.com)

    1 points by vladoh 14y ago|0 comments
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    I think it is not possible to achieve the quality of a peer review by "crowd review" or "social review". While most of the people are able to rate a funny picture or an interesting article on Internet, the review of an academic paper requir
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    I don't understand how such thing could be on the front page of Hacker News - this is ridiculous. It's sooo hardcore to browse the web without an adblocker... and survive. I'm sorry, but this is not what a site like HN should be about...
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    There are actually companies in Germany using Kinects for controlling in the production industry, As far as I know they use exactly the low-level driver (libfreenect).
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    You are comparing Rails to Java, which is wrong because the first is a framework and the second a language. A fair comparison would be between Rails and Spring or Ruby and Java. And here things are different. In Spring you also have clearly
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    This solution will never work. Almost all cars should be equipped with the system, which is very difficult task. And just look at this sentence: "At the same time, vehicles leaving the jams are made to accelerate away quickly using automate
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    A cool idea :) This reminds me of that joke: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck loaded with hard disks :)
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    Augmented reality is going to grow a lot in the future and therefor I think it is worth investing time in it and I wish you good luck :) I would just suggest to focus on a smaller and better defined task and borrow as much as you can from t
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    I'm sorry but you obviously have no experience with augmented reality (what you are actually trying to do). There are so many problems with your approach... 1. In order to be able to render virual objects on top of the real image (camera im
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    Evertale - a web app to keep your memories alive(evr.tl)

    1 points by vladoh 15y ago|0 comments
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    Some facts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano - NO airbags - NO passenger-side wing mirror - NO crumple zone - Front brake: 180 mm drum (drum brakes at the front... WTF???) - Rear brake: 180 mm drum - With kerb weight of 600kg an
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    I respect the Indian engineering and the effort. I have several Indian friends, who are very capable and intelligent people. But with $2500 you just cannot make something I would call a car. See my other post on why.
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    by vladoh 15y ago

    The Tata car is a ridiculous piece of metal that should not be called a car. So I hope the Tata home will be better... Not very optimistic though...