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by lasermatts 3y ago
Acrylic painting! I’m recovering from a knee injury so I’ve had a rough time keeping my mind occupied without being online all of my waking hours. It’s been a ton of fun painting based off of famous impressionist works, pictures I’ve taken
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by lasermatts 3y ago
I've picked up painting in the last few weeks taking class at the local County Parks system and today sat down to try my hand at my first painting based off a picture. Got frustrated, took a coffee break and saw this on Hacker News. Th
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by lasermatts 3y ago
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage lots of great recommendations already, but this is a relatively quick read and a great story. How To Build A Car If you're into F1 -- or precision engineering -- it's a cool book that
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OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge(openfarm.cc)
530 points by lasermatts 3y ago|51 comments
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by lasermatts 3y ago
strong point for those in temperate climates — then you could spend the winter devising ways to re-use the NFC tags and flash next year’s plantings ahead of time
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by lasermatts 3y ago
Awesome idea and inspiration. I’ve been storing my old seed packets in a Rolodex with handwritten notes and have been thinking of ways to make it more scalable. One question for the 3D printer crowd: PLA will probably fade and crack quickly
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by lasermatts 3y ago
Super into a book-focused social network! I was on Goodreads last night and it’s a pretty hollow shell. Such a great idea to have a place to talk about/recommend books!
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by lasermatts 3y ago
I grew up in Monmouth County and I think back fondly on all the old Bell Labs folks who stayed in the area. They were my soccer coaches/math teachers/friendly old folks in the neighborhood, and it wasn't until I was in high s
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Ford Exec accused of trying to set $10k handbags on fire during dispute(clickondetroit.com)
1 points by lasermatts 3y ago|0 comments
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by lasermatts 3y ago
Depends on what you’re going for. If I was serious about sales, I’d publish through something like Lulu or Ingramspark. I really wanted a way to publish a few copies of something personal to me, and for that I’d actually recommend Amazon. I
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by lasermatts 3y ago
I self-published a book on gardening and learned how much I enjoy the design/marketing/sales aspect of the self-publish industry almost as much as I enjoy writing. Something I learned quickly is that local bookstores & librari
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by lasermatts 3y ago
I joined mastodon relatively early and really enjoyed the experience. I’m a believer in the fediverse so I hope Threads takes off
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by lasermatts 3y ago
https://www.mattp.tech/the-pittsburgh-roboticist-blog it's a mix of whatever is on my mind, but something I think this group would like is my "The Roboticist's Library" where I review books I've rea
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by lasermatts 3y ago
Sad Georgia Tech noises
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by lasermatts 3y ago
Incredibly sad to see Robert Gottlieb pass. His work as an editor has shaped some of my favorite books. In particular, he brought Robert Caro to national attention. For anyone interested in learning more about Robert Gottlieb, I highly reco
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by lasermatts 3y ago
I thought GPT-4 was doing a pretty good job at outputting JSON (for some of the toy problems I've given it like some of my gardening projects.) Interesting to see this hit the very top of HN
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What's with the Golden Gate Bridge Look-Alike in Lisbon?(kqed.org)
2 points by lasermatts 3y ago|1 comments
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by lasermatts 3y ago
I found my people at my local climbing gym. I live in a very tech-dominated city and the people at the gym break down into 1. people who work in tech 2. people who work in the medical field 3. students and the gym caters to that. I've
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by lasermatts 3y ago
The thing about a system like a solar panel, or any additional system on a vehicle is how to control the cutover. Solar panel cracked and I can’t charge from it? I hope the vehicle throws a “I’m not charging from the solar panel” code and I
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Time Is a Flat Circle: Applying Nietzsche's Philosophy to Agile Development(mattp.tech)
3 points by lasermatts 4y ago|0 comments
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by lasermatts 4y ago
I wrote a short story about where I think LLMs can lead to some limited General AI — and how we can apply that to the field of robotics. It was so much fun I’m retooling it as a chapter in a whole novel. It’s been fun to write by hand (then
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Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator v1.89.12(azgaar.github.io)
1 points by lasermatts 4y ago|0 comments
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Pirate Insurance and Startup Financing(mattp.tech)
1 points by lasermatts 4y ago|0 comments
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by lasermatts 4y ago
+1 for the New York tech scene. I spent a few months going to Meetup events around Manhattan and Brooklyn and the people were so friendly and full of ideas. Really great environment.
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by lasermatts 4y ago
I recently (within the last few weeks) self-published a book, and this article has been a fantastic read. My book focuses on a particular hobby in a particular niche (urban gardening) and I was so happy to see a few sales tick through on Am
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by lasermatts 4y ago
Print-on-demand and LLMs being on the cultural scene makes me think we’ll see a renaissance of writing. It’s not too far of an imaginative leap to seeing all of us putting a premium on 100% human generated content
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by lasermatts 4y ago
there are companies out there literally shooting things to the moon in the next two months https://spacenews.com/ula-announces-may-launch-of-first-vulc... plus as others have pointed out, in times of mass layoffs all kinds
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Ford is creating a new division to lead its partial autonomy tech(theverge.com)
2 points by lasermatts 4y ago|2 comments
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by lasermatts 4y ago
once more the ghost of Robert Moses haunts American infrastructure (shameless plug for people to read Robert Caro's _The Power Broker_)
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by lasermatts 4y ago
A pandemic forcing people inside which encouraged people to try new hobbies like language learning, coupled with the app going public…plays a big part. Props to Duolingo, I love supporting Pittsburgh success stories.

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