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There was a challenge at stack overflow to encode an image in a tweet (140 characters at the time): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-enc... Some of the solu…

Most journals require that the authors sign an agreement in which the publisher retains the copyright of the paper (e.g. [1]). Although a few publishers allow the authors to provid…

I also think that Anaconda is great. However, I hope that in the future we could install numpy, matplotlib, jupyter, etc. just using pip.

Flickr was -- and maybe still is -- very useful for the computer vision research community.

"Mining of Massive Datasets" by Leskovec, Rajaraman and Ullman is very good. Although the post gives a link to the Amazon page of the book, PDFs of the chapters are free to downloa…

My first impression was the same as Mithaldu, but then I tried one of the other games and it was more responsive. I think that the NES emulator is bad advertising for your (very ni…

A challenge would be that coffee trees have very deep roots [1]. [1] http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad219e/AD219E05.htm

I have the impression that Pepsi is much more popular in US than in Brazil.

"However, yet another recent theory proposes that grasses competing for water and nutrients - limited resources in the Namib desert - create the circles, explaining why they never …

Nice, but I think it is not real, just marketing for the new Planet of the Apes movies.

Very interesting approach. I have worked with image feature extraction in the past. Although using DCT coefficients has been used as a way to analyze texture features, the idea ide…