WasimBhai

I am an EE who has previously tried to take this course and found it incredibly hard because of theory, formal proofs etc.. Can anyone recommend a book, lecture notes to accompany this course to make life easy?

Would you be open to Wavelet Transform implementation for images? Features does not have that and I think I will love to do it. I guess it will come handy for someone trying to fiddle with BM3D image denoising.

Hello, is there a way I can contact you through email? Thanks a bunch!

How long did it take for the server to reply against Task 5? Its been a week since I submitted my results but no reply as of yet.

I am writing a Wavelet Transform and de-noising library over OpenCV. Its fun but tough.

I strongly recommend Cypress PSoC3 and PSoC5 if your budget is tight and you want to achieve the blazing fast speed of FPGA within a tight budget. I implemented Wavelet Transform with de-noising scheme, a classifier model to match against that Wavelet Transform, and a RMS machine, all in hardware, all in that small PSoC3 chip. Magic.

I have worked extensively with PSoC3 chips and they have been rather remarkble beasts to play around with. You know your hardware is only 8 bits. You want to implement FFT for 16 bit numbers. or 32 bits. This is slow. Well, don't fret. I give you CPLD components to design your very own DFT block in hardware which is 16 or 32 bit wide. So you have still some CPLD blocks left? Create another component in hardware, link it with DMA. Finally ahem, you want to do Filters. That is 8051 there, too slow. Use the DSP chip on the PSoC to utilize hardware optimized filters.

Essentially, DMA them all up and you can create a multi-tasking environment in a PSoC chip.

After 60 years, just as Pakistan is unraveling with religious extremism that has permeated the fabric of society, India elects Modi, someone who has been a life long member of RSS, a fascist Hindu organization, and have often been accused of being complicit in Gujarat pogroms of 2002. An India, which was founded upon the principles of egalitarianism, a Pakistan which was to be a homeland for minorities.

60 years, and both of those principles falling to pieces in each of the states.

You finished with all the tasks? They said that at the end you will be maintaining a subsystm.

For those working in Genetics, how much is the field upbeat about regenerative medicine in general, and Google's Calico [0] venture in particular?

[0] https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/Lh8SKC6sED1

Not working with two factor authentication.

Do you have a model for revenue generation other than ads except for asking users to pay some dollars? I will love to know.

I use Firefox because I think it is good enough and second I want to have certain control at the software I am using, being it open source. Now do I expect Mozilla to keep running a company without generating revenue to only to stay up? Remember 90 percent of Mozilla revenues come from Google. They must diversify, and if Firefox is smart enough with ads placement, which considering their stellar record at keeping the customers first is undeniable, I am backing Mozilla up. Yes to competition, yes to open web.

Those in Cancer research, how far are we to actually solve the Cancer problem given recent genetics research surge?

For those who are in this field, I have a question, and will be grateful for an answer. How far-reaching is this technique can be for Cancer treatments? I understand Cancer is not a simple disease that can be delineated.

Look at it from this way:

I couldn't expect to have access to courses like Probabilistic Graphical Models and Neural Networks by Hinton at probably any of the universities in my country. By popularizing science, by being able to reach such a massive population, even if it inspires a 1% of those taking the course, it is absolutely better than Hinton or Kohler teaching a course to 50 - 250 students at UoT and Stanford per semester.

This is long term we are talking about. Yes, the whole thing must be sustained by business, but I find a moral objective too here.

Very rudimentary understanding of Cancer so if someone from a field is here please do comment: can this technique also be used for destroying Cancerous cells?

Sitting here in Pakistan, this scares me. I remember back at the start of 2000s' when the bubble had busted, and Pakistani software industry which is largely doing work that has been out-sourced, going more or less dead. Really talented engineers were unable to find jobs, and the whole CS boom which had reached here too, died down. Now there are so many jobs, and not enough kids which is making universities induct even more students.

In between all this, this talk of bubble busting literally freaks me out. When God forbid it happens, it will leave deeper scars than the 2000 one with many a stable careers coming to a sudden halt, and along with them their families.

The Indian Strategic Command is led by a 3 Star General [1] so the position mentioned in the article that the police failed to find anything is load of BS. This type of stuff is taken care of by Intelligence agencies, and if there was anything extraordinary here, the repercussions must have reached this side of the border, i.e., Pakistan.

In fact, I find this whole mentioning of Pakistan twice in the article offensive. If there was even a whiff of Pakistani intelligence work here, the whole world would have erupted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Nuclear_Command

Oh yes, we have the best sweets, and the most awesome Curry in Lahore. That is one thing we are extremely proud of. So people on Hackernews, next time you plan on taking a trip, come over to Pakistan for some of the most awesome culinary delights!

Jump in at #introductions at Mozilla channel on irc. There is always something that you can contribute with, and you will learn too!

The people at Firefox are absolutely great help. Those of you who have time on your hands, please do contribute to making an already awesome browser, even better.

Hacker School guys, if you are here, are you open to foreign candidates? I am from Pakistan and would absolutely love to join if selected.

Dude, that is racist. Calm down.

Great. Thanks a ton! :)

How do I apply? I have subscribed to the list. Am I supposed to wait for you to contact me?

Actually, Pakistan has reasonable resources to handle this kind of situation. The devastating earth quake of 2005 precipitated the formation of National Disaster Management Authority. With army supporting operations, I am sure things will be handled well.

>> But if France continues to be a place where 75% taxes are seen as a sane idea

Can you put forward a link to some study that argues that 75% taxes, or huge taxations hampers innovation?

Considering plan9 is so great for distributed computing, those with Big Data experience, do you think it is only a matter of time before plan9 replaces other operating systems being used in map-reduce, clustered environments?

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