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Quote: If all that machine learning language sounds complicated, well, that’s because it is. Don’t worry, though — the Super Resolution feature we built around this technology is very simple to use — press a button and watch your 10-megapixel photo transform into a 40-megapixel photo. It’s a bit like how Mario eats a mushroom and suddenly balloons into Super Mario, but without the nifty sound effects.
Eric Chan is a Senior Principal Scientist on the Adobe Camera Raw team.,
I posted an "Insider News" item with links to Eric's blog on this newly released technology: [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I prefer: enhance[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OK, I'm suitably impressed...
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Checking your link to see what it does. In things like "Gimp II" it's called an unsharp mask - sharpens only edges. What will they invent next? RGB Pixels ?
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We're in the process of rewriting a legacy system and nobody on the current team knows the details of how a certain feature works. So the managers swallowed their pride and contacted the client who uses it. They are now explaining it to us using our own old system 
We're going live in a few weeks and I suspect there may be some features that will be missing.
And that's why documentation for business processes is important 
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Jacquers wrote: So the managers swallowed their pride and contacted the client who uses it.
Then it really has to be a huge topic... that doesn't happen every day.
What surprises me, is that they didn't delegate it in some of you that can later be blamed.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yes, it's a very important feature / process for that client. We have the source code, but trying to make sense of it would be another mission on it's own and time is running out. Due to internal bureaucracy, policies and mostly costing a lot of money to host, the old system is being switched off at the end of the month and we have no choice but to have the new system ready. This whole project has been difficult to say the least. A new Business Analyst who is very inexperienced and doesn't know the old system 'specced' the new system. The list goes on, but it may be the best / worst 1 April joke for the users of the new system.
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I can't see this ending well for anyone involved in the project, including the client.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I've had a few days where I thought of just walking away... 
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We (devs) have voiced our concerns, but management is going ahead regardless. I understand that it would cost money to keep the old system going for a bit longer, but the consequences if the new system doesn't work as intended are potentially worse. Support calls, lost clients, etc. The BA has resigned, so we'll be getting another fresh one again. And if I find suitable alternative employment I might be gone later in the year as well. I'm surprised the other dev on the project hasn't resigned yet. All that being said, if we manage to get it working then things should improve later in the year.
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We've been "transitioning" to the cloud since the end of October of last year, and sh*t's still broken. And for the very same reasons.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I would be running away as fast as I could. I understand you are looking, but this is just a bomb waiting to go off.
Management seriously is sometimes sooo out of touch to their own actual business it just scares the hell out of me. I had this at my last position. I feel for you.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: Management seriously is sometimes sooo out of touch to their own actual business it just scares the hell out of me
^but sadly so common to find... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Regardless of who made the actual call, there will be plenty of blame distributed. Hate to sound so pessimistic, but if it has so many unknowns then it sounds like there are big problems ahead.
"Get it right" is taking a backseat to "Get it done.". Business decisions aren't always right, you can only hope that good enough is good enough. Keep calm.
"The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30."
― Lorne Michaels
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Jacquers wrote: The list goes on, but it may be the best / worst 1 April joke for the users of the new system.
Booked the whole of April as a holiday, yet?
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Jacquers wrote: We're going live in a few weeks and I suspect there may be some features that will be missing.
You have to love these kinds of scenarios (no you don't).
We went live this week on one of our sites with the understanding that a lot of it has not been finished, and some of it may be a tad buggy. Client of course understands, as they demanded the early go live.
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Probably too late for this[^] to be of value.
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At least having documentation that generally describes a process, along with some visio flow charts. Very important. And then there's in-code comments that describe what the code does - and why.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hopefully there are no hidden gems, that only activates under certain circumstances - otherwise the joke will be on you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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There definitely will be. The legacy system has been in use for 10+ years and very customized for certain clients / cases.
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Jacquers wrote: We're going live in a few weeks and I suspect there may be some features that will be missing.
So, you're agile. 
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We will be giving them the minimum functionality they need to function and adding the other bells & whistles later on.
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That's what you think... you've probably found the "easy" bits from the old system / source code and implemented them, 90% of which are never used anymore.
A client of mine is looking for a replacement for a system I wrote for them 6 years ago (nothing wrong with it, they just want something that isn't dependent on a single freelancer). Rather than tell the new vendor what they need, they've simply directed me to tell the vendor what my system does. Which I've done (mainly via the original functional specs). A few follow-up questions from the new vendor to the client (after they've developed the bulk of the new system) reveals that there are chunks (some quite large ones) that they've written, but actually haven't been used for 3+ years.
Replicating legacy systems tends to replicate their shortcomings, and often adds a few more too.
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