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1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography - Ramesh Raskar

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:20:50 -0500

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Call me maybe - star wars style

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:52:26 -0500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBM7i84BThE

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Predator - the camera that learns

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:38:28 -0500

From TLD Vision. Amazing stuff going on with computer vision these days and the applications of this technology are practically endless. If you want to play around with some open source computer vision technology - check out OpenCV (here is an Oreilly book )

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How I decided on my career

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:31:20 -0500

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Published in 1984.

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Bitcoins worth $228,000 stolen

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:57:04 -0600

Ars Technica was able to confirm the theft of 46,703 BTC, as individual units of Bitcoin are known, worth about $228,845 in US currency based on current exchange rates. More than 43,000 of the stolen BTC belonged to a Bitcoin trading platform known as Bitcoinica, the company’s CEO and lead developer, Zhou Tong, told Ars. Another 3,094 BTC were lifted from the virtual purse of Marek Palatinus, a freelance programmer from the Czech Republic. He said in an interview that a separate Bitcoin user he’s been in contact with lost 50 BTC to the same attackers. And Gavin Andresen, the lead Bitcoin programmer, told Ars he lost all 5 BTC he had stored in one online account.

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Minecraft and Jira - hell yeah

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:21:36 -0600

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There is almost no good reason to do this except that its the coolest thing ever.

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Best death scene of all time

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:25:51 -0600

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Derek Eder and Forest Gregg Hack ClearStreets in 12 hours

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:50:35 -0600

This app was hacked together with python, php, google fusion tables, javascript, html/css, and a humble batch script. Here’s how we did it:

1. We dug around in the Plow Tracker code and stumbled into the data feed of GPS plow locations. We pulled these dots.

2. In order to figure out which streets had been cleared, we needed to turn these dots into plow paths. Lukas Kabrt’s MatchGPX2OSM did the trick. It takes a series of GPS locations and snaps them to the street grid in order to calculate the most likely path taken by the vehicle. The street grid itself was provided by the thousands of unsung heroes at OpenStreetMap.

3. We then wrote a script to import this data into Google Fusion Tables, so we could display it using Derek Eder’s searchable map template. Finally, we styled the template and flipped the switch.

We’ll post the code on Github later. It will be embarrassing.

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Racing against the upcoming storm, these guys hacked a useful snowplow tracker. It’s not perfect, but it’s “done”.

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Flying Robots Build A Tower Near Paris

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:04:33 -0600

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the way my next home will be built!

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Snow

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:21:57 -0600

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Several feet of fresh powder… Jackson loved it.

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Louis CK on the results of selling DRM free

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:22:04 -0600

The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.

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Following an experiment first validated by Radiohead with the release of In Rainbows in 2007, Louis CK shows that everyone (except the middleman) can win.

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The Übermensch

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:56:25 -0600

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CubeStormer II

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:02:01 -0500

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Quantum Levitation

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:40:23 -0500

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all I need to do is to put this on a skateboard

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Think Different, narrated by Steve Jobs

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:59:33 -0500

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Spotify is the future and end of music

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:08:11 -0500

Spotify is the place in technology where my deep appreciation of what ‘average normal people’ care about and what I (as a geek and music collector) care about are at odds.

In some way or form, I suspect that what Spotify is or does is going to be the way music is commonly distributed. Its all going to be out there, subscription based for the masses to consume all-you-can-eat. The ability to listen to what you want, when you want, and not really ‘own’ anything is probably the way most average consumers care for it to work, but not the way I feel very comfortable working. I feel the need to ‘own’ my media… and the idea of it being on-demand out there for everyone just feels strange to me. It feels as if the music is losing its soul or becoming a commodity. I can see where the future is going and I don’t like it. It is a weird and uncommon feeling and makes me feel old despite having gone 100% digital.

What Amazon, Apple and Google are doing may not really compete with the huge ton of people that just want to listen to whatever Ke$ha just shat out and then move on.

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Mobile Marketing in the Post-PC Era or Why I Joined Vibes

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:23:54 -0500

In early June this year Steve Jobs took the stage at the World Wide Developers Conference, talked about the runaway success of the iPad, said that iOS5 was ‘cutting the cord’ and started to talk about in the birth of the post-PC era.

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Read the rest of the my post here…. http://www.vibes.com/mobile_marketing_company/blog/?p=325

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Cool

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:45:05 -0500

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for those who wonder why jackson has blonde hair

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:47:14 -0500

Because he got it from his Dad! My hair got darker as I got older… here is photographic evidence.

and then a bit older, with my brother Chris

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4rth of July Weekend

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:09:53 -0500

Every day we went to a water park or the beach or played in the new water table on our front lawn.

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