Author Archives: jordi

Version 4.0 is out!

Posted on January 13, 2013 by jordi

The new version of the software is out. With this new stable release, many new features are available, but the main news is the complete re-factoring of the core of the system. Indeed, after the discovery of the backdoor in … Continue reading →

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Emacs Lisp as a general purpose language?

Posted on August 19, 2012 by jordi

I live in Emacs As you may already know if you read this blog (yes, you, the only one who reads this blog …) I live inside Emacs. I have been an Emacs user for more than 12 years now … Continue reading →

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svg2pdf

Posted on April 20, 2012 by jordi

When you need to convert an SVG file to PDF format (for inclusion into a document, for instance) you can take several options: ImageMagick “convert” command will produce a raster PDF instead of a vector one. This may be enough … Continue reading →

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Computers run the world, I run computers, therefore …

Posted on February 4, 2012 by jordi

The war on general computation Although I am not particularly fan of Science Fiction, I follow Cory Doctorow’s production because of his views on free culture and free software. He has written many essays about the problems with copyright law … Continue reading →

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On Exactitude in Science

Posted on January 16, 2012 by jordi

From Wikipedia: “Del rigor en la ciencia” is a one-paragraph short story by Jorge Luis Borges, about the map/territory relation, written in the form of a literary forgery. The story elaborates on a concept in Lewis Carroll’s Sylvie and Bruno … Continue reading →

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Hack OTB on the Clojure REPL

Posted on November 17, 2011 by jordi

The WHY and the WHAT Lately, I have been playing with several configurations in order to be able to fully exploit the ORFEO Toolbox library from Clojure. As explained in previous posts, I am using OTB through the Java bindings. … Continue reading →

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Wine Is Not the Explanation

Posted on October 26, 2011 by jordi

I am starting to get worried about the place that work is taking into my life. Well, not really work, but the part of work which is also a hobby for me : programming. Sometimes in the evening, it’s nice … Continue reading →

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Got an idea? Share it!

Posted on October 3, 2011 by jordi

TED talks are a great source of inspiration. One awesome thing about TED is that getting a ticket for one of the conferences can be very, very expensive, but after the conference many (if not all) of the talks are … Continue reading →

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It feels like the end of the world

Posted on July 1, 2011 by jordi

Yes indeed! Let’s put things into context. I live in Emacs and the other day I was working late and fell asleep on my keyboard. With my nose and ear I accidentally stroke a key combination which activated the Mayan … Continue reading →

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Lambda Omega Lambda

Posted on May 20, 2011 by jordi

In my current research work, I am investigating the possibility of integrating domain expert knowledge together with image processing techniques (segmentation, classification) in order to provide accurate land cover maps from remote sensing image time series. When we look at … Continue reading →

Posted in Clojure, Lisp, OTB, Programming | 2 Comments