jbondeson

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by jbondeson 9y ago
As a KS backer of Light Table I always get sad about what might have been[1] if they hadn't gone the YC + VC route that basically lead to abandoning LT before it was near ready for daily use for most of us. We never did get to see the
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by jbondeson 9y ago
They were not talking about through-hole LEDs in that section as Alps styles switches (Matias is resurrection of the simplified Alps style) cannot have both a through-hole LED and have a tactile or click leaf. They are talking about how Mat
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by jbondeson 9y ago
There is little I dislike more than generational labels. It's lazy and reductionist thinking that allows people to arbitrarily draw lines in whatever way they feel will best push their narrative. Quick, 1981/1982[1] Millennial or
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by jbondeson 9y ago
I'll take "Apocryphal Socrates Quotes" for $500 Alex
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by jbondeson 9y ago
Yes, that is the one-line throw away dismissal of the whole affair if you innately believe that everything we do will always devolve to the status quo. I reject this form of behavioral nihilism and prefer to believe that ideas can exact cha
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by jbondeson 9y ago
I find it sad (but not at all surprising) that this is the state of the Bitcoin community. The level of discourse for what is supposed to be a technology that is billed as "liberating money from the whims of governments" has neatl
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by jbondeson 10y ago
Great to see a more generic pure-.NET image processing library. When I was doing this 5 years ago we basically had AForge.NET which was focused more on correctness of algorithms than speed. I tried to leverage that, but instead ended up wit
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by jbondeson 10y ago
It's not just that, it's also the people who want to trot out "hur hur hur, only uneducated people voted for Trump" I'm just so sick of all the navel gazing going on between the Bernie or Bust'ers, the Establis
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by jbondeson 10y ago
Could be, but personally I'm done with being silent and just chuckling silently to myself or rolling my eyes when people pull out these infotainment zingers disguised as "insight". The last year has ripped covers off the cult
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by jbondeson 10y ago
> 59million liked all new age sjw stuff That is such an absurd and reductionist dismissal of this election that is no different than the equally wrong people saying "59 million people liked all the old sexist, homophobic, racist and
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by jbondeson 10y ago
The hardest part of an open source poll would be anonymization. Demographic information in some areas could be enough to come pretty close to uniquely identifying an individual. The rest of it: Likely Voter Models, Demographic Weighting, et
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by jbondeson 10y ago
I for one am thankful for Jest and Yarn. I recently switched over to Jest and I love most everything about it and the built in watch with caching reduces friction immensely (now if we can just allow custom preprocessors to return promises t
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by jbondeson 10y ago
Definitely an Infinity Ergodox, the full hand has the I:C logo on it.
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by jbondeson 10y ago
It's much more nuanced than that though. Increasing the evaporation rate also makes exploitation much harder, not to mention that the positive feedback cycle on previously very good edges can take a long time to dissipate. ACO for dyna
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by jbondeson 10y ago
One of the biggest drawbacks with things like ACO (ant colony optimization) are actually more in dynamic environments rather than static ones like these. Pheromone trails tend to reinforce the information from the old topology rather than t
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by jbondeson 10y ago
Excellent. It's a little funny how when you start problems like these you start becoming an expert in fields you never thought you'd have to play in like color spaces, color perception theory, etc. Great work, and I look forward t
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by jbondeson 10y ago
On the contrast topic: adaptive thresholding can be very helpful (I believe Bradley Local Thresholding was one I had particular success with) however most of these algorithms work in a grayscale domain which means they are dependent upon wh
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by jbondeson 10y ago
It's definitely happening on the device. Document recognition like this moved onto the device about 3 years ago, and in fact if they didn't do this device side they would have a harder time dealing with the Mitek patents[1] that a
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by jbondeson 10y ago
Having worked with several of the commercial products in this space almost all of them lean on OpenCV for the hard parts, and I'd be surprised if this didn't either.
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by jbondeson 10y ago
Worked on this problem exactly 2-3 years ago (developed automated document processing in the accounts receivable and accounts payable sector for a decade plus). It's a fun iceberg problem that looks simple on the surface but tends to h
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by jbondeson 10y ago
What you're actually calling for is to completely remove the Senate since what you want is exactly how the House of Representatives is structured. Also due to the fact that the wealth of the nation is centered in many of these urban ce
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by jbondeson 10y ago
"Black people were targeted in 72 percent of thousands of investigative street stops that did not lead to arrests during a recent summer." If that's not racial profiling, I don't know what is.
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by jbondeson 11y ago
He open sourced (GPLv3) the whole engine at: https://github.com/AlwaysGeeky/Vox
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by jbondeson 11y ago
The cash payout is ~$500 million, and after taxes you may end up with $309 million. So, yeah, probably not a winning strategy.
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by jbondeson 11y ago
I spent a decade working with and writing software for LTL freight and 3PL companies on the receivables automation side and all I have to say is I hope these companies are successful. There are tons of opportunities for efficiency gains all
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by jbondeson 11y ago
It's sad that I had to get to bullet point 9 before I could tell if this was satire...
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by jbondeson 11y ago
The biggest is probably that the home care industries operate on such a shoe string budgets that there really isn't all that much room for a middleman to take a cut. This isn't taxis where you can bank on regulatory arbitrage to t
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by jbondeson 11y ago
We've seen some pretty large drops in the last two decades due to BGP hijacking with entire countries going dark. So I wouldn't say that it's been entirely avoided.
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by jbondeson 12y ago
The joke is that the job description for an HR employee excludes basically anyone with a disability.
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by jbondeson 12y ago
Sure, if you really skimp you can do stuff fairly cheap, but if you don't want to go insane with all the juggling you're generally looking at two kettles, and an igloo. They do sell some setups with two igloo's, but then when

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