Archive for November, 2006
Matlab R14 on Fedora Core 5 (FC5)
20 November 2006I’ve been playing around with this all afternoon so I thought I’d just write up some notes on how I managed to get things working smoothly. My problem was that I was trying to compile a matlab library from m files that I wanted to call from C++ code, and the version of matlab I […]
Freaky Look-a-like
20 November 2006Was just doing some reading on practical uses of face-recognition and came across this article (not anything to do with automated Face-Rec). The girls in this article look so alike that I’m still not convinced that they aren’t the same person, I know that any software that I’ve written would have trouble telling them apart. […]
Robot-sentry with machine gun (aka real-life aimbot)
15 November 2006Designed with the South Koreans in mind, this new robo-sentry is expected to be deployed along the demilatirized zone between the north and south. Kind of scary when you think of these things being deployed with just a single spoken warning (presumably delivered in Korean) before it starts splattering you all over the countyside.
Samsung […]
H is for Halloween
3 November 2006