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Ramesh Jain - Keynote

Semantic Gap for users (bits, chars, lists -> events/objects, concepts)
Data and users: triangle
Semantic gap exists in text too - search engines do little beyond string matching
Semantic web tools help, much still to do
Life - events, experiences and multimedia: eventweb
Lots of multimedia - raises problems
Multimedia semantics: many approaches
Content-based: different model layers (data -> concepts)

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I'm currently about to start a Geography degree at the University of [Redacted] at [Redacted] with a focus in GIS, and I've been finding that I have an interest in working with imagery. Obviously I should take Remote Sensing and other similar classes, but I'm the type of person who likes to self learn as well. So my question is this: What recommendations would you give to a student who is interested in working with imagery? Are there any self study paths that you could recommend?

I learned on my own and on the job, and there are a lot of important topics in GIS that I don’t know anything about, so I can’t give comprehensive advice. I haven’t arrived anywhere; I’m just ten minutes ahead in the convoy we’re both in. Take these recommendations critically.

Find interesting people. You’ll learn a lot more from a great professor (or mentor, or friend, or tutorial) outside your specialty than you will from someone boring who’s working on exactly what you’re interested in. Don’t get i

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

This is an anchor-linked version of the excellent, amazing original opus magnum by Michael Tandy.

An address will start with, or at least include, a building number.

Counterexample: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom.

When there is a building number, it will be all-numeric.

Counterexample: 1A Egmont Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 2HT

Startup	English
This team is growing	We're hiring lots of people
"Hunger"	Enthusiasm
"Fire"	Enthusiasm
"Spark"	Enthusiasm
Commander's intent	Goals
Onboarding	Training
The best	Pretty good
Burn	Money-losing

	<html>
	<body vocab="http://schema.org/">
	<div typeof="Person">
	<h1 property="name">elf Pavlik</h1>
	<img property="image" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/00000000000000000000000000000000" />
	<p property="description">i like you :)</p>
	</div>
	</body>
	</html>

	*.py[co]

	# Packages
	*.egg
	*.egg-info
	dist
	build
	eggs
	parts
	bin

	#!/bin/bash

	# Auto suspend and wake-up script
	#
	# Puts the computer to sleep and automatically wakes it up at specified time
	#
	# Written by Romke van der Meulen <[email protected]>
	#
	# Takes a 24-hour time HH:MM as its argument
	# Example:

	// Node.js CheatSheet.
	// Download the Node.js source code or a pre-built installer for your platform, and start developing today.
	// Download: http://nodejs.org/download/
	// More: http://nodejs.org/api/all.html


	// 0. Synopsis.
	// http://nodejs.org/api/synopsis.html

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console