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Shelby noticed that hummingbirds had made a little nest, so she got a webcam and now you can view it via live streaming. At the moment, I looked, there didn’t seem to be much action, but I’ll be checking in frequently. Awesome. Shelby’s Hatchicam

Okay, I’ll confess: I’ve spent a bit too long playing Minecraft, both on a shared server, and even by myself in single player. I find it kind of soothing to create models, rather like playing with blocks or legos. But Eric Haines (a long time friend, and one of the people who was most influential […]

Okay, I’ve been thinking (somewhat abstractly, since I have had relatively little free time lately) about what I eventually want my beacon transmitter to be. One of the issues with it is that I’d like it to be relatively autonomous and lower power: I’d like it to be able to run for weeks at a […]

I’ve seen the Khan Academy listed a couple of times before, but never really bothered to look at it again until today. I was confused about a minor issue in linear algebra (hey, it’s been 25 years since I took linear algebra) so I surfed over and found the lecture on null subspaces to be […]

I was trying to remember the name and author of a paper on implementing linear phase bandsplitting. It had applications to noise reduction, and seemed to be reasonably pleasing when I read the paper years ago, but all I could remember was that it was done by a Lucasfilm audio engineer, and mentioned the movie […]