Indeed. There is an interesting SIGGRAPH paper by Rob Fergus that shows how one can use natural image statistics to recover a kernel from a single image. Historically this has been pretty easy in the astronomy domain because they can observe the kernel formed by a point light source (stars). It's much more difficult for arbitrary photographs.
However,I assume there _must_ be an easier way to comment a region in vim? I am an emacs person, but I have seen my colleague insert a % at the front of a line and have this repeated down a block. It looks like significantly less than 14 keystrokes, and of course is much more flexible.
Do we really think that the people who went through with this are "Obamatrons"? It would imagine if Obama, or anybody on the democratic side, was known to be using a yahoo.com or hotmail.com email address, then these people would be going just as hard to get in there. This is 4chan we're talking about, not the DNC or even left-leaning bloggers. I can't imagine them being too politically motivated in either direction
showed the first working system, using around 10,000 images. They were able to search for repeating objects such as Bill Muarray's tie in the film Groundhog Day. In broad terms, these systems work by identifying "visual words" which are small, recognisable, patches in the images. A "vocabulary" is built up by clustering these visual words, reducing their number from perhaps several hundred per image, to a few thousand in total. Each image is now characterised by which of the visual words apprea within it. Traditional reverse-index techniques used in text retrieval can be applied directly, resulting in rapid query times.
This system is very impressive because they have managed to really increase the scale that they can create the vocab.
The stealth technology of the B2 was designed to be invisible to "conventional" radar which looks from below. I always thought it was very interesting that "over the horizon" radar could not only spot stealth aircarft, but it could do so from a much further distance. Australia's Jindalee OTHR apparently has been able to pick up stealth aircarft like the B2 for years.
Of course this probably isn't really a huge problem for two reasons: firstly, Australia is an ally of the US, and secondly, Jindalee is an enormous installation taking decades to perfect; it's not likely to be moved from it's current position any time soon.
A very interesting article was published in the Atlantic about the B2. The reporter spent some time living with the people who comprise the flight crew:
A B-2 Spirit costs roughly as much as a fast-attack nuclear submarine or a guided-missile destroyer. But whereas a Los Angeles-class submarine requires a crew of 130 and an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer a crew of 320, the B-2 has a crew of just two: a pilot and a mission commander. There are only 21 B-2s in the Air Force. Nobody else in the U.S. military is entrusted with as much responsibility, in terms of sheer dollars, as these bomber pilots are. If a single B-2 were to go down, even in training, it would be a banner-headline story.
I support a lot of what you are saying. I provided those links in response the original comment which said that the constitution is "just a piece a paper that doesn't matter." I'm firmly in the camp that says that electing a president is a very bad idea. It makes situations like those of 1975 significantly worse; a "president" who has been elected politically is going to be much quicker with his finger on the trigger than Kerr ever was. But I sitll think it's important to remember 1975 in this context: although it was Kerr who sacked the elected government, he still acted on behalf of the Queen. And while I wasn't around at that time, to my eyes today it looks very bad indeed that the Queen, even if it is someone acting on her behalf, can dismiss a democratically elected government.
If the constitution is changed and what I think the most sensible option is adopted -- that of a head of state appointed in a similar manner to the Governor General -- the events of 1975 could indeed happen again. But there would be a very important change: It would Australia herself organising her affairs. No one would be acting on behalf of a foreign country. And I think that's an important difference.
Sure, our constitution may read differently to what I have stated but then most aussies realise it's just a bit of paper that can be changed. Except it hasn't been changed. And until it does, there is no reason to suggest that something like this couldn't happen again.
From the rather less than opaque description in the linked article, it
seems that this works is a hierarchical extension to a system known as
Video
Google. This system detects two-dimensional features in every
image of a video sequence. Then uses hierarchical clustering to group
together "like" features together. The centres of these clusters are
used as "visual words". Scenes from the original video can then be
characterised by which of these visual words they contain.
Using these words, search engine style indices and techniques can be
used to make searching -- by supplying an example image area which can
have its words computed -- quite fast.
The key bottle neck here is the clustering stage: reducing the
original input of typically hundreds of features per frame --
multiplied by 25 frames per second by minutes, or hours, of video --
to a much smaller set of clusters. It looks like the work in the
linked article is using a modified clustering algorithm
which does not require all of the data to be in memory at once.
The TRECVID
project is a challenge style exercise where groups compete to provide
the best search results for a given set of queries where the search
material is hours of video.
Mike: And then the drunk guy says, "I can't help being an idiot; I'm Canadian." Crow: Hahahaha. You're right! They're so pathetic, Mike! Mike: Right, exactly. Servo: Enough! There's been too much Canada-bashing for far too long. I say no more. Mike: Don't you mean, "No more, eh?" Crow: Good one, man! They are so stupid! Servo: Stop it now! Instead, let us offer our northern brothers and sisters this song of tribute. Oh, I wish I was back in old Canada, a land which I never shall lampoon. How I pine for the ice covering Lake Manitoba and the beauty that is Saskatoon. Mike: Oh, I got one. Oh, I wish I was stuck in the hills of Alberta drinkin beer with some big, dumb guy trapping fur. Servo: Hey! Mike: As he scraped and he chisled all the moose dung off his boot, I would learn that he's the prime minister. Servo: Oh, stop that. Crow: Oh, I wish I was in the land that gave us Peter Jennings, Alanis Morrissette, Mike Myers too... Servo: Ah! Crow: No, I take that back, I wouldn't go there even if you paid me! Oh, Canada, you are a place I must eskew. Servo: Now this is not in the spirit that I intended. Mike: Oh, come on. Give in. I mean, they gave us Ed the Sock... and Rush. Crow: Yeah, what are you defending? They're such feebs! Servo: Okay, I'll try. Mike: Alright, good man! Servo: Oh, I wish I was blowing up Prince Edward Island, then going on to bomb Ontario. Hehe. The destruction of Canada and all of its culture is by far my favorite scenario. Mike: Okay, I think that's a little strong. You can back down... Servo: Oh no, you were right, Mike. This is much more fun! Just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border with countries far superior to it? Crow: Yikes! Servo: Why, you lousy, stinkin', Francophonic, bacon-lovin' bastards, your country's just a giant piece of sh... Crow: Woah, woah, woah, woah! Geez! Mike: Okay, I think that's enough! I think we've punched it. Cambot, okay. Thanks. Alright. Servo: Sorry. Crow: Wow. Servo: I have no sense of proportion. I'm a disgrace to my uniform. Mike: I know. That's, that's okay. Now calm down now. Mustn't hate, mustn't hate... Crow: At least so overtly. Mike: Exactly, right. Must disguise our hate. Just a little, okay? We'll be right back. Shh, shh. It's okay now, Dudley. Calm down, calm down. Servo: Pardon é mois! Pardon é mois!
I have always expected that there would be a movement where a man and woman get married and pick a new family name. It just seemed logical to me. Neither party has to take the other's name, and they also get to share a common family name which would symbolise the bond. Hasn't happened yet, but I still figure it might
It has happened, although the result shows why this is not a popular idea...
I guess you can't be "almost" compilant with an ISO standard (formal stantards are exactly for that). Either you implement it (and can use the name), or you don't.
I guess that's why Microsoft sometimes doesn't use the name, but just the first letter.
As far as I've been able to tell, nothing does the group scheduling other than Exchange in any decent form.
Meeting Maker can do group scheduling. It works quite well and there are clients available for Windows/Mac/Linux. When scheduling a group meeting, the client will render a parallel timeline of a given day for all participants, allowing you to choose the best time when everybody (or at least most people) are free. I'ts not free software (in any sense) though.
On a larger scale, Oracle calendar also has group scheduling. (Its clients are also available on Win/Mac/Linux.)
A few people have posted comments on this thread linking to Gregg Easterbrook's NFL column, but no-one has mentioned his article from March 1980, "Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty." Before the first shuttle even flew its first mission, Easterbrook already argued stongly against the wisdom of the programme. This article became quite widely read after the Challanger distaster, and again after Columbia.
In fact, a quick Google search throws up a long list of articles from TNR, The Atlantic, and Slate.com, etc., following a similar theme. This guy has been chipping away on this line for a long time now...
The race is from Darwin, in the north of Australia, to Adelaide, in the south, and passes through two states with different road laws. In the Northern Territory there is no speed limit on the open road. And when the race passes the border into South Australia they hit a state wide limit of 110km/hr. I would imagine that roughtly 60-70% of the distance would be in the NT under no speed restrictions.
This is yet another example of Apple's idea of gouging prices using inflated exchange rates. One example is the Mac Mini: $US500 in the 'states, but selling for $AUD800. On today's exchange rate, $US500 is around $AUD645. Now that's a $155 gouge, and a pretty painful one at that.
And by Apple's recent standrds, that is actually quite low. There was a time recently when it was cheaper to purchase a return air ticket from Sydney to Hawaii and buy a 17" powerbook in $US, than it was to pay the exorbitenly inflated price in AUD that Apple was charging locally.
Now, with their online music store, they are charging $AUD1.80 for exactly the same songs which cost $US0.99 -- yet another blatant rip off. Again, on today's exchange rate, that is a markup of over 40%! When will Apple learn that people in Australia aren't stupid and that we can actually read sites outside Australia -- and apply a simple conversion.
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Indeed. There is an interesting SIGGRAPH paper by Rob Fergus that shows how one can use natural image statistics to recover a kernel from a single image. Historically this has been pretty easy in the astronomy domain because they can observe the kernel formed by a point light source (stars). It's much more difficult for arbitrary photographs.
Although it's not perfect, I use the repagination plugin for firefox to render articles like this one all on one page.
Whoops: my keystrokes were filtered out!
meta - x - c - o - m - m - tab - r - tab - enter
Ten!
Except it's not 24 keystrokes. Here is my count:
Ten!
However,I assume there _must_ be an easier way to comment a region in vim? I am an emacs person, but I have seen my colleague insert a % at the front of a line and have this repeated down a block. It looks like significantly less than 14 keystrokes, and of course is much more flexible.
Do we really think that the people who went through with this are "Obamatrons"? It would imagine if Obama, or anybody on the democratic side, was known to be using a yahoo.com or hotmail.com email address, then these people would be going just as hard to get in there. This is 4chan we're talking about, not the DNC or even left-leaning bloggers. I can't imagine them being too politically motivated in either direction
The idea of a "visual" search has been around for some time. These guys at the Univ of Oxford
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/vgoogle/index.html
showed the first working system, using around 10,000 images. They were able to search for repeating objects such as Bill Muarray's tie in the film Groundhog Day. In broad terms, these systems work by identifying "visual words" which are small, recognisable, patches in the images. A "vocabulary" is built up by clustering these visual words, reducing their number from perhaps several hundred per image, to a few thousand in total. Each image is now characterised by which of the visual words apprea within it. Traditional reverse-index techniques used in text retrieval can be applied directly, resulting in rapid query times.
This system is very impressive because they have managed to really increase the scale that they can create the vocab.
The stealth technology of the B2 was designed to be invisible to "conventional" radar which looks from below. I always thought it was very interesting that "over the horizon" radar could not only spot stealth aircarft, but it could do so from a much further distance. Australia's Jindalee OTHR apparently has been able to pick up stealth aircarft like the B2 for years.
Of course this probably isn't really a huge problem for two reasons: firstly, Australia is an ally of the US, and secondly, Jindalee is an enormous installation taking decades to perfect; it's not likely to be moved from it's current position any time soon.
So who are these guys?
I support a lot of what you are saying. I provided those links in response the original comment which said that the constitution is "just a piece a paper that doesn't matter." I'm firmly in the camp that says that electing a president is a very bad idea. It makes situations like those of 1975 significantly worse; a "president" who has been elected politically is going to be much quicker with his finger on the trigger than Kerr ever was. But I sitll think it's important to remember 1975 in this context: although it was Kerr who sacked the elected government, he still acted on behalf of the Queen. And while I wasn't around at that time, to my eyes today it looks very bad indeed that the Queen, even if it is someone acting on her behalf, can dismiss a democratically elected government.
If the constitution is changed and what I think the most sensible option is adopted -- that of a head of state appointed in a similar manner to the Governor General -- the events of 1975 could indeed happen again. But there would be a very important change: It would Australia herself organising her affairs. No one would be acting on behalf of a foreign country. And I think that's an important difference.
Using these words, search engine style indices and techniques can be used to make searching -- by supplying an example image area which can have its words computed -- quite fast.
The key bottle neck here is the clustering stage: reducing the original input of typically hundreds of features per frame -- multiplied by 25 frames per second by minutes, or hours, of video -- to a much smaller set of clusters. It looks like the work in the linked article is using a modified clustering algorithm which does not require all of the data to be in memory at once.
The TRECVID project is a challenge style exercise where groups compete to provide the best search results for a given set of queries where the search material is hours of video.
Mike: And then the drunk guy says, "I can't help being an idiot; I'm Canadian."
Crow: Hahahaha. You're right! They're so pathetic, Mike!
Mike: Right, exactly.
Servo: Enough! There's been too much Canada-bashing for far too long. I say no more.
Mike: Don't you mean, "No more, eh?"
Crow: Good one, man! They are so stupid!
Servo: Stop it now! Instead, let us offer our northern brothers and sisters this song of tribute. Oh, I wish I was back in old Canada, a land which I never shall lampoon. How I pine for the ice covering Lake Manitoba and the beauty that is Saskatoon.
Mike: Oh, I got one. Oh, I wish I was stuck in the hills of Alberta drinkin beer with some big, dumb guy trapping fur.
Servo: Hey!
Mike: As he scraped and he chisled all the moose dung off his boot, I would learn that he's the prime minister.
Servo: Oh, stop that.
Crow: Oh, I wish I was in the land that gave us Peter Jennings, Alanis Morrissette, Mike Myers too...
Servo: Ah!
Crow: No, I take that back, I wouldn't go there even if you paid me! Oh, Canada, you are a place I must eskew.
Servo: Now this is not in the spirit that I intended.
Mike: Oh, come on. Give in. I mean, they gave us Ed the Sock... and Rush.
Crow: Yeah, what are you defending? They're such feebs!
Servo: Okay, I'll try.
Mike: Alright, good man!
Servo: Oh, I wish I was blowing up Prince Edward Island, then going on to bomb Ontario. Hehe. The destruction of Canada and all of its culture is by far my favorite scenario.
Mike: Okay, I think that's a little strong. You can back down...
Servo: Oh no, you were right, Mike. This is much more fun! Just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border with countries far superior to it?
Crow: Yikes!
Servo: Why, you lousy, stinkin', Francophonic, bacon-lovin' bastards, your country's just a giant piece of sh...
Crow: Woah, woah, woah, woah! Geez!
Mike: Okay, I think that's enough! I think we've punched it. Cambot, okay. Thanks. Alright.
Servo: Sorry.
Crow: Wow.
Servo: I have no sense of proportion. I'm a disgrace to my uniform.
Mike: I know. That's, that's okay. Now calm down now. Mustn't hate, mustn't hate...
Crow: At least so overtly.
Mike: Exactly, right. Must disguise our hate. Just a little, okay? We'll be right back. Shh, shh. It's okay now, Dudley. Calm down, calm down.
Servo: Pardon é mois! Pardon é mois!
It has happened, although the result shows why this is not a popular idea...
I guess you can't be "almost" compilant with an ISO standard (formal stantards are exactly for that). Either you implement it (and can use the name), or you don't.
I guess that's why Microsoft sometimes doesn't use the name, but just the first letter.
As far as I've been able to tell, nothing does the group scheduling other than Exchange in any decent form.
Meeting Maker can do group scheduling. It works quite well and there are clients available for Windows/Mac/Linux. When scheduling a group meeting, the client will render a parallel timeline of a given day for all participants, allowing you to choose the best time when everybody (or at least most people) are free. I'ts not free software (in any sense) though.
On a larger scale, Oracle calendar also has group scheduling. (Its clients are also available on Win/Mac/Linux.)
Um, Italy, Vietnam, Greece, and plenty of others...
In fact, a quick Google search throws up a long list of articles from TNR, The Atlantic, and Slate.com, etc., following a similar theme. This guy has been chipping away on this line for a long time now...
Is there no speed limit in Australia?
The race is from Darwin, in the north of Australia, to Adelaide, in the south, and passes through two states with different road laws. In the Northern Territory there is no speed limit on the open road. And when the race passes the border into South Australia they hit a state wide limit of 110km/hr. I would imagine that roughtly 60-70% of the distance would be in the NT under no speed restrictions.
Moot, while spelled the same, usually refers to imaginary cases given to law students to argue.
You mean an imaginary or practice case where the outcome has no instrinsic effect in itself? Kind of like the "mute" point the original poster made?
The Pyramids of Giza! Oh wait, no...
Yes?
This is yet another example of Apple's idea of gouging prices using inflated exchange rates. One example is the Mac Mini: $US500 in the 'states, but selling for $AUD800. On today's exchange rate, $US500 is around $AUD645. Now that's a $155 gouge, and a pretty painful one at that.
And by Apple's recent standrds, that is actually quite low. There was a time recently when it was cheaper to purchase a return air ticket from Sydney to Hawaii and buy a 17" powerbook in $US, than it was to pay the exorbitenly inflated price in AUD that Apple was charging locally.
Now, with their online music store, they are charging $AUD1.80 for exactly the same songs which cost $US0.99 -- yet another blatant rip off. Again, on today's exchange rate, that is a markup of over 40%! When will Apple learn that people in Australia aren't stupid and that we can actually read sites outside Australia -- and apply a simple conversion.
I hope the Canberra weather isn't too cold for another great dunking
And some bright spark has even sported a q&d script to help use them with OO.o docs.
ummm