Seam Carving is what you get with Math on Photos on Brainpower
Thanks to Amit and the crew at Photojojo, I ran across this video / presentation from this year’s SIGGRAPH.
Rizr launched this for you to play with it as well. And here is the original paper: Seam carving for content-aware image resizing [20 MB...
First Steps in Rails, RESTful by Example, Part 1: Beast
I’m migrating one of my main e-commerce sites from php to Rails. Coming from a few years of Java and php makes me really appreciate this framework’s rapid development cycles, as well as strict MVC approach.
Note: this is a technical post, it...
Feb 20-23 Econ week in review podcast for investors
Last week was pretty quite, except for the CPI numbers that came out.
The CPI came out higher than expected for January (we’re on track for high 2% inflation in 2007, not the Fed’s expected 2 to 2.25%)
Everything else was pretty quite. Oil...
Feb 12-16 Economic Week in Review Podcast
The latest economic week in review podcast. Six minutes and 15 seconds of listening pleasure.
The FOMC’s Chairman, Ben Bernanke suggested they are disinclined to raise interest rates. This buoyed market sentiment and the S&P 500 saw two days of...
Feb 5-9 Economic Week in Review Podcast
It was a relatively light week for economic news last week. Highlights include:
Consumer credit increased less than expected in December.
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index rose to 59 (from 56.7 in December). The services sector is showing greater strength...
