Sharon critically ill in hospital
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Just wait for the Palestinian candymen and their bags of sweets for the kids
Comments are off for this postOh boy…we are in space again…
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Discussion of Christianity…
Over at Heretical Ideas there is any interesting series of posts about this movie (which I am getting to review) by Ted Traina. There are three parts: 1, 2 & 3.
1 commentStone was wrong (no shock there)
It was Castro who killed Kennedy; well at least according to a new German documentary. Wonder what Castro lovers like Maine’s moron Governor will have to say about this revelation.
Support Denmark!
Buy Danish products and wear your support. Why should you support the Danes right now? Well they are standing behind a group of Danish cartoonists who expressed themselves with cartoons in a way various members of ROPMA have taken exception to in recent weeks. The Danish government is under pressure from the various Muslim countries about the issue and the EU is getting into the act; on the side of Islam naturally.
Goldn Retrievr
Get it? Goldn Retrievr = . . . Golden Retriever! Fetch, boy, fetch! Good boy! Good dog! Goo—ah, forget it.
There’s a new, very interesting app out called retrievr. As the picture above might indicate, it allows you to draw a doodle and then it searches through some subset of flickr and attempts to find photos with similar shapes and colors.
Really, it usually does a better job of it than my example would indicate, but I haven’t had a lot of time to work with it, and the program’s acting a bit sluggish tonight. A lot of big sites are linking to it, and the server’s getting hammered. Some times I could only get a “Too many open threads” error message. This guy had better luck.
This isn’t of course the only example of its kind—there’s obviously much ongoing (classified or secretive-corporate, for the most part) research on facial-recognition software. Princeton University has the Shape Retrieval and Analysis program that searches specialized datasets for 2-D or 3-D objects that match sketched-in input.
imgSeek (from which, I gather, Retrievr was derived) is an open-source photo manager and searcher that you can install on your own computer. Like most open-source projects, though, it’s in a constant state of geekflux, so unless you’re prepared to figure out frequent riddles like
# When starting imgSeek, all I get is: “Warning: Unable to load the C++ extension “imgdb.so” module. Make sure …
- I get an error when exiting: Fatal Python error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
- The metadata editor ignores or refuses to save comments with extended characters on my locale.
it probably won’t be for you.
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