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fantastic stuff. I'm fiddling with screenshots from your [4] link video to try to pull 3D model from multi-image 3d model build tools. I too would very much like a print of their playable reconstruction on my desk. Please update if you get to a usable STL.
Switched to a browser to comment exactly this.
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, we started our work week on Saturday, with Wednesday being the last day of the work (school for me) week. It took me a long time to transition over to think about Saturday/Sunday as the days off. I still get random pangs of excitement on Wednesday thinking it’s the end of the week if my brain hasn’t warmed up.
I believe this is still the case in the gulf states and I would assume other Islamic countries.
There’s this and no austin in this thread!
Id love to hear what startup folks in the panhandle are working on.
if I sell you a BMW 328i as a 340i but I also swap the engine and sell it with the additional power that comes with that change, have I misled you?
Amongst car people, I think you have. Motor swaps come with all sorts of other risks. Hell, it’s good manners to disclose if you swapped a motor for equivalent power, for helping the next owner diagnose any problems or be aware of mileage discrepancies.
It’d be good manners at the very least to disclose something was purchased as one model, but made to be equal to a different model by whatever means. It could have future implications to the buyer, just like the ones in this story.
that has not been my experience. I get feedback from LI on views and resume downloads, and I get emails for next steps AND rejections. Granted, I'm sure I have some no-replies from there, but it's so easy to apply to more I hardly notice or worry.
If I really like a place, I'll apply at their native portal as well as their Easy Apply.
Not a book, but this paper “big ball of mud” has resonated with me in describing troubles I’ve faced before, and has me coming back to it as I run into new architectural problems where I’m not confident in my/our approach.
I've also heard 'smoke testing' refer to sending power to a device or component to see if any magic smoke comes out.
But... I've also seen smoke testing used in automotive and engine diagnostics which could predate or parallel this usage in electronics.
https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/26749/what-is-...
I should imagine this method of troubleshooting sealed hollow-body systems of any kind have been around for a long time.
a quick search yielded a wiki article stating the method being used for sewers since at 1875.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_testing_(mechanical)#cit...
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I share this dream.
light fitness tracking in a forever battery w simple subtle design would win me. Something like the MQ24-7B2 mechanical with similar features would be the bees knees.
I was born in Dhahran in 1986, left in 2002. My dad worked in Aramco’s drilling department and was not insignificantly involved in introducing PCs to the organization. From his telling it was mostly for selfish motivations to improve inventory, logistics, and accounting workflows to be more manageable for his own teams. He was getting the Aramco library signed up for computer magazines before I was born. He has some interesting stories about the early days of computing, from inside the bowels of this company.
I learned to build PCs from parts I purchased from Philippino merchants at al Shula mall in the mentioned Khobar. I attended LAN parties on the initially mentioned street in the article in Dhahran proper, Prairie View. I taught myself to program on a TI-83 calculator at Dhahran school.
I transitioned into the tech industry pretty quickly out of college after studying poli-sci related curriculum w focus on Middle East, and have worked in O&G related tech for a good part of my career. I’m a product manager for an O&G portfolio product now. I have friends working in Aramco still, many Aramco friends in the town I live, and family in the region in similar arrangements. Happy to answer questions regarding any of the above.
There are quite a few resources available for those curious about the country, company, and history of expatriate workers in the region. “The Prize” mentioned in another few comments is an excellent primer, a lesser know resource I’ve come to like are “Out In The Blue”, by Tom Barger who retired from Aramco as CEO in 69. The book is a collection of letters from himself and other expatriate workers to their families about the establishment of exploration activity in the country. It’s got a bit of “the party line”, rosy-towards-the-Saudis feel but is some excellent and generally unknown primary documentation of the company’s early years. Another book less charitable to Saudi, American, or even my own role in the country’s history is “Cities of Salt” by Abdelrahman Munif. That was a multi part fiction giving a semi-historical recounting of the establishment of a Dhahran-like town in a Saudi-like country from the perspectives of different local people living there already. It is phenomenally authentic, and has a spirit of understanding of the sentiment there that is not common. The work has been banned in kingdom.
(This is a bit off-topic from the subject of the article about particular methodology of rendering data as opposed to usage of these kind of wind maps)
I worked on X’s project loon in operations for a spell. We were interacting with balloons in flight regularly. The referenced nullschool wind map was unendingly useful.
Something I always wanted for using nullschool or other similar publicly available “tools” was more granularity between wind layers, or derived estimations of data between wind layers.
When putting any flight systems in the atmosphere, having visualizations (even estimates) of wind direction and speed estimations at more altitude levels is more valuable than visualizing more particles more efficiently, IMO.
I wish similar thought and processing power was put towards smoothing out guesses at wind speeds at different altitudes.
Tl;dr: I wish this demo map had an altitude slider, even if it was smoothed out guestimates between available data layers.
Google established 155mbps connection at about 100km from two free floating balloons in 2016. I was on project and site for this launch, it was very clear morning/day, and atmospheric clarity will certainly affects transmission. These systems are built to recognize and mitigate for expected noise, but I'd imagine atmospheric clarity is always a high-impact variable.
At least at loon, the balloon has a ballonet that takes on atmosphere as ballast for descending.
a spot on this from a blog that covers Egypt archeological finds: http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/09/5000-year-old...
Egypt Ministry of Antiquities facebook post on the announcement: https://www.facebook.com/moantiquities/photos/a.172235502822...
I spent several months in Puerto Rico working on operations with Google's Project Loon, launching balloons out of Cieba.
Seeing the island during September 2016 power outage was eye-opening. It was admittedly a pretty bad event that spurred it, but portions of the island were without power for several days. Infrastructure development is definitely necessary, particularly considering the possibility of storm hits there.
It is a lovely island, I hope this manages to nudge along solutions from what seemed to be a stagnating problem.
new features:
15 Minute Updates. Access the world’s breaking events and reaction in near-realtime as both the GDELT Event and Global Knowledge Graph now update every 15 minutes.
Realtime Translation of 65 Languages. GDELT 2.0 brings with it the public debut of GDELT Translingual, representing what we believe is the largest realtime streaming news machine translation deployment in the world: all global news that GDELT monitors in 65 languages, representing 98.4% of its daily non-English monitoring volume, is translated in realtime into English for processing through the entire GDELT Event and GKG/GCAM pipelines. GDELT Translingual is designed to allow GDELT to monitor the entire planet at full volume, creating the very first glimpses of a world without language barriers. A special emphasis on locations and names makes GDELT 2.0 likely the largest multilingual geocoding system in the world.
Realtime Measurement of 2,300 Emotions and Themes. GDELT 2.0 also brings with it the debut of GDELT Global Content Analysis Measures (GCAM), representing what we believe is the largest deployment of sentiment analysis in the world: bringing together 24 emotional measurement packages that together assess more than 2,300 emotions and themes from every article in realtime, multilingual dimensions natively assessing the emotions of 15 languages (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, French, Galician, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Urdu). GCAM is designed to enable unparalleled assessment of the emotional undercurrents and reaction at a planetary scale by bringing together an incredible array of dimensions, from LIWC’s “Anxiety” to Lexicoder’s “Positivity” to WordNet Affect’s “Smugness” to RID’s “Passivity”.
High Resolution View of the Non-Western World. Over the last few months we’ve embarked upon an ambitious initiative to vastly expand GDELT’s knowledge of the media systems of the non-Western world. Working closely with governments, think tanks, academics, NGO’s, and citizens on the ground throughout the world we have been working country-by-country to try to build the highest resolution inventory possible of the media systems of the non-Western world. While we still have a long way to go and the fluidity of the world’s media ensures that this will be a perpetual task, we are incredibly excited by the ability of this high resolution inventory, coupled with GDELT Translingual’s ability to translate 98.4% of this material in realtime, to give voice to the most remote corners of the world in near-realtime.
Relevant Imagery, Videos, and Social Embeds. A large fraction of the world’s news outlets now specify a hand-selected image for each article to appear when it is shared via social media that represents the core focus of the article. GDELT identifies this imagery in a wide array of formats including Open Graph, Twitter Cards, Google+, IMAGE_SRC, and SailThru formats, among others. In addition, GDELT also uses a set of highly specialized algorithms to analyze the article content itself to identify inline imagery of high likely relevance to the story, along with videos and embedded social media posts (such as embedded Tweets or YouTube or Vine videos), a list of which is compiled. This makes it possible to gain a unique ground-level view into emerging situations anywhere in the world, even in those areas with very little social media penetration, and to act as a kind of curated list of social posts in those areas with strong social use. Quotes, Names, and Amounts. The world’s news contains a wealth of information on food prices, aid promises, numbers of troops, tanks, and protesters, and nearly any other countable item. GDELT 2.0 now attempts to compile a list of all “amounts” expressed in each article to offer numeric context to global events. In parallel, a new Names engine augments the existing Person and Organization names engines by identifying an array of other kinds of proper names, such as named events (Orange Revolution / Umbrella Movement), occurrences like the World Cup, named dates like Holocaust Remembrance Day, on through named legislation like Iran Nuclear Weapon Free Act, Affordable Care Act and Rouge National Urban Park Initiative. Finally, GDELT also identifies attributable quotes from each article, making it possible to see the evolving language used by political leadership across the world.
Tracking Event Discussion Progression. Under the previous version of GDELT, only the first URL mentioning a given event was recorded, even if the event was mentioned in a hundred separate articles. GDELT 2.0 adds a new “Mentions” table that records every mention of an event over time, along with the timestamp the article was published. This allows the progression of an event through the global media to be tracked, identifying outlets that tend to break certain kinds of events the earliest or which may break stories later but are more accurate in their reporting on those events. Combined with the 15 minute update resolution and GCAM, this also allows the emotional reaction and resonance of an event to be assessed as it sweeps through the world’s media.
Over 100 New GKG Themes. There are more than 100 new themes in the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph, ranging from economic indicators like price gouging and the price of heating oil to infrastructure topics like the construction of new power generation capacity to social issues like marginalization and burning in effigy. The list of recognized infectious diseases, ethnic groups, and terrorism organizations has been considerably expanded, and more than 600 global humanitarian and development aid organizations have been added, along with global currencies and massive new taxonomies capturing global animals and plants to aid with tracking species migration and poaching.
Source Geographic Background Knowledge. GDELT now assesses the geography of every outlet it monitors over time and estimates its physical location on earth, incorporating that information back into the geocoding process to maximize its ability to recognize the geography of local media (a small rural radio station likely assumes its listeners know what country it is based in and thus does not clarify every mention of a local location with the corresponding country name).
Global Knowledge Graph Now in BigQuery. The GDELT Global Knowledge Graph is now available in Google BigQuery, allowing you to query and explore the GKG in realtime and to integrate it into queries of the Event dataset. In fact, the Event, Mentions, and GKG tables are now all in BigQuery and updated every 15 minutes, allowing you to leverage BigQuery’s enormous power to perform mass-scale analytics in near-realtime on our changing planet.
I'm not necessarily against holding someone accountable for the results of their speech (conversations about personal responsibility aside) but then it's not the speech that's illegal.
aptly explained, and food for thought. My appreciations.
Do you support a citizen's right to yell "fire!" in a crowded building or theater?
He'd be prosecuted under the espionage act[0] per the charges against him. The espionage act limits speech.
[0] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/22/snowden...
Where did you see any plans of his to publish g-code in hard-copy?
pgRouting[0] is an extension for PostGIS that provides some routing functions.
looks like they had a further extension solving a very similar problem (Dial-a-ride-problem, DARP[1]) in their 1.x versions. I can't find it in their current docs, but it may be just an issue of how the reference it. Take a look through their stuff, it sounds like it'd be very helpful.
[0] http://pgrouting.org/ [1] - http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/5330/route-optimisati... (see first answer)
I sold high-end yo-yos to kids at my school growing up in Saudi Arabia. I would research the badass ones on the internet (only available from company office at the time, I'd go into my dad's), print out a Word-doc 'order form' to show kids at school (most were known names that kids had around already like Duncan and Yomega, but I'd find crazy ones w/ enough description to convince people to buy sight unseen), collect money with my profit already in it, then take orders and have them delivered to my house in the states. We'd pick them up on yearly re-pat. I usually had the money spent before they were even delivered, because I'm a goober.
Those, tech decks and magic cards. My first entrepreneurial endeavors.
The "notification" problem boils down to this: many want your attention; you only want to give attention to what is relevant to you, at a particular time. What is signal some times is noise others. It's not just NOISE Versus SIGNAL. It's NOISE Versus SIGNAL for USER X at TIME Y.
configuring preferences for this problem takes time and dedicated thought (when they're even available to be customized!), resources that users have been reluctant to spend on personal technology. The example in the article was really just due to wrongly selecting a "send me messages" option; THAT bad user decision produced enough frustration to write the OP. This will compound and be very frustrating eventually for 'bad operators'; if you don't have spam properly filtered out of this feed or that one, it compounds at the phone-notification level. In viewing technology, I don't really like saying "well, they're just a bad user", it smacks of Jobs' comment on the iphone 4: "you're just holding it wrong".
This problem is not distinct to an individual mobile user overloaded with notifications. We have this problem in every service we interact with that provides a regular stream of information. In email, this started as SPAM and NOTSPAM as the only measure. If it's from a human, it's relevant. There's one step further with this in Gmail with "important" notification (based on who sent it and what you open). Mobile notifications make a good example of the problem, because they are the final layer of "what is relevant" filtering between so many info services and a single user. Even with binary on/off for many of those streams, the problem remains, and compounds with expectedly careless users.
Automating relevancy measurement will be one of the more "creepy" technologies, I believe, because of the nature of human memory. We will find very quickly that a computer can be "better" (er... faster and more user-aware) at deciding what we want to look at than we ourselves are.
We will also find that the computer can, through micro-decisions, drive a particular thought or behavior pattern. By tending to ignore "health-related" notifications because you are personally uncomfortable with them and view them less than other notifications (as an example), it could exacerbate that problem by further obfuscating such notifications based on that preference. OR, the opposite: have a predisposition to ignore money notifications because of income apprehension? Computer knows and compensates, notifying for these personal weak points more urgently. These examples are strained, but they express the idea.
Compare to facebook's microdecisions to show you more or less of your ex-lover's posts soon after breaking up. These could vastly affect a person's behavior, and we trust in the "know by wire" system to do what is "best" for us.
We've outsourced the relevancy for news events to journalists, editors, and individual publications for hundreds of years ("I'm a WSJ man", for example). the ability for technology to challenge that relationship is just beginning to come into its own. The need for a journalist at the bottom level of "event or not" decision making is still necessary (this is changing too, but still necessary), but publications are now more like buckets of particular editorial opinion and style that are churned together on other platforms than they are decisions of "this stream or that" that users make.
What I see is a need that every technology user shares on many platforms, and a moral hazard of sorts for whoever develops a solution for that need. We already trust in facebook and google to show us what is most "relevant" to us, to not manipulate us for profit. As we rely more and more on automated measures of relevancy, we put more and more trust into their making such measures benevolently.
Desiderata by Max Ehrmann:
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.this was a very good overview, I appreciate the link. May be watching through much more of this class.
This post has put in to words much of my own, un-reputable experience with SO and stack-exchange forums. The technical corrections and constant closing of questions by mods discouraged my asking of questions ages ago. There is a feeling that researching the details necessary to describe the question adequately takes away from research that may have yielded how to solve it by looking at similar questions or documentation. I know that this is partly the intention of the mods: go do your homework before asking. But, it can swing to be the flipside: homework of asking is as long or longer than deciphering your problem. In my experience, much of a questioners research to prepare their question was UNRELATED to their problem, so the amount of information included in the question is far above and beyond what is necessary to solve their variable typo, or whatever.
Where this is a good thing for the long-term usefulness of SO, like the OP said it takes away from the short-term usefulness of the site for us plebian self-doubters.
Having said that, previously asked questions on SO answer ~90% of my programming questions, so they're obviously doing something right.
I've thought before that a 'staging area' for questions might be useful, where a question gets posted by _anon_idiot_user_ like me asking why thier code won't run because of something simple. It is marked as 'not useful' for whatever reason, but can still offer (diminished) reputation to answerers. After a particular amount of time, the question is removed from the SO 'canon' (i.e. unpublished and deleted), but the reputation sticks. Nobody's ego is hurt from having thier stupid question memorialized, and mods would be more forgiving to stupid questioners knowing it will go away once solved.
just an idea. All in all, I'm eternally grateful to SO and it's 'asshole mods'. They've taught me more programming than any other entity on the web.
EDIT: Clarity
This is also the delineator between humans and animals presented in Robert Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", and I had a knee-jerk reaction against it. It is NOT obvious to me at all.
I've seen my cats play 'jokes' on my dog. I've seen the squirrels tease her too by jumping down in the yard, then laugh-bark for minutes, taunting her from the the trees. Don't even get me started on blue jays.
I've repeatedly seen animals engage in behavior similar enough to laughter to make me doubt this claim or those making it.
Fantastic write-up and application.
I gave y'all my money a two or three months ago, and I've been very happy with your product. I had been flirting with a few other mostly-online solution for over a year (looking through book-marks they were layoutit.com and jetstrap), but always felt the features offered were half-hearted and clunky in a browser.
"You can’t come out to a saturated market with just a couple of useful features. Pinegrow had to have all the main features from the start: ability to open any HTML file, full range of configurable Bootstrap components, CSS editor with integrated LESS parser and the ability to edit multiple pages at the same time. After all, that is what distinguished Pinegrow from the rest."
You had me pretty well sold with stand-alone software, lifetime usage w/ 3 installations for commercial purposes, and element drag-and-drop combined with side-by-side page + code view. Access to edit CSS was a feature I didn't know I needed, but I definitely did. I was very impressed with the "Open From URL" feature when I found it, but it certainly wasn't a purchase point for me.
If the market was providing these things elsewhere, props for capturing my queries first.
Kudos for an impressive product that does the thing it's supposed to well.
I am reminded of Slavoj Zizek's story about Niels Bohr having a horseshoe above his door:
"surprised at seeing a horseshoe above the door of Bohr's country house, the fellow scientist visiting him exclaimed that he did not share the superstitious belief regarding horseshoes keeping evil spirits out of the house, to which Bohr snapped back: "I don't believe in it either. I have it there because I was told that it works even when one doesn't believe in it at all." This is indeed how ideology functions today: nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in them."[0]
[0] http://brooklynbooktalk.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-ideology-st...
I appreciated the blog post, your about-us page, and this comment.
This is remedied with a simple VPN, correct?
only justification in that article:
" Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP Tweeted: 'The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. The sites that have removed objectionable content and/or cooperated with the on going investigations, are being unblocked.' "