Where all stupid comes to congeal neatly in one handy tub.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Monday, July 05, 2010
Decoding CAPTCHA's
Decoding CAPTCHA's
Most people don’t know this but my honours thesis was about using a
computer program to read text out of web images. My theory was that if
you could get a high level of successful extraction you could use it as
another source of data which could be used to improve search engine
results. I was even quite successful in doing it, but never really
followed my experiments up.
My honours advisor Dr
Junbin Gao http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~jbgao/ had suggested the
following writing my thesis I should write some form of article on what
I had learnt. Well I finally got around to doing it. While what follows
is not exactly what I was studying it is something I wish had existed
when I started looking around.
Robotics developers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control have built autonomous robots that drive, dock with their peers on the ground, then fly into the air in coordinated swarms....all of this without human direction. In fact, the vehicles can drive around on the ground as individual, autonomous units, but "it is not until they assemble that they are able to fly," according to the researchers:
Why, no, I am not one bit afraid of these swarming, flying robotic drones - Boing Boing
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