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2. Understanding How the Kinect Works

Mansib Rahman

(1)Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Although it is conceivable that we can learn to build a house without an education in physics, learn to be a chef without taking a course in food chemistry, and learn about programming without learning how a computer fundamentally relies on transistors and machine code, there is a reason that engineering schools, cooking academies, and computer science programs typically teach the theory that begot the profession before they teach how to actually take part in the profession. We may know to sear steak above a certain temperature for a certain ...

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