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Probably! I made this about 15 years ago - the technology is evolved a lot since then!

Glad I was able to help, those are some great prints! fwiw, there is also an online catalog of Kasamatsu Shrio's prints and it looks like these are your prints there: https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/red-gate-in-the-rain/ https://shirokasamatsu.art/catalog/red-gate-in-the-snow/

Oh that's very cool! I have a mailing list signup on the ukiyo-e.org home page, I'll send out a message there once it's ready for testing! I've posted some screenshots on Reddit that show some of the price comparison features: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukiyoe/comments/1p6c4lb/comment/nqp... https://www.reddit.com/r/ukiyoe/comments/1pjw8br/comment/nti...

Thank you for sharing my site! I built this a number of years ago as I was starting to learn about Japanese prints. I wanted a single place where I could find them across all of the various museums and universities that hold them. I use computer vision analysis to cluster prints together (using TinEye). A bunch more technical details from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18344979

I’m working on a new site now that’s focused on prints that are for sale from dealers and auctions. Much more technically complex as it needs to be continuously updated. Hope to have a public beta soon!

Uh - woah! This is incredibly unexpected. I'm really glad people are interested in my database and in Japanese prints!

From a technical perspective there've been a lot of interesting open source projects that I've made to support this site: https://johnresig.com/projects/ukiyoe/

I've also written a number of papers and given presentations on the work that I've done here (and elsewhere in the digital humanities). https://johnresig.com/research/

This is a talk that I gave in 2014 about the construction of the site and my reasons for building it: https://codeascraft.com/speakers/john-resig-analyzing-japane...

I've since worked on a number of other projects like a database for a consortium of Art History Photo Archives: http://images.pharosartresearch.org/

And I'm building another one now on Japanese Picture Books (from the 19th century and older).

These are all my "spare time" fun hobby projects, my day job is still at Khan Academy as a Frontend Architect. I just enjoy getting to explore other types of applications and problem spaces!

Happy to answer any questions anyone might have!

Just to clarify: YUI and ExtJS both came out after jQuery, jQuery came out in 2006, and jQuery is actually more popular now than it was a year ago (or in 2010 - see the figures cited in the blog post).

It does! https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/dist/sizzle.js

Not exactly. It's linking to the old SAT practice material that's for the old (current) SAT exam. The new material, for the upcoming 2016 exam, which was just launched today, is available at:

https://www.khanacademy.org/sat

If you want to "get into the details" you'll need to be logged in and complete the onboarding, through this URL:

https://www.khanacademy.org/mission/sat

I mean, linking to the current URL is fine, but it's not what was actually released nor is it representative of the new content.

(Disclaimer: I work at Khan Academy)

After doing some more poking it appears as if Avisynth (and thus NNEDI3) is Windows-only. Do you happen to know if there are ways to run it in Linux or OSX? Or if there's a comparable set of software for those platforms?

NNEDI3 is fantastic - thank you for providing a link and some samples!

You're absolutely right that I shouldn't have said "normal". I update the post to clarify that this was using "OSX Preview". I did some hunting but didn't find any obvious pointers as to which algorithm they're using. If anyone knows offhand I'll be happy to include it!

Great point. FWIW, I've updated the post to include some of the cartouches, along with a cartouche at the "low noise reduction" level. The two lines in the fourth character appear to still be relatively distinct in this case.

I've updated the post to include additional low-noise-reduction filter examples. Thank you for reminding me to look at them!

Yeah, on second thought, after seeing the low noise reduction result again, I suspect that may be an even better result for what I'm looking to achieve. Many of the details in his rope are preserved and the calligraphy appears to be in better shape.

I have not - although that's an interesting idea, thank you! Relative to my other projects this is a very low-priority exploration. I was very interested to see if there could be a "cheap win" for this particular sub-problem that I will be dealing with, should I get around to digitizing these books.

One thing I should note is that when looking at prints (at least for when it comes to technical analysis) being able to see accurate representations of the lines is far more important than the uniformity of colored regions. Color is almost always at the whim of the printer on any given day, whereas the black lines (from the keyblock) should always remain the same. Granted you're going to have issues either way (using this tool or doing normal scaling) as the source material is inherently compromised.

Although it's not clear what scenes exactly the upscaler was trained up, I suspect that it's currently best suited towards scenes that have lots of large bold lines and not lots of tiny details.

Yeah - the background looking like crumpled-up wrapping paper is definitely not ideal. I suspect that it's having trouble with mostly-uniform areas of color that have slight variations. It appears to be extrapolating and creating these larger effects.

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "destroyed". Compare the text in this cartouche: https://imgur.com/7fGJg4s,iWf4pXG

At worst it seems comparable to the previous result. At least to my eyes.

Oof - I'm really sorry to hear that! I hope he is doing well now. Thank you for passing this along.

I completely agree. I tried to make a bunch of notes on the (poor) code quality, inline. This is mostly an attempt at archaeology, if you will. Naturally the current release (or even 1.0 release) of jQuery is substantially better code in every respect.

I don't have any links off-hand but I know that there was a Nintendo.com sub-site that was using a pre-1.0 version of jQuery. Even though the overall code quality is rather low it did have decent browser support - unless browsers actively begin breaking their APIs (unlikely) those old versions of jQuery will probably keep working forever!

Absolutely agreed - comments are so important! Seemingly when I was working on jQuery alone and without much feedback I was totally fine just having no comments. I noticed that in the subsequent releases of the code that the number of comments quickly rose - likely as people started to use the library I felt bad that the code was so poorly explained!

I don't have exact records but based upon what I was inspired by, and what else I was working on at the time, it roughly equates to the fall of 2005. I was in college at the time and taking classes so I was working on it on-and-off as my schedule allowed. I finished it up over winter break and went with some friends to BarCamp NYC 2006 and released it there.

It really depends upon the subject matter - we're experimenting! For Computer Science/programming education we've been pushing more towards the text/interactive exercise direction. Art History is almost all text and videos (with little interaction). Math is almost all video and exercises (no text).

We also have pieces like Cryptography and Information Theory which are video heavy and have some interactive portions: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/crypt... https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/infor...

Hope you find some of them interesting!

I don't think we have any immediate plans for Discrete math - we are still filling in gaps in our K-12 curriculum. We'll see, maybe someday!

None - other than on the course page you can save your progress. A simple demo of the open source editor can be found here: https://khan.github.io/live-editor/demos/simple/

Yeah! We have full curriculum around it, as well (Intro to JavaScript, Game development, and Natural Simulations): https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

It uses a real-time JavaScript editing framework that we're in the process of open sourcing: https://github.com/Khan/live-editor

A technical talk on the editor (a bit dated at this point, but most of the points still hold) can be found here: http://ejohn.org/blog/talk-khan-academy-computer-science/

There will be one! Although there's only a single video (the introduction) - everything else is text or an interactive program. The intro video is being fed to our translators/transcribers now and should be up soon!

Oh - and as a comparison to the MIT course, probably the biggest differences is that (upon a quick review): There are no lectures and no textbooks. Everything is available online and there are tons of interactive projects to complete.

Edit: If you are interested in providing transcription or translation of the single video this is where you can help! http://www.amara.org/en/videos/muCpy2w3ZIH5/info/what-is-an-... Thanks for the offer :)

I'd definitely be interested! As long as we're wishing, I'd also like a Node.js module to do prediction on trained models. Your project looks really interesting, thank you!

Hey David! It's been too long :)

I agree with your sentiment -- I've been through long periods of little-to-no side project hacking. Like multi-year, long. I've been working on my current side projects for over two years now but I finally made the decision last fall to make the hard decision: either this is going to be something that I REALLY want to get out there (and thus, I need to work really hard to make it happen) or I need to be comfortable with letting it slowly progress over a long period of time. I made the decision to go for it, so I'm writing the code to make it happen!

But yeah, for every season there is definitely a different formula. In the next phase of my life hopefully I can find other things to bring this level of excitement and stimulation!

Not everything has to be a life-improving challenge - sometimes you just want to ship some code!