Gianteye
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Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
I wonder how easy a cheap, low tech version of this would be to make. A camera staring at the underside of a clear gel with an incredibly thin layer of opaque reflective pigment on top of it could pick up and translate a depth map if the surface were evenly lit.
Comment · 15 years ago
I wonder what office could officiate the official announcement that cell phones are killing bees. I would assume this would be some kind of department of natural resources or environmental protection agency, yes? This office would not likely be the trashy British tabloid the Daily Mail, right?
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm not quite clicking with the design. I'd figure you'd need at least the wing span of an ultralight to get that off the ground, plus a bit more for the weight of its fully paneled body. I'm just not seeing how you fit an engine and enough fuel for a reasonable flight in that package. The doubled wings buy you a little span, but it just doesn't seem to have enough surface area.
Comment · 15 years ago
But the author doesn't state why that equilibrium cannot change. He states that is hasn't, which is different.
It's the difference between a double blind experiment and an epidemiological survey. One attempts to isolate a mechanism that is predictive, another attempts to explain historical trends.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'd rather the headline read "hasn't popped" versus "never popped". It implies there's some force keeping the high heel bubble (whatever that may be) from popping in perpetuity, and seems to draw a connection to the education bubble doing the same.
This is like an article in 2007 reading "The High-Hell Bubble never popped, and the Housing Bubble may not either."
Comment · 15 years ago
This seems to be too simple and straightforward to be true. Also, the promise of a follow up video with no link to a description or more of the author's work is a bit suspicious. You seldom get this brand of hack without having a handful of projects you're proud of and make a website for first.
Still, it would be lovely if this turns out to be true. Stuffed with potential.
Comment · 15 years ago
I would suggest TechShop. Desk space, internet access, and $25/day.
Comment · 15 years ago
It's completely news to me, but I don't have strong ties to the infosec world. This could be standard practice as far as I know.
Is it usual to find analysis/info traders doing this brand of malicious software injection? Are a portion of active worms and rootkits used today derivations of tools built by infosec companies?
Comment · 15 years ago
Apparently the secret sauce involves a bit of SQL injection.
Comment · 16 years ago
I posted some advice in the replies on his wordpress. I'll repost it here as I think it applies to anyone in the making/programming/mathematics venn.
Although I think you could conquer art as a lasting business it's difficult to simply pick up as a stopgap measure. It takes time to build up an audience, figure out promotions, weigh out the cost of merchandise, and tour the right conferences. However, once all the proper mechanisms are in place it can develop into a really rewarding career.
You might consider joining the http://100kgarages.com/ 100k Garages Network to contract out some time on your equipment as a short term solution. I've been selling through Etsy and producing work on commission for a few years. It takes time to ramp up, but promoting through MAKE magazine, BoingBoing, and various geek and maker magazines is easy if you make things that capture geek imaginations. Writing Instructables and giving talks at Makter Faire and Hack Labs are both ways of giving your work a long tail that brings in a steady stream of visitors.
http://www.pacificpuzzleworks.com/ Lee Krasnow is an inspiring example of a successful home maker. He produces intensely mathematically driven complex wooden puzzles. He makes them with such precision and skill that he can charge a fairly high price on each and make a decent living out of the affair. I feel the same about http://www.taomc.com/ Bruce Shapiro, http://www.arthurganson.com/ Arthur Ganson, and http://oilpunk.com/ John Saurriuguarte. http://sternlab.org/ Becky Stern makes her living through a combo of writing for MAKE and beautiful crafty projects. http://adafruit.com Limor Fried, better known as Lady Ada, spun out her hacker electronics kits into a thriving business.
With your skills a career in interaction design (at a place like http://tellart.com/ Tellart, http://www.wetdesign.com/ Wet, http://tangibleinteraction.com/ Tangible Interaction, etc.) might be a solid fit. Doing a combo of engineering, fabricating, and design is a mighty force for companies that produce one-offs like conference booths, promotional sculptures, art installations, lobby displays, signs, and interactive advertisements. I've done little jobs for Tellart for years and it's always rewarding.
Your work is impressive and I'd like to see more, bigger, and more impossible varieties of it. Please get in touch if you'd like to chat about more possibilities, places, and art.
-M@
Comment · 16 years ago
Apparently you can't have a party, even a political one, without "Arrrrrr."
Comment · 16 years ago
You've got it. The other half of the problem is that there's a chance that when you start flipping coins the first 100 flips will all turn up heads. Now, does this mean that the universe is bent and has begun preferentially treating Mr. Lincoln's head different than his backside? Does this mean your testing apparatus is biased? Is this an inherent property of coins? If you stop flipping at 100 it'd very tempting to conclude that this is the case.
The only way to find out is to do enough flips to eliminate the chances of your final result being influenced by statistical flukes. Measuring small differences, like trying to answer "does a coin preferentially land on one side vs the other?" usually takes hundreds of thousands of tests to guarantee you're seeing objective data, rather than seeing patterns in noise.
Excellent job.