Just a quick update of my weekend project first mentioned in the “Flying over DEM Data" post. The 5 km x 5 km grid of elevation data is from Canada’s polar region.
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Screenshot flying over Canadian DEM data
Screenshot flying over Canadian DEM data
Just a quick update of my weekend project first mentioned in the “Flying over DEM Data" post. The 5 km x 5 km grid of elevation data is from Canada’s polar region.
Read MoreThere is a famous parable called the Scorpion and the Fox. Facebook is clearly a scorpion. Central to their business is the collection of as much information as possible about people, so Facebook can help their customers optimally manipulate you. Facebook just can’t help itself but behave the way it does.
Read MoreCorporate officers of Yahoo! have been successfully sued over their actions that led to multiple breaches at Yahoo! The officers (actually their insurance company) will pay $29 million.
Read MoreFirst test of my iOS app flying over Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data on my iPad Pro. Colors are based on elevation, and black is shown where there was no data.
Read MoreI woke up this morning, the first day of my winter holiday, thinking, while still in that quasi-dream-wake state, about the origins of life. This is what you get when going to sleep listening to biology books.
Read MoreWhen I was about 11 years old I learned two lessons: Sea-Monkeys were not really aquatic primates and marketing departments lie. The second was a good lesson to learn.
Read MoreIn 1976 I learned what a googol was through a clever Richie Rich mystery. 21 years later the founders of a search engine botched the spelling of the word when they registered their new domain name, but I think they might approve of the villain’s words on the comic’s cover - NOTHING CAN STOP THE '“GOOGOL” NOW!
Read MoreRichie Rich comic book covers often showed what the creators imagined what the greatest wealth in the world could buy. In 1976 that included watches that could play music or make telephone calls. 42 years later, in some ways, I am living like the imagined richest kid in the world could.
Read MoreThe new business models enabled by the Internet is highly effective platforms designed to manipulate us. We offer ourselves up for manipulation every day. Even if you think you are immune, the people around you are also being exposed to these manipulation platforms, and they have a very real vote in your life.
Read MorePotato vine flower under the microscope.
Read MoreLooking at my network traffic reminds me that almost all North-South traffic is encrypted these days.
Read MoreActivating IPv6 on my eero Wi-Fi network.
Read MoreSometimes a walk across a college campus can be a great productivity enhancer.
Read MoreLook in a mirror. There is a good chance you are looking at more than one “person”. It turns out that human chimeras exist. In fact, there are many different degrees of chimerism, and it is far more common than you might imagine. You may very well be one yourself.
Read MorePhoto stacking addresses the challenge of very limited depth of field in microscope photography. This post shows the result of my first experiment using this technique.
Read MoreCiliates are protozoans that, despite being single cell critters, are surprisingly fast, large, and complex.
Read MoreEarly experiments with microscope lighting - looking at coffee grounds lit from above and above.
Read MoreCombining an old hobby (photography) with a microscope to create a new hobby (microscopy).
Read MoreCyber attacks have taken on a new and dangerous dimension. The goal of these attacks is to manipulate people to believe a certain thing, increasingly identify with that belief, and ultimately to take actions based on that belief.
Read MoreOn July 21, 1969 the first human walked on another world. On December 14, 1972 the last human walked on another world. Will we reach a time when no living human has walked on another world?
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