This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)
Removing pops from a vinyl record rip is tedious as hell. I was trying to come up with a better (or automated) way to identify where pops are without listening to the entire thing in real time, and I thought of using a derivative of the signal (the idea being that pops should show as abrupt changes).
But then I just stumbled upon a simple solution: looking at the spectrogram!
Pops show as ghostly bars in the background of the signal.
I've been with a high fever, COVID related, during these past few days. I guess made some break through with my machine paintings. #penplotter#brushplotter#art#genart
My astro 101 students are doing their final project peer review right now. They all had to find some piece of astronomy misinformation (like the earth is flat, or there are 2 suns, or UFO things) and make a 5 minute video explaining why it's false, using information from our class. They had to submit the videos earlier today, and now they are watching and grading 5 of their randomly-assigned peers (for a tiny fraction of their grade). And oh my gosh...so many email questions. So. Many.
@sundogplanets Ahhh, I doubt it. The first week or two are all anxieties and misunderstandings. By now (I think we are on the 11th review cycle) they have pretty much worked out the kinks.
Re https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/, is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?
Testing this flexible solar panel for the electric bakfiets roof, looking at 20-50W realistic rate with sub-optimal exposure and a lot of clouds, it's a 100W panel. With the 1.6lb box it's 5.2lb, probably 10-12lb by the time I have a stiff enough roof mounted, (articulated?) and charging the bike battery. What should I make the roof out of?
@enobacon Is it flexible in one dimension or several? And were you thinking of a curved roof? Something flexed, like one or more acrylic plastic sheets, might be strong enough to support that panel in the wind.
It's the GPT-3.5 version, which is prone to all sorts of mistakes and hallucinations - further strengthening the pattern where most people form their impressions of what this stuff can and can't be useful for through access to the weaker models
Is there someone here who knows what part of CVC the Davis PD are referring to which apparently allows rich people/corporations to ignore the signs saying "No Parking At Any Time"?
@meganL@bikenite@mastobikes@fedibikes Honestly I would go back to your source with a polite request for the citation in question. If the cops are convinced that something's not enforceable, we'd need to know their reasoning in order to debate it.
how do we make progress on transit, pedestrian safety, and bikes under a bad mayor?
every candidate—Breed, Farrell, Peskin, Safai, Lurie—is bad on this issue. we ain't getting a Hidalgo or Wu. there will be no bike mayor. it's just us.
so how are we going to fight an apathetic-to-hostile, powerful executive for the next four years and win?