... in each image. Obtaining enough training examples. SVMs work best with at least 100 examples of each class. Commercial applications of boosting (e.g., the face-focusing in digital cameras) are trained on millions of positive and negative examples. A quick Google image search turns up some good da...

... There are people out there who focus on UI design. Learn about design. At least a little bit. Try to learn a few of the design concepts and techniques from the long list below. If you are more ambitious, read some books, attend a conference, take a class, get a degree. There are lot of ways to lear...

...lity or restrictions to what volatile does. For example, in MSVC 2010 (at least) Acquire and Release semantics do apply to certain operations on volatile variables. From the MSDN: When optimizing, the compiler must maintain ordering among references to volatile objects as well as references ...

...ny of the 24 points in the set S3 (defined similarly) to (x,y) requires at least two moves. Therefore, if |x1-x0|>4 or |y1-y0|>4, the shortest path from (x0,y0) to (x1,y1) is exactly two moves greater than the shortest path from (x0,y0) to S4. And the latter problem can be solved quickly with...

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...r hand, you shouldn't share a Matcher between different threads. Or at least, if you ever did, you should use explicit synchronization. share | improve this answer | f...

...nt you request by reserve, the specification only requires it allocates at least that much, so some implementations may round up to some boundary and thus show higher capacity than 1000. – Jan Hudec Sep 13 '11 at 8:49 ...

...rit of Unix. grep does not cut and ls does not grep. Therefore at the very least grep foo file1 file2 file3 goes against the design spirit. The orthogonal way of doing it is cat file1 file2 file3 | grep foo. Now, grep foo file1 is merely a special case of grep foo file1 file2 file3, and if you do no...

...I", or even "X3.4-1968", intending to include the national variants, or at least not clearly ruling it out, leading to arguments. Therefore, I personally would use Unicode as the normative reference for ASCII if I had to write a spec where it mattered. That's all I meant. – zw...

...e number of items in the hash. The O(1) lookup performance claim makes at least two assumptions: Your objects can be equality compared in O(1) time. There will be few hash collisions. If your objects are variable size and an equality check requires looking at all bits then performance will beco...