This week on Counting Stuff, reflection on how the nature of certain grinding work may have changed, but we can't just "give it to the machines" because we've still got to ground things somehow #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/new-data-ana...

New data analysis can be faster, but MUST be grounded in slowness

LLMs and "AI" are at the forefront of making things "faster", but fast does not equal correct despite what many say.

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You know your Sunday has gone sideways when you're repairing a rotted wood situation with the devil's plaster, bondo

watched videos of someone playing through the ending of death stranding 2 and like... yes it's just kojima being kojima and all .... but a guitar/ax battle in the sunset a-la MGS4? 😅

ventless clothing dryers are awesome

idly wondering if Ishould get a subwoofer for my office to go with my HS5 speakers....

You can produce a similar effect by exhausting your red cone so that it stops firing on green light. It doesn't last long but the color is very intense. dynomight.net/colors/

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes

Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?

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The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 6d ago

Researchers at U.C. Berkeley used lasers to stimulate retinal cone cells in a way that doesn’t occur naturally—creating a new color that only seven people in the world have seen. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Does getting through only half the set count???🤔

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 7d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Finally getting around to unpacking the edo-kiriko from our trip... I think it only cost like 12k yen give or take, so not even a hundred and apparently you can order and ship it internationally saihou.net/en-us/produc...

Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.

This week on Counting Stuff, how does locating lightning work? There's sensor networks, some run by volunteer hobbyists, that are able to pinpoint where lightning strikes to within a few hundred meters. I dug into how they do that #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/so-how-does-...

So how does lightning locating work?

Between advanced math and radio sensors, it's possible to locate where lightning strikes from hundreds to thousands of kilometers away. It's wild.

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This week on Counting Stuff, how does locating lightning work? There's sensor networks, some run by volunteer hobbyists, that are able to pinpoint where lightning strikes to within a few hundred meters. I dug into how they do that #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/so-how-does-...

So how does lightning locating work?

Between advanced math and radio sensors, it's possible to locate where lightning strikes from hundreds to thousands of kilometers away. It's wild.

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.... did I just spend the past 4 hours writing about lightning detection?

Now that I"m back from traveling, catching up on sharing new posts. This week on Counting Stuff, a short bit about why I like working on enterprise products, because everything's messy and challenging in weird ways #data BS (1/4 www.counting-stuff.com/the-fun-chal...

The fun challenge of enterprise product research

Consumer data science is hallmarked with massive datasets and other challenges. Meanwhile, enterprise products show a very different kind of challenge that I love.

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Now that I"m back from traveling, catching up on sharing new posts. This week on Counting Stuff, a short bit about why I like working on enterprise products, because everything's messy and challenging in weird ways #data BS (1/4 www.counting-stuff.com/the-fun-chal...

The fun challenge of enterprise product research

Consumer data science is hallmarked with massive datasets and other challenges. Meanwhile, enterprise products show a very different kind of challenge that I love.

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was trying to track down a fly buzzing between a few rooms and resorted to stopping and listening very carefully for the faint sound of it buzzing around in order to get a rough idea of where the hell it had snuck off to... then murdered the bug =P

Okugi is fun as a character but I think the main reason to pull is because she gets cat animations #Endfield

ugh i forgot the summer flash floods are here

Ok, safely back on the ground in New York. It's been a great trip and a much needed vacation but happy to be back where the humidity is less brutal

It's 5 am at the airport and I'm doing the most Canadian thing I can think of here before grabbing my stuff to get out

Embarking on the very long journey home

Oh joy, looks like I'm gonna be flying back to NYC into a smoke cloud? Give or take a day so it might not be as terrible

Every time I travel I like to try local food atrocities... Like pizza hut in China has this... A pizza topped with durian, mango, and chilled cubes of coconut

I met a violin shop cat today and it was awesome despite the ridiculous heat index outside

'Tis the last day to preorder The Psychology of Software Teams! By ordering today you'll join the POST advance squad which comes with benefits like a) I remember every early post forever b) bragging rights c) enormous increases to your persuasion d) a faint glowing aura www.drcathicks.com#book

Dr. Cat Hicks

Leading the science of software success

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Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · last mo.

So how do you help the authors you want to help? - Preorder - Tell one specific person "you'd like this book" — this converts at a far higher rate than anything! - If you're on a team or in a reading group, suggest it there - Request it at your local library! www.drcathicks.com#book

I grew up learning that good cars were low and sleek and speedy and modern suv nonsense is the complete opposite and I continue to want no part in that shit show despite like 20+ years of that being the main thing

Ok here's something I hadn't considered... Electrifying the taxi cab fleet is generally awesome... But it also means giving urban cabbies access to vehicles with that ridiculous EV torque and acceleration curve. And that's even for generally boring EVs 😬

Man, this trip has been wild. So in Japan we got to use their nfc cards that are linked to a national interop network and you can use them to pay for drinks at random vending machines. Meanwhile, in Shanghai I get to see how they use QR codes for -everything- and there's lots of weird friction 1/n

Google how write breathy fluff paper but pass it off as academic paper

This is all hilarious (also 😬x100), but it would've been even more hilarious if the openai IPO hadn't been delayed

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 4w ago

Dawg they literally asked Apple employees to bring company property TO THE INTERVIEWS?

Let's talk about how Diskette makes money and stays true to our values and our artists in this capitalist hellscape.

Printing Money: The Economics of Small Press

We’re obviously in a really strange time for the arts in general: you’ve got a crap economy, everything costs more money, arts funding has dried up, and nobody has a job. This of course sounds absolut...

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