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by ibuildthings 13y ago
Falsification and Incompleteness are two different things. Since we reason about physicals system using the language of mathematics/logic; it has be based on certain axiom which cannot be proved or disproved ( Godel's incompletene
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
> As i see, the current science is more rigorous because people are producing lot of crap Good, grief. No!!! It is a way of managing uncertainty and saying something with a precision that is available at a given point of time. > How m
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
> There is no such thing as modern science. The way we approach and do science has evolved drastically ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method ). For example empirical falsifiability which is on
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
Coming from an academic world, the primary currency in my network is the number of publications/citations. Faculty/postdocs/Phd's salary in most universities are not worth bragging about; but it is not uncommon for peopl
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
According to this article http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/a-global-shift-in-... foreign aid to India from UK amounts only to 280 million GBP; and something the Indian government is not at all keen i
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
"The fundamental problem with tech is that it kills jobs." While a very relevant sentiment, do you have any quantifiable data to support this ?
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
While I agree with the main sentiment of this article, I have a nitpick on the main caption image. For me there is a significant loss of information, when an app summarizes something as non-linear and hard-to-predict as weather into boolean
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
A slightly related project is this one: http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ I remember getting my first PC at the age of 10, and a feeling of empowerment it brought me. Be it writing my first program that did sometime substant
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by ibuildthings 13y ago
Shouldn't question be how does google manage to stay ahead in the curve ( despite being a big company ) ? Are their acquisitions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... ) helping, and how much they play the part
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by ibuildthings 14y ago
On the contrary, I think these are symptoms of machine learning coming of age [or getting industrialized]. I am not sure "short sighted commercial ends" are the main motivator for likes of Prof. Hinton to shift, but rather the availability
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by ibuildthings 14y ago
http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/cms/lang/en/pid/56882 Here are more details of the European project (labelled Blue Brain Project) other posters had mentioned about in this thread. Also, there is this TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_mark
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by ibuildthings 14y ago
Though I agree to most of what you said, for learning algorithms you need not think about low level memory management. I had used CLRS many times to explain algorithms to non-CS students and collaborators ( who almost always preferred dynam
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by ibuildthings 14y ago
Yes, this is a very good idea, and a very simple constraint to incorporate. I will include this.
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by ibuildthings 14y ago
Yes, in most cases the algorithm will ensure that the face is included. However, there are a few instances ( for example, if the face is blurred, or is in a weird pose ) when it will miss it.
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ShowHN: Automatically re-compose your pictures using computer vision(sight.io)
3 points by ibuildthings 14y ago|4 comments
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by ibuildthings 15y ago
A more elaborate talk about this work by one of the authors appears at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKu20y1f_RU
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by ibuildthings 15y ago
New for the sake of "new" doesn't make much sense to me. Quoting Einstein "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender
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by ibuildthings 15y ago
One of the tricky thrones in this method is extracting/guessing the camera motion path purely from image measurements. Better the estimate, the better the deblur kernel will be. What might be cool is if they can extract out meta-information
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by ibuildthings 15y ago
Actually human eye/brain is much more forgiving to motion blur in video that in still images. The chances are that one will spot quite a number of artifacts [compression as well as blur] in a grabbed frame of an HD quality video, which is o