Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart?
Posted on April 23, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I do…
Here is a fairly comprehensive list of songs from the Simpsons, complete with mp3s. I wonder how long it will stay online?
Don’t Breathe the Moondust
Posted on April 23, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
I’ve never thought of this before, but one of the problems with manned exploration of the moon and Mars is that the dust could be dangerous to humans. In fact, previus lunar astronauts had problems with “lunar dust hay fever:”
In 1972, Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmidt sniffed the air in his Lunar Module, the Challenger. “[It] [...]
Freaky, hairy computer mice
Posted on April 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
’nuff said. See Engadget for original link.
Read More..>>Keyword spotting in podcasts
Posted on April 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is very interesting. TVEyes, a television and radio search company have brought out a search engine for podcasts based on what was said within the podcast, called podscope. Here’s a couple of example searches.
Thanks, Danny Ayers.
About David Dean
Posted on April 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
UPDATE: More up-to-date information is available here.
I hope that most of my 10 or so regulars will actually make use of this information, because if my only regulars already know me then that is a little sad… but oh well, here goes….
I am a PhD student in the Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies [...]
‘OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor’ for Mobile Phones
Posted on April 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, face recognition, security | Leave a Comment
I found this on Engadget a couple of days ago, and thought it might be interesting to some people: OMRON Demonstrates ‘OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor’ for Mobile Phones at Security Show Japan 2005
The new system features face-recognition technology for camera-enabled cell phones and other devices as an alternative to passwords or fingerprint scanners for [...]
Switching from Google to Yahoo
Posted on April 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
For the past couple of weeks I have performed my searching tasks using Yahoo (not this page, far far too much crap) instead of Google.
Why: Yahoo likes me. When I do a yahoo search for David Dean, this site is the first result. I don’t know where I am in Google’s search for David Dean, [...]
Determining streets from taxi location data
Posted on April 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Mikel Maron writes about using tracking data from Google Ridefinder to infer the street geometry of Manhattan. Looks like this:
Read More..>>Students from government schools do better at uni than private-school-students
Posted on April 6, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
catallaxy ยป Should unis discriminate against students from private schools?
Do students from government schools do better at university than students from private schools? Consistent with the previous research, using Monash data Ian Dobson and Eric Skuja have found that the answer is yes (the full report can be bought from the People and Place website).
More pope-foolery
Posted on April 6, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Geese Aplenty says
Then I started thinking about the final episode of Buffy, where the good guys changed the rules and cast a spell that activated all the slayers-in-waiting. Suddenly, there were hundreds of superpowered girls ready to protect the earth and avenge the innocent. I’m forced to ask: why don’t we do the same thing [...]