August 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Seam Carving is a technique for smart image resizing developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. It’s cool. It’s really cool actually! It let’s you resize an image without having to lose important information, so for example, if there’s a face in the photo and a background, the background will shrink while the face will [...]
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August 1st, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Cores are cheaper nowadays. Almost all new computers are shipped with 2 or more cores. Datacenter computers usually ship with more – 4, 8, 32… Again the hardware industry has left the software industry behind; if only Moore’s law would work the same way for software… But there is hope! Functional programming languages used to [...]
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