No idea why you got a funny, but gaussian isn't really the best choice. There are standard libraries that can do the right thing anyway (libmagick, libgdkpixbuf, etc) so perhaps you should just grab one of them and use that.
There's a good chance one of those is linked into Firefox already, and does the Gaussian thing. By the way, the Gaussian is the most correct choice, since, provably, it's the only convolution kernel that will result in a downsampled image without any aliasing at all. Other methods (uniform averaging, cubic kernels, etc.) approximate this.
All they need to do is a Gaussian averaging kernel around the fractional pixel position they want to estimate the value of. It's not really hard.
I wasn't joking, this is exactly how you'd do it correctly. Is this gobbeldygook to your average Slashdotter? Have I been hiding in the lab too much? Is this what grad school does to you?
I love Inkscape. I do CS research, and I use it for illustrations in slides and papers. Gradients, highlights, anti-aliasing and such really make diagrams stand out. It's not any more difficult to work with than Word's or OpenOffice's vector drawing tools, either.
The queers. They're in it with the aliens. It's part of a diabolical plan to build lunar landing strips for gay Martians.
So NASA says it's San Fransisco. I disagree - I think it's Britain, and it's part of a diabolical plan to build lunar landing strips for British Martians. After all, we know that every evil person in outer space speaks with an English accent.
I think a meteorite striking a lunar base would be like shooting at an ant crawling on the side of a barn. From a mile away. With your eyes closed. Of course, the thing about random chance is that it's bound to happen eventually, but I don't think any astronauts will lose sleep over it.
I hope it's not a one-in-a-million chance, because the thing about those is that they happen nine times out of ten.
Those poor astronauts. Chances are, one day they'll wake up dead.
I've never drunk either coffee or alcoholic anything. I have an easy time waking up and an easy time going to sleep, I don't do stupid things because I'm never uninhibited, and I save at least ten bucks a day.
Personally I was brought up on sci-fi stories and used to think that we would colonise the stars someday. I no longer think this is possible. Even a moonbase I regard as highly unlikely and the idea of living on Mars for me belongs to 1950's style sci-fi. To me, sadly, the future of mankind looks more like NOLA post-Katrina than Star Trek.
Anyone else read the headline and think: "why have the japanese made people's alzheimer's worse"
When I submitted the story, I initially wrote the headline "Japanese Boffins Beat Alzheimer's Without Swelling," which, besides being much wittier, is obviously much clearer. Boffin swelling is a major problem in this type of research, and its defeat was very newsworthy.
I had a story posted on Slashdot's front page yesterday which drove a grand total of 40 visitors to my blog. Page hits galore, I tell you. Why, all that traffic nearly slashdotted Blogger! If I had had Adsense going, that would have been what, four cents? For fifteen minutes of work?
Submit a good story or three yourself if you disapprove of Roland getting onto the front page all the time.
It seems like a little work setting up a free OS cluster would be a vastly preferable option, is there really any need or reason for this (at this cost anyway)?
Because nobody ever got fired for going Microsoft? There are certain people that will have warm fuzzies now that Microsoft has offered a solution.
I can't see that the intersection between that group and the one doing computationally-intensive research will be very large, though.
Which leads me to think that if somebody can figure out how to make a corporation STOP SUCKING, they could make a huge amount of money.
As soon as they start making those huge amounts of money, the parasites will attach. There's always going to be a great deal of BS in any mid-sized and up company.
The best way to do things is find a manager who effectively shields you from most of it. I got lucky three times in a row, but I haven't got a clue how to make sure it happens. I don't think there is a way.
I think it helps to work for a company that takes IT seriously, as a genuine method for improving the business and not a dreaded tax to be paid like waste removal or maintenance. Unfortunately I have no insight as to how to determine this from the outside.
I wonder how one would go about contacting the people who work in IT in a company you're checking out. That seems like the best place to go for information. Does anybody have any ideas on the best way to do this? Just emailing webmaster@company.com? Calling and asking to be redirected to the department? Hacking into the firewall and leaving a note?
Also, being a contractor (vs an employeeee) helps keep the political fog from encroaching too much on your personal life. At least it seems to help somewhat.
That's not to say that you can ignore it. As a contractor, it helps a lot to be canny about such things, to understand the hidden social network quickly.
But yes, it's a great way to isolate yourself from the effects of office politics.
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No idea why you got a funny, but gaussian isn't really the best choice. There are standard libraries that can do the right thing anyway (libmagick, libgdkpixbuf, etc) so perhaps you should just grab one of them and use that.
There's a good chance one of those is linked into Firefox already, and does the Gaussian thing. By the way, the Gaussian is the most correct choice, since, provably, it's the only convolution kernel that will result in a downsampled image without any aliasing at all. Other methods (uniform averaging, cubic kernels, etc.) approximate this.
Is your sig a joke? (I don't get it)
My sig points to my blog, which is a humor column a la Dave Barry's Mister Language Person, but for writers. It also targets bookworms.
Auto image resizing is stupid. It might not be bad to have a "fit image in window" menu option, but to have it the default is stupid.
I agree. The thing is, when people resize images in the "img" tag, it also does nearest-neighbor interpolation there. It looks terrible.
I suppose you could make the argument that it's supposed to in order to make the users shrink the images themselves (which is always better).
I just got two Funny moderations. Was it this?
All they need to do is a Gaussian averaging kernel around the fractional pixel position they want to estimate the value of. It's not really hard.
I wasn't joking, this is exactly how you'd do it correctly. Is this gobbeldygook to your average Slashdotter? Have I been hiding in the lab too much? Is this what grad school does to you?
I need to get out more, apparently.
I love Inkscape. I do CS research, and I use it for illustrations in slides and papers. Gradients, highlights, anti-aliasing and such really make diagrams stand out. It's not any more difficult to work with than Word's or OpenOffice's vector drawing tools, either.
All they need to do is a Gaussian averaging kernel around the fractional pixel position they want to estimate the value of. It's not really hard.
I might just code this up. It's been bugging me for years. With 3 Ghz machines, there's really no excuse.
Just wait until 64-bit is the norm. Then it'll be 18MB.
EA doesn't have the right mentality to keep MMOs alive.
They have a "screw the players, let's make a buck" mentality.
So how is this different?
maybe someday I can microwave food with some leds instead of that big, ugly magnetron?
I want them implanted in my fingers so I can find light switches in the dark.
I knew Oregon had a lot of wood, but this is rediculous!
Meaning, of course, that it's "diculous" a second time.
Um...
I love this invective.
People who use VCRs aren't pirates. They're, they're... they're rapists! Raping us of all our money!
Which terrorist group is NASA blaming ?
The queers. They're in it with the aliens. It's part of a diabolical plan to build lunar landing strips for gay Martians.
So NASA says it's San Fransisco. I disagree - I think it's Britain, and it's part of a diabolical plan to build lunar landing strips for British Martians. After all, we know that every evil person in outer space speaks with an English accent.
I think a meteorite striking a lunar base would be like shooting at an ant crawling on the side of a barn. From a mile away. With your eyes closed. Of course, the thing about random chance is that it's bound to happen eventually, but I don't think any astronauts will lose sleep over it.
I hope it's not a one-in-a-million chance, because the thing about those is that they happen nine times out of ten.
Those poor astronauts. Chances are, one day they'll wake up dead.
You got that right and here is proof, they are testing the new nuclear bombs by crashing them into the moon.
I hope they blow it up so I can catch a piece.
"Flamebait" for telling it like it is. That rules.
You may now flame me; I am full of love.
You first. Tell us how that works out.
I've never drunk either coffee or alcoholic anything. I have an easy time waking up and an easy time going to sleep, I don't do stupid things because I'm never uninhibited, and I save at least ten bucks a day.
That's how it works out.
Personally I was brought up on sci-fi stories and used to think that we would colonise the stars someday. I no longer think this is possible. Even a moonbase I regard as highly unlikely and the idea of living on Mars for me belongs to 1950's style sci-fi. To me, sadly, the future of mankind looks more like NOLA post-Katrina than Star Trek.
You're a half-full kind of guy, aren't you?
When I submitted the story, I initially wrote the headline "Japanese Boffins Beat Alzheimer's Without Swelling," which, besides being much wittier, is obviously much clearer. Boffin swelling is a major problem in this type of research, and its defeat was very newsworthy.
Darn you, ScuttleMonkey! Darn you to heck!
I had a story posted on Slashdot's front page yesterday which drove a grand total of 40 visitors to my blog. Page hits galore, I tell you. Why, all that traffic nearly slashdotted Blogger! If I had had Adsense going, that would have been what, four cents? For fifteen minutes of work?
Submit a good story or three yourself if you disapprove of Roland getting onto the front page all the time.
same reason why people always bring up the Moore's law whenever people talk about processor speeds.
Or Godwin's law, like any time at all.
It seems like a little work setting up a free OS cluster would be a vastly preferable option, is there really any need or reason for this (at this cost anyway)?
Because nobody ever got fired for going Microsoft? There are certain people that will have warm fuzzies now that Microsoft has offered a solution.
I can't see that the intersection between that group and the one doing computationally-intensive research will be very large, though.
I doubt using WIndows is going to help the price problem at all though.
If they have to use Vista it'll probably exacerbate the price problem.
Which leads me to think that if somebody can figure out how to make a corporation STOP SUCKING, they could make a huge amount of money.
As soon as they start making those huge amounts of money, the parasites will attach. There's always going to be a great deal of BS in any mid-sized and up company.
The best way to do things is find a manager who effectively shields you from most of it. I got lucky three times in a row, but I haven't got a clue how to make sure it happens. I don't think there is a way.
I think it helps to work for a company that takes IT seriously, as a genuine method for improving the business and not a dreaded tax to be paid like waste removal or maintenance. Unfortunately I have no insight as to how to determine this from the outside.
I wonder how one would go about contacting the people who work in IT in a company you're checking out. That seems like the best place to go for information. Does anybody have any ideas on the best way to do this? Just emailing webmaster@company.com? Calling and asking to be redirected to the department? Hacking into the firewall and leaving a note?
Also, being a contractor (vs an employeeee) helps keep the political fog from encroaching too much on your personal life. At least it seems to help somewhat.
That's not to say that you can ignore it. As a contractor, it helps a lot to be canny about such things, to understand the hidden social network quickly.
But yes, it's a great way to isolate yourself from the effects of office politics.
You're assuming, and we all know what that does.