andygreenwell

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by andygreenwell 5y ago
Living on Cape Cod these days, I read “Burt Dow Deep-water Man” to my son fairly regularly when it’s time for bed. I think this guy just picked up a new nickname for himself.
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by andygreenwell 6y ago
Interesting development in this space this week for WiTricity (the company) is that China is standardizing nationally on magnetic resonance technology for wireless vehicle charging based on WiTricity’s designs and standards work. I’m sure t
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by andygreenwell 7y ago
You have to make due with 32-bit floating point accuracy for any vertices defined in Blender for the geometry to be passed along to any external libraries. In a prior gig where Blender was the primary development environment, I needed to do
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by andygreenwell 7y ago
Worked for Crane Currency a year ago...left after only a year there just after the acquisition by Crane Co. The company has facilities in Tumba, Sweden as well as their new production facility in Malta. There are some very talented engineer
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by andygreenwell 7y ago
Maybe, but having previously worked for a company that makes physical money, it's a healthy business they are in. There is more cash being printed now than ever before, the second derivative on the the amount of cash over time (d2Cash
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by andygreenwell 7y ago
Expect to see an implementation included in subsequent releases of Code V and Zemax.
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by andygreenwell 8y ago
In my time in MA, I worked for three separate MIT startups, one top software company and one IP law firm. The law firm was the only one that didn’t require a noncompete. One of those companies was backed by one of the loudest voices in the
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by andygreenwell 8y ago
Crane Currency uses Blender in the design of the micro-optical animations of their Motion and Surface security threads that are integrated into banknotes around the world. Check out a US $100 bill for an example of the results. In my previo
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by andygreenwell 8y ago
And then you have the mayors of North Fulton (for example Mayor Mike Bodker of Johns Creek) that are fundamentally opposed to expanding various forms of rapid transit into their supposedly low density housing suburban communities: https:&#
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by andygreenwell 9y ago
> They would be so much better if they had even a few more millimeters of leeway in their positioning. Well if resonant based charging can ultimately win the standards battle versus Qi (standard magnetic induction), then you could have s
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by andygreenwell 9y ago
They are trade secret, so can't describe them here, but currently using algorithms created by my skip level manager [1] to make actual physical money. [1]: https://www.cranecurrency.com/rnd-banknote-security-thread-f...
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by andygreenwell 9y ago
An additional note for posterity here...one of the main reasons Microsoft was interested in acquiring Interactive Supercomputing was that ISC developed it's own M-language (Matlab) compiler M# built on Mono/.NET...basically a fast
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by andygreenwell 9y ago
Glad to hear that the Excel team is finally listening to your requests on this one. It's been a long time coming. Too bad they weren't interested during the TC days. If it does happen, it would be great if you could get the Cl