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Nice "initiation" article/post about "Perceptual Hashing".
Its continuation (of sorts) it's also a worthy read (2nd jump).
A handy article, courtesy of Before & After magazine, for those difficult times when one needs to find just the right color for a particular purpose.
An "oldie" (so to speak) but goldie: Wired's article recounting the pioneering efforts/attempts of Leonard Adleman to materialize the world's first DNA computer/computations.
From the article itself:
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Thanks to learning algorithms and other evolutionary tools being incorporated into computers, the machines around us are becoming more lifelike. But Adleman wanted to tackle the question from the opposite direction. What if life itself, already susceptible to genetic engineering, could be used to solve problems? What if DNA could be shifted from reproducing life to thinking about it? Adleman imagined a future in which organic and inorganic computers link up; he wanted to witness this momentous occasion in his lifetime.
Inspired, he hopped out of bed and started to build the world's first DNA computer.
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Or. How to make procrastination work for, instead of, against you.
Directly from the author's pen:
I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time.
