Bah! more details. I watched your face detection video and read the blurb on your web page, do you have a paper or tech report on it? I've seen another video from a research group here that looks almost identical to this one, kind of amusing.
I've seen real time demos of Viola-Jones cascades that work reasonably well. And training time isn't so ridiculous if you cut out the adaboost feature selection. Your idea to pre-process input images (segment them) into interesting and non interesting regions seems reasonable. But if you're worried about video, I'd put temporal search constraints in first. Which you might already have but you didn't post a paper:)
Hehe, very nice find. Got any more articles? That's awesome that this guy is in to online gaming, amateur astronomy, travel, etc... he's like me but more athletic! Also black. Suddenly I don't think baseball is so bad.
I think the selling of everquest items is reasonable. The items have a real use, just in some virtual environment where people spend a lot of time. Who cares that the item has no use in the _real world_, it will see just as much use (or more) in its virtual world than many items in the real world. Concepts like price also make sense because everquest items have rarity or are difficult to acquire. Really there's no reason the economics of the real world can't carry over to a virtual world.
"I'm kind of at the top of my field [in gaming]," he said. "When I started reading about aerospace, I realized there was an incredible level of things to learn.... There's this mytholigization of aerospace that it's the hardest thing you can do. That's just not true. In terms of actual difficulty, it's not that hard. Aerospace is plumbing with the volume turned up."
I can see that the Anti MS sentiment is strong enough for everyone to overlook this, but doesn't it seem a bit unfortunate for half a billion US dollars to fly off to fill some European government treasury? I mean if this was a company we liked it might seem a bit like the EU was overstepping their bounds. Imagine if they fined Google half a billion dollars for search engine antitrust. (a bit ridiculous, but hey)
We have pretty significant trade deficits already.
from http://money.cnn.com/2003/02/20/news/economy/trade _deficit/
"Exports to Western Europe slipped to the lowest level since 1997"
"On an individual country basis, the U.S. trade deficit with Germany set a record in December at $4.1 billion, fueled by a record $6.3 billion in imports"
Can't believe I'm replying to a troll, but those credits are exactly what I'm talking about. The amount of people from different disciplines they're bringing on board to make games now is impressive. Certainly becoming hollywoodesque.
I skimmed over the article. I have to disagree completely with his conclusion. Technology has not stagnated. People are still having original gameplay ideas. Sure, there are genres that are over done or frequently done, but that's fine. The games are becoming much higher production value. Look at the credits for a game like Vice City, it's simply amazing. In my opinion, games are becoming better than ever and I expect the game industry to keep growing for the near future.
Anti-matter goes away when it touches normal matter, there's not really any danger of run away chain reaction.
I guess there could have been fear of run away nuclear reactions destroying the world... Of course we know it won't happen now.
But fears that run away black holes could eat the planet seem a little more reasonable. Even if the physicists say they will exist for only short periods. It just makes me nervous.
It just reminds me of someone's conjecture that the reason we don't find any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the universe is because they all stumble upon the same technology or experiment that destroys their civilization. And we'll be finding it in the future.
Ah well... back to building my robot army. That couldn't cause any problems.
These observatories are complementary- not upgrades to eachother. They cover different wavelengths. Gamma Ray (compton), X ray (Chandra), UV, visible, short-wave-infrared (Hubble), and long-wave-infrared (Spitzer / SIRTF)
It's a loss for any of them to go, but hubble is unique among them in its ability to be repaired.
This may not be true for all wavelengths that Hubble can see, but it is true for a large part of it.
It is not true for much of the infrared range, because the atmosphere is opaque to some of it. The same goes for ultraviolet. Here's a graph of the infrared part - http://www.coseti.org/atmosphe.htm
The webb telescope should cover some (all?) of that range when it's eventually launched. The Webb telescope will not cover the ultraviolet range that hubble covers. So your argument is that those ranges are not very important for observation? It's no big deal to lose infrared for the next 5 years and ultraviolet indefinitely?
Wow I didn't even realize it was the same actor. That's amazing. That means Ian McDiarmid eas only 36 years old when he played the emporer in ROTJ. That's crazy?! And they made him look so old. It's almost like they planned to use him looking younger in prequels.
What? You're involved in keeping our astronauts safe and you think that there are ground based ultraviolet or infrared telescopes that are "even better than" hubble? That's distressing.
"It could probably survive and produce data for another 10 years, but at lower quality and much greater expense than we can get elsewhere." I'll thank you to tell me where else I can get my high quality infrared and ultraviolet observations (specifically on the wavelengths in which the atmosphere is opaque).
I am not in a position to evaluate the rest of your comments, but I'm skeptical of them now.
Uhhh.. No, NASA definitely hires lots of computer engineers, computer science majors, etc. They don't ask the geologists scientists to code a file system. This should definitely be an embarrassment to the JPL code monkeys. This stuff should have been tested and reviewed. I can't believe their longest mission simulation was something like 9 days.
And if the module in question wasn't actually written by JPL, it should still be an embarrassment to them for a) buying it b) not testing it
Why do they have to lump together the people who want the DMCA repealed with those who require some state subsidized artist payment. I just want my fair use rights back, I don't need some nutty scheme that forces artists to share their music and taxes me on CD-r's.
" The money would come from a tax on various content-related devices, like DVD burners, blank CD's or digital recorders"
I can't believe the copyleft is saying things like that. That is not a reasonable compromise for me to get my fair-use rights back.
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Bah! more details. I watched your face detection video and read the blurb on your web page, do you have a paper or tech report on it? I've seen another video from a research group here that looks almost identical to this one, kind of amusing.
:)
I've seen real time demos of Viola-Jones cascades that work reasonably well. And training time isn't so ridiculous if you cut out the adaboost feature selection. Your idea to pre-process input images (segment them) into interesting and non interesting regions seems reasonable. But if you're worried about video, I'd put temporal search constraints in first. Which you might already have but you didn't post a paper
I wish they'd open those tunnels up! Gah it's miserable walking around campus in the winter. Which is pretty much half the year up here :(
:)
At least Wean and NSH are connected... Or I'd never see my lab or advisor
'No one's done this before," Feinberg said. "It will be fun -- not for my client but for me professionally."'
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/cons.h tml is an interesting, informal exploration about conscienceness.
Yeah I find that hard to believe. Memphis is sprawled out and low tech. I wonder what their evaluation methods were.
Hehe, very nice find. Got any more articles? That's awesome that this guy is in to online gaming, amateur astronomy, travel, etc... he's like me but more athletic! Also black. Suddenly I don't think baseball is so bad.
Well said, I've had to resort to this dimming method with green LEDs, even.
Yes... pretty similar.. since Tucker is from CMU and so was a lot of your doggy source code :) /cmu and gatech student.
I think the selling of everquest items is reasonable. The items have a real use, just in some virtual environment where people spend a lot of time. Who cares that the item has no use in the _real world_, it will see just as much use (or more) in its virtual world than many items in the real world. Concepts like price also make sense because everquest items have rarity or are difficult to acquire. Really there's no reason the economics of the real world can't carry over to a virtual world.
and they do -
article
another article
Quoth John Carmack
... There's this mytholigization of aerospace that it's the hardest thing you can do. That's just not true. In terms of actual difficulty, it's not that hard. Aerospace is plumbing with the volume turned up."
"I'm kind of at the top of my field [in gaming]," he said. "When I started reading about aerospace, I realized there was an incredible level of things to learn.
Uranus is magnitude 5.8 - definitely visible under the very dark ancient skies. (I'm jealous of them).
I wonder why it isn't included in these ancient lists? Moved too slowly for them to notice?
I can see that the Anti MS sentiment is strong enough for everyone to overlook this, but doesn't it seem a bit unfortunate for half a billion US dollars to fly off to fill some European government treasury? I mean if this was a company we liked it might seem a bit like the EU was overstepping their bounds. Imagine if they fined Google half a billion dollars for search engine antitrust. (a bit ridiculous, but hey)
e _deficit/
We have pretty significant trade deficits already.
from http://money.cnn.com/2003/02/20/news/economy/trad
"Exports to Western Europe slipped to the lowest level since 1997"
"On an individual country basis, the U.S. trade deficit with Germany set a record in December at $4.1 billion, fueled by a record $6.3 billion in imports"
Can't believe I'm replying to a troll, but those credits are exactly what I'm talking about. The amount of people from different disciplines they're bringing on board to make games now is impressive. Certainly becoming hollywoodesque.
I skimmed over the article. I have to disagree completely with his conclusion. Technology has not stagnated. People are still having original gameplay ideas. Sure, there are genres that are over done or frequently done, but that's fine. The games are becoming much higher production value. Look at the credits for a game like Vice City, it's simply amazing. In my opinion, games are becoming better than ever and I expect the game industry to keep growing for the near future.
Hahah... What is with these people? check out the posts by "Dragonrider" on the shadow confederacy web site
This guy is certifiable. Ahh.. isn't the internet wonderful.
something seems buggy here
And I'll point out your grammer and speeling mistakes, while makeing some of my own!
Then I'll casually include a link to goatse.
Rofl, that's so true. I can picture paulie saying that.
:(
I'd moderate this funny but it's already at 5
Anti-matter goes away when it touches normal matter, there's not really any danger of run away chain reaction.
I guess there could have been fear of run away nuclear reactions destroying the world... Of course we know it won't happen now.
But fears that run away black holes could eat the planet seem a little more reasonable. Even if the physicists say they will exist for only short periods. It just makes me nervous.
It just reminds me of someone's conjecture that the reason we don't find any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the universe is because they all stumble upon the same technology or experiment that destroys their civilization. And we'll be finding it in the future.
Ah well... back to building my robot army. That couldn't cause any problems.
These observatories are complementary- not upgrades to eachother. They cover different wavelengths. Gamma Ray (compton), X ray (Chandra), UV, visible, short-wave-infrared (Hubble), and long-wave-infrared (Spitzer / SIRTF)
It's a loss for any of them to go, but hubble is unique among them in its ability to be repaired.
This may not be true for all wavelengths that Hubble can see, but it is true for a large part of it.
It is not true for much of the infrared range, because the atmosphere is opaque to some of it. The same goes for ultraviolet. Here's a graph of the infrared part -
http://www.coseti.org/atmosphe.htm
The webb telescope should cover some (all?) of that range when it's eventually launched. The Webb telescope will not cover the ultraviolet range that hubble covers. So your argument is that those ranges are not very important for observation? It's no big deal to lose infrared for the next 5 years and ultraviolet indefinitely?
Wow I didn't even realize it was the same actor. That's amazing. That means Ian McDiarmid eas only 36 years old when he played the emporer in ROTJ. That's crazy?! And they made him look so old. It's almost like they planned to use him looking younger in prequels.
What? You're involved in keeping our astronauts safe and you think that there are ground based ultraviolet or infrared telescopes that are "even better than" hubble? That's distressing.
"It could probably survive and produce data for another 10 years, but at lower quality and much greater expense than we can get elsewhere." I'll thank you to tell me where else I can get my high quality infrared and ultraviolet observations (specifically on the wavelengths in which the atmosphere is opaque).
I am not in a position to evaluate the rest of your comments, but I'm skeptical of them now.
They hired scientists, not computer engineers
Uhhh.. No, NASA definitely hires lots of computer engineers, computer science majors, etc. They don't ask the geologists scientists to code a file system. This should definitely be an embarrassment to the JPL code monkeys. This stuff should have been tested and reviewed. I can't believe their longest mission simulation was something like 9 days.
And if the module in question wasn't actually written by JPL, it should still be an embarrassment to them for a) buying it b) not testing it
Why do they have to lump together the people who want the DMCA repealed with those who require some state subsidized artist payment. I just want my fair use rights back, I don't need some nutty scheme that forces artists to share their music and taxes me on CD-r's.
" The money would come from a tax on various content-related devices, like DVD burners, blank CD's or digital recorders"
I can't believe the copyleft is saying things like that. That is not a reasonable compromise for me to get my fair-use rights back.