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iamflimflam1

5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/atomic14

You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com

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LZW I implemented this ages ago to decompress tiff files. I thought it was amazingly elegant that the decompression side of it built its dictionary on the fly as the compressed data came in.
7y ago·view thread
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Interesting - that 25% seems to come from managers estimating the impact, not from developers. Increase in time taken to code the feature because 15–20% 25–35% 15% 25–20% of TDD (%) [Management …
8y ago·view thread
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Just tried it on my old app and it worked well :) I think you'll have to roll your own rectangle detection and use heuristics to make it better. So in mine I assume that the connected object in …
9y ago·view thread
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I've got a very old and slightly broken blog post on what I was doing: https://www.cmgresearch.com/2009/08/14/How-does-it-all-work.... My approach was to adaptive …
9y ago·view thread
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Did something similar some time back before ARKit and vision frameworks were around. Are you using the rectangle detection from Vision? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt96OomJY9A …
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If something is legal then workers have protection, can form unions and have rights. It's more difficult in a legal environment to have people who are coerced or forced to work. If prostitution i…
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I suspect that legalising prostitution would actually make it much easier to prevent human trafficking for sex work.
9y ago·view thread
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They only seem to be available on the US App Store.
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More information available from the article's source: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube... …
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Put a slightly better video up on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33BNcnlxdU The demo is using the ResNet50 model. Everything is running locally on the phone. Phone does ge…
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