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This seems like SIFT ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo... ) in a nutshell. Here’s how image recognition works in a nutshell. It starts with identifying…

I think Hackers will have the last laugh after all. When hackers finally build an AI, it will also be the first soul. An intelligent mind decoupled from a body and thus capable of …

Sometime back I had to get passport photos and was very pissed that Walgreens and CVS charge about $10 for 2 photos. This seemed inexplicable as the cost of a typical 4x6 print is …

Here's a prediction: Since facebook "senior executives" are so fond of central planning, i.e., personally picking winners and losers for kickbacks, instead of creating a level play…

I really wonder how something like this got leaked! Thanks for posting.

This definitely seems interesting. Are you guys hiring?

I think Milton Friedman nailed it when he said that the biggest obstacle to a freer immigration policy is the welfare state. "[Throughout the history of the U.S.] you had a flood o…

I don't know if engineering is the world's second oldest profession, but its interesting to know what google says is the world's oldest profession: prostitution!

Yeah, this (article) seems to be totally at odds with the hacker ethic, expressed variously as: Jon Bentley in Programming Pearls: Column 2.5 "Aha! Algorithms" "Good hackers are a …