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#1515; Gaping at the Vapid

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Why do we look at car wrecks? For a glimpse of our distorted reflections in the twisted metal and shattered glass, staring dully back at ourselves.

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ScottInPDX
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I suffer from the same malady. And I too wish I could stop.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Why I Couldn't Be a Math Teacher

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If I were you, I'd focus less on algebra and more on seeking public office.

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Hey geeks of London and MIT! We're just starting to get the ball rolling on next year's shows, and submissions are now open. Both shows will be open theme!

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In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.
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made me think of you
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orpheus17d
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Once had a non-programmer ask me "it's just a button, how hard can it be!?" Maybe the button automatically finds a target and fires a cruise missle...at that guy's house :-P
richard4339
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It's so true.
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tedder
3726 days ago
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omg. the story of being a developer with nontechnical program managers.
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brico
3726 days ago
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This
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jimwise
3727 days ago
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Alt text isn't really fair -- the "block world" was a constrained example, and got to work really, really well.

And some of the other early computer vision stuff showed great results. But our idea of what we can do scales with the hardware, so, yeah.
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Title text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.
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3726 days ago
Have been reading a bit about AI and what it takes to get a computer to try to do this, and what really impresses me is how easily our brains do it (to the point that it's hard to get them to stop doing it).

The risk of dressing casually as a man

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Casual Dressers Getting Old - Jim Benton

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