Well, I did some 3d reconstruction so I can answer that. The deficiency (not so important for most potential users) is that methods mostly 10-20 years old, no latest methods present. In robust estimators sections ("robust cost function) only "soft" L1 estimator present, no nonsmooth L1 estimators with solvers based on thresholds like Split Bregman and others. No constrained minimizers (solvers) which use Interior Point, Augmented Lagrangian etc. No dense and patch based reconstruction methods support. No global minimization methods(divide and conquer, convexification) I can continue here, but that's not a point. The point is that this package probably for industry users, not for researchers or people who want absolute cutting edge to squeeze maximum out of hardware or have difficult input images. That could be considered to be intentional, because more methods mean more choices, more approaches to test, more parameters to tune.

unending growth is unsustainable and a lie.

because of finite natural resources. Author mix up material output and economical growth. Economical growth don't have necessary be material, and could be increase in consumption of intellectual/informational product, which, at least in theory could be sustained while consumption of natural resources decreasing. Even growth in quality of life don't necessary have to be supported with increase of natural resources exploitation. Technological breakthrough and radical cultural changes can (not necessary of cause, but that is possibility) sustain growth in quality of life with decrease of exploitation of natural resources. Example: such radical increase in quality of life as stop forcing adult females wearing burka does not require increase in material resource consumption. Failure to see such an obvious error make me doubt quality of the rest of the book, though it could be failure of reviewer of cause.

Academic concentrate on the finding out where his solution works. Engineer mostly concerned with situations what to do if it doesn't.

Download Bundler + PMVS 3D reconstructions packages and feed video into them. Those packages are fairly stable and reliable and they give you 3D point cloud. After that convert 3D point cloud to surface - there are several packages which can do it, but I can't give any advice here - I don't know any *stable* package, all of them are research soft - memory leaks, random crashes, difficult parameters setting, compilation problems etc. If you want to learn algorithms himself that's at least year worth of math and computer vision (if you are not math/phys major). "Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision" usually recommended for starters, but this book is thoroughly obsolete now. All the modern staff is in the papers.

Immortal telepathic cyborg overlords will overthrow governments, force human peons to farm ocean while their robotic henchmen impregnate hapless human females.

Start with some freelance or even hobby jobs, get some experience under your belt with apps which you can refer to in your resume. With enough finished projects(even small) to show you can safely look for permanent position (if you will want it still after freelancing). Job market is always hungry for mobile coders who can actually code, not copy-paste.

The problem is that whales could be semi-sentient, on the level of small human children or somewhere not far from great apes. Killing whales not for survival but for luxury food create dangerous precedent. As the the brain-computer interfaces progress appearance of super-intelligent cyborgs is becoming if not likely, but at least not impossible. We don't want to give them precedent of killing less intelligent for fun.

And use even more complex math, which is usual in computer vision (it seems related to poster area) it can be safely open sourced and become source of small income - modification&maintenance. It's very likely that competitors wouldn't be able modify complex code based on math-heavy algorithm to their need. Even if they have this ability it would worth a lot of resources to them for small gain - if they have that kind of expertise they likely already have some in-house analog. If the code is a small improvement on well-known method, there is no advantage to open source it indeed.

are often best employees - most knowledgeable in the field or most hardworking or with huge experience. Only they can get away with obnoxious behavior, other would be get rid off or ostracized. Every person with habit of interrupting I knew was expert and generally very smart.

By giving him job with salary better that one of Nigerian garbage collector in Abuja.

If you want emphasize uncompromising efficiency go for Cheka To point out massive participation and instill fear in the enemy use NKVD For respectability and all-encompassing permeability use KGB

Could be pretty interesting.

I strongly object extrajudicial killings. Brain surgery looks like a human and compassionate way to deal with this guy.

It's proven, it's developing and has no legacy dragging it back.

"California is testing a new method for apprehending criminals: beating them" - that's what I read. Have to be careful with such headlines...