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Omar Rizwan @omar

webcam is short for web content-addressable memory

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Omar Rizwan @omar

feel like the fundamental problem with Apple / Apple alumni is that the iPhone was so successful that it basically destroyed any real culture of personal computing in the compny

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Being unable to control the viewport is part of why I
resisted web dev for so long, though. You could only
resize the original Winamp window in the ways that the
theme allowed, so designers never *had* to answer the
question, “What should this look like if the window is
huge?” They would just say, “The window will always
be 200px tall and shaped like a human head.”

“How should my business card look if someone prints it
on posterboard?” lol

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Omar Rizwan @omar

> (by which i mean, nobody questions that a dynamically generated list of ten blue links represents no particular curation or intention)

maybe they should!!!!

"Warning: This Web page was dynamically generated and is not attributable to any particular author"

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Omar Rizwan @omar

i like this

The step detection problem occurs in multiple scientific and engineering
contexts, for example in statistical process control!"] (the control chart being
the most directly related method), in exploration geophysics (where the
problem is to segment a well-log recording into stratigraphic zones), in
genetics (the problem of separating microarray data into similar copy-number
regimes!*)), and in biophysics (detecting state transitions in a molecular
machine as recorded in time-position traces"), For 2D signals, the related

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Omar Rizwan @omar

screenshot of http://mrob.com/pub/perl/hypercalc.html

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Omar Rizwan @omar

[words Jaggy / Blurry / Wobbly with those effects on each word]
Figure 1.1. Up close, high-contrast edges in texture images become jaggy, blurry
or wobbly.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

:=)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

i really like the idea of decoupling 'voice control of computer' from like 'friendly Siri assistant that you ask things in English'
like… why shouldn't one be able to have voice control of computer where ur this expert programmer flying around saying these strings of syllables

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Omar Rizwan @omar

paper computers (volvelles, slide rules)I are cool because they
suggest a vision of computing where you do the actual
computation with a paper/analog device, and you use the
electronic computer just to manage I/O at the edges :P

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