If you’ve worked with data science, ML or AI tools you will probably be familiar with the KNIME tools. Later this month, April 15-17, 3 days of data science demos will be available, with free online stream passes available. Check it out at https://info.knime.com/spring-summit-2024-atx!
Programming stuff for your Apr 1st
The “wrong” history of programming languages.
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
Continue reading “Programming stuff for your Apr 1st”Green-screening a recursive green screen for a unique Pie-day effect
If you’ve seen any behind-the-scenes view of any movie you probably are familiar with the green-screen – generally a way to combine an actor with some prerecorded or computer generated background. There are some unique effects you can do with this yourself using OpenCV!
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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?
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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?
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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”Another look at Zipf’s law, and you can chart it yourself!
In a previous post I showed some interesting facts about Zipf’s law and how many different things show a pattern of logarithmic decrease with the most popular or numerous item largely being much more so than the very rare ones – in a logarithmic pattern. Let’s look at that pattern and how you can chart it…
Continue reading “Another look at Zipf’s law, and you can chart it yourself!”FOSDEM – coming up this weekend!
FOSDEM is coming up with a variety of topics, from Javascript to security to Haskell…
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In recent years there has been a surge in popularity of Chevrolet vehicles like the Chevrolet Bolt and, coming soon, the Equinox EV. There has also been increased popularity for Linux phones like the Librem phone, but unfortunately there has been no equivalent for the “myChevrolet” app for your own computer or Linux-phone… unless you know where to look.
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