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aaronzinman

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aaronzinman··on Kinect + Javascript: Control webpages with gestures (MIT Media Lab)
Right now its Kinect only--but it's called DepthJS versus KinectJS because we'll eventually infer depth using web cams.
aaronzinman··on Blog Comment Similarity Detector (Free Code For Disqus)
I used essentially this method as well for personas (personas.media.mit.edu) as so many web results were the same... except I kept track of duplicates to then employ further metrics to select 'the best one.'

Works well.

Although the tokenization is very much a poor mans. I have since open sourced my tokenization framework (for python) which handles real world text: http://bitbucket.org/azinman/defuse/src/tip/smgtk/tokup/

Aaron

aaronzinman··on We Built Interactive Seating Maps Using Raphael; Please Give Us Feedback
The bi-directional filters on the bottom left cannot be altered in an iPad.
aaronzinman··on What happens when you refuse to answer a passport control officer's questions
Do you really think they have a blind suspicion of everyone? The vast majority will go through with minimal questioning, and these types of questions try to tease out suspicious behavior. I don't think it's a "you are guilty by default" type situation.

How would you rather the border patrol act? Keep in mind there are various types of illicit behavior that are not desired within society--this is a fairly inevasive method all things considered.

aaronzinman··on Startup Bootcamp at MIT: streaming live via Justin.TV
Hacker news mentioned :)
aaronzinman··on Testing a e1/t1 card before shipping to haiti
That's a good idea. What were your problems with Digium cards?

Problem is we are on a very tight budget. Any money spent on testing is not on phone calls, which means less jobs for the population.