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by cubedice 14y ago
the MSR video of decision-tree based body recognition/segmentation was pretty neat http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/CVPR%202011%20-%20... . is there a list of good applications of this technique besides credit checks and face rec
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by cubedice 16y ago
Well, about 4 or 5 minutes in they switch to a PIP view, with the majority of the screen showing the slides.
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by cubedice 17y ago
An "Open for another X hours" badge might be even better. I find restaurants are always closing within a half hour or so of deciding to go out to eat.
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Surfing the Bitplane (explanation of CSS coke can)(mikedavenport.net)
1 points by cubedice 17y ago|0 comments
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by cubedice 17y ago
Haha, that makes me think of 'voting' for clojure as voting for Nader. Funny, since I wrote my blog in clojure/compojure and found it easy going compared to Rails (which, to be fair, I had attempted to learn before having any real programmi
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by cubedice 17y ago
This looks neat, but it appears to be an 'academic' exercise. I couldn't find any source code written for the JOP (the only project in the Links section was down) after scanning some of the pdfs. I did, however, notice the 64 journal publi
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by cubedice 17y ago
I noticed the R packages for various functions in the text can be found here http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn//Rfun.html . Their names are pretty catchy; I'll admit I want to use 'gradient boosting' and 'Lasso and elasti
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"Wikipedia of maps" open sources Atlanta map data(news.bbc.co.uk)
28 points by cubedice 17y ago|7 comments
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by cubedice 17y ago
I'd buy that. For me, listening to music while coding is an engineering problem: how to minimize the tendency to let the mind wander without overwhelming it with new input. For me that means using music that is ambient enough without vergi
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by cubedice 17y ago
Of course that 'solution' eventually led to the great schism and many different versions (king james, etc.). So maybe the deeper truth is that people enjoy arguing?
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by cubedice 17y ago
Ah, thanks, that makes sense. What I was thinking of was the many times I've crashed java by trying to load/render decently sized images in memory (something about how heap space takes awhile to dynamically allocate). You could specify i
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by cubedice 17y ago
They should have called it clay (you know, model stuff, like with clay ;); the first thing I thought of was http://www.cray.com supercomputers. Maybe that was intentional. After browsing the source, it seems they are using Java2D primiti
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by cubedice 17y ago
Not really. Although that's a funny thought. I'd go for a system that enforced a payment based upon a baseline # of listens on pandora, last.fm or youtube.
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by cubedice 17y ago
Hmm, you definitely have a point. People have rarely felt musicians should be paid (a lot) for their self-expression; I can't really recall when it was a lucrative career. What I suppose I meant was that the best musicians have often (thou
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by cubedice 17y ago
See, but this is very much the problem. Records provided an unequal distribution of wealth amongst performing artists before the internet. Why pay to listen to an up-and-coming classical artist when an exquisite recording of Chopin's wo
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by cubedice 17y ago
I imagine the startup/VC|Google relationship to be like my first girlfriend: neither of you is sure what it is exactly you're doing. She knows if you want anything to do with her, you've got to come take it. So you're going for it, but yo
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by cubedice 17y ago
What an imbecilic name for a company
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by cubedice 17y ago
I've always been a fan of roundabouts, especially for smaller intersections.
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by cubedice 17y ago
Although interestingly, as I post this, Bing returns the one (correct) result while Google attempts to redirect me to a Sopranos Wikipedia page and clutters the main results with a few irrelevant links.
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by cubedice 17y ago
What's interesting is that after reading this article I've realized I always expected e-mail search to be bad. Why? Possibly because, when another entity holds a large portion of my social information, it feigning ignorance about deep tec
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by cubedice 17y ago
previously submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=694545
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by cubedice 17y ago
Mostly tangential, but I have to code in MFC at the day job (legacy code base). God, the winapi guys must have had a sadistic sense of humor when they designed it. My guess is they were so used to low level programming that they saw objec
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by cubedice 17y ago
I agree that users should participate if they want to make the site better. And yes, there still are interesting posts. Still, I see people getting modded up for saying "go with the flow," and modded down for questioning the site's directi
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by cubedice 17y ago
Why is this at -2, exactly? All mILK did was respond to a question. If people don't like the response, they should at least post a reply.
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by cubedice 17y ago
Maybe. But it's still sad to see this site change into a big site with a wider audience. I definitely care less and less for the "discussion" that takes place here, which is frustrating to watch. Perhaps I'm just feeling pessimistic, but
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by cubedice 17y ago
I managed to overcome the slacker lifestyle. However, this was forced upon me. I found myself without a home for a short while, then living with two roommates who were 10 years older than me. They were mildly dysfunctional slackers, and m
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by cubedice 17y ago
I wish I had known about this during my OOP course. This looks slightly more intuitive than the quick sequence diagram editor (sdedit) http://sdedit.sourceforge.net/ . The thing about sdedit, however, is you can see your diagram as you c
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by cubedice 17y ago
Something bothers me about Bill Hicks, and I don't think it has anything to do with his material. He was (IMHO) a moderately funny comedian who eventually fell off the deep end. The problem I've found is that he was more a mouthpiece for
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by cubedice 17y ago
At work so I can't actually demo. However, the video looked nice. One thing I noticed is that the tabs correctly displayed minor chords while the text simply said B or F# (implying major). Additionally, how good is it at picking up alter
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by cubedice 17y ago
Sort of like French proverbs or Zen koans, I suppose. The fact that they are often too general and contradictory doesn't seem to stop older, wiser folk from repeating them.

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