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by kentlyons 5y ago
I'm going to miss my Pebble when it finally dies. Still wearing my Kickstarter Pebble Time. One thing it did well was be a watch first, as opposed to a small phone on your wrist. Depending on your needs/expectations those are very
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by kentlyons 5y ago
Several years ago I did some research (published paper here: http://kentlyons.net/pubs/dumbwatch-iswc15.pdf ) and one of the findings I thought was interesting was there were 3 groups of people that implied different ba
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PCB on a Quarter – Spare Change to Smart Change(botfactory.co)
2 points by kentlyons 6y ago|0 comments
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To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. [pdf](berkshirehathaway.com)
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by kentlyons 6y ago
For almost any paper I read, before I pick it up, I know there were statistically significant findings. Those results were not predefined. Instead they are part of the academic review process that filters out null results. That same process
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by kentlyons 6y ago
"Being boxed in" - I think this is the crux of the point. It is being defensive with respect to the current position. Good design might need to consider the legacy, but rarely should be constrained by it. However in many situation
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by kentlyons 6y ago
yatsuhashi!! My first taste of red bean sweets. So yummy
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by kentlyons 6y ago
Too soon for whom or for what? This is not explicitly stated and it seems much of the discussion is based on different assumptions. Too soon to make good shows? Too soon for you? Too soon for Netflix? All of those likely lead to different a
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by kentlyons 6y ago
I want this at the programming language level too. If a function call can fail, I want to set a flag and have it (randomly?) fail. I hacked my way around this by adding in some wrapper that would if random, err for a bunch of critical funct
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by kentlyons 6y ago
Or just use voice to set the wiper speed - completely eyes free
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by kentlyons 6y ago
Regenerative breaking with the right EV could make a huge difference here. I use my breaks way way less now than with a traditional car.
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Raspberry Pi Shuffler Is Computerized Card Shark(hackaday.com)
2 points by kentlyons 6y ago|0 comments
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by kentlyons 6y ago
One of my favorite personal commits was removing about 5000 lines of dead code tightly woven into many other parts of the overall codebase.
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by kentlyons 6y ago
I made an attachment for my Ender 3 3D printer that allowed me to turn it into a pen plotter and draw with ink (and other) pens. I've played around with different code to create images (photo->gcode) and made a new youtube channel f
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Star Burst: 3D printer & generative code & pens [video](youtu.be)
2 points by kentlyons 6y ago|0 comments
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Star Burst: 3D printer and generative code and pens [video](youtu.be)
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Teaching a 3D printer to draw in CMYK color [video](youtu.be)
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by kentlyons 6y ago
I've been making progress with my art project. I made an attachment for my 3d printer to turn it into a pen plotter. And then wrote a bunch of code to turn an image into a stylized CMYK pen drawing. https://youtu.be/Vxd
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by kentlyons 7y ago
Tesla is probably a new market disruption. If so electric is a bit of a red herring. There is some evidence of this with the trade in data. The analogy is apple taking out Nokia Motorola and Blackberry with a phone that wasn't good by
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All You Need to Know About I2S(hackaday.com)
2 points by kentlyons 7y ago|0 comments
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by kentlyons 8y ago
Here is the paper they published: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1709/1709.05918.pdf And the press release from last year: http://news.mit.edu/2017/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faste
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Apple II Copy Protection (2015)(bigmessowires.com)
2 points by kentlyons 8y ago|0 comments
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by kentlyons 9y ago
Having worked at Technicolor a while, they just licenses the brands to 3rd party OEMs. So the hardware is not from the same company.
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The Anti-Mac Interface (1996)(nngroup.com)
1 points by kentlyons 10y ago|0 comments
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This neural network-based software will automatically color in your line art(techcrunch.com)
2 points by kentlyons 10y ago|0 comments
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by kentlyons 10y ago
I totally agree about engaging with the real world and it not happening (directly) through an app. However, in my experience having spent a fair bit of time in the same coffee shop: proximity is easy; repeated unplanned _interactions_, not
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by kentlyons 10y ago
This old story seems relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247488 "three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interaction
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Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation(medium.com)
1 points by kentlyons 10y ago|0 comments
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by kentlyons 10y ago
It does predate capacitive touchscreen keyboards. However it wasn't made explicitly for full size physical keyboards. They explicitly had soft keyboards in mind. Here is the paper that introduced the phrase set [1] at it refers to this
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by kentlyons 10y ago
(similar disclaimer: I've done a bunch of text input work for mobile) That phrase set was explicitly designed for text entry (typing) experiments. While not optimal, it does allow for more direct comparison to a large body of previous

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