Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@tmcw C losing its social license for new low-level projects is probably by far the best and most consequential. Oceans of pain and waste saved, even at the cost of flamewars.

All ML applications aside, decent HLL GPU tooling is incredible. Doing with a couple lines of crisp python what used to take a page of CUDA is a big, big deal in all kinds of simulation, graphics, etc. (Admittedly you could date this as far back as maybe 7 years ago, so.)

Mastodon and Bluesky, warts and all.

Eager to try this. Good example of an open software project building consensus, doing the funding work, and properly fixing a UX trouble spot.
https://mastodon.social/@gdal/114478844610860445

Worryingly close to setting up a single-serving site that tells people to put spaces between numbers and their units. I’m surrounded by things like “a 5m gap” and “processing 15items/s” and I can’t take it much longer. Other than that I’m doing great.

Writing some tests and unfortunately they have turned up a bunch of bugs.

No judgment either way on this particular person – just as an example of the kind of hat I mean: https://sandiegomagazine.com/features/influencer-blonde-abroads-5-must-have-travel-accessories/

Also, Hilbert’s hat in the classic portrait makes him look exactly like the person you grew up with who was trying really hard to be a lifestyle influencer in 2018. Filmed from behind walking up to an overlook in Yosemite, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert#/media/File:Hilbert.jpg

Difficult to explain how perfectly balanced Wikipedia’s portrait of Will Shetterly and Emma Bull is between (a) Troi and Riker at the midpoint of TNG and (b) and “We saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. Interested in joining our shared folkpunk universe?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Will_Shetterly_Emma_Bull_Ddb_1059-35.jpg

Imagining if norovirus had been described in Normal IL instead of Norwalk OH and you could say “I can’t come in to work because I have normalvirus.”

@kissane Yeah. I think we should usually try to think of “X is a kind of Y” arguments as most useful when they tell us something we didn’t know about both X and Y.

Staying up another half an hour because someone (me) got weird with the epoch length.

@boxly If you find one, tell me? I’m going to open-source my code soon, I hope. Unfortunately pansharpening is really under-theorized. People mostly do it without talking about it in detail. There are research papers on arxiv, some with associated code, but to be blunt most of them are not very good. (Lots of undergrad-written Matlab.)

How different can two reasonable pansharpening algorithms be? Pretty different in pathological cases like planes in flight. Left is from Maxar, right is from Potato (the thing I’ve been tinkering with). Same underlying data, from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.

@aredridel Fair.

@aredridel Yeah, I have no problem at all being yelled at by a compiler. The list of things that my computer does that annoy me runs for thousands of items before “got an error flagged because I wrote an error” appears.