Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

2013-03-09 Thread Russ Abbott
Owen, based on the preview on the course websiteit looks like the course will be a rerun of the TV series with some interactive stuff layered on top. Will I be able to participate in class discussions? Yes, in several ways: 1.

Re: [FRIAM] Questions for you all: Photo sorting? Site mapping?

2013-03-09 Thread Victoria Hughes
Arlo, Sarbajit, Steve- thanks for these leads, I'll check into them. Steve, yes indeed, your assumptions about what I want are on the money. Knew this was the right place to ask. Tory On Mar 9, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote: > Tineye has an image analysis program (separate from their f

Re: [FRIAM] Questions for you all: Photo sorting? Site mapping?

2013-03-09 Thread Arlo Barnes
Tineye has an image analysis program (separate from their free single-image service most are familiar with for being similar to Google Similar Image Search aside from being around first), but it costs some. The lead developer of Javascript asked a similar question a while back and got a lot of resp

Re: [FRIAM] Questions for you all: Photo sorting? Site mapping?

2013-03-09 Thread Steve Smith
I have found iPhoto to do amazing things *specifically* with face finding/matching but don't think it is generalized. I don't find Google Image's search by example all that good, it's ideas of what is similar can be pretty obvious without being at all what I wanted. I still use it to good ef

Re: [FRIAM] Here's another one of those ponderous "cut and paste" html links

2013-03-09 Thread Owen Densmore
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > CyanogenMod seems to be generally considered the best - the most supported > devices, the best-organized support system. The CM devs seem to have the > most attitude, as well. > Hooray attitude! :) Gotta have it in this domain. -- Owe

Re: [FRIAM] Here's another one of those ponderous "cut and paste" html links

2013-03-09 Thread Douglas Roberts
CyanogenMod seems to be generally considered the best - the most supported devices, the best-organized support system. The CM devs seem to have the most attitude, as well. On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > I think I've seen something about that mod in the past-there's som

Re: [FRIAM] Here's another one of those ponderous "cut and paste" html links

2013-03-09 Thread Gillian Densmore
I think I've seen something about that mod in the past-there's some others out there as well-any opinions what's hot what's not? On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > For the two of you out there still using plain text mail clients, that is. > > For the more modern FRIAM entit

[FRIAM] Questions for you all: Photo sorting? Site mapping?

2013-03-09 Thread Victoria Hughes
Hello all- Mebbe the amassed brain and experience power here can help me: Do any of you have a good lead on an effective image-sorting program that sorts by visual characteristics? I have thousands of images, many of them different sizes and duplicates of art photos: so a single object in a w

Re: [FRIAM] Here's another one of those ponderous "cut and paste" html links

2013-03-09 Thread Douglas Roberts
Had me going for about a two-count. :) On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > CyanogenMod Acquired by Google, Made CTO of Mobile! > > Not. > >-- Owen > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Frida

Re: [FRIAM] Here's another one of those ponderous "cut and paste" html links

2013-03-09 Thread Owen Densmore
CyanogenMod Acquired by Google, Made CTO of Mobile! Not. -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com

[FRIAM] Friam Mail Llatency (Warning technical)

2013-03-09 Thread Owen Densmore
I've been getting friam email out of order and/or delayed and decided to poke at it a bit, mainly because my mail path is a bit complex being forwarded from my hosting service to gmail. Here are two headers, reformatted for readability and normalized to PST. They both show a considerable delay co

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

2013-03-09 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Oh, Owen, what a wonderful and kindly idea! I think this might be, actually, an excellent way to re-invent the Coffee House Seminars. To make them the peer-to-peer/face-to-face component of one of these lecture series. But I know I am not going to do it in the near future. Too much else go

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

2013-03-09 Thread Owen Densmore
Oops, not enough coffee to be clear, sorry! No mockery intended, just an invitation to take the course with me and chat about it. We've often had difficulty in things philosophic, and this would maybe be fun when we are discussing same material even though differing very much in background in phi

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

2013-03-09 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Owen, I didn’t follow the following: Oh, and to also challenge Nick in a philosophic conversation wherein he brings his background to the topic and me my naiveté. You are WAY more sophisticated about MOOCKY things than I am. And all I brought to bear was my personal history, in which

[FRIAM] Here's another one of those ponderous "cut and paste" html links

2013-03-09 Thread Douglas Roberts
For the two of you out there still using plain text mail clients, that is. For the more modern FRIAM entity, it's just a click: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/03/cyanogenmod.html --Doug -- *Doug Roberts d...@parrot-farm.net* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*

Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage

2013-03-09 Thread Owen Densmore
+1. One of them being scottie's which I liked due to being so wide in breadth of "modeling". But the Machine Learning (Coursera Prof Ng) was unbelievable. The way they used MatLab/Octave in guided programming problems was superb, I had never seen that technique before. I'm signed up for the San