# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1389886631 18000 # Node ID 41741f76b56760cb91b4dbe584e74c61a4fd9051 # Parent dfcbbb3d4b9aa14f11c4f3b723c7e11d6e5fcf4b# Parent 0653ed4b00a3ef2452fc807c447d0c72c51cb0b1 merge, and an idea about the power of ice. diff -r 0653ed4b00a3 -r 41741f76b567 org/adelson-notes.org --- a/org/adelson-notes.org Tue Dec 31 11:29:49 2013 -0500 +++ b/org/adelson-notes.org Thu Jan 16 10:37:11 2014 -0500 @@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ Horn, technical report, 1970 - - * Fri Oct 4 2013 Student report. Talked about how you capture the appearance of a @@ -93,6 +91,26 @@ objects made of different materials. The images were gathered off of Flikr. - + Then she gave another talk from someone else. It's about assigning + materials to objects and then rendering them. The choice of + materials is determined by some sort of expert system? - + They have made a neat looking interface for human entry of texture + labeling or objects in scenes. The important elements were manual + labels, dynamic display of the current selection, and undo. + + There are papers about mechanical turk engineering. + + lol http://opensurfaces.cs.cornell.edu/ + + CUBAM is interesting 2010 "The multidimensional wisdom of crowds." + "Neural Information processing systems" some sort of voting scheme. + + The point of this is apparently to do some kitchen makeover + thing. You would take a picture of your kitchen, or you would look + for a kitchen that looks like yours, and then you would be able to + investigate different textures for your own kitchen. + + apparently "Label ME" has never been appropriately + crowdsourced. Turns out that you get better work if you don't use + idiots to do the work lol. \ No newline at end of file diff -r 0653ed4b00a3 -r 41741f76b567 org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Tue Dec 31 11:29:49 2013 -0500 +++ b/org/ideas.org Thu Jan 16 10:37:11 2014 -0500 @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ getting credit. #+end_quote +<<<<<<< local +- pronuncation guide :: a simple webpage where you type in a word and + it returns a simpe, English sentence describing exactly how to + pronounce the word. For people who don't want to learn IPA. +======= - learning to teleport :: scifi idea, this is a story about a person who is struggling with his/her society's ideas about teleportation. It's considered a fundamental part of being a @@ -41,7 +46,13 @@ eventually transcend via destructive upload. Analogies to jumping off a diving board into a pool (which I simply /could not do/ for a long time), etc. +>>>>>>> other +<<<<<<< local +- touch vision :: inspired by GelSight, I want to reexamine cortex and + see if I could implement touch as a very low range + form of vision. +======= - bitcoins for immigrants :: A common case with Mexican immigrants (illegal or not) is that they want to send money they've earned in the US back to their families in Mexico. They currently do this @@ -55,7 +66,10 @@ them. Or, perhaps some educational seminars about bitcoin might be in order. There's some money to be made there because there is great demand, and it's a good thing to boot! +>>>>>>> other +<<<<<<< local +======= - reverse eye-tracking :: A painting that is actually a digital screen with a camera. It records people's eye tracks permanently. It's "artistic" because paintings are normally these things that you @@ -143,6 +157,7 @@ - aurellem shirt :: I should make an aurellem star symbol tee-shirt. +>>>>>>> other - high school science :: this is a lesson in scientific ethics. The goal is to calculate /g/, the local gravitational acceleration. The students are told that the textbook says it's