Linkies.- Face Detection API: Face Detection Made SimpleWell now I have to use this.If you are building an image sharing service or a social network mashup, it’s likely that you will want to incorporate face-tagging in your images. Maybe you’d like to go a step further and automatically detect faces in an image, similar to Apple’s iPhoto. A Romanian developer has developed an API to help detect faces in images an […]
- Go Ahead, Make My LessonSo cool!I'm proud to announce that we now have a simple interface for editing and translating lessons on wikiotics.org! This is some great work by Jim that lets us get on with the fun part, making and playing with lessons. If you have a minute, take a look at our example lesson (in English) and play around. The "edit" button at the top will le […]
- gothfox pushed to master at gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSSthat is a very strongly worded commit message Andrew Dolgov committed c90a028 daemon2: properly abort stuck children […]
- Distaste for Corona saves geologist from assassinationSEE the leaks are valuable. Now we know not to drink crappy beer oh wait. Buried in Wikileaks' Afghanistan documents is a largely ignored 2007 warning that Pakistani spies were planning to poison booze intended for American soldiers using sulfuric acid. It sounds a little far-fetched. Until you hear the story of James Yeager, an American geologist who c […]
- Face Detection API: Face Detection Made Simple
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LibraryThing, Books, and Planning
I’ve been using the excellent librarything to keep track of my books. I’ll be building a self-hosted version of it Real Soon Now, but until then, I’m putting what I read in there. I’d gotten a bit of feedback from my vast hordes of readers that they are interested in what I read, so you can see reviews as they happen over there on the sidebar of mah blurg. Why librarything instead of GoodReads or Visual Bookshelf or the like? Because they will export your library back out for you.
If I decide to change over to a new system, I’ll want an easy way to get MY data back out. Always consider your exit strategy.
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