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Elika Ortega wrote a new post, , on the site Readers of Fiction 1 week, 1 day ago

It would seem that an endless source of blog content is going to conferences. Two weeks ago it was HASTAC, this week it was the Comparative Literature Colloquium at UNAM in Mexico City. This occasion marked some […]

Elika Ortega wrote a new post, Where is the story?, on the site Readers of Fiction 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Just got back from Toronto where I attended HASTAC2013 and had the chance to present a good chunk of my dissertation research and got a lot of good feedback. It was a really intense but productive weekend where I […]

Roberto Ulloa commented on the post, Face Recognition in Processing and Ubuntu 11.10, on the site It doesn't make any sense! 1 month ago

32bits or 64bits? I remember I had problems with 64bits and ended up using 32bits.

Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard wrote a new post, BulliPedia (I), on the site logbook of a thesis 1 month ago

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What is it?
On July the 13th, 2011, elBulli closed its doors to the public definitely. Since then, the famous restuarant has become a foundation that officially started last February the […]

Roberto Ulloa commented on the post, Adaboost on OpenCV 2.3, on the site It doesn't make any sense! 1 month, 1 week ago

Features are simply the values that you extract from the image. Given a feature f and a generated threshold t, a classifier would be something very similar to (assuming face recognition):

if f < t {
[…]

Roberto Ulloa commented on the post, Adaboost on OpenCV 2.3, on the site It doesn't make any sense! 1 month, 1 week ago

I was trying to see what was the problem but I couldn’t figure it out. I am curious. What was the problem?

Natalia Caldas wrote a new post, macorges, on the site creating 1 month, 1 week ago

As the academic year is coming to an end – no more teaching and no more courses – my final projects are also finishing up. One of the projects I’m working on is a group project based on a seminar studying […]

David Michael Brown wrote a new post, Day of DH: Looking back on DH2012, on the site scale_free() 1 month, 1 week ago

Well it is the Day of DH, and unfortunately I forgot to register at the official site. Hopefully a few tweets with well placed hashtags will pull me into the official mix of blogs. Here I would like to talk a bit […]

Javier de la Rosa wrote a new post, Computer Tools for Linguists, on the site In my humble opinion… 1 month, 1 week ago

My last blog entry was about a new course I would like to design and teach. But some of you were thinking, “hey, what happened to the other course, the one about linguists?” And you are right. No one word since […]

Roberto Ulloa commented on the post, Adaboost on OpenCV 2.3, on the site It doesn't make any sense! 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The paper you share actually gives you ideas of the numbers.

“Training a boosted classifier with 1000 weak classifiers given 20,000 training windows and 5,000 features”

You should read the original article […]

Roberto Ulloa commented on the post, Adaboost on OpenCV 2.3, on the site It doesn't make any sense! 1 month, 2 weeks ago

It is definitively not enough. Adaboost is made to work with many many simple features. I did a summary of all the post related of the features I […]

Roberto Ulloa commented on the post, Adaboost on OpenCV 2.3, on the site It doesn't make any sense! 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The “error train” is the error on the training process and it is the number of training samples that are classified incorrectly (called false positives + false negatives – […]

Elika Ortega wrote a new post, What a story looks like, on the site Readers of Fiction 1 month, 2 weeks ago

One of the reasons why I studied literature is, well, because I like reading. My story is everybody’s story: spending childhood days alone and reading instead of playing around. I got my first computer pretty […]

David Michael Brown wrote a new post, Scale Free Cultural Systems, on the site Preliminaries Project 1 month, 4 weeks ago

This morning I had the pleasure of reading Barabási and Bonabeau’s article Scale Free Networks, published in Scientific American’s May 2003 issue. Yes, in the scientific world it maybe ancient history, but I found […]

Jamil Afana wrote a new post, Photo or Photography 2, on the site Architecture and Literature 2 months ago

Odd angles.

A different point of view can often create new shapes and surprising perspectives. Look straight up or down and discover a whole new series of photographic possibilities. From the air, the beach […]

Elika Ortega commented on the post, Preliminary visualizations of Orsai, on the site Readers of Fiction 2 months, 1 week ago

I actually always called it jelly fish (medusa) It really looks like one!!!

Javier de la Rosa commented on the post, Preliminary visualizations of Orsai, on the site Readers of Fiction 2 months, 1 week ago

Awesome! And glad to be the lovely collaborator The thesis now looks like the Orsai Octopuses.

Elika Ortega wrote a new post, Preliminary visualizations , on the site Readers of Fiction 2 months, 1 week ago

It seems that I’ve reached the final stages of my dissertation research (The writing stands at about 45%). Last weekend (yes, we were working late on Friday) my lovely collaborator and myself finally sat down to […]

Javier de la Rosa wrote a new post, Thinking about teaching web development to humanists, on the site In my humble opinion… 2 months, 1 week ago

Now that my first course on computer tools for linguists is on its way (I already have almost half of the lessons designed), it is time to think about the next one. The CulturePlex laboratory is, so far, […]

Natalia Caldas wrote a new post, Bogotá, Colombia., on the site creating 2 months, 2 weeks ago

I spent some time in Bogota recently, visiting family and getting to know the city. Although I have been there several times, I have not had the opportunity to travel within the city itself, as I mostly spend my […]

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