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Comment Optimization and Machine Learning (Score 1) 283

by davis685 on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @07:48AM (#33867884) Attached to: Grad Student Looking To Contribute To Open Source

I run an open source C++ project which is, in large part, a machine learning, nonlinear optimization, and linear algebra library at http://dlib.net./ There are all kinds of interesting algorithms in this area which you could help add to the library. Let me know if you are interested and I'll try and point you to some interesting methods to implement :)

Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia 424

Posted by timothy on Friday October 17, 2008 @05:51AM from the unarmed-populace dept.

sparky1240 writes "While Americans are currently fighting the net-neutrality wars, spare a thought for the poor Australians — The Australian government wants to implement a nation-wide 'filtering' scheme to keep everyone safe from the nasties on the internet, with no way of opting out: 'Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material. ... According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million."

Flower Robots For Your Home 119

Posted by timothy on Friday October 17, 2008 @03:00AM from the pretty-high-on-maslow's-hierarchy dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Flower robots are not new, and some have already been developed in the US. Now, South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones. This robot has humidifying, oxygen-producing, aroma-emitting, and kinetic functions. It is about 1.30 meters tall and 40 centimeters in diameter. The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played. The researchers don't say when a commercial version of their flowers will come to the market. They also don't mention a retail price."

Submission + - Is parallel programming just too hard?

Submitted by pcause on Monday May 28, 2007 @08:21AM

pcause writes: There has been a lot of talk recently about the need for programmers to shift paradigms and begin building more parallel applications and systems. The need to do this and the hardware and systems to support it have been around for a while, but we haven't seen a lot of progress. The article says that gaming systems have made progress, but MMOGs are typically years late and I'll bet part of the problem is trying to be more parallel/distributed.

Since this discussion has been going on for over a decade with little progress in terms of widespread change, one has to ask is parallel programming just too difficult for most programmers? Are the tools inadequate or perhaps is it that it is very difficult to think about parallel systems. Maybe it is a fundamental human limit. Will we really see progress in the next 10 years that matches the progress of the silicon?

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