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Discussion blog for "CallipygianGrab 2.0X" a web site downloader that learns with Neural Networks and Bayesian classifiers
Published on September 29, 2004 By swirsky In Windows Software





Screenshot of software downloading photos.

Comments
on Sep 29, 2004
This is COOL! I'm scanning the web right now for all sorts of stuff.

It learns from what you KEEP and what you DISCARD. If you KEEP a picture, you'll start seeing more pictures like the one you wanted. And if you DISCARD a photo, you see less of them.

It's like having a robot browse the web for you.
on Sep 29, 2004
Hmm, interesting. May be worth checking out. Thanks for the heads up.
on Sep 30, 2004
I was very excited to see this first public release. I've been following your technical papers in the AI journals. So far, it's working well for me, with the following little glitches:

It can sometimes take a long time to find the first images. I realize it's doing a lot of "spidering" but a more aggressive algorithm to find images at "all costs" at the beginning may be beneficial.

It doesn't detect if my internet connection drops. And if it does, it'll ZIP through its pending list and be "done" in a matter of minutes

You also should have utilities to clear the temp files in the image temp and the database

I love the "Windows Media Player" look and feel. How did you do that? I heard you say you wrote this all in Managed C++. I guess that's how you got the performance so high.
on Oct 04, 2004
Thanks swirsky..... I'll take a look at this later today. ...Sounds interesting!
on Oct 04, 2004
Wow! I had about 1000 downloads the first day and many nice personal emails.

The biggest "complaints" are:

- The memory footprint is big

and

- The database it generates is big

I've reduced the size of both considerably, look for release 0012X in the next week or so.
on Oct 04, 2004
Thanks again for keeping us up to date. I will definately download the next release.
on Feb 27, 2005
I'm a new user of Callipygian 2.0 and my first complaint at this point is that the viewing area is too small; there should be a "full screen" option, or a screen that's a little bigger anyway.
on Aug 01, 2005
It's a really cool software, but i would to know if can be added a loggin function because some images i would to download are not readed.

Thx
on Aug 01, 2005
Hmmm, this looks neat.
on Aug 02, 2005
Discussion blog for "CallipygianGrab 2.0X" a web site downloader that learns with Neural Networks and Bayesian classifiers

I can still run faster.