Recent content by Shalmanese

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    Pattern recognization algorithms

    Another way of doing it would be to run the SIFT algorithm to find points of interest and then do matching based on that.
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    Why has video camera resolution increased so slowly?

    Consumer grade digital still cameras have increased in resolution from 0.3MP to 5 - 8MP in a seemingly very short span of time. However, digital video cameras are still stuck at the same 720x576 NTSC resolution. Although some HDTV cameras exist, they are invariably priced outside of the consumer...
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    Probability Question for Y'All...

    Your all wrong, at a given time n, the probability that the coin will lie at 0 is maximum providing n is even. If n is odd, then the probability it is at 0 is 0.
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    Looking for a certain physics paper

    http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/STAFF/ACADEMIC/webb.html
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    Does this really work?

    Wait, how does it make sense to say it has a +-2% in any scale but Kelvin?
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    how does nintendo revolution controller work?

    Hrmm... maybe they do have a flock-of-birds in there. Thats what it sounds like at least. I can't see them doing that for cheap though... and the position is only sub-cm which is still about 3x larger than ideal.
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    how does nintendo revolution controller work?

    Uh, oops, I posted a similar thread just a few minutes after yours. I have a bit more detail about it in mine.
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    A technical look at the Nintendo Revolution controller

    Right now, theres a lot of marketing crap and fanboy hype about the new revolution controller but there seems to be very little intelligent analysis of just how *good* it is going to be given technological and economic constraints. I've dabbled a bit in robotics applications and, from my...
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    Having trouble loading C++ program for school

    The pre-reqs disk isn't 600MB, it's about 200MB. You have the wrong disk in the drive.
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    Updating Weights in Neural Networks

    Just update all of them in order from the output nodes back.
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    Fastest Nearest Neighbor Algorithm

    Quadtrees would be one solution. Say you have a 100x100 area. You create a root cell that is sized 100x100. That root cell contains pointers to 4 child cells which are all 50x50 in size. Each child cell contains 4 child cells themselves and so on until you reach leaf cells which are, say...
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    is it physically possible to teleport an object?

    1 mol of H2O weighs 18 grams...
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    Rolling out a large-scale, open-source wifi project-suggestions?

    $10K is nowhere near enough to start your own ISP. Just a single T3 line at least would cost you about that much per year. Not to mention the cost for support, data centres, marketing, installation etc. Not going to happen. Where are you getting the 10K from? My advice, resist the temptation...
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    Rolling out a large-scale, open-source wifi project-suggestions?

    So people would ultimately be getting internet via commercial ISP's? There might be a legal problem with that, most broadband contracts have a clause against sharing in such a manner.