Why I claimed that?

About 4 month before, in a post, I claimed that the " programming is not an engineering discipline". Maybe you think that I completely missed the main points about Computer Science, but it's not true. As I mentioned before, it seems that there are two kind of judgment about programming. One viewpoint looks at it as a regularly repetitive classified task and another one looks as a high challenging innovative style of thinking. I believe at second one. Maybe inasmuch as I do love Algorithms, or maybe because of anything else.
Here is another fact which proves my idea. The writer of this essay is a professional programmer (second category for sure :) Please consider his strong reasons .

A visionary article !

Some minutes ago, I faced by a visionary article (by Amir Salihefendic , a really briliant young Hacker). In general, he talks about how to increase our productivity. As soon as I conclude the paper , an intuitive feelings raised in me suddenly. What ? just focus on your main stuff? Never give to until make it done? Holly shit, I knew it. It's like Meditation. Why the hell I didn't do that before? I always wanted to do at least two work in parallel until now, I mean in entire of my life:(
I don't know why, but I just know that I will do it FROM NOW.
Well ......... what's my main work right now? Ahan, got it. Thanks Amir :)

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Killer robots could replace soldiers

Ten minutes ago a 25-year-old self-taught engineer named "Adam Gettings" pulled into the Waffle House parking lot, lifted the hatch of his black SUV, and unveiled what could very well be the future of urban warfare: a toy-like but gun-wielding robot designed to replace human soldiers on the battlefield.


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IBT TOEFL + Reschedule

I rescheduled my IBT TOEFL test . I postpone it until Feb 2 , It was Dec 15. I need the score of 100/120 ( equivalent to 600 in paper based TOEFL). I wish I can get this work done :)

Comments

I made active the commenting system . However , there is some "word verification" mechanism for non blogger authors . I hope your kind comments help me to improve my Ideas and performance :)
Cheers ...

ADSL2+

I'm so pleased to announce that my ADSL2+ link is attached now. From now , I will be online 24hour ,7days in a week :)
Anyway , I can understand why some guys like Mark likes to get their work done individually. In my opinion , some conditions can help you to make your productivity more than 80%-90%. However , Telecommunication is one of this conditions. I wish I could find one of these telecommunication jobs , unless I have to start my own from scratch ! Is Hiring is really obsolete?
I think yes , unless you wanna work for NASA or Google :)

Programming is not An Engineering Discipline

Yeah... That's it ! At the moment, I strongly believe it.
Maybe it's offensive or maybe not,but when you think about a program (a web application for example) , you don't need to calculate the fundamentals , you don't need mathematical design and.... In the best form, you design an UML chart(albeit with prior thinking) , collect your coders, discuss with them about the code(if you have experienced coders) and start to code in tomorrow morning :)
But Engineering is not like this. In power engineering or Vision/Image processing, you need more and more info about the "nature" of your problem. Just when you understand the mathematical nature of a problem, you can estimate the solutions. It's not just transaction to DataBases !!!
I'm very pleasure to switch to "Vision" and more for studying "Electrical Engineering". They taught me the "style of thinking". I can break ANY problem to it's elements at the moment ,Cause my mind is trained in a logical form. It's hard at the first glance,but has a lot of Fun. Self trained Hackers don't switch to the stuffs like these, because of Math I think :)
What about you? Do you like hard sciences inasmuch as more challenging problems???

Bye Bye Power Engineering

AT LAST.... I told good bye to power engineering ! Now,It's a great time to focus on Vision( My main interest) for ever... It's a very nice feeling. Vision has been my real interest from 2-3 years ago. I wish I can be a GURU in the stuff :)
UDPATE: Maybe I have to work on power engineering for several month. Because of money,you know ;)
UPDATE 2 : No , I can't. Since the life is too short, why I waste my time on working on unfavorite things??? If there is no company in Iran which it's field is Image processing , I will start the first :)

Advanced methods for Feature Extraction

Since I'm implementing a project in "Face Detection", I have to use advanced methods for "Feature Extraction". I have designed a MLP network for training, but I used raw pictures as an input layer… As maybe you know, it's better idea to decrease the input dimension by using Feature Extraction/Selection approaches.
There is some approaches like :"non Linear PCA" and "Kernel Methods".
I want to use Kernel Methods. I think it's more applicable and most of recent papers that I have read were about this major! However , It's maybe because of my guide attitude (Dr.Araabi) who have focused on it more :) I don't know. But because my learning procedure is "Learning by Doing" I will implement both of them. If you have any prior experience, please email me and let me know…

Cheers :)

Going in depth on Vision

Hi friends... :)
After a long time,I came back.... I have focused on Vision nowadays (and maybe for the rest of my life !). It's a VERY HOT and High-Tech area; specially when you focus on Advanced Autonomous systems(like Robots and Vehicles). BTW, if you are interested in AI too(specially Neural Net and Fuzzy approaches on vision), please check my blog and send me email (your proposals, etc..)
Hummm...... my current direction of studying is about Image and knowledge classification based on a Neuro-Fuzzy and Neuro-statistical(PNN) methods . Thank you Pattern Recognition !!!!;)

cheers.

zen and Net

I have disconnect myself from Net because of meditation!!!
I need it,you know....
I will come back ;)

View Source Chart Firefox Extension

One of the best practices for any (X)HTML newbie is to split any existing code to it's elements.For example,when I was started (X)HTML (4 years ago)I have to right-click on any webPage-->viewsource and start to reading the whole code from scratch.Specially, when I had to understand Tables...it was to boring.I invented a personal way!I made it color!and then when I recompiled (if compile term is right!) it , the target table was colored:) and....
Last night,I saw a FireFox extension which draw all of your webPage in a very nice and colorful diagram.When you install it,you have to restart the FireFox.Then when you you right-click on the webpage,in the down part,you see "view page chart".
I promise you will surprise when you see the output.it's a very nice and inventive hack:)

Plone2.5 has released

1-OK....It's very interesting news for any Plone user/developer:)specially because of it's approach to Zope3/Five ..... check it out youself and Have a lot of Fun ;)
2- I have decided to change my blogging Style! you know,I've never posted any experimental tasks I've done yet.(just 1 or 2 ,I think).I wanna tend to this road...

Flock.....web2 browser?

I've just downloaded Flock.It's very nice with Web2 extensions like Some of the features include drag-and-drop photo uploading for Flickr and Photobucket, an in-built RSS aggregator, direct blogging tool, and shared favorites/bookmarks.... check it out.

3D from 2D

researchers at Carnegie Mellon have found a way to allow computers to extrapolate 3 dimensional models from 2 dimensional pictures ....

Very nice work...It's like a dream ;)

Gnome for ever 1

Hello every body...
I have written abouy my migration from KDE to GNOME because of Ubuntu 5.10.... you can visit the Forum in Farsi(TechoTux)..
I will translate it in english ;)

Statestep Python code generation

Python code can now be generated from a Statestep model using a template ... Statestep enables you to easily define and address millions of combinations of possibilities. While designed to support a particular method of specification, it can also be used in more general ways, for example, as a powerful replacement for decision table tools...
If you wanna know more about it please visit Original announce !

Life

. . . and Life still goes on . . .

google summerOfCode

Python needs your talent on Google Summer of Code !
If you know your self as a Python Guru,or you are a python hacker or just a python lover,
so this is the time for you to introduce yourself to Open Source Community.
You can Make money too ;)
Come on ... Start now ....

Red Hat and JBoss

By acquiring JBoss, Red Hat expects to accelerate the shift to service-oriented architectures (SOA), by enabling the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, open source platform.

Link to News ....... It's very exciting time :)

Dynamic Function Overloading

Guido van Rossum (Python creator)has discussed about "Dynamic Function Overloading" in his weblog. Very nice essay.Check it out :)

Python 2.5 alpha1

Python 2.5 alpha 1 has released.
You can check What's New section for more Information.
I hope this release make it more powerful ...

Python web Framework

Ned Batchelder has discussed about the Lack of a super web Framework for Python.
It's very Fun . Please read the paper....

Profile

I have updated my Profile:)
If you wanna familiar with me more,Please visit my Profile :)

Python and NASA

Python Streamlines Space Shuttle Mission Design

Nourooz travel

Hello every one...
I came back from Nourooz Travel.
Unfortunately,I was sick in the all of road path :(

Happy NOROUZ

I wish You have a Nice year.... Dear FOLKS ;)

Important Days

These days are VERY VITAL days for me!!!
I have Focused on Vision from scratch......
Please Wait for interesting news :)

New Budget NASA Space Science Missions

The New York Times is reporting that 'Some of the most highly promoted missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or perhaps even canceled under the agency's new budget.' This looks to directly impact the types of missions that have been NASA's greatest successes like the Mars Rovers. 'Among the casualties in the budget, released last month, are efforts to look for habitable planets and perhaps life elsewhere in the galaxy, an investigation of the dark energy that seems to be ripping the universe apart, bringing a sample of Mars back to Earth and exploring for life under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa'