The mit people seem to be playing a machine vision field: *guess* the high resolution image given one low res one. It won't extract any information which isn't in the lo-res picture.
The CMU work seems similar, but aimed only at facial reconstruction (I only skimmed it, so I don't know whether they use a NN -- would seem reasonable).
The point of the camera sweep approach is that you combine several lores pix to algorithmically extract *higher* spatial resolution than either of the input pix. No guessing.
I've been playing with ideas on how to do this. It's slightly more difficult than the movie mode, as you don't have the exact frame rate to help you out. If you could get a camera with a known continuous mode, that would help.
For the still case, look into the medical imaging litterature: under image registration.
The key idea here is that several lo-res pix (recall that a camera phone can barely take vga still, and the movie modes will be even less impressive) can be recombined to make one hi-res picture.
You basically have to figure out where each lo-res picture goes and place it into the hi-res document. If you are careful, you can place several overlapping pictures with sub-(lo-res)-pixel accuracy, letting you increase the resolution even more. You use the fact that you have high accuracy in the time domain to help you out in the spatial domain.
if the agent can finish the transaction w/o your consent, they are selling it, else they are just mediating the sale.
I don't know what restrictions are on doing the opposite: taking the house off market, then selling it privately to one of the prospective buyers found via the estate agent. I imagine you sign a contract forbidding this when take on the agent, but I doubt it can be perpetually binding (imagine whether the time between taking it off the market and finally selling it privately was several years).
Not in sweden. As long as you bought in good faith, you're clear. I was suprised that the same holds in the US. Argunng that a $50 gold watch was bought in good faith is harder, tho
So, all you need is ONE cooperative provider, and this becomes moot. Infact, there might be a niche for a provider who doesn't even provide phone service: just ownership transference:
1) transfer yourself, with phone num, to borgizon for a fee to verizon 2) borgizon lets you sell it to me 3) I transfer back to verizon, for another fee
As far as verizon is concerned, no number was sold.
While granting corporations rights as persons (I'm sure legal students have a more precise word for it) was probably the one innovation which rocketed North America from being "the former colonies" to the position of dominant world power in less than 200 years, it came at an untold cost to human rights:
Courts only really make sense when two parties are roughly at parity wrt funds and power. It is silly to expect an individual to field a team of lawyers of equal caliber as that of a corporation. If you try to take on a corporation, they'll merely appeal 'til you're broke.
Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how to fix the situation; it is merely another facet of the rich getting richer. While the effect is repugnant, the conditions which enable it are emminently desirable.
Especially what the article called vertical MT (or coarse grained) was the basis of the coolest supercomputer evar: The Tera.
It had no cache -- no cache logic! It did have hardware support for a god-awful number of threads per cpu tho. Each time one of them stalled, it would thread switch and keep going. After about 60 or so cycles (this was a few years back), the memory read would be back, so if you had 64 threads per CPU, you would never see a memory-latency related stall.
As all things extreme (think CM-1) the practical issues and inexorable march of intel performance made it ultimately a losing idea, but is still one of the coolest, cleanest, most simplifying out-of-the-box thinkings I know of.
I was reading in... ars?... that if you have a gigabyte of memory, you can expect about a random bit flip per week, just from quantum fluctuations. Course, most bit flips are benign, occuring on pages marked clean, and unused, or subsequently overwritten before read.
However, if desktop memory gets bigger, ECC RAM will become necessary. It appears to have been constant at 256/512 for a while now, so the increase has slowed, if not stopped.
It will be neat, but it adds more complexity to the system
Yes, but complexity at the right place: in the compiler. Exposing the boxing/unboxing distinction to the programmer makes it easier to generate good code, but you now have all this manual wrapperized stuff to deal with all over your code.
On the other hand, research has shown that even naive analysis will allow you to generate quite good code from LISP, which is nominally completely statically type-opaque (you have no idea WHAT you have until you ask).
So generating good code from a system which makes int a subtype of object is actually not that impossible; solve the problem once, in the compiler, instead of making the programmer solve it, over and over again.
IMHO the coolest connection between the ipod and digital cameras is that belkin thingee that sucks your pix from the camera and stores them on the ipod: great for vacations, and you can offset the ipod price by not needing such a whopping big CF card.
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I'd like to retract what I said about the CMU work. Seems quite applicable, on a closer read.
The mit people seem to be playing a machine vision field: *guess* the high resolution image given one low res one. It won't extract any information which isn't in the lo-res picture.
The CMU work seems similar, but aimed only at facial reconstruction (I only skimmed it, so I don't know whether they use a NN -- would seem reasonable).
The point of the camera sweep approach is that you combine several lores pix to algorithmically extract *higher* spatial resolution than either of the input pix. No guessing.
I've been playing with ideas on how to do this. It's slightly more difficult than the movie mode, as you don't have the exact frame rate to help you out. If you could get a camera with a known continuous mode, that would help.
For the still case, look into the medical imaging litterature: under image registration.
The key idea here is that several lo-res pix (recall that a camera phone can barely take vga still, and the movie modes will be even less impressive) can be recombined to make one hi-res picture.
You basically have to figure out where each lo-res picture goes and place it into the hi-res document. If you are careful, you can place several overlapping pictures with sub-(lo-res)-pixel accuracy, letting you increase the resolution even more. You use the fact that you have high accuracy in the time domain to help you out in the spatial domain.
This will probably be done out-of-camera.
probably an air-pressure alarm going off when you stay in the car; useful to detect window breakages.
not anymore (as pointed out by previous reply): witness the thai minister trapped in his 7 series a few months ago...
rfid != evil, then
So now your average person thinks that brute-forcing keys (>64) is possible.
There's dumbing down, and then there's completely missing the point...
crap. why does the world always move monotonically (moronically?) towards sucking?
if the agent can finish the transaction w/o your consent, they are selling it, else they are just mediating the sale.
I don't know what restrictions are on doing the opposite: taking the house off market, then selling it privately to one of the prospective buyers found via the estate agent. I imagine you sign a contract forbidding this when take on the agent, but I doubt it can be perpetually binding (imagine whether the time between taking it off the market and finally selling it privately was several years).
In fact, I am making all of this up.
Not in sweden. As long as you bought in good faith, you're clear. I was suprised that the same holds in the US. Argunng that a $50 gold watch was bought in good faith is harder, tho
So, all you need is ONE cooperative provider, and this becomes moot. Infact, there might be a niche for a provider who doesn't even provide phone service: just ownership transference:
1) transfer yourself, with phone num, to borgizon for a fee to verizon
2) borgizon lets you sell it to me
3) I transfer back to verizon, for another fee
As far as verizon is concerned, no number was sold.
While granting corporations rights as persons (I'm sure legal students have a more precise word for it) was probably the one innovation which rocketed North America from being "the former colonies" to the position of dominant world power in less than 200 years, it came at an untold cost to human rights:
Courts only really make sense when two parties are roughly at parity wrt funds and power. It is silly to expect an individual to field a team of lawyers of equal caliber as that of a corporation. If you try to take on a corporation, they'll merely appeal 'til you're broke.
Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how to fix the situation; it is merely another facet of the rich getting richer. While the effect is repugnant, the conditions which enable it are emminently desirable.
Look at geoChart: it is *excellent*! with that sort of pressure (queue Bowie) anything can happen.
Or perhaps that's just a rumor. I dunno.
Anyways, to hear the FA* tell it, C64s are all the rage in nickle and dime printshops.
Once again: I dunno.
For chrissakes, I want battery life over MHz any day of the week for my laptop, but this just seems... well... silly.
Now be quiet while I try for a high score at R-type** on my Amiga 500.
(*) rtFA, dontchano
(**) best. game. evar.
So what happens when I do
t.add(5.1)
This should attempt to store a float into an Integer array, no?
I'd expect Times 14 to put about as much text as Courier 12 on the same page: Courier is monospace, while Times is quite compact.
Of course, I was hoping for a nice font; calson, newspaper gothic, or somesuch. Or my personal favorite: bembo.
I think fonts are some of the most important and pervasive branding statements you can make: think of apple and their use of garamond condensed.
Especially what the article called vertical MT (or coarse grained) was the basis of the coolest supercomputer evar: The Tera.
It had no cache -- no cache logic! It did have hardware support for a god-awful number of threads per cpu tho. Each time one of them stalled, it would thread switch and keep going. After about 60 or so cycles (this was a few years back), the memory read would be back, so if you had 64 threads per CPU, you would never see a memory-latency related stall.
As all things extreme (think CM-1) the practical issues and inexorable march of intel performance made it ultimately a losing idea, but is still one of the coolest, cleanest, most simplifying out-of-the-box thinkings I know of.
I was reading in ... ars?... that if you have a gigabyte of memory, you can expect about a random bit flip per week, just from quantum fluctuations. Course, most bit flips are benign, occuring on pages marked clean, and unused, or subsequently overwritten before read.
However, if desktop memory gets bigger, ECC RAM will become necessary. It appears to have been constant at 256/512 for a while now, so the increase has slowed, if not stopped.
Do a google search for HP's dynamo. Fascinating stuff.
The thing has a pretty decent bandwidth to earth; why not just dd the filesystem to earth, wipe it, and start afresh?
Does anyone have links to those images? I've seen the one with the dude w/ the girl, but can't find it again.
It will be neat, but it adds more complexity to the system
Yes, but complexity at the right place: in the compiler. Exposing the boxing/unboxing distinction to the programmer makes it easier to generate good code, but you now have all this manual wrapperized stuff to deal with all over your code.
On the other hand, research has shown that even naive analysis will allow you to generate quite good code from LISP, which is nominally completely statically type-opaque (you have no idea WHAT you have until you ask).
So generating good code from a system which makes int a subtype of object is actually not that impossible; solve the problem once, in the compiler, instead of making the programmer solve it, over and over again.
Automatic boxing and unboxing will be identical to manual boxing from a performance standpoint.
I got the impression that C# could actually use generics to instantiate the array at type int, rather than type Integer with autoboxing.
I find that firebird's adblock is not nearly as good as mozilla's userContent.css driven one.
Firebird will often show adds, and then sometimes remove them, sometimes not. Mozilla, while being a bitch and a half to configure, works every time.
'course, the mozilla scheme should work with firebird. I dunno why adblock doesn't seem to work as well.
IMHO the coolest connection between the ipod and digital cameras is that belkin thingee that sucks your pix from the camera and stores them on the ipod: great for vacations, and you can offset the ipod price by not needing such a whopping big CF card.