Weeklog for Week 31: August 01 to August 07
Progress
No progress this week.
This Week I Learned
I learned that my bathing trunks are ill-suited for sandy shores. They have an outer "visual" layer and an inner "holding" layer. The inner layer apparently filters sand from the water and collects it in a very inopportune spot. I had to tape some areas to keep them from being rubbed bloody.
Articles
- Excel Never Dies - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
- Old jokes
- ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
- Omnes Viae: Römischer Routenplaner - Tabula Peutingeriana und Itinerarium Antonini
- PiBox: "Tiny. Private. Personal. Introducing the PiBox. PiBox combines A Raspberry Pi CM4, WiFi, 8GB RAM, Up to 16TB of SSD Storage, An App Store, backups, remote access, and much more to create the most versatile personal server ever. "
- Cat gap - Wikipedia: "The cat gap is a period in the fossil record of approximately 25 million to 18.5 million years ago in which there are few fossils of cats or cat-like species found in North America. The cause of the "cat gap" is disputed, but it may have been caused by changes in the climate (global cooling), changes in the habitat and environmental ecosystem, the increasingly hypercarnivorous trend of the cats (especially the nimravids), volcanic activity, evolutionary changes in dental morphology of the Canidae species present in North America, or a periodicity of extinctions called van der Hammen cycles."
- privilege escalation in physical lock systems
- Video Games Could Be the Future of Construction: ArcGIS Maps SDK brings geospatial data to Unity and Unreal Engine
- Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Shor, I’ll do it: "to explain Shor’s algorithm without using a single ket sign, or for that matter any math beyond arithmetic."
- Bret Victor rants on hand interactions: Brilliant as always from Bret Victor.
- How to make dye-sensitized solar cells from blueberry juice
- How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST? (via Jochens Weeknotes)
Libraries, programming, etc
- OpenTripPlanner: "OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services. The core server-side Java component finds itineraries combining transit, pedestrian, bicycle, and car segments through networks built from widely available, open standard OpenStreetMap and GTFS data. This service can be accessed directly via its web API or using a range of Javascript client libraries, including modern reactive modular components targeting mobile platforms."
- Digitransit: "Digitransit Platform is an open source journey planning solution that combines several open source components into a modern, highly available route planning service. Route planning algorithms and APIs are provided by Open Trip Planner (OTP). OTP is a great solution for general route planning but in order to provide top-notch journey planning other components such as Mobile friendly user interface, Map tile serving, Geocoding, and various data conversion tools are needed. Digitransit platform provides these tools."