886 votes, 60 comments. Made myself a contraption to find light leaks. Found one that's been puzzling me for a long time.
Training a vision model, or how I learned to stop worrying and love dataset curation
Note: this is not some beginners guide, or how-to. Its an experiment in high dimensional space manifold gymnastics. Quick links to the model and dataset if you don’t care for the narrative version: This is the Badger Model 55 Water Meter: This thing sucks to read. Get down on your knees, enjoy the cement floor of a dark basement room, pull out a flash light and just try to guess if water is leaking from somewhere. The water company knows what they bill you, but your costs jump around li...
The Dark Mode Toggle Discourse
How the dark mode toggle discourse unfolded One designer's argument against the classic light/dark/system three-way switch turned into weeks of blog rebuttals, parody posts, and "do you even need a toggle at all?" takes. The timeline Aug 1…
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
The Sunshine Recorder
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d li
What We're Working On | Prime Radiant
So, I guess this is the first post on the corporate blog. It's probably about time for me to introduce myself.
ImageWhisperer — AI Image Detector
Upload an image. Get the investigation. 41 checks, one verdict, plain-language evidence. By Henk van Ess.
komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs
Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try to abduct some insights out of the raw notes. To make the ideas easier for me to engage with, I ...
Learning to Float | Are.na Editorial
When I wasn’t fighting it, the water rose to support me.
Light Pollution Map
Interactive world light pollution map. The map uses NASA Black marble VIIRS, Sky brightness, Aurora prediction, observatories, clouds and SQM/SQC overlay contributed by users.
This Most Simple Sudoku Rule = Fog Magic
Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Used To Instantly Dox Strangers In Public, Thanks To AI And Facial Recognition
Harvard students hack together a system to gather intel on strangers to build their trust, then share steps for the public to protect themselves from such technology.
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook : Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a big-picture understanding of lighting, technology, safety, and professionalism, essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting. The fifth edition delves into every aspect of lighting and features vastly expanded sections on controlling LED lights, color science, lighting control systems, wireless systems, Ethernet-based control systems, battery power, and modern set protocol for productions small and large. With a generous number of original images, the book illustrates the use of soft light, the effect of lighting angles, and how the gaffer and DP build an effective lighting plan around the blocking of the actors. This encyclopedic volume of technical knowhow is tempered with years of practical experience and a much-needed sense of humor.This is the ideal text for professional lighting technicians across film and television including lighting directors, gaffers, DOPs, and rigging crews, as well as film and television production students studying lighting, camera techniques, film production, and cinematography.It includes a revamped companion website with supplementary resources, forms, checklists, and images.
Skylight
Want to actually see the people you follow? Done. Want to decide what shows up in your feed, and what doesn't? Easy. A social app where your interests come first.
Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1] - Cosmik Labs
First of a new series on sensemaking patterns we're observing on Semble