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The Marriage of Fractals and Splines: Fractals with Control Points, Splines as Attractors
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The Marriage of Fractals and Splines:...

Fractals and splines have very different geometric features. Fractals can be continuous everywhere, yet differentiable nowhere. Fractals are often selfsimilar curves with fractional dimension. And ... read more »

Level: any Jul 14, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Three Beautiful Quicksorts
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Three Beautiful Quicksorts

This talk describes three of the most beautiful pieces of code that I have ever written: three different implementations of Hoare's classic Quicksort algorithm. The first implementation is a bare-b... read more »

Level: any Jul 04, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Web-based Inference Detection
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Web-based Inference Detection

Text content can allow unintended inferences. Consider, for example, the numerous people who have published anonymous blogs for venting about their employer only to be identified through seemingly ... read more »

Level: any Jun 04, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software
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The Science of Computing and the Engi...

Summary Sir Tony Hoare discusses the relationship between the science of computing and the engineering of software. First, he looks at the general concerns of science (e.g. long term, ideal, formal... read more »

Level: advanced Jun 12, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
How a Kiwi Built an Interactive Vision Guided Robot
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How a Kiwi Built an Interactive Visio...

I built a balancing robot that uses vision to dance with people using the Parallax Propeller multi-core processor. My talk will cover the robot and the tool I wrote to build and debug sophisticated... read more »

Level: any May 14, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Non-Myopic Active Learning: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
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Non-Myopic Active Learning: A Reinfor...

Active learning considers the problem of actively choosing the training data. This is particularly useful in settings where the training data is limited or comes with a price and therefore the lear... read more »

Level: any Mar 31, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
MountainWest RubyConf 2009: Machine Learning
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Fast Route Planning
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Fast Route Planning

I give an overview of our current and future work on route planning. Based on contraction hierarchies, a simple technique that allows fast routing by exploiting the hierarchy available in the netwo... read more »

Level: any Mar 29, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
MIX06: Microsoft Research - Turning Ideas into Reality
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MIX06: Microsoft Research - Turning I...

This talk focuses on some of the key projects that Microsoft Research is developing in their research labs, worldwide. The key project discussion will be supplemented by a number of prototype demos... read more »

Level: any Mar 23, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk

 
Symmetry Group-based Learning for Regularity Discovery from Real World Patterns
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Symmetry Group-based Learning for Reg...

We explore a formal and computational characterization of real world regularity using discrete symmetry groups (hierarchy) as a theoretical basis, embedded in a well-defined Bayesian framework. Our... read more »

Level: any Feb 21, 2009 Votes: 0 Dmytro Shteflyuk