Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Somewhat bananas suggestion that there’s an ancient Zoroastrian necropolis in inland Madagascar: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2380619

The magic thing about python’s sys.exit() is you don’t have to worry about importing it; if you forget, the script exits when it gets there almost exactly as if you had.

I want to map from a small input to a large output with interpolation in the output and I’m going to be able to figure it out but it’s going to feel like doing my taxes the whole time.

I have come to a place in some personal-project code where I need to use skimage.transform.warp and I keep tabbing over to the documentation, sighing, and tabbing away.

This @kissane talk is worth your time if you’re interested in pretty much anything I’m interested in. https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/erin-kissane/

Roughly what are the odds that recognizable signs of extraterrestrial life are within our present technological and conceptual reach and we just haven’t noticed yet?

Huh. Just had a wild, cascading run of great ideas for a work project I finished like 7 years ago.

Weekend project: tinkering with cloud removal from Landsat stacks. Here the top two images are inputs and the bottom is output from them alone.

It’s strictly pixelwise and n→1 (deep set–style), so it scales to any stack depth. Notice it fills the nodata with the training set average color, and the cloud overlap with a sort of polite fog.

Sentinel-1 radar of Helene last night – 23:37 UTC, 19:45 EDT. The swath is about 250 km (150 mi) wide.

Valē, you stripy fuck. https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-historic-landsat-7-mission-takes-final-images

Sar autoencoder fun (central east coast of Madagascar).

I have to finish my damn project so I can try to get interviewed on one of the big pansharpening podcasts.

Friends fear he’s messing with reaction–diffusion systems again. https://xoc.s3.amazonaws.com/also/rd.mp4

A little unexpected good news: I spent 90 seconds looking into the thing in the news and it turns out it’s actually really good evidence of the veracity of an opinion I already had.

If I want to learn the basics of EE, maybe getting a ham license, what text should I use to get a solid grasp of the principles?

– I am generally familiar with software and specifically some signal processing. It’s the EM stuff I need to learn.

– Naturally a lot of this is best learned by doing. I’m asking about the parts best learned by reading.

– I can borderline pass a practice test for the lowest ham license today by bluffing and light memorization. But I want the actual knowledge.