I had a paper accepted. It doesn't seem very important now though, because America has decided to take all that was great and good about itself and crap all over it. Still, you can read the full version here.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02517
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Nice, will have a read later. That might be applicable to my 3D reconstruction work in computer vision.
ReplyDeleteOh, I doubt it's worthwhile to anyone with more than a casual background in computer graphics. It was an invited submission and I saw an excuse to salvage the work for that whole Heidelberg fiasco.
ReplyDeleteAmerica was never good nor was it great. Memory is a tricksy bas. We were always the world's trash can. Hoo-boy, is that bit on the Statue of Liberty prescient, "The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
ReplyDeleteMaybe not, but it did have great and good aspects to it.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor It might have seemed so, from a distance. Stage sets are like that: our greatest export was always dreams. Celluloid. Flammable stuff, celluloid.
ReplyDeleteThe Roman Republic had about 200 good years: its symbol was the fasces, always carried into the Senate by a wounded warrior. Strength in unity: the Republic welcomed in those who joined willingly. Then came the emperors, each more mad and cruel than their predecessors. Thus with America. When at last Rome was overthrown, nobody mourned. It was always an illusion. The dream still persists, the fasces, too. Only now it's a fascist in the offing, short of a miracle.
Any country that can autonomously land a car sized nuclear powered rover on another planet by lowering it from a hovering sky-crane... is pretty great in my books.
ReplyDeleteIt's had, has, and will continue to have great aspects to it. Not in the political or social spheres, though. Those are being shat on.
ReplyDeleteWhile that is a great achievement, Oliver Hamilton, it is technical. People should understand technical advancement comes kind of automatically over time. It is another matter entirely what is wise allocation of resources. Having high child poverty while venturing in space is not necessarily a sign of greatness but of questionable priorities.
ReplyDelete"Technical advancement comes kind of automatically over time" - not really, it takes an enormous amount of continuous effort.
ReplyDeleteOf course it was a sweeping statement.
It takes the kind of effort people cooperating do anyway, Oliver Hamilton. Yes, it needs effort and that comes automatically from people. Ethics are more challenging.
ReplyDeleteI don't know you Rhys Taylor, but I offer my congratulations on the acceptance of your paper. On this night in particular, it's nice to hear some good news.
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor Well, it's an ill wind that blows no good at all. At least I have a nice, meaty PDF from a scientist I respect, to chew on over the next few days....
ReplyDeleteThe g/f just came back from work, bearing sushi and oatmeal raisin cookies, knowing I'd be in a bad state. And that's good, too.
Kind words at an unpleasant time. Thanks all.
ReplyDelete... I note a reference to "Minchin R. F." This, I suppose to be G+'s own Robert Minchin , nu?
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed the same legendary Robert Minchin, mythic figure of song and story.
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