Really promising analysis and best of luck with the work. A sincere thank you.
I've got ALS (MND). Completely agree UX is the problem, gazing at a keyboard on a screen designed to stop multiple keys clogging (QWERTY) feels wrong. Some ideas - gesture based eye movements, maybe two sweeps on a nine…
The math for cheap amazon microscopes is often based on the ratio of a digital image. So use a 60" monitor rather than 30" you have an extra 2x magnification. But not better resolution!
Not sure it is a good saying. Brett Devereaux covers it in detail in his "fremen mirage" articles which I find a good read. https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
Did this in a shortlived startup 20 yrs ago. Other cofounder was the ideas guy. Pitch was to roll up granular, factual project achievements up into reporting data , and cascade objectives down. This avoids the…
Agree with this. The Lib Dems had an existential crisis at that time (2010) as Labour and the Conservatives were both fighting for the centre ground and it seemed that would become the norm (deeply ironic given Corbyn,…
> I wrote a little while back about narrative control as being the thing which divides the ruling classes from the consumer classes Could you post a link? Can't find it and am just watching the Queens 70th Jubilee…
Management is about sensemaking. Management provides the last answer (if one is needed) for 'Why are we doing this?'. It carries accountability for calling 'when to stop', and in the obverse provides belief and is the…
It's always ok to leave a company - if they can't survive without you, you are doing them a disservice. But it's an interesting question - I've been intrigued throughout my career (5-25 person project management) "Which…
Also Managing the Professional Service Firm By David Maister Helps understand how consulting type firms as a whole work
Question - I've managed (bottom-up, servant-leadership, small smart teams) a few very very smart people who may or not have had ADHD, or been partially on a spectrum or ... I truly appreciated the awesome work and have…
Thanks, we are pretty low budget. Image circles are in the 1/3", 2/3" range and we are looking at patterns with say 5 to 50 um pitch on a flat planar object, monochromatic, we control illumination, standard 3.45 um…
The back to back infinity-focussed objective set up works nicely with 2 sets of cheap infinity microscope objectives 2x or 4x back to back in a thorlabs tube. Paired lenses cancel out a lot of aberrations (but not all…
Agreed, and I would add pre-web well authored Microsoft help files/ hypertext were often really valuable and could be very well done. Also you could build them after the software was done, or before, as the spec in…
Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so smart. I clearly remember mb-tree coming out and x264…
Weirdly, IMHO, one of the great advantages of the early BBC website infrastructure was directly because they had no state or need for customisation or dynamic pages. Some BBC Techs told me, back in the early days…
Hi, apart from Hayek (and maybe Ursula Le Guin, and A Hamilton), has anyone got any good pointers on theories for when you favour local over global knowledge or vice versa. Either political theories, or game-theoretic.…
Thanks. So for the manufacturing class, do you mean things like creaform or similar tools from hexagon and atos and the like, or are there some specific niches for 'slower but much more accurate ' photogrammetry ?
Question - if you had a really accurate fiducial (say 1/1000 or 1/10000 of a pixel absolute accuracy, sub micrometre) that could be fixed on/ near the model - is that interesting and would it help speed up the…
Dumb question - if I want to do simple image processing on a pi4 (2d ffts, small kernels, summing 2d arrays in one dimension, finding Maxima), and I care about performance, is this a reasonable stack to use,with decent…
Agreed. It might (or might not) be lovely if personalities and culture and power and ways of learning didn't come into things, and everything was truly meritocratic/anarchist/optimised or whatever, but this is not the…
Hikvision are an interesting company with performant products. You can view CCTV as having had 3 stages. Stage 1 - the model is like a TV studio - closed circuit TV, analog cables, control rooms, monitor banks (some…
Another take on conviviality is from its root - 'to live with'. Hannah Arendt (and I'm sure many others) argues that 'living with' other people, well, in a polity, where you inevitably have different views, is a key…
Agreed both being very impressed by Illich, but it not being workable. I dimly recall The Alphabetisation of the Popular Mind arguing that possibly you shouldn't teach language. Maybe this has merit (on the lines of…
Support for the Ozzie comment - Groove was an interesting thing - strong, user friendly, permissions model built on groups as the user perceived them (as opposed to the corporate LDAP model). Once had a (cancelled) gig…
Really promising analysis and best of luck with the work. A sincere thank you.
I've got ALS (MND). Completely agree UX is the problem, gazing at a keyboard on a screen designed to stop multiple keys clogging (QWERTY) feels wrong. Some ideas - gesture based eye movements, maybe two sweeps on a nine…
The math for cheap amazon microscopes is often based on the ratio of a digital image. So use a 60" monitor rather than 30" you have an extra 2x magnification. But not better resolution!
Not sure it is a good saying. Brett Devereaux covers it in detail in his "fremen mirage" articles which I find a good read. https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
Did this in a shortlived startup 20 yrs ago. Other cofounder was the ideas guy. Pitch was to roll up granular, factual project achievements up into reporting data , and cascade objectives down. This avoids the…
Agree with this. The Lib Dems had an existential crisis at that time (2010) as Labour and the Conservatives were both fighting for the centre ground and it seemed that would become the norm (deeply ironic given Corbyn,…
> I wrote a little while back about narrative control as being the thing which divides the ruling classes from the consumer classes Could you post a link? Can't find it and am just watching the Queens 70th Jubilee…
Management is about sensemaking. Management provides the last answer (if one is needed) for 'Why are we doing this?'. It carries accountability for calling 'when to stop', and in the obverse provides belief and is the…
It's always ok to leave a company - if they can't survive without you, you are doing them a disservice. But it's an interesting question - I've been intrigued throughout my career (5-25 person project management) "Which…
Also Managing the Professional Service Firm By David Maister Helps understand how consulting type firms as a whole work
Question - I've managed (bottom-up, servant-leadership, small smart teams) a few very very smart people who may or not have had ADHD, or been partially on a spectrum or ... I truly appreciated the awesome work and have…
Thanks, we are pretty low budget. Image circles are in the 1/3", 2/3" range and we are looking at patterns with say 5 to 50 um pitch on a flat planar object, monochromatic, we control illumination, standard 3.45 um…
The back to back infinity-focussed objective set up works nicely with 2 sets of cheap infinity microscope objectives 2x or 4x back to back in a thorlabs tube. Paired lenses cancel out a lot of aberrations (but not all…
Agreed, and I would add pre-web well authored Microsoft help files/ hypertext were often really valuable and could be very well done. Also you could build them after the software was done, or before, as the spec in…
Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so smart. I clearly remember mb-tree coming out and x264…
Weirdly, IMHO, one of the great advantages of the early BBC website infrastructure was directly because they had no state or need for customisation or dynamic pages. Some BBC Techs told me, back in the early days…
Hi, apart from Hayek (and maybe Ursula Le Guin, and A Hamilton), has anyone got any good pointers on theories for when you favour local over global knowledge or vice versa. Either political theories, or game-theoretic.…
Thanks. So for the manufacturing class, do you mean things like creaform or similar tools from hexagon and atos and the like, or are there some specific niches for 'slower but much more accurate ' photogrammetry ?
Question - if you had a really accurate fiducial (say 1/1000 or 1/10000 of a pixel absolute accuracy, sub micrometre) that could be fixed on/ near the model - is that interesting and would it help speed up the…
Dumb question - if I want to do simple image processing on a pi4 (2d ffts, small kernels, summing 2d arrays in one dimension, finding Maxima), and I care about performance, is this a reasonable stack to use,with decent…
Agreed. It might (or might not) be lovely if personalities and culture and power and ways of learning didn't come into things, and everything was truly meritocratic/anarchist/optimised or whatever, but this is not the…
Hikvision are an interesting company with performant products. You can view CCTV as having had 3 stages. Stage 1 - the model is like a TV studio - closed circuit TV, analog cables, control rooms, monitor banks (some…
Another take on conviviality is from its root - 'to live with'. Hannah Arendt (and I'm sure many others) argues that 'living with' other people, well, in a polity, where you inevitably have different views, is a key…
Agreed both being very impressed by Illich, but it not being workable. I dimly recall The Alphabetisation of the Popular Mind arguing that possibly you shouldn't teach language. Maybe this has merit (on the lines of…
Support for the Ozzie comment - Groove was an interesting thing - strong, user friendly, permissions model built on groups as the user perceived them (as opposed to the corporate LDAP model). Once had a (cancelled) gig…