kuya

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by kuya 11y ago
you're probably already aware of this, but there is some US legislation trying to open up commercial data to gov't entities: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1561... there&#x2
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by kuya 11y ago
for anyone interested, this paper has a nice background on numerical weather prediction http://www.elsevierscitech.com/emails/physics/climate/the_or...
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by kuya 11y ago
ah, thanks, that's fascinating. "It also learns every time you actively report to the community on sky conditions and hazards, translating this information into weather predictions." does sunshine actively run a numerical wea
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by kuya 11y ago
just curious, do you have references to smartphone sensors being utilized in numerical weather prediction? i'd been browsing through some WMO reports and other associated NWP lit recently and i'd seen stuff on GPS-RO, but nothing
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by kuya 11y ago
if you check out the CGAL library, they have code that solves surface parameterization problems. the least squares conformal mapping is pretty nice for creating uv maps. http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Surface_mesh_paramete
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by kuya 11y ago
not so coincidentally, human conversation protocols (at a high level) look a lot like some communication protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_...
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by kuya 11y ago
Stupid phone: secular-specular
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by kuya 11y ago
Ray tracing is a more generic term that covers rendering techniques which trace rays between a camera and a scene. Back in the day everyone used Whitted style ray tracers to render shiny metal blobs because secular reflections are trivially
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by kuya 11y ago
i built an interactive virtual globe using open gl (like nasa worldwind/google earth, but with real time satellite imagery). it's super fun. when you're dealing with things like constellations of satellites, it's often
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by kuya 11y ago
conformality and area are preserved on globes, both physical and virtual (like in google earth). as a kid, i remember thinking africa was huge from the globes that teachers had in classrooms. in ~2007 or so, i actually tried to buy a physi