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
Charlie Loyd
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Numeronyms are fun, but they have one major problem: namespace collision.
What is a11y? Is it accessibility? Associatively? Axiomatically? Autobiography?
This is obviously a problem that needs solving.
My solution? SHAsum hashing. We can avoid the ambiguity of "a11y" with this unique, cryptographically sound alternative:
Accessibility? a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y
Axiomatically? a20c4bcee8f977a3f5a3b6b499d52d7dd32584771y
SImple, easy to visually distinguish, everyone wins.
I’m not a religious man, but I do believe there’s insight and value in scripture.
Some days I think a lot of people on social media are deliberately doing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_theory_(psychology) in reverse because they think that’s what empathy means.
It’s like 23 layers of indirection before you find an actual string that will actually appear on the actual user’s actual screen, and I’m sure this is the right choice, and is based on a lot of hard-won lessons about internationalization and ease of contribution and stuff, but … the string I’m looking for doesn’t even show up when I search?
Seeing a typo in an open-source project, going to submit a patch, being unable to find where the typo actually lives in the codebase because contemporary frontend code makes me feel like I’m looking at Solaris from Stanisław Lem’s book “Solaris” (1961).
Charlie Loyd
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I feel like there are very few good long-term guidelines for social media behavior but “try to work through your grief and fear without yelling at people who are working through their own grief and fear in their own way” feels like a solid candidate.
[Insufferable grocery store customer voice:] So with both of these, that’s 100% off, right?
It is once again the season of highest tension between my somatic preference for order and quietness and my intellectual commitment to disobedience and surprise: yes, it’s late June and people are setting off bottle rockets in the street.
Charlie Loyd
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I've created a basic app for searching an aerial photo using text queries. That's right, you can search for "roundabout" or "school playground" on an image of a city and get pretty good results!
Have a play with it here: https://server1.rtwilson.com/aerial - it's set up with an aerial image of Southampton, UK
Under the hood this uses the SkyCLIP model and the Pinecone vector database.
#geospatial #ai #vector #ml #embedding #gis #remotesensing #aerial #python
Charlie Loyd
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Gonna start calling all “AI” “the photoshop” as a getting old thing. “Is this video real or the photoshop?” “I read a news article today but it might have been written by the photoshop.”
[Looking at a society where decision-making power is strongly inversely correlated with exposure to the consequences of one’s decisions:] Now hang on, why are there so many bad decisions?
Charlie Loyd
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[trying to explain the internet to 10-year-old me] it’s like America’s Funniest Home Videos times that weird conference Dad took us to where the guy showed slides of a structure matching the dimensions of Noah’s Ark that he found in a glacier in Turkey but he couldn’t say it was Noah’s Ark because there were Soviet agents in the room
Charlie Loyd
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when the international package arrives, don't you bow before its worldliness? don't you ask it: how was chiba? how was hong kong? how was dubai? when you met de gaulle, did he resemble a statesman or a complex arrangement of conveyor belts? and were you bothered at all by potholes or the driver's evasive swerves?
Charlie Loyd
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#JUNO #Jupiter orbiter
#JIRAM Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper
Perijove 53 #IO
https://atmos.nmsu.edu/PDS/data/PDS4/juno_jiram_bundle/data_raw/orbit53/
NASA/JPL/SwRI/JIRAM/ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA/j. Roger
Giant malign forces of capital 20 years ago use a weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.
Giant malign forces of capital today use a more or less opposite weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.
Reasonably well-informed commentators with mostly good takes: Ah, clearly the problem is that we don’t have a perfect interpretation of copyright. Consider the following thought experiment – an artist in a state of nature approaches a cave wall and…
I’ve said this before and I fear I’ll have to say it again, but watching the flip of politically connected, ridiculously wealthy, more or less unregulatable companies v. well-meaning knowledge workers on the issue of “copyright is absolute and inviolable” v. “copyright is just an idea, man” has been real unpleasant!
Running $(find ../../.. -type f -mmin -5) to learn where this code put its outputs because it’s easier than figuring it out.
I have written some bad python lately, but I spent the day reading other people’s code that accomplishes similar things and some of it would feel cruel to describe at all.
I relish the opportunities that software offers to remember that not everyone has the same perspective on whether, for example, things identified by their times should be sortable according to their times. What a gift this is; I honor and celebrate and wallow in this wonderful moment.
- 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
