I've actually studied Numerical Analysis which is why I caught this and wasn't terribly surprised by it, but there is a tendancy when whipping up a quick bit of code to not think about nor look for such things.
Unless you got your order in before Nov. 16th, grabbed one of the few at CompUSA, or want to pay a premium on eBay, don't plan on getting one any time soon. Nokia has been awful about meeting their ship dates. I think the date on their web site for new orders is now sometime in January.
To paraphrase Steve Grand in Creation, that's Star Trek's dirty little secret...we can send a copy of you places instantly, but we must destroy you in the process. If memory serves, a similar approach was employed in Crichton's Timeline.
My research involved developing a software system to "learn" a protolanguage of nouns/verbs based on visual perception. Part of the vision system involved having the computer detect "significant" objects & relationships in video frames and tracking similar object/relationships across both different frames & different videos. Here's a short paper.
The new copy of your brain in the computer is just fine, but what about the human you that still suffers & dies?
Its like the Star Trek transporter beam, the copy of you transported to the new location is fine, but what about the original which is obliterated in the process?
It seems there are people out there trying to make our jobs easier & easier to do, removing all of the mystery that surrounds us. With all of these fancy IDE's, debugging tools, etc. we are making ourselves less and less valuable. Before you know it, your grandmother will be an application developer and you'll be making minimum wage!
Seems this could be done without the DataGlyphs by using sensor fusion techniques. I did some work on detemining how two images overlap years ago as part of my masters project. It was slow, but it did work fairly well with very noisy images.
If the computer had access to the full image, the code I was using could probably be modified to indicate where any give piece went. It handled translation and rotation so in theory, you could supply the piece to the scanner/web can at in any position.
Used a hell of a lot more than 200 lines of code though and it wasn't pretty!
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebla
http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/W/W03/W03-0607.pdf
I've actually studied Numerical Analysis which is why I caught this and wasn't terribly surprised by it, but there is a tendancy when whipping up a quick bit of code to not think about nor look for such things.
Discovered the hard way that Fix() in VB doesn't act as I would expect.
Fix((580# * 1.3636)*10000#) gives 7908879 rather than 7908880
Forget the no-fly list, where's the cavity search?!
..."Use Windows."
Unless you got your order in before Nov. 16th, grabbed one of the few at CompUSA, or want to pay a premium on eBay, don't plan on getting one any time soon. Nokia has been awful about meeting their ship dates. I think the date on their web site for new orders is now sometime in January.
Apparently he is also using his creation to host his web site:(
...they should get copies of the patents for that perpetual motion machine.
To paraphrase Steve Grand in Creation, that's Star Trek's dirty little secret...we can send a copy of you places instantly, but we must destroy you in the process. If memory serves, a similar approach was employed in Crichton's Timeline.
You hardly ever hear about their teleportation research.
You also need some mosquito repellent with the highest concentration of deet you can find. We're in west-nile land down here my friend.
My research involved developing a software system to "learn" a protolanguage of nouns/verbs based on visual perception. Part of the vision system involved having the computer detect "significant" objects & relationships in video frames and tracking similar object/relationships across both different frames & different videos. Here's a short paper.
"Nevermind."
Its like the Star Trek transporter beam, the copy of you transported to the new location is fine, but what about the original which is obliterated in the process?
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There is a cattle ranch behind my house and I was thinking of arming my ER1 with a 12-gauge.
A quick calc shows its more like 5.408219178 years based on a 365 day year and counting today.
The Cognitive Machines Group @ the MIT Media Lab under Deb Roy seem to be on the right track. Steve Grand's work is interesting as well.
Now if all of you just rush to buy shares of Novell, I can finally sell mine. Thanks in advance.
It seems there are people out there trying to make our jobs easier & easier to do, removing all of the mystery that surrounds us. With all of these fancy IDE's, debugging tools, etc. we are making ourselves less and less valuable. Before you know it, your grandmother will be an application developer and you'll be making minimum wage!
If the computer had access to the full image, the code I was using could probably be modified to indicate where any give piece went. It handled translation and rotation so in theory, you could supply the piece to the scanner/web can at in any position.
Used a hell of a lot more than 200 lines of code though and it wasn't pretty!
Unfortunately all of their projects will show zero files committed until they get this Nov. 2003 issue fixed.
...researchers have found that excessive "spanking your blackberry" can cause blindness.
How about soliders, researchers, volunteers, or teachers?!
DNA "tiles" that spontaneously assemble in a predetermined pattern to form a sheet of molecular fabric, much like corduroy.