Python 3000 presentation by Guido van Rossum, author of Python, at Google TechTalks (video) also given at ACCU 2006 conference in Oxford on April 19, 2006 (PPT slides)
Interesting quotes:
- Python started as skunkoworks project
- Get rid of depricated features
- Python 3000 = Python 3.0 = Py3k
- First alpha: not before next year
- … more Python specific stuff
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Great TechTalk video presentation about Human Computation by Luis von Ahn, on July 26, 2006.
Quotes/topics:
- 9 billion human-hours of solitare were played in 2003
- To build Empire State Building - was spent 7 Million human-hours (6.8 hours of solitare player’s time)
- To build Panama canal - was spent 20 Million human-hours (less then a day of solitare player’s time)
- Humans can solve some problems, computers can solve some problems, together they cat create … MATRIX image
- Computer vision is one of the hardest problems humans can solve easily
Projects described during presentation:
P.S. Google Image Labler is a project based on ESP game. Luis also has a link to Phetch game on his site that helps to create image descriptions for the blind surfers.
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