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Well, this is about my frustration at Idea judging in a contest (  Not AIC 2013!)
In ongoing Perceptual Computing Challenge, I had proposed an Idea about a humanoid robot called PONTA. I developed the hardware, concepts, AI withing 10 days, as I had to have the proposal backed up well. This robot could walk, pick, place, draw portraits, dance. It was in the line of ASIMO, but was supposed to have been made at a very low cost.
To backup my idea, I had submitted few initial video links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft9xstCzBC4[^]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjY8nmgjac[^]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCmZzVpfNw[^]
I thought it would be a significant technical innovation. It was not just a toy but was conceptualized to be more of a real robot doing real thing. As such a development would have been cost constrained, I wanted to bet my time and money so that I could have a chance to recover, if I had managed to win some prizes. But it did not get selected.
It is frustrating because I am competing in the contest with as many as 13 Apps, and only idea that was not selected was this one 
Now see one of the finished Apps on the same line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yljzhOkM0jA[^]
Can anyone of you please give me your expert opinion about what way my 'idea' was any lesser than this finished product? I would be thankful to understand where I went wrong!
PS: I had submitted the App with imense amount of technical details which included complete hardware specification, design, assembly detailing, software architecture.
Feeling little lost here!
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Grasshopper.iics wrote: what way my 'idea' was any lesser than this finished product?
Your idea was lesser in that it wasn't selected.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Never bother to question judges' decisions, it'll drive you crazy.
Drop it, leave it behind you, and get on with doing what you do best.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your main flaw is you enter a contest which is judged on a subjective basis and then expect a qualitative explanation of the outcome.
Ruling out favouritism or outright corruption it's just the decision the judges came to on the day.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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If you've succeeded, then possibly the other one, that didn't succeed would wrote here. Subjective challenges are just that - subjective. I remember as a kid, I was fifth once, there were only six contestants. First one get a gold medal, 2nd silver, 3rd bronze, 4th potato medal, and the last one a chocolate as a consolation prize. I got nothing => trauma. 
regards,
Kate
Wisdom is to see the things as they really are.
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Actually I have nothing against anyone winning. I am also not too worried because I got plenty which could have been other way round. I was curious to know if there is anything pathetically wrong with my ways. But as it seems from all of your thoughts that there us nothing much we can do about it. Possibly judge was not buying my idea that it could be done 
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You might try to ask him/her/them. It would be just fair to give you a reason. But sometimes being good is not enough. And also don't forget your bias in this.
regards,
Kate
Wisdom is to see the things as they really are.
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ok
basement - the first level below ground
ground floor - the floor level with your entry
mezzanine - sill half floor added by silly arcitechs for the look of it
1st floor the floor above gound
2+ each floor above the first
Penthouse - top floor (well not really as there is often a service floor above it but shh nor not supposed to mention that)
oh and its spelt floor not flaw
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: oh and its spelt floor not flaw
So you're saying his entry was kicked out because there's a flaw in his argument?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So, according to you, its a good idea just to show basement and present the dream of penthouse rather than showing the building with more floors where people immediately can't see a penthouse?
Makes sense now.
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yes as most people can only dream of the penthouse and most of us IT bod are stuck in the basement
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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With the water up to our chin.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Grasshopper, it is natural to feel disappointment, even grief, when you have worked hard, put your heart, and soul, as well as your mind, into creating something new, and then: to not have your creation appreciated; to not be selected in the contest, or not have your work accepted and praised, or get you the job.
The more you put your guts into your creation, the more you felt confident you were doing something that was your "personal best:" the harder to bear the disappointment.
It's also natural to wonder, after the disappointment: what went wrong; did the judges make a mistake; did they not see, for some reason, the quality of my work; did I make some serious mistake ... and, on, and on. During the natural process of the mind, and emotions, recovering from a "bruise of the ego," the mind, driven by a flux of different emotions, can wander into dark thoughts, into angry fantasies, or into fantasies of grief, or, into negative thoughts in which you doubt yourself, wonder if you really have a good future ahead of you.
That's part of the human condition, imho. That's what happens when you take risks, and push yourself beyond your limits, often.
But, how much better ... in the bigger-picture ... a life you have if you take risks, and put "yourself on the line," and test your limits !
From my point of view, you have not "lost," you have "won," on the most important levels, and I am sure in the next few weeks, as you get over the shock, and disappointment, you'll re-frame what's happened in a very different way than you can now.
I think in a short while you'll feel pride in what you achieved, a pride which will endure, and the work you've just done will be something you can build on in your future, possibly in ways that you can't really predict right now. Who knows what doors will open for you in the future because of this work ?
Is it valuable for you to analyze, and speculate, about the judges' decision ?
On one level, I think it is, particularly if the judges themselves made detailed statements about the judging process, and what criteria were met by the work of those selected for recognition.
But, in the short term, on another level, over-concern with "figuring out what happened" may just intensify patterns of negative thinking which leads to depression, and may possibly delay your moving forward. And, if there's a real absence of feedback, as seems the case here, there's a risk you are just "spinning your wheels" mentally in an unproductive way.
There's a time and place for detailed analysis of one's outcome, progress, mistakes, and that time may be quite different for each person, because of the profound differences between people in temperament, and patterns of coping.
Only you can sense if this is really the right time to try and "make sense" of this situation.
I'm sorry that I can't help you understand your "flaws:" but, I just can't find a single damn flaw in you
with warm regards, bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Thanks Bill for your nice thoughts. Yes I would probably be using my work somewhere or other. I surely don't have control over what judges felt. Thinking over it was certainly not helping me. At the end of day I did a good job, learnt few things, have a design ready. This probably will help me build my dream robot someday.
ultimately not everything I do will be accepted equally by people as perception of product will differ.
You are absolutely correct in saying moving on. Perfect, at least I would know I did a good job. If not anything, at least that should give me confidence of keep doing what I like to do.
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So our printer needs a vector format version of our company logo, but there's never been such a thing. It was painstakingly built, a pixel at a time, many years ago using Paint, and exists today in only .bmp and .jpg forms. I figured, "This is a job for Illustrator!" and brought the bugger home tonight, since the company won't buy the product, and I happen to have a copy. I used the .bmp version first, and vectorized it successfully, but the results were less than wonderful. Next I placed a very high quality decal we had printed years ago on the scanner, set the scanning software to 4800x4800 dpi, and made a super high-res .jpg, thinking this would be good raw material for Illustrator to work with. That part worked perfectly, resulting in a large, but not unreasonable 12MB file; any modern program should be able to handle that. Not so!
I tried to open the file in Illustrator, and it refused - "Insufficient memory to complete the operation."
Excuse me? I have 12 GB of RAM here, and no other programs running. Task Manager confirms that most of the RAM is available for Illustrator to use. I opened Help and tried searching "Insufficient Memory" but that caused an "... unknown error..." and broke Help.
This isn't surprising; it's actually fairly typical of every Adobe product I've ever attempted to use. How the heck do they stay in business?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hey, what are you complaining about? It gave you a comprehensible error message (in that you could read it)! 
A quick search on the t'interweb says "this is a common problem with Adobe, they they don't give a flying elephant"
Have you tried Corel? At least they will have different bugs... 
This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre.
Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.
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With their new business model of monthly subscriptions and no backward compatibility they will be happy to help just as soon as you sign over your bank account details.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Wonder if Paint.NET[^] would work?, I use it for anything I want to do quick but it's pretty powerful.
If that won't work you might try GIMP[^], the sites down right now (gimp.org) but you can get it about anywhere and it is a very powerful editor.
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I tried GIMP first, since I have it at work. While it seems to be an excellent replacement for Photoshop, I can't find a way to convert from an existing raster image to vector form. Both will let me create images in either form, but as far as I can tell, only Illustrator includes a tool to trace vector spaces in an existing raster image. It's a great feature, when it works. I am stumped, though, trying to get Illustrator to load a fairly small file. What a heap of crap.
What I really need to do is to sit down one weekend and build a vector image from scratch, as this is going to keep coming up as we work with outside printing firms for various things. Someone's got to do it, so I guess I'm stuck with it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You might be better off just finding a talented HS student and say 'Here's $50 bucks. Redo this image in vector format. Thanks.'
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The first serious answer here; Illustrator is 32-bit or at least the version used when the troubles began is.
Question (expect an answer): In Task Manager is there an asterisked Illustrator running?
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I'll have to check that tonight, since it's on my home machine. But that's a possible problem, I suppose. The PC and Win 7 are 64-bit, but I believe the version of Illustrator I have is 32-bit (CS5.5).
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I suppose
HA!
(hysterical)
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Yup, Illustrator.exe *32 is the process running.
So I'm guessing that this version hasn't enough bits to address all the pixels? That can't be right, since it's just 4800x4800x9 = 207360000. But then there's 24 bits of color information => 4976640000. Oops. Maybe I should rescan this thing at a lower resolution...
Will Rogers never met me.
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