Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
- charlie@planet.parts
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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
A little free advice from crusty old Uncle Charlie: When an “AI” company (like any other company) says they have to stop doing something because the way they were doing it was dangerously good, our first reaction should be “wow, a PR strategy” and not “wow, it was TOO GOOD, imagine!”
Blunt discussion of suicidality in the news
Good-intention–adjacent online shitbirds saying that Boeing whistleblower didn’t die the way he did because he didn’t act exactly like they think someone in that situation must act is just extremely callous and ignorant and bad and will lead to a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.
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Reflecting once again on how much more pleasant and illuminating online discourse would be if people simply put aside their self-regard and took the time – before commenting on anything – to sit down and learn to see everything exactly as I do.
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@brennen Everyone to one side of me is a permanently aggrieved bundle of ideological purity tests and grudges who runs Alpine Linux on a hand-loom and refuses to touch any artificial polymer, listen to recordings, or use acronyms; everyone to the other side is a superficial media Twitter schmoozer with a personal brand so big they have to walk through doors sideways, the political discernment of a Pekingese on MDMA, and a habit of telling stories hook-first. This is a documented fact.
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Every page of this oozes with total crankitude, which I adore, and if that wasn't good enough, the author's real name is Ralph Thomas but he chose to publish under the bizarre anagrammatic pseudonym of Olphar Hamst
Amusing myself by injecting false reflectances into pansharpening inputs. (CC BY-NC data from Maxar.)
It’s Monday and once again time to remind the world that “nation state” has a very specific meaning, different from “country”, and it’s easy to say something on the spectrum from technically wrong to actively ethnonationalist by throwing it around at random.
When other people take a long time to reply to e-mail: lazy, unfriendly, irresolute, displaying a kind of disorganization characteristic of an unconscious and wasted life. When I take a long time: busy, thoughtful, rich inner world, applying the effort to do a good job, generous and sincere, an admirable and worthy friend.
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been wanting to make some plotter drawings to raise money for all the gaza gofundmes in my timelines so I started trying out the DEM-to-SVG approach with sentinel-1 data estimates of destroyed areas. Gaza's pretty flat so as terrain it doesn't quite have the same effect but the gaps are still a lot. This is a screenshot from a corner of Khan Younis.
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Mt Tamalpais East, Marin County, CA
🗺37.9277, -122.5784 🧭163° ⛰2398 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2192
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At @letterformarchive I’m always wishing to share the many bits of object info our staff knows (or wonders about), but the public never gets to see.
Then comes @thisisaaronland of SFO Museum, who just posted a talk on using “tools in conjunction with ideas like an on-going curatorial file meant for public consumption, as a way demonstrate proof of life in our collections and to allow the public to engage with them on playing fields they recognize and understand.” https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
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My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails
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geospatial: everything about it is hard, but it's also the most fun problem area, also all of the hard problems are things that nobody expects to be hard
I’m going to throw my coffee on the next mathematician I meet.
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My "day job" is working at the Flickr Foundation helping nurture and grow Flickr Commons. We're approaching an important milestone, re-opening the doors to Flickr Commons, a collection of photography collections all of which have no known copyright restrictions.
It's been around since 2008 and is comprised of nearly two million photos. Do you work for a GLAM institution that might want to be part of it? If so, please read our main post and send us your details. 🤩
It’s pretty old-fashioned now. The vanilla DWT, the Tudor-era entropy coder – with only admiration for what it was in 2003, no one would propose a new format like ICER today. But it’s interesting in itself and as a what-if. (What if JPEG 2000 were designed for normal people, basically.)
I was just saying to a friend that JPEG 2000 never succeeded in supplanting JPEG outside a few high-end niches (mapping, archives, medical imaging) due to a scope-crept, complex, IP-unclear, and generally unappealing-to-nonspecialist-developers design, but I think there’s an alternate history not too far away in the multiverse where someone adapted ICER into an OS and browser-supported JPEG replacement in, like, 2005.
https://github.com/TheRealOrange/icer_compression is pretty neat – a mostly complete implementation of ICER, a wavelet-based, error-resilient image compression format designed by NASA 20+ years ago for Spirit and Opportunity.
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We urgently need more @emf sponsors - if we do not secure more, we will have to make tough decisions.
Tickets cover base costs, but sponsors pay for lovely things like our free childcare and talk transcription. Every little helps!
Find out more here: https://www.emfcamp.org/sponsor
- 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
