... but the last one approaches magic-grade technology. Wow!
The demonstration looks pretty amazing. Before calling it a "magic" , I would want to know how repeatable these results are. I have seen many such awesome results in this area, only a fraction of which would work for atleast 50% of random data sets.
Are you even considering the good work done by the chineese, and other migrants for the scientific community in USA? Start from the Manhattan project: Einstein, Fermi, Bohr, Chandrashekar...and none were actually born in US.
Your post not only reveals a bias, but also shows that you nothing about academic persuits in the research community.
3D reconstruction is not new, the Tour into the Picture was probably the first to generate synthetic new views from 2d images (based on geometry).
But this current work is quite different, there is no current algo which has proven to work in large natural environments. A 3D model of a 'structured' environment is quite easy. OTH an learning model has its usual problems, I cant see a lot of use of this work...
they do not do anything related to computer science there! it's all plain business. Having worked both in an Indian IT company and American, I can say that the Indian IT companies are no different from US ones, bad management and stupid process bottlenecks are everywhere.
If anything I would still prefer to work at Bangalore, they have a very informal culture in the office place, no hassles of performance-driven-appriasal-mania that burns out everyone here in the states. And jobs aplenty, means the employee rather than the employer is the king.
Trust me, tis nothing like cutting edge. Far from it. I laugh when Bangalore is called the silicon valley of the East! I dont know what you are getting at, Bangalore sure has a lot of companies working in the IT sector, and employs some 700,000 IT workers by recent estimates.
I guess you are not aware of cutting-edge research going on in Bangalore, but in the place I worked we didnt sure lag in anything from our US counterparts. For companies like TI, Intel, MS, Honeywell.. Bangalore is not just a cost center but some really good research is being carried out at those places. Maybe not for IBM or Accenture, who are into IT services in Bangalore..not much innovation needed for them anyway.
Let's go back to 1499. European countries were launching voyages of exploration, seeking out new trade routes and discovering new countries. Guess who else was doing that? China. Until their government decided that they should fix their problems at home before spending excessive resources on maritime exploration.
So where is China today compared to Europe in terms of domestic poverty? If you're going to stay at home until your domestic problems are solved, you're going to stay at home forever. Neither did Germany, US, Australia..so whats the point. This is a stupid anology.
India's Space budget is a small fraction of what US, EU, China spend on theirs. AFAIK the primary motivation for India's space budget is Remote Sensing, searching for groundwater, checking weather patters. India's Remote Sensing dept (ITRAC) does a lot of groundwork which helps farmers, even fishermans who get information on movement of fish schoals.
Employee loyalty is a measure of how much the company values the employee also. Most of my friends who quit their workplace complained that the company recruited people far less experienced than him at a greater salary, a cardinal sin in the Indian Workplace.
The HR policies of some companies are frightening, they want employees to be loyal, but they dont honor loyalty. And they are the once who recruit employees who have jump companies at whim, I heard cases where a people have stayed in their jobs at an average of 6 months, I wonder how they get picked up at all.
So if there is a lesson that the outsourcing firms should take, it is this:
1. Award Employee loyalty
2. Stop recruiting people who jump companies, even if they are from your competitors.
3. Question bosses who have low employee retention rates, most of the time 'they' are the problem.
4. Tune your HR policies, its evident that they dont have an eye for talent, less for an unbiased compensatory practice.
and a lot of the code is Visual Basic. FAA mandates that level B or C software cannot be Visual Basic, it cannot even be C++ (due to compiler optimazations/nonexecuted code blah blah). So it has to be C or ADA.
I dont see why the US would be curcumspect sharing the code, they could keep secret some of the mission computer specs/RF design etc. Not sharing the code in this project is like perparing the ingredients together but not sharing the meal. (a bad metaphor but cant see a reason really...the Code is probably the least harmful, the tech specs are the once they should hide)
He could have used some sort of source encoding also. The article doesnt say if he put up the uncompressed data on the paper, if he did use any simplistic source encoding he could actually reduce the data rate by 50%. But I am highly skeptical if he did that.
Post Script: DVD and CD dont use any source encoding, so the capacity of the paper and DVD might not be comparable here.
The point is how?. If the device stores the key in the hardware, it can always be hacked and read.
I would go for a software encryption any day. Nice device though, might be useful for other things..not as an primary hardrive.
I think the major problem affecting EE courses is that they want us to know every damn thing out there following Ohms law.
I am stuck with this High Voltage Tx lab which I am required to take, all hands-on but highly irrelavant for that Signal Processing Masters program I intend to join.
But Analogue's fun for sure
I dont think so. India predominantly uses MS and personaly with the level of computer litracy, I dont see a great future for OSS atleast in India. Even the defence establishment uses MS.
Given the *level of competence* of Indian Programers, why doesnt any OSS stuff originate from there?
I haven't bought any record in 3 years
I havent got mine since the time I got into college:) I happy as most of the stuff I download isnt available on the shops (I am from India).
I was thinking more on the lines of, what gives RIAA the right to monitor private LANs? Is it legal for them to monitor the MTU LAN without seeking permission from MTU administration?
Besides, what the music industry needs is not stricter laws, but better buisness sence.
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... but the last one approaches magic-grade technology. Wow!
The demonstration looks pretty amazing. Before calling it a "magic" , I would want to know how repeatable these results are. I have seen many such awesome results in this area, only a fraction of which would work for atleast 50% of random data sets.
Are you even considering the good work done by the chineese, and other migrants for the scientific community in USA? Start from the Manhattan project: Einstein, Fermi, Bohr, Chandrashekar...and none were actually born in US.
Your post not only reveals a bias, but also shows that you nothing about academic persuits in the research community.
3D reconstruction is not new, the Tour into the Picture was probably the first to generate synthetic new views from 2d images (based on geometry). But this current work is quite different, there is no current algo which has proven to work in large natural environments. A 3D model of a 'structured' environment is quite easy. OTH an learning model has its usual problems, I cant see a lot of use of this work...
India's Space budget is a small fraction of what US, EU, China spend on theirs. AFAIK the primary motivation for India's space budget is Remote Sensing, searching for groundwater, checking weather patters. India's Remote Sensing dept (ITRAC) does a lot of groundwork which helps farmers, even fishermans who get information on movement of fish schoals.
Employee loyalty is a measure of how much the company values the employee also. Most of my friends who quit their workplace complained that the company recruited people far less experienced than him at a greater salary, a cardinal sin in the Indian Workplace.
The HR policies of some companies are frightening, they want employees to be loyal, but they dont honor loyalty. And they are the once who recruit employees who have jump companies at whim, I heard cases where a people have stayed in their jobs at an average of 6 months, I wonder how they get picked up at all.
So if there is a lesson that the outsourcing firms should take, it is this:
1. Award Employee loyalty
2. Stop recruiting people who jump companies, even if they are from your competitors.
3. Question bosses who have low employee retention rates, most of the time 'they' are the problem.
4. Tune your HR policies, its evident that they dont have an eye for talent, less for an unbiased compensatory practice.
I dont see why the US would be curcumspect sharing the code, they could keep secret some of the mission computer specs/RF design etc. Not sharing the code in this project is like perparing the ingredients together but not sharing the meal. (a bad metaphor but cant see a reason really...the Code is probably the least harmful, the tech specs are the once they should hide)
He could have used some sort of source encoding also. The article doesnt say if he put up the uncompressed data on the paper, if he did use any simplistic source encoding he could actually reduce the data rate by 50%. But I am highly skeptical if he did that. Post Script: DVD and CD dont use any source encoding, so the capacity of the paper and DVD might not be comparable here.
The point is how?. If the device stores the key in the hardware, it can always be hacked and read. I would go for a software encryption any day. Nice device though, might be useful for other things..not as an primary hardrive.
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I think the major problem affecting EE courses is that they want us to know every damn thing out there following Ohms law.
I am stuck with this High Voltage Tx lab which I am required to take, all hands-on but highly irrelavant for that Signal Processing Masters program I intend to join.
But Analogue's fun for sure
:which would be highly benificial for OSS
I dont think so. India predominantly uses MS and personaly with the level of computer litracy, I dont see a great future for OSS atleast in India. Even the defence establishment uses MS.
Given the *level of competence* of Indian Programers, why doesnt any OSS stuff originate from there?
I haven't bought any record in 3 years
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I havent got mine since the time I got into college:) I happy as most of the stuff I download isnt available on the shops (I am from India).
I was thinking more on the lines of, what gives RIAA the right to monitor private LANs? Is it legal for them to monitor the MTU LAN without seeking permission from MTU administration?
Besides, what the music industry needs is not stricter laws, but better buisness sence.