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Just yesterday I was looking at this http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/april... as a fun, different challenge to work on and wanted to be able to translate the dot-notation characters into something more easily distinguishable. The pattern matching in python would have helped a lot, I think.

As far as the cross-domain use of these algorithms. I realized recently how much overlap there is between what we perceive as 'different' domains. Both audio and image processing tend to deal with detecting and quantifying patterns. It was a Eureka moment for me, but I'm just a simpleton, so I haven't done much with the new insight :/



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