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Since I didn't get the name reference either, here is a link for those who want a hint: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idraulico

I think it's this: https://bamx.epfl.ch/

Looks very cool indeed

We've experimented with that at SVT (Sweden's public service broadcaster). Or rather, the video team has, I'm just a web dev, so I don't know the details other than what's in this blog post:

From the eyes of the viewer: Attention-aware video compression for improved low bitrate video https://medium.com/the-svt-tech-blog/from-the-eyes-of-the-vi...

Not only that, but a lot of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts are also on the left side.

That's the thing - when the plant is outside it will get sun from multiple directions as the sun moves, but when it inside the light will only be coming from the window. And even outside the sun is shining more from one direction (south here in the northern hemisphere), since it is below the horizon at times, which will often cause plants and trees to have more branches and leaves facing that direction.

It feels like they're also prime candidates for making a tour with them as actual robots (or holograms), so they wouldn't even need to tour themselves.

I recently found this video of Billy Gibbons performing in the street in Helsinki without anyone noticing. I like that he becomes less recognizable when not wearing sunglasses.

https://youtu.be/YHUQNxggT_k

It's touring again. At least outside of the US. I was at the one in Stockholm, Sweden two years ago. It was supposed to come back last year, but you know...

There is a Swedish podcast (Snedtänkt) that has a lovely email address for contacting the show (I've translated from Swedish) - preferablyonlypositiveresponse@[email provider].

Not sure if it actually works, but I think it might prime people into a more positive mindset.

On a similar note I loved that emails from Readmill came from pleasereply@readmill.com as a contrast to the usual user hostile noreply addresses most companies use.

Reminds me of The pattern on the stone by W Daniel Hillis where he builds a tic-tac-toe computer out of mechanical components. It's a great book for explaining how computers actually work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pattern_on_the_Stone

You beat me to it while I was looking for references. =)

"The stars and gas in the Milky Way rotate about its center differentially, meaning that the rotation period varies with location. As is typical for spiral galaxies, the orbital speed of most stars in the Milky Way does not depend strongly on their distance from the center. Away from the central bulge or outer rim, the typical stellar orbital speed is between 210 ± 10 km/s (470,000 ± 22,000 mph). Hence the orbital period of the typical star is directly proportional only to the length of the path traveled."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way#Galactic_rotation

Do you mean 10 minutes? He lines it up with Polaris, so it only needs one axis of rotation. But I guess the alignment isn't that good since it is just eyeballed, but it should work for exposure times much longer than 10 seconds. He is even rotating the screw every 15 seconds which wouldn't make much sense for a 10 second exposure. =) Clever little project in any case. Thanks for sharing the video.

Addy Osmani has a "one-line debugger" that gives each element on the page a random colored outline.

    [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll("*"),function(a){a.style.outline="1px solid #"+(~~(Math.random()*(1<<24))).toString(16)})

Actually, come to think of it, every image is created to trick the brain's image processing. When viewing real scenery the eyes get hit by photons of all sorts of colors, but since there are only three different color receptors (with overlap) we can trick the brain into thinking an image with only red, green, and blue in it is the same. But for example some birds that can see ultra violet will probably not recognize an image of a flower since it lacks that spectrum.

This optical illusion [1] is the closest thing I've come across. It relies on the fact that there are apparently separate parts of the visual processing in the brain for fine details and for more coarse features. This illusion consists of a picture of the fine details of Albert Einsteins face, so when you are close enough to see the details, you see Albert. But there is also a blurry image of Marilyn Monroe, which isn't really possible to make out until you view the image from farther away, or squint your eyes, so that the finer details are lost.

[1] http://www.123opticalillusions.com/pages/albert-einstein-mar...

Hehe, I was just about to build something similar. I like the extra touch of it not even being served over https.

Interesting - "correct horse battery staple"[0] is flagged as not being in the data set. I was sure someone should have used that by now.

[0] https://xkcd.com/936/

They're not, actually. Almost no one is average if you look at multiple features at once. I would guess that most people have something they wouldn't be too happy with everyone knowing about.

"In his research measuring thousands of airmen on a set of ten critical physical dimensions, Daniels realized that none of the pilots he measured was average on all ten dimensions. Not a single one. When he looked at just three dimensions, less than five percent were average. Daniels realized that by designing something for an average pilot, it was literally designed to fit nobody." [0]

[0] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/

I guess they've named it that because the lyrebird is an amazing impersonator. The end of this BBC clip blew my mind the first time I saw it. https://youtu.be/VjE0Kdfos4Y

But you may have a point, and the ethics section makes it clear that they are indeed very aware of that this may be misused.

Not only that, but people also _want_ to buy new appliances, since they actually become better. More silent, less power drain, more features, etc. So if everyone buys new stuff every ten years or so anyway, why bother building stuff that lasts fifty since that undoubtedly is more expensive.

According to one polling institute, yes. But in the others they are the third largest party at around 17 % which in it self is alarmingly high.[1]

And Nyheter Idag is basically the Breitbart of Sweden.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinionsm%C3%A4tningar_inf%C3%... (In Swedish, but the stats don't need translating. SD denotes the Sweden Democrats)

You should check out imgix as well. They have a really nice crop feature along with automatic quality adjustment and serving different formats (webp/jpg) where available. https://docs.imgix.com/apis/url/size/crop

Actually, it already is a problem. According to this article, around 2,500 people have been assigned a personal number which differs from their birthdate. [1]

The last digit is just a checksum digit, so we're left with 3 digits per day. But that still would give some leeway for each day. The problem seems to be that some immigrants have been assigned a default birth date (Jan 1 and Jul 1) as their exact birth date is unknown.

Another issue which is not mentioned in the article is that we're only using two digits to encode the year (i.e. YYMMDD-XXXX), which causes problems now that many live to be 100+ years. Most banks and other places now requires you to enter a four digit year, even though that technically is incorrect. The correct way to annotate that someone is over a hundred years old is that the dash changes to a plus sign (i.e. YYMMDD+XXXX), although I've never seen that implemented anywhere.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev...

Ah, yes of course. And as cyanoacry noted in another comment, the satellite isn't actually in the Lagrange point - it is orbiting it. Thanks for clearing that up.

But the satellite is at the L1 Lagrange point which is between the earth and the sun. So if you see the moon pass in front of the earth from L1 shouldn't the moon then also be directly between the earth and the sun? And as someone in another post noted: you can see the suns reflection in the ocean. And the moon passes directly over this spot.

Volvo is doing a similar service as well, which seems to precede this. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/business/volvo-roam-klas-b...

I tried out his demo back then and unfortunately it isn't as impressive in real life as it is on video. The problem is that at the distance you usually have your television the most important depth cue is the stereo separation of images, i.e. what you get when wearing 3D-glasses.

So while the objects move around as if you would move in relation to them - your brain still tells you that the image is painted on the surface of the television.

Nice!

There is a bug though that confused me a bit. The input has the value 1, but the hardcoded call of the draw function uses 7 on page load. I.e. line 66

  draw(7);

Nice work!

There seems to be a typo in the Stats (my emphasis):

Pixels: 16-bit unsigned ints, representing "deci-kelvin" (i.e., divide by 100 to get the temperature in Kelvin).

It should either be centikelvin or divide by 10.

On another note: It would be cool if you could hover over a certain area to see its temperature.