10 February 2024

33 links · Saturday

Lunar reflections during SLIM landing – Daniel Estévez

In my previous post, I looked at the Doppler of the SLIM S-band telemetry signal during its landing on the Moon. I showed some waterfall plots of the signal around the residual carrier. In these, a reflection on the lunar surface was visible. The following fig…

Making a Booklet

Recently I was compiling a booklet of devotions for a mission trip. My goal was to make a simple booklet using standard paper, printed double-sided, and folded down the middle. I looked online for options and kept finding web-based tools that looked like overk…

Chat with your PDF

Build a simple streamlit app using LLMs and vector databases to answer arbitrary questions from a PDF document

Linear White

It is something you feel when you are writing computer programs.

Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap

I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending the day at…

Somewhere There’s Cheese | A Grand Day Out (1989)

This is what makes Wallace and Gromit’s take on space travel so revolutionary: to go to the moon, outer space, a place of infinite interest and possibilities, with the simplest goal in mind: to eat some cheese. 

The Use Case for Mac Virtual Display

I’ll be honest, I still think Mac Virtual Display (MVD) for the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) is lackluster. Though I think I have a better understanding of why some reviewers or tech bloggers/enthu…

Piano Transformer

Language models are useful for more than just natural language. I train a model to generate piano music.

Loosing the ability to read and think deeply

I'm losing my ability to read deeply and understand what I'm reading, and I'm not alone. I used to be able to sit with a book for hours at a time, fully …

Fashion starts as a Sketch

I don’t like how long it takes for me to figure out ideas. Too much code is written before I figure out what I wanted is not what I made. There is a bookstore near me that I frequent and on the shelf was the book Drawing Ideas. Through this book, I have come t…

Notes on 1ML

In dialects of ML, every value has a type. Modules are values in 1ML, so they too have a type.

Literary Programming

Code is written once, but read many times. Given this truth, it…

I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker’s Death

When Amazon worker Magda Malinowska spoke out about a coworker’s death at a warehouse in Poland, Amazon fired her. Now a court has ruled that Amazon committed illegal union busting. Malinowska tells Jacobin why Amazon is so afraid of its workers organizing.

The Power of Open Telemetry with Dr. Sally Wahba

Open Telemetry plays a pivotal role in monitoring, tracing, and understanding complex distributed systems. From practical applications to real-world examples, Scott and Dr. Sally break down the how and why of Open Telemetry, offering a perspective to harnessin…

Skaffold

Easy and Repeatable Container & Kubernetes Development

Why .NET's Most Ambitious Feature Might Fail

Use code MODULAR and get 20% off the brand new "Getting Started with Modular Monoliths" course on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/getting-started-mod...

Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023

Ransomware attackers broke records in 2023, pulling in over $1 billion from victims. Learn how and get the trends you need to know for 2024.