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May

Do you care if people burn?

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Today the terms ‘user privacy’ and ‘data confidentiality’ are very important if you are planning to provide a service to people other than yourself. The big question is how do you go about to enforce these concepts? Everybody has heard about ‘encryption’ and that it is apparently the way to go. Unfortunately most people haven’t [...]

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08
May

The more we learn, the less we know

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The thirst for knowledge has always been a fundamental driving force for me. Throughout the course of my life I have learned numerous things from numerous fields. However, as my knowledge grew, so did an unshakeable feeling that I in fact know nothing. A large part of my studies has therefore been dedicated to a [...]

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23
Apr

Achievement Unlocked

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in gaming

It’s Christmas morning and I’ve just returned home from church. I need to be at my brother’s house in just under an hour. That should leave me just enough time. I pull out my chair and boot up my PC, frustrated as the Windows startup screen occupies the space for far too long. Next I [...]

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16
Apr

Fixing Politics with Games and such…

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in gaming

Technology has been used all throughout the ages to enhance political structures and the functioning of governments. There is an ever-flowing line of inventions, from writing to print, the telegraph to the telephone, the television and the internet, which all had immeasurable effects on the functioning of governments around the world. In today’s world I [...]

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23
Mar

Why Computer Vision Failed the Vision Test

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Computer graphics has always been an interest of mine. Seeing the latest CGI film or AAA video game showing off the current peak of graphics technology and creativity can really put one in awe of what we as humans have achieved. We have generally solved the problem of converting a physical model of a scene into a lifelike sequence of images, [...]

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13
Mar

The Future. The year 2012.

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Hello, person, of the year 1999. I am from the future, the year 2012. Let me tell you about all the amazing things humanity will invent in the next few years! First. If I get my numbers right, there are only 250 million people currently connected to your internet. By the end of the decade, [...]

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28
Feb

Fabric

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Introduction I’m a big fan of the Python programming language and to be quite honest, the majority of my masters work is written in Python. Along with Python, I also spend a lot of time working with multiple workstations on the network. This is because my masters is focused on securing media in a peer-to-peer media [...]

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19
Feb

A not so short description of a simple digital library

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In my previous post I outlined some problems that are encountered when performing experiments. I then introduced an experimental design methodology to follow that attempts to minimise these problems. The focus was on the following reasons why one would perform thorough documentation in the requirements analysis phase: it uncovers requirements that have been misinterpreted or [...]

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06
Feb

“Ebugs” for Smart Phones and Tablets

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in Mobile

Ever since buying the Android Samsung Galaxy Tab 7inch a few months ago I encountered problems relating to the battery life. On average if I received or made 10 calls a day (average time per call 5 minutes), run a few apps and accessed my emails, the battery would run out after a few hours. [...]

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31
Jan

About: Wikipedia’s structure and how it is used in research

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Wikipedia is an amazing resource of information for readers, people that quickly want to check facts and sometimes also the last resort to settle a heated debate about some topic. Recently, Wikipedia has also gained attention to researchers that recognized Wikipedia’s unique structure and scale as a great tool for research and experiments. Wikipedia’s structure [...]

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