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by blrs 15y ago
This seems like SIFT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo... ) in a nutshell. Here’s how image recognition works in a nutshell. It starts with identifying points of interest in an image — the points, lines, and pa
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by blrs 15y ago
I think Hackers will have the last laugh after all. When hackers finally build an AI, it will also be the first soul. An intelligent mind decoupled from a body and thus capable of being immortal. The first step in this direction was the sto
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by blrs 15y ago
Sometime back I had to get passport photos and was very pissed that Walgreens and CVS charge about $10 for 2 photos. This seemed inexplicable as the cost of a typical 4x6 print is about 10c at Snapfish (or 19c at Walgreens). Realizing that
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by blrs 15y ago
Here's a prediction: Since facebook "senior executives" are so fond of central planning, i.e., personally picking winners and losers for kickbacks, instead of creating a level playing field and letting the users pick the best services, its
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by blrs 15y ago
I really wonder how something like this got leaked! Thanks for posting.
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by blrs 15y ago
This definitely seems interesting. Are you guys hiring?
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by blrs 15y ago
I think Milton Friedman nailed it when he said that the biggest obstacle to a freer immigration policy is the welfare state. "[Throughout the history of the U.S.] you had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. W
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by blrs 15y ago
I don't know if engineering is the world's second oldest profession, but its interesting to know what google says is the world's oldest profession: prostitution!
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by blrs 15y ago
Yeah, this (article) seems to be totally at odds with the hacker ethic, expressed variously as: Jon Bentley in Programming Pearls: Column 2.5 "Aha! Algorithms" "Good hackers are a little bit lazy: they sit back and wait for an insight rathe