Computing Life

It would be sweet if we can get auto email notifications whenever someone pushes to our github project. Unfortunately, the default email service hook of github only supports 2 email addresses at most. Although putting everyone into a mailing list is one solution, for small teams like us, it's ...

这几篇文章的作者是毕业于卡内基梅隆大学的田渊栋博士。读了以后深有启发，在征得作者允许后转载。原帖地址： [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] 。

博士五年总结（一）

这五年最重要的，是渐渐知道了怎么去做一件比较大的事情。

说得很大，其实就一点，心要静下来。

首先，心静下来才能钻进某个领域里认真做事。现在的社交媒体太多了，各类新闻也太多，每天忙于应付这些广泛却又浅薄的信号，或是忙着去评点别人，是没有办法做成一件事情的。就比如一个人要去旅游，按图索骥地走一圈著名的景点，并不会给自己新的体悟，最多只增些与人的谈资而已。真要体会大自然的美丽，那是一定要涉足别人达不到的地方，要有目标有耐心有毅力，做长久的打算。

其次，有毅力有决心不一定能成事，方法也是不可少的。做研究的每个环节都需要方法：如何做基本调查，如何下手，如何分析问题，如何坚持自己的观点，如何给任务定优先级，如何处理细节和局部的关系，如何将直观一点一点地转化成严格的数学语言并且验证。在任何一个地方卡住，都会让自己的研究停步不前。面对这么多要求，要同时都准备好再开始研究是不可能的，只有先定目标，然后一步一步摸索。在摸索的开始，会做很多无用功 ...

KinectFusion is a powerful 3D reconstruction technique based on Microsoft Kinect Sensor. It's included in the Microsoft Kinect SDK, which is pretty easy to use. But if you wish to do some serious vision applications based on that, more technical details need to be figured out. And here are ...

It all begins from the blog post 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. I put it in our mailing list and here are some insightful disucssion (with authors' permission).

Hertz 24/7 is basically Hertz's zipcar. Register to get $75 credit, can be combined with Columbia's Gold Plus Rewards. Also swipe the key nob (an RFID chip) and good to go. I rent a car in my California trip around July 4th, and share some experience with ...