Comment re program next? (Score 1) 513
Ya'll need Jesus-- also known as bootstrap and jQuery. There is WAY to much javascript on this page... I can't imagine it's needed. UI reworks in the mix?
Comment Re:How many times (Score 1) 211
The answer will change... so lets hope often.
Comment how to learn (Score 2) 211
I would learn objective-c first because you can get more help with it. People all over the internet have been doing it for a long time. It won't be obsolete for at least a decade, so don't stress about swift being the new way to do the same things.
Find tutorials online or get torrents of books/buy them.
Dream up your own micro-projects, when you get stuck http://stackoverflow.com/ is your friend. This site has saved me MANY times, usually within minutes.
take a look at other peoples micro-projects and full fledged ones on https://github.com/
but above all, right some code EVERYDAY.
Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours 94
sciencehabit writes: Unmanned drones aren't just for warfare. In recent years, they've been used to map wildlife and monitor crop growth. But current software can't always handle the vast volume of images they gather. Now, researchers have developed an algorithm that will allow drones to 3D-map scores of hectares of land in less than a day — an advance that is important for cost-effective farming, disaster relief, and surveillance operations.
Their computer program directly projects the points from each photo onto a 3D space without knowing the exact shape of the land or the camera positions. As a result, the tie points don't necessarily match up, which means the same corn plant can have two projections on the model. When that happens, the algorithm automatically takes the middle point between the two projections as the more accurate location and adjusts the camera position accordingly, one image at a time. Because the algorithm tweaks far fewer things at each step, the shortcut drastically speeds up calculations. Once the software has adjusted the camera positions for all the photos, the software repeats the entire process — starting from projecting the points to the 3D space — to correct for any errors.
Their computer program directly projects the points from each photo onto a 3D space without knowing the exact shape of the land or the camera positions. As a result, the tie points don't necessarily match up, which means the same corn plant can have two projections on the model. When that happens, the algorithm automatically takes the middle point between the two projections as the more accurate location and adjusts the camera position accordingly, one image at a time. Because the algorithm tweaks far fewer things at each step, the shortcut drastically speeds up calculations. Once the software has adjusted the camera positions for all the photos, the software repeats the entire process — starting from projecting the points to the 3D space — to correct for any errors.
Submission + - McAfee regrets "flawed" trillion dollar cyber crime claims (afr.com) 3
Techy77 writes: McAfee's chief technology officer Mike Fey has admitted that he regrets his own company’s estimates, which once pinned global losses from cyber crime at more than $1 trillion.
