Let's say you are a clothes designer and you want to design a pair of jeans. Since you are new to all this, you go out and collect a bunch of measurements from people to see how to design your jeans as far as sizing is concerned. One aspect of this project would be to … Continue reading Derandomization Of RANSAC
Year: 2013
Non-ASCII Character Syntax Error In Python
So you played around with Python enough to get to this error? Good. Now let's see what happened here. When you copy something and paste it into a .py file, some of the characters may not be copied correctly. Given below is the error Python usually spews out when that happens: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character … Continue reading Non-ASCII Character Syntax Error In Python
What Is The Poincaré Conjecture?
Before we start, let me put something out there. Poincaré Conjecture is one of the seven millennium problems established by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Those problems are worth a million dollars each! The Poincaré conjecture depends on the mind-numbing problem of understanding the shapes of spaces. This field of study is referred to as "topology" … Continue reading What Is The Poincaré Conjecture?
The Ramifications Of H.265
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently approved the next generation video format known as H.265, which would be the successor to the current H.264 standard. H.265, also informally known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is supposed to be twice as efficient as H.264 in terms of compression. H.265 relies on the fact that processing … Continue reading The Ramifications Of H.265
Where Does Myspace Stand After The Redesign?
Myspace recently revamped its website completely. Unfortunately, the unveiling coincided with Facebook's big announcement about Graph Search. So obviously Myspace got overshadowed! It still managed to generate some buzz, but where exactly is Myspace heading with this? They took too much time to come up with a redesigned site and social networking domain has become … Continue reading Where Does Myspace Stand After The Redesign?
Investors Are Unimpressed By Facebook’s Graph Search
Facebook unveiled its graph search recently. This announcement was highly anticipated and Facebook is banking on it to generate some revenue. While it is very good from a technological point of view, the unveiling didn't exactly impress the investors. The stock prices actually went down after the announcement. Facebook really wants to create a source … Continue reading Investors Are Unimpressed By Facebook’s Graph Search
Expectation Maximization
Probabilistic models are commonly used to model various forms of data, including physical, biological, seismic, etc. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust procedures for learning parameters from observations. Often, however, the only data available for training a probabilistic model are incomplete. Missing values can occur which will … Continue reading Expectation Maximization
Robot Vs Turing
In one of my previous blog posts, we discussed about measuring computer's intelligence and how we can use the Turing test for it. After Turing proposed that test, a lot of people realized its importance and started working on it. People really wanted to believe that machines are indeed capable of thinking. We need a … Continue reading Robot Vs Turing
The Clairvoyant Curves Of Pursuit
Let's say you see a rogue fighter aircraft on your territory and you want to demolish it. Well, not you per se, but a person who is in charge of these things! Anyway, you send your pilot so that he can chase the aircraft and destroy it. But how will he determine the path of … Continue reading The Clairvoyant Curves Of Pursuit
What Do You Know About Infinity?
What do you think of the term "infinity"? In layman's terms, infinity is something that has no end, something that is bigger than all the things we know. This is what most people think! Many people who have not seen advanced mathematics do not know about the fact that there are many different types of … Continue reading What Do You Know About Infinity?
