Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
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You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
@tim The only way to ensure total forward privacy!
@tim Or the complete destruction of academia so that future grad student working on a paper about early internet social norms never exists 
You ever think about how we have the both-sides view of a lot of important personal correspondences, even state-of-the-art-ly–encrypted correspondences, from like the early modern era and such? Or like we have Pepys’s diary, which (if I recall) he assumed that only he could read? It comes to mind a lot when I write a personal e-mail or make a new notes.md or whatever.
@bcamper Literally thousands, even in a single handful.
@kylebarron Seems immoderate. Maybe walk it back to half that before releasing it?
@kjhealy Did you know: the checksum algorithm used for the IDs on shipping containers also yields one of 11 states, but instead of using X they simply declare IDs that would check to 11 invalid. Nevertheless you can occasionally find a shipping container using one of these IDs (always, so far as I know, wrapping around to 0).
Lots of tinkering left to do on both the hardware and software sides, but I think my indoor GNSS setup is already picking up tidal signals on its test run.
@mirabilos “Are the tile counts nonlinearly scaled for coloring?” and “Why don’t you try [something else]?”
@tfardet I don’t know about the vertical and horizontal “diffraction spike” lines; I’m curious about those too. Scraping generally looks like rectangles and is far more visible in @pnorman’s hourly visualization. The Null Island radiants are, I’ve been told, relocations that improperly do a smooth pan instead of teleporting directly from Null Island to somewhere actually intended. So you’re right that they shouldn’t request intermediate tiles, but they do.
@hannah Not surprising; you don’t see a lot of people with the last name Mix.
Having worked around some very good programmers over the years (@sgillies, for example) means that sometimes when I write unwise code there’s a little voice saying “Wait, do it the better way! Save yourself the pain!” and I ignore it.
A freshly popular thing seems to be “I tried one X (film, meal, biography, …) from every country in the world!” and that’s cool in some ways, but in other ways, please stop reifying or familiarizing or practicing the country as the natural unit of humanity.
Charlie Loyd
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Okay, fine, @jonty cajoled me into it. Lighter is more traffic; warmer is more positive anomaly for the day.
Now, certain nerds and haters might squint at this and say “It looks like you did this in oklab color space and then tried to half-ass some gamut mapping when you remembered that a lot of the highest z scores are in places with very low traffic counts!” and I would rebut that in scrupulous detail with one simple argument: Good night.
When math looks like this, with a lot of sub- and superscripts, it’s in tHe SpOnGeBoB mOcKiNg VoIcE.
Ideally you’d have this over a basemap and with both dimensions (number of views and view anomaly) visible, but I will generously allow someone else to worry about that.
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
