ramblings about technology
One of my favorite ¹ concepts for multi-dimensional data visualization is the Chernoff Face . The idea here is that for a dataset with many dependent variables, it is often difficult to immediately understand the influences one variable may have on another. However, humans are great at recognizing small differences in faces, so maybe we can leverage that! Tired: traditional plotting The example…
I moved to a new apartment building recently 1 , and have run into the problem of not having a dedicated package room to receive my Amazon packages. The building is equipped with a call button system, but the buttons don't reliably signal the upstairs unit, and there's no guarantee somebody is at home to let the courier in. The Amazon courier typically attempts to call the phone number that's…
Ever watch a science fiction movie or TV show where, in a near-future setting, two humanoid robots meet up on the street and somehow converse with each other in spoken English? Robot Hell, as depicted in Futurama It doesn't make any sense . The first robot takes their state, serializes it through a complicated text-to-speech system, and then converts this already lossy data into actual sound waves…