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by trop 5y ago
> I had never seen a war movie produced outside of Hollywood. Or a director with primarily french influences producing a war movie. Not sure if the stipulation is a war movie about Vietnam, or just plain a war movie. But certainly here&#
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NFT Universe(foundation.app)
2 points by trop 5y ago|0 comments
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by trop 5y ago
Another query about IRB and human subjects: In the case of software which is not only written/maintained by a community of humans, but used by a (vast) community of humans, do the latter also become "human subjects" as well i
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by trop 6y ago
If only it worked on Linux. It's Windows-only: http://bitboost.com/pawsense/ . This software is the only winner so far of an Ig Noble prize in the category of Computer Science: https://www.improbable.com
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by trop 6y ago
Two more, by authors coincidentally with the same initials: Thinking in an Emergency (2012) by Elaine Scarry -- She argues for the importance of planning and procedure. Examples include the Swiss shelter system (civil defense), CPR training
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Darktable 3.2.1 Released(darktable.org)
3 points by trop 6y ago|0 comments
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Epidemic model to study reopening Cornell University(github.com)
1 points by trop 6y ago|0 comments
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by trop 6y ago
In the arts there are people working with Metafont. Check out Dexter Sinister's Letter & Spirit (2012), see http://servinglibrary.org/journal/3/letter-and-spirit then click on the PDF link. Letter & S
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The Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs (2015)(archive.rhizome.org)
46 points by trop 6y ago|8 comments
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by trop 7y ago
Not at all making light of it, but with the cats and the bats, my mind wanders to David Bowie's apocalyptic "Future Legend": "Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats..." The lyrics actually speak to t
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by trop 7y ago
The students didn't have any coding background. Which, in a way, was good -- they didn't know how absurd this was to start programming with Lisp, use ASCII art as a visual vocabulary, and use Emacs and its REPL as an IDE. I wanted
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by trop 7y ago
It's quite pleasing to see this here. As noted on the page, these were notes which accompanied a class. I wanted art students to be able to write code to create something visual, and wanted them to be able to do this in an open source
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by trop 7y ago
There are screenshots (though not animations!) in the announcement for darktable 3.0 at https://discuss.pixls.us/t/darktable-3-0/15384 . The images do really help to get a sense of the new features. It's a goo
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by trop 7y ago
Culling mode, new in v3.0, allows comparing two (or more) photos side-by-side. The new version also allows for zooming in on images in lighttable mode (control-shift-scroll) when in culling mode or when images are "previewed" (ful
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by trop 7y ago
Indeed! The annual Christmas release. I do think it matters to note darktable yet again. This is a major release, of what has become a key piece of photographic software. It's also a wonderful example of some people deep into imaging m
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by trop 7y ago
Like Lightroom, darktable handles collections of images and allows applying a recipe of alterations to tune up each image. But it is like Photoshop in that it allows a great deal of volition in what happens to the image. This is especially
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Darktable 3.0(darktable.org)
341 points by trop 7y ago|120 comments
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Darktable 3.0.0 Released(discuss.pixls.us)
4 points by trop 7y ago|0 comments
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by trop 7y ago
A fair question. An easy answer is that I thought Lisp was pretty cool, and that the students were capable of it. And, pragmatically, I was experienced with it, unlike MaxMSP or Processing. But there was something philosophical: I liked the
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by trop 7y ago
As an example, a decade ago I taught art students how to code. They had Macintoshes. I had them download Emacs then taught them Emacs Lisp. As insane as that sounds, it was interactive, easy to install, and interesting. They were able to wr
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by trop 7y ago
Google Maps would be the classic example of client-side refresh working so well that it's now the universal choice. At the time, it was a revelation, as the Mapquest-ish predecessors (if I recall) required a click and server-side refre
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by trop 7y ago
In 1991 I drove down the Natchez Trace Parkway and as the morning passed, saw car after car pull over onto the grass to the side of the road for a picnic. As a northeasterner, this was not something I had ever seen before. I'm curious
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by trop 8y ago
Indeed! I remember using one to print zooms of the Mandelbrot set in grayscale (highly dithered) from an Apple ][+. For speed I coded in 6502 and called directly into the BASIC floating point routines for the math. The printer would take a
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by trop 8y ago
Question/idea: Could a notebook-model supplant bespoke photographing processing software such as the "darkroom" mode of Lightroom (or darktable). The extant programs essentially take a lot of data (camera's raw output) a
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by trop 8y ago
I received a master's degree from an art program in which the (male) professors had a great deal of license to performatively take down students, from the initial admissions interview through two years of group critiques. It wasn'
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by trop 8y ago
There's some remarkable apocalyptic imagery out and about from even earlier in the 19th century. Check out Samuel Colman's "The Edge of Doom" (a decent reproduction at https://artblart.files.wordpress.com&#x2F
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by trop 8y ago
> their location on the water Which I misread as "the location of their water". Which is actually quite serious. See https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/in-dayton-ohio-an-econo... > As states like
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by trop 8y ago
The man who self-immolated in Brooklyn on Saturday cited this among many other concerns: > In retrospect, Mr. Morales said he knew Mr. Buckel had been upset as recently as February when he began discussing articles about the environment,
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Peter Thiel Employee Helped Cambridge Analytica Before It Harvested Data(nytimes.com)
60 points by trop 9y ago|11 comments
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by trop 9y ago
> I tried a lot of variations on it and then had to concede that the person who wrote the recipe got it just right. Part of this phenomena comes from 20th century cooking (especially for sweets): the ingredients are mass produced to high

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