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The article is going on about how it's unimaginable to be running Windows in that environment, but I recall a few instances of military vessels running Windows in previous years/de…

This is disappointing. We have a webapp and (small) GPU datacenter that can extract tens of billions of polygons per day from remote sensing imagery (gis.incogna.com). I felt quite…

I seem to remember that they were using a customized version of Cassandra to store the geodata

It's fascinating to read another company having evaluated NoSQL and come to an identical conclusion as we did internally. I love the idea of NoSQL, but Cassandra was horrible (just…

If you want an "easy" way get into GPU development, AMD recently launched an interesting (open source) project that transparently compiles JVM bytecode into OpenCL: http://blogs.am…

Click the gear (top right), then click "Use the classic look"

I compared/contrasted TinEye against Google CBIR for a bunch of images (I use TinEye a lot) and I have to say TinEye looks better than Google CBIR so far. TinEye has less "zero res…

Either way, hopefully they've improved it - I was never able to get Goggles to work very well at all (versus TinEye).

What a fascinating topic, it's too bad that Gazopa (mentioned at the end of the article) just announced that they're shutting down their CBIR service: http://gazopablog.blogspot.co…