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Why not? I've seen your daily routine. You're not busy.

A larger challenge is to encourage the shift from rationalism, which assumes that algorithms are the answer, to empiricism, which assumes that continuous exploration, persistent questioning, and vigorous dialog will promote a deeper understanding of our world.

Dimitris Chloupis made a remarkably astute observation - Lisp is a factory for making programming languages; Smalltalk is a factory for making programming environments.

26 August 2019

AI/Learning

iCassava 2019 Fine Grained Challenge

The paper for iCassava 2019

iCassava 2019 Github

Ray Tracing/Siggraph

Eric Hains' Photos from Siggraph 2019

Mauricio Vives Photos from Siggraph 2019

The challenges of releasing the Moana Island Scene

Hyperion Publications.

Path Tracing for Quake II In 2 months.

Siggraph 2019 Links

Siggraph 2019 RayTracing roundup.

FRED Optical Engineering Software simulates the propagation of light through any optomechanical system by raytracing.

Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers

ASAP simulates optical systems.

16 August 2019

Computers

Cool but obscure X11 tools.

Points us to Micropolis, clone of SimCity.

Rapsberry Pi Tablet.

Latinx

Latin TV.

Energy

LF Energy Webinars

LF Energy Videos page

LF Energy YouTube channel.

14 August 2019

Earth

Bulding DEMs by using different view points from space. EarthDEM and ArticDEM

ArticDEM

BlueWaters facility - Used to build the DEMs above.

Watch the Planet cluster of satellites.

Robots

ROS - Robot Operating System.

Pixhawk - Drone autopilot hardware.

12 August 2019

Misc

Recording 660 FPS video on the Raspberry PI.

Lat Lon Floating point delusion. "No, no, i'm not calling about the dingo. There's a dead possum over on the other side of the chlorine atom."

Coffee Genome

Speach AI - building voice applications.

Graphics/Motion

Imagineering in a box.

Vibration Minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters.

08 August 2019

Climate

Measure Air Quality with the Raspberry PI.

Challenges to natural and human communities from suprising ocean temeratures.

04 August 2019

Games

GenCon Home of Table Top Gaming.

Energy

Airbone concentrations of radioactive ruthenium from a release in 2017

Heatwave results in highest US Electricy demand since 2017.


Bruce O'Neel

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