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Re: Interesting Thesis Topic [message #50702 is a reply to message #50550]

Thu, 12 October 2006 10:03

mankoff
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Registered: March 2004

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On Oct 11, 2:06 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Here is an interesting thesis topic for you.
>
> Let people know you have published a technical article
> on a technical newsgroup. Mention the words "pretty girl"
> in the article. Examine page downloads for the next hour
> to see which article generates more interest.
>
> Here is some preliminary data:
>
> technical article: 10
> pretty girl: 465
>
> Let's just say I'm about to set a new record for page
> hits today!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

An interesting side-story: Anyone who has worked much with image
processing and compression algorithms has probably seen the Lenna
image. What many do not know is that this was originally a playboy
centerfold cropped to show just her head...

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml

-k.

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