recognition

I have an application that is as follows: I have a number of images, consider them to be like a new alphabet. I would like to compare an incoming image to the stored ones and create a match. It is basically an OCR task and such software would be ok if I could edit the library. Anyone have...

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William Gibson's newest, just got around to reading it. I've been a big fan of Gibson since Asimov's magazine thought highly enough of his first "cyberpunk" novel to serialize it; the first novel so treated. Pattern recognition is not being marketed as science fiction, and it is, in fact, more...

CWL's signature line is provoking: "All that which resembles truth is not true" can we conclude that there are true things that appear to be untrue? What is the nature of that resemblance by which the apparant truth appears to be true? Indeed, what is resemblance? Is it some kind of...

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