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Fake Pictures: Detection by light source

Have you ever looked at a picture and wondered if it had been digitally edited? Now, you may finally find out.
Micah Kimo Johnson of the cognitive sciences department of MIT created a program to detect fake pictures. The theory behind his method is that fake pictures are usually made by copying and pasting from different […]

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A brief overview of Jpeg

Jpeg files are all over the internet. They are useful because they compress pictures very well. Your web surfing would come to a halt if we had to use the bmp we generated for project 1.

The bmps we created were 24 bits per pixel. A jpeg at full quality settings can use as little as […]

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Rounding Errors in your Stock Market

As we have been learning in class, rounding errors can cause many problems.
I had just thought that egregious round off errors in real life would be few and far in between. However it seems that there is no shortage of them as I searched online.
In a situation reminiscent of the movie Office Space (where […]

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