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What is the collective if not a collection of individuals?

I got it and absolutely love it. Takes a bit of getting used to of course, but after being in my kitchen I expect all taps to work like this.

The biggest downside is that visitors will be confused why the water doesn’t run (the physical tap is always left open but there is a “virtual” tap controlled by the sensor is not.

Having a kitchen tablet is also amazing - I have a ten year old iPad Pro with the keyboard, it's great for looking up recipes and following along, and also messaging while cooking.

Ultimately if this stuff is actually intelligent it should be using the same sources of information that we intelligent beings use. Feels silly to have to have to jump through all these hoops to make it work today

A good first step is not paying for Prime.

It's like $140 annually now... and if you're mostly just buying things and not watching their content, it's a nice speed bump to just accumulate items in the cart until you hit the minimum free shipping and only order then.

When you occasionally do for some reason need an instant item, you can pay the shipping then. It's kinda like for most people, having a second or third car is much more expensive than just renting one when you actually need it.

That said, I am close to a Costco so that's where I get most of my bulk items - the Amazon stuff tends to be more discretionary.

pdfplumber is great for table extraction but it is python

That’s great!

Also - coffee at work, tea for play

I use a cheap MIDI controller in this manner - there is even native browser support. Great to get immediate feedback on parameter tweaks

> This research was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

I wonder if this is the kind of grant that is no longer being funded (or at least "paused")

The main Raycaster class in three.js (which you can access / use via refs from Threlte) isn't tied to the view, but can be used to cast from any point.

It might get computationally expensive to point that raycaster in many directions and intersect with all leaves. I'm not aware of a way to do "bulk" raycasting in three.js yet.

Separately, the lighting / shadows can compute visually shadow and lighting. But I'm not aware of a way to then easily measure out how much of a mesh is in shadow.

I am also interested in tree simulation -- I'm tinkering on a arborist/lumberjack game where you trim / cut down trees :)

Construction industry is a good one: often you are working in a remote area or have cut power (so no WiFi) and having access to your data is key. That’s why there is so much printing still going on- paper works offline.

People with cats end up with a lot of cat photos and in the same boat for Photos.