Thursday, June 29, 2006

Trail and Error In Practice

Nothing comes natural. Even for trival things like getting two people into the photo. Here is the story: me and my buddy went for a bike ride. We decided to take a picture for both of us. We set up our camera (yes, we brought a mini-tripod with us) and everything was ready to go, except ...

This is the first trial:.
The extra leg on the left was actually from my buddy's, who was WALKing towards the scene.

Therefore, we tried again. Here is the second trial:.
We managed to get both of us into the picture, but sadly enough he was still too slow to get himself into a nicer posture (he was almost there...).

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Here is the final product: .
It's pretty nice, isn't it?

Lesson Number One: timing is critical.
Lesson Number Two: maybe automation cannot solve everything ;-)

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

An Empirical Studies on Bunnies at the UVic

Not surprisingly, due to the lack of predictors and the pleasant weather: the growth rate of rabbits at the UVic follows the exponential rate or Fibonacci Sequence.

Here is an Software Engineering Researcher's approach to access the "rabbits phenomena" (Aside: the whole idea is enlightened at the CSER meeting ;) )


http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/papers/CSER-EARS.pps

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Life is What Happens to You While You're Busy Making Other Plans

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