http://disinformatics.com/blog anguish and delusion... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:12:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think we've all seen the original seam carving video, but I hadn't seen the following. It deals with problems in the original algorithm stemming from removing low-energy seams causing there to be more edges in the retargeted image - this roughly means that you can potentially make an image ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/07/03/241/ Watching Federer. They like his footwork. Jim (Philbin, fencing coach) likes footwork. He draws parallels with boxing. Personal trainer (Patrick Sago - awesome guy) is an amateur boxer. Lulz. The Imperial taster was cool. We had lectures - some cool AI. Unfortunately they missed out the crypto talk but it was ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/07/02/imperial-college-taster-course-future-of-computing/ Happily, Wikipedia had already picked up on it, but I heard some Warren Zevon in the mix of Kid Rock's new commercial sound recording. The song has almost no value apart from the catchiness of the three chord trick embellishments stolen from Zevon and Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think it's pretty bad ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/30/kid-rock/ It looks like graphics is well and truly useless now. I've been reading through the Mozilla Developer Center's Canvas Tutorial and it's clear that it's quite powerful (e.g. automatic bezier and quadratic curves and all that). It's quite a cool new element and I'll have to check it out at ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/30/canvas/ m35 of jpsxdec and #lain just found out why my site hadn't been rendering in IE or Firefox: you can't end script tags with "/>", even though it's valid XHTML. Oh well. What a hero! Also, this renders graphics obsolete... although I knew about the canvas element when I was writing it. I ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/29/hero/ This blog post will grow as I remember more details. Imperial College (or Imperial Lollege, as it was when my dad was there, reading Mechanical Engineering and putting the lulz in Lulz...ondon) was pretty awesome. Four year course with industry placement looked awesome. They coincidentally brought up Richard Hayden, whose CV ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/26/truly-epic-lulz/ Now: Made it to final of Aerospace Challenge - team meant to be called "The Pauli Effect", listed as "Pauli" Doing terrible, terrible physics competition Used distribution of points in a square and circle to approximate pi Watched 2001: A Space Odyssey - totally awesome. Combination of pacing and philosophy reminded me of SEL ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/19/233/ Exams were OK. Made binary and quadratics for lulz. Not useful, really. Doing S2 and C4 in maths. Interesting. Fred and I continue to brutally annihilate Dr Eves' extension questions. Kishore pays no attention (and sometimes falls asleep) but easily completes all of Mr Motion's work very quickly. We're a good ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/10/er/ Those other things are still up (plotter, graphics, recursion) and this is an Excel spreadsheet which I used to do a bunch of simultaneous equations to determine that the sum from r=1 to n of r4 is n5/5 + n4/2 + n3/3 - n/30. I'll simplify that later I suppose. ... http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/06/01/anti-lulz/ I've begun wondering if there's anything special I can find with recursion, or if it's just a fun way of expressing things. Is there anything new in there? Pax http://disinformatics.com/blog/2008/05/31/recursion/