As you may have seen from Matt Parker’s latest video, there is a new contest for the recently discovered Hat and Spectre tiles! For more details about this recent discovery please see the MoMath article about this “ein stein” (a pun for “one stone” in German).
Continue reading “Ideas for the Einstein Mad Hat contest”MakerFaire Central Oregon is coming up!
Central Oregon Maker Faire is less than a month away! This is the place to be for interesting robots, solar cars, sustainability or various interesting DIY projects.
Continue reading “MakerFaire Central Oregon is coming up!”Where are the big roofs for Solar? A mathematical look at pulling data from OpenStreetMap
In recent years there has been a lot of talk about solar and more renewable energy. In USA the recent IRA has provisions for extending solar and renewable energy, and the Florida governor last year supported Solar benefits which turn out to be helpful in many natural disasters, making an energy grid more easily self-sustainable after hurricanes that are common to that state. What if we could go over a map and see what buildings are the best candidates for solar generation? OpenStreetMap has not just street maps, but many other features, including building coordinates, which can give us polygons that can calculate areas for potential solar!
Continue reading “Where are the big roofs for Solar? A mathematical look at pulling data from OpenStreetMap”ChatGPT is bad at math? Turns out, so is Microsoft’s assistant.
Recently it was noted, by Arstechnica and others, that ChatGPT doesn’t seem to be great at math questions – recent tests have found one can get wrong answers much more often than a calculator, and even apologize if you insist that it is wrong (suggesting it doesn’t know math after 2021… lol). but what about other similar assistants?
Continue reading “ChatGPT is bad at math? Turns out, so is Microsoft’s assistant.”How to build your own ChatGPT-style chat bot
In recent months, new inventions like ChatGPT have been said to be possibly the end of society, or the saving of society… but maybe this is something that is something very similar to what has been hyped before?
Continue reading “How to build your own ChatGPT-style chat bot”SoME Math contest is back
The Summer of Math Exposition (run by 3blue1brown) contest is up and running: https://some.3b1b.co/
Continue reading “SoME Math contest is back”Computer efficiency numbers – useful rating or greenwashing?
In a recent newsletter, well known scientist Katherine Hayhoe mentioned a listing of the top most efficient computers – while efficiency is something to consider in your purchases, is there really a big difference in which laptop you buy and use?
Continue reading “Computer efficiency numbers – useful rating or greenwashing?”Computer vision and insect vision – compared
If you have been experimenting with the widely used OpenCV project, you may have found the StereoSGBM functionality that tries to find the difference between two images to find depth!
Continue reading “Computer vision and insect vision – compared”I don’t always test BETAs on the production home page…
… but when I do, it’s WordPress.org? – Check out a recent announcement from Make WordPress Core:
Continue reading “I don’t always test BETAs on the production home page…”The end of Mycroft? Sad news this week
If you have been following the Mycroft.ai project, you may have been disappointed to see the recent email this week, including the announcement that the company will be shutting down…
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