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I’m not sure if this will ever see the light of day, but what the hell, I’ll do it here in case I can turn it into a proper write up. At the moment, I’m only concerned with emulating Ed’s ‘multi’ workflow. If I get that working, I’ll hopefully have a leg up on implementing the other modes. Also, I’m assuming we’re working with an unset tempo to begin with. …

Pre-made "skinny" stones being bulked with foam. Inspector Vulture approves.Shaped and coated with joint compound over paper mache'.Painted black and dry-brushed white.While I have several ideas for scratch-built monuments, this was another year to simply "bulk out" premade stones to give them more heft and believability. It is a simple process of building up the back and base of the stone with additional foam then coating with paper mache' and …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can be used, for instance, to plot large dimensional data on a 2D or 3D plot, or to reduce the number of features in an effort to eliminate random noise in a machine learning problem (made …

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generative systems and the content deficit Brochure: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) 1970s Gift of the William Hough Collection Collection of SFO Museum 2007.011.285 Last week I spoke at the 2024 Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Lawrence, Kansas. The talk was an elaboration on some of the closing slides in the presentation that I did for a Museum Studies class at USF earlier this year. As usual it felt like …

The one where Sara wrote a post for CSS-Tricks 🧡🎉

Welcome to Improv 101 Many guitarists view improvising over chord changes as the unobtainable holy grail of their guitar journey. But it doesn’t need to be that way. It took me 30 years to crack the code, and now that I can see the path clearly, I want to illuminate it for you. Every guitar player can learn to improvise. The problem isn’t you—it’s the way this stuff is usually …

The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically

Social share images unfurl beneath link shares on many popular social platforms, such as Discord, Slack, LinkedIn, and more. Did you ever notice those social media share images that automatically pop up for a site and think to yourself, "wow, it would be really cool if I could get that set up for my blog"? In this post, I will show you how I use 11ty shortcodes and Cloudinary to …

Klauss, grupo argentino fundado en 1988 por el músico y experimentador sonoro Ernesto Romeo (sintes, secuenciadores, samplers, mellotron, teclados, batería electrónica, ordenadores y procesadores) y Alejandro Vázquez (sintetizadores, percusión, guitarra eléctrica y sintetizada, ordenadores y procesadores). Posteriormente pasaron por el grupo Walter Alderete y Ángel Castro (sintes) para finalmente quedar definitivamente como trio con Ernesto Romeo, su hermano Lucas Romeo (guitarras, sintes, teclados y procesadores) y Francisco Nicosia (sintes, samplers, …

Posted on October 24, 2024 Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:zine I have no idea either. Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess. If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template). A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped …

Pic: Isabel Gonzalez Belobradic By Lucy Snell and Isabel Gonzalez Belobradic Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters, including groups from the ELL boroughs, met at Trafalgar Square on Saturday to call for an immediate ceasefire and for the UK government to cut ties with Israel, as the conflict continues. Among the participants were activists from the boroughs Lewisham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, and Croydon, who expressed their anger at the British government’s ongoing …

Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le Corbusier Archiobjects The Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, designed by Le Corbusier, stands as one of the most iconic works of modern architecture. Completed in 1952, this structure is a paradigmatic example of the urban and residential vision of the renowned Franco-Swiss architect. The concept of the Unité d’Habitation stems from Le Corbusier’s idea of creating a vertical […] The post Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, Le …

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire 3, launched in 2022. This is a product, the ad tells us, that ‘makes fitness so fun, you’ll move more, love it and see how it all adds up’. Oh, and don’t forget: ‘track it or it didn’t happen’.The global fitness tracker industry was worth around $54 billion in 2023 and …

Can a map be a mile long? Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired Magazine) and David Rumsey created one with The Speed of The Earth art installation, a roughly one mile long line of 30 strobe lights mapping the rotational speed of the earth on its axis - 1156 feet per second or 788 miles per hour. Installed at Burning Man on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada in September …