A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover – Research Blog – Twisted Fields community
A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover - Research Blog - Twisted Fields community –Too cool. Let the author speak: "Hello Acorn fans! We recently released a new video, linked below. The rest of this post is an article version of the video for those that want to quickly scroll through the screenshots or prefer to read. If you’re new here, make sure to check out our announcement post where we talk more about the motivations and goals of the project. A closer look at Acorn, our open source precision farming rover Hello everyone and welcome to Twisted Fields, our research farm in San Gregorio …"
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?
Link: What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?: "I was in a Barnes and Nobel again after many years. Actually many years before that I would go to a B&N more than once a week. Then between Amazon and terrible inventories at B&N and Kindle and Nook I stopped going. Then a few weeks ago I visited one and it was a revelation. I had a great time browsing books and books and books. Great article:"Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?""
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? –I was in a Barnes and Nobel again after many years. Actually many years before that I would go to a B&N more than once a week. Then between Amazon and terrible inventories at B&N and Kindle and Nook I stopped going. Then a few weeks ago I visited one and it was a revelation. I had a great time browsing books and books and books. Great article:"Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?"
A Nibble of Geohashes in Go - by Kurt - Get Code
Link: A Nibble of Geohashes in Go - by Kurt - Get Code: "This is a really cool algorithm that i never heard of. Also geohashes are not too hard to compute and have very useful and unteresting properties. the concept of a z-order curve is explained. That too is a useful model and concept. The author says: “Latitude and longitude as a locality-preserving string.”"
A Nibble of Geohashes in Go – by Kurt – Get Code
A Nibble of Geohashes in Go - by Kurt - Get Code –This is a really cool algorithm that i never heard of. Also geohashes are not too hard to compute and have very useful and unteresting properties. the concept of a z-order curve is explained. That too is a useful model and concept. The author says: “Latitude and longitude as a locality-preserving string.”
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time | Ars Technica
Link: A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time | Ars Technica: "A wonderful exhaustive tour of the architecture and operation of thr PDP-11, a venerable early comouter. It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today."
TSPSIs and How I Write
Link: TSPSIs and How I Write: "Useful advice and framework for structuring your academic or technical writing. Author says: "TL;DR: Writing about writing and having written, and self-referentiality. Complementary musings on AI.""
Bottlenecks of Scaleups
Link: Bottlenecks of Scaleups: "Common bottlenecks that prevent startups from scaling as quickly as they should. Thoughtworks always has good deep insight about software engineering. This too is an interesting series."
GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Link: GPS – Bartosz Ciechanowski: "GPS is an amazing, complex and super interesting technology. People have a vague understanding that it involves satelites and so on. But there is so much more to it! Interactive article explaining how GPS works."
huginn/huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf.
Link: huginn/huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf.: "Interesting package although I don't have a use for it yet. It's your own IFTTT built for geeks that you run on your ownn server. It's got no UI to speak of. On the other hand, it has a sophisticated way to create logic around events and is extensible and open source."