Rising above the Southern Patagonian Ice Field on the border of Chile and Argentina is a narrow finger of rock 3128 metres in height that for over 50 years has been a source of controversy among the climbing community. Last … Read more
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day. László Krasznahorkai’s recent Nobel Prize win reignited the perpetual debates about “difficult literature.” Krasznahorkai, if you don’t know, is famous for writing lengthy, dense books … Read more
1. Sorting fractions under uncertainty Each fraction has to be modelled as a distribution in order take its uncertainty into account. The binomial distribution is a good choice, such that (k sim Binom(n,p)) where (k) is the number of successes, … Read more
The lesser urbanism hack Epistemic status: Main part is well-supported but may have some minor errors. The parts about potential future lines are inherently speculative. Small Train is Good Train A while ago, I wrote about how elevated trains are … Read more
Did you know your favorite website can detect when you’re browsing it in public transport and when you scroll it laying in your bed? Today we’ll learn how they can do it and how this info is used to fight … Read more
There is so much beyond words. There are actually no adequate words for the full complexity of human feeling, for the arcane details of a distant memory, or the colors of the sky. Blue doesn’t really cut it, but most … Read more
ts_sms: Short Message Compression using Large Language Models Compression example: ./ts_sms c “Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy. No information is lost in lossless compression.” 뮭䅰㼦覞㻪紹陠聚牊 Decompression example: ./ts_sms d 뮭䅰㼦覞㻪紹陠聚牊 Lossless compression reduces bits by … Read more
Ubiquitous adoption of lidar in self driving cars needs one major thing: lower cost. Lidar has proven to be a capable technology for level 4 autonomous driving, and is already used in self driving taxis by Waymo and Cruise. But … Read more
published 2017-05-07, updated 2017-09-07 [ home ] This post is a rough transcription of a lightning talk I gave at dotScale 2017. One of the things I work on at Lima is master-master filesystem replication. In this kind of system, … Read more
Home Art Analysis Biography Chinese Brush Collage Color 3D Animation Without Pixel Shifting Discoveries and Firsts Documentaries Drawings Electronic Restoration Etchings Films Graphics Partial Inventory Light Boxes Painting Photography Reviews Sculpture Videos Watercolor 2D to 3D Films Lillian Schwartz, resident … Read more