amelim

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by amelim 7y ago
Tech spends money on lobbying local politicians to write favorable public policy. This should be obvious.
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by amelim 12y ago
You are forgetting that they have an Emmy award winning show on HBO.
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How Quadrilateral Cowboy teaches players the joys of programming(killscreendaily.com)
2 points by amelim 12y ago|0 comments
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by amelim 12y ago
I disagree. Games like Dota 2 and League of Legends are filling sports stadiums and giving out multi-million dollar prize pools these days. If anything, at least in the United States, they are on the rise.
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by amelim 12y ago
Using feature detectors and descriptors is only half of the solution. If you really want robust image recognition you need to use something like the vocabulary tree developed by Nister[1][2]. [1] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il&#
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by amelim 13y ago
I was able to get the DK1 working using a hdmi -> regular displayport adapter for my Thinkpad X220 on Ubuntu 13.04
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New Oculus Rift dev kit goes on sale for $350 today, likely ships in July(polygon.com)
282 points by amelim 13y ago|152 comments
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by amelim 13y ago
One of the coolest approaches I've seen does some cool inference on fully connected Conditional Random Fields via high-dimensional filtering. Amazing results. http://vladlen.info/publications/efficient-inference-in
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by amelim 13y ago
Well, some of us just happen to be graduate robotics students :)
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by amelim 13y ago
I believe the fundamental difference is that the time to get to null-sec in EVE (the actual interesting component of the game that generates strong narratives) takes a significant time investment from the player. Leveling up skills, purchas
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by amelim 13y ago
Sure! My lab focuses on SLAM and 3D reconstruction, especially for robotic applications. We've developed a BSD-licensed C++ (w/ MATLAB wrapper) library with specific applications towards 3D reconstruction problems such as SLAM and
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by amelim 13y ago
I believe that most UAV designs for extra-terrestrial missions are designed around the use of airships rather than more traditional airplane or quadrotor designs. An example of initial research in the area is the Titan Aerobot [1] [1] http
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Cloudboard Review(penny-arcade.com)
1 points by amelim 13y ago|0 comments
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by amelim 13y ago
As someone who is on the other side of the fence for this program (I'm currently a CS PhD student at Georgia Tech), I can tell you that many of the faculty are excited about online programs. Hopefully the learning process for the facul
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Spore: My View of the Elephant(designer-notes.com)
3 points by amelim 13y ago|0 comments
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by amelim 13y ago
A brilliant move would be to offer discounts on purchasing a game if the lender kicks you off while you are playing. "Sorry we have to kick you off while you are playing, it looks like the owner wants to play game X right now. Purchase
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by amelim 13y ago
But let's be clear here. It's from a search that was performed on an employer owned computer from a recently released employee. This is an entirely different narrative than the one insinuated in the original blog post. I'd sa
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by amelim 14y ago
Well, it's plausible seeing as how multiple people have reported to be able to play the game while lacking internet connections for up to 20 minutes. Additionally, the methodology of the code seems to fit with several of the changes made by
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Maxis Insider: SimCity Servers Not Necessary(rockpapershotgun.com)
271 points by amelim 14y ago|132 comments
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by amelim 14y ago
I think it's important to note that this actually isn't the Valve branded "Steam box", but actually a similar spec hardware platform to the one Valve is developing internally. It's unfortunate that a lot of the momentum and hype Valve can l
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by amelim 14y ago
Google has been working with one of Steve Mann's previous collaborators[1], Thad Starner[2]. Thad's actually the Tech Lead on the Glass project. As far as I know, he's been wearing AR systems for just as long and does the majority of his re
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by amelim 14y ago
Seems to be more of a "How we die" rather than why, but regardless it's a well done visualization.
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by amelim 14y ago
I'm surprised there was no mention of the Mount and Blade[1] series, which took a serious look at this sort of combat through the use of contextual mouse movements for parries and attacks. I wonder if he's unaware of the franchise, or just
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by amelim 14y ago
I'm not sure the last time you saw him with it, but it seems he's iterated a couple times. The most recent version isn't too far off from the Glass concept. http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/349511/large/T4200406-Wear...
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by amelim 14y ago
Thad Starner, shown in [2] is actually a member of the team working on Project Glass. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/
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by amelim 15y ago
As far as I'm aware, this is a completely different project from Psychonauts 2. I don't think Notch had any real significant involvement in this Kickstarter campaign.
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Where Have All The Bootstraps Gone?(rsbakker.wordpress.com)
2 points by amelim 15y ago|0 comments
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by amelim 15y ago
I'd be extremely wary about coming to any conclusions based upon the Reason.TV video. They have a clear political agenda and it's difficult to really understand the complexities of any situation through a series of edited interviews. In any
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by amelim 15y ago
The last thing the PC gaming community needs right now is another insanely expensive piece of hardware with a gimmick attached. I really cannot see this going anywhere within the community. I'm guessing that those who largely play the PC ga
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by amelim 15y ago
To be fair, it was the NPR Music guest hosts who missed the point, not the Planet Money team (which actually argued that it Jonathan's success was not a fluke).

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