This video shows an interesting demo of someone teaching the computer how to recognize toys with Kinect as one of the sensors. The demo used all open sourced technologies that combines computer vision, speech recognition, and speech synthesis.
I don't know if subliminal messages actually work, but I do know for a fact that it's used pervasively by the advertising industry and artists. See W. Bryan Keyes "Subliminal Seduction". While doing a project on subliminal advertising, I found this easy to spot example. Look at the red glass on a diet coke can. What do you see? Given that diet coke is predominently marketed at women who are weight conscious, it's easy to see that the message is - "Drink me and you'll look like the little red glass."
Programs fail mainly for two reasons: logic errors in the code and exception failures. Exception failures can account for up to two-thirds of system crashes [1], hence, are worthy of serious attention. Traditional approaches to reducing exception failures, such as code reviews, walkthroughs, and formal testing, while very useful, are limited in their ability to address a core problem: The programmer's inadequate coverage of exceptional conditions. The problem of coverage might be rooted in cognitive factors that impede the mental generation (or recollection) of exception cases that would pertain in a particular situation, resulting in insufficient software robustness. This paper describes controlled experiments for testing the hypothesis that robustness for exception failures can be improved through the use of various coverage-enhancing techniques: N-version programming, group collaboration, and
dependability cases. N-version programming and collaboration are well known. Dependability cases, derived from safety cases, comprise a new methodology based on structured taxonomies and memory aids for helping software designers think about and improve exception handling coverage. All three methods showed improvements over control conditions in increasing robustness to
exception failures but dependability cases proved most efficacious in terms of balancing cost and effectiveness. A controlled experiment conducted with 119 subjects revealed a statistically significant 34 percent increase (p
There's a much deeper message in the article, folks. Do you think the masses really care which way email is spelled? I think Wired is trying to separate quality writing from writing by the masses in the digital age. Look at the two following quotes.
"It was no longer necessary to know your semicolon, or your syntax, from a hole in the ground."
"Simply put, clear writing -- that which you understand easily -- is good. Writing that stops you cold, or forces you to go back and re-read what you've just read, is bad."
I think Wired is appalled at the atrocities Joe Shmoe has done to the English language. I totally agree. It starts with email, and now instant messages, where 30 year olds write like 10 year olds. Not capitalizing because of style is one matter, but doing it because someone is too lazy to reach an extra inch is abominable.
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This video shows an interesting demo of someone teaching the computer how to recognize toys with Kinect as one of the sensors. The demo used all open sourced technologies that combines computer vision, speech recognition, and speech synthesis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ59dXOo63o
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Slashdot readers unite. Let's boycott D-Link until they fix this issue. I bet this audience overlaps significantly with their consumer base.
Google is definitely not the first. Mapquest also had satellite imagery that you can swap in a few years back, but they seemed to have removed it.
I don't know if subliminal messages actually work, but I do know for a fact that it's used pervasively by the advertising industry and artists. See
W. Bryan Keyes "Subliminal Seduction". While doing a project on subliminal advertising, I found this easy to spot example. Look at the red glass on a diet coke can. What do you see? Given that diet coke is predominently marketed at women who are weight conscious, it's easy to see that the message is - "Drink me and you'll look like the little red glass."
Damn! Who are you??? I want to meet you!!! :)
Here's an excellent and in depth paper about why programmers forget exception handling, and how we can fix it.
"Eliminating Exception Handling Errors with Dependability Cases: A Comparative, Empirical Study", Roy A. Maxion, Member, IEEE, and Robert T. Olszewski
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/32/19000/008778
Abstract:
"It was no longer necessary to know your semicolon, or your syntax, from a hole in the ground."
"Simply put, clear writing -- that which you understand easily -- is good. Writing that stops you cold, or forces you to go back and re-read what you've just read, is bad."
I think Wired is appalled at the atrocities Joe Shmoe has done to the English language. I totally agree. It starts with email, and now instant messages, where 30 year olds write like 10 year olds. Not capitalizing because of style is one matter, but doing it because someone is too lazy to reach an extra inch is abominable.