Author: Richard K Collins
Director, The Internet Foundation
Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.
The Grid: https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/regular-grid-random-colours.png Jonanthan, Bangor University: https://csee.bangor.ac.uk/cy/project-rainbow/create-a-coloured-grid-in-processing/ Jonathan, Thank you. I was working on a simple camera calibration and needed a good target. Your random colored grid made a great clear image. Correcting the camera colors, positions and intensities is much easier with a quantitative reference. The only suggestion I have is to also have the Javascript
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/172438633343696 Do you know of even one allsky camera on the Internet that shares live lossless images? And archives lossless images for stacking, research, correlations? The usual photos of stars and planets on the Internet are in jpg, or compressed video, so the pixels are not real pixels. The location and properties of the camera
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ZukOEmnBE Please provide links to your site and your work: Geometrical calibration of an all-sky imager: from spherical to cartesian and cylindrical coordinates If you are sharing the method, please share in JavaScript or universally accessible form (right now, on the Internet, that is only Javascript). Most people who are interested in this particular lens
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I had to try several times to get the LONG captcha code right. My eyes are really tired and it makes no sense. Finally realized they were using case sensitive. It failed because it was more than 1024 characters. Did they tell me there was a limit? No. Did they warn me that I went
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Luis, Attilla — Hi Dodie, Gary, I appreciate you looking into this. I got a separate reply from Attilla Danko offering to help with monitoring and reporting on all sky visibility. Lenses that see the whole sky will have visible areas on parts of the sky. I have found live cameras where a few stars
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Luis, This year I joined the Houston Astronomical Society, the Astronomical League and now Texas Astronomical Society. I am a retired mathematical statistician, but I work full time still as Director of the Internet Foundation. If you want me to bore you to tears about global Internet communities, I am happy to oblige. I have
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Samir, Glad you noticed it. Most of my messages never get answered or noticed. I guess they mostly get treated as spam. I try to not let it bother me. Your paper is online now. I guess I was in a hurry to read it. It has a really ugly URL. It really needs to
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Sample Instructions: “server boxes” project Research “old computers with barebones boot and run my own server” Buy old or new mid tower that can hold 6 disks, fast SATA, NVME SSD for memory mapping to handle big transfers at maximum speed. And enough processors to run batch jobs like compile chromium process google ngrams gather
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Trabecular bone organoids – A micron scale prototype designed to study the effects of microgravity and degeneration – https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-021-00146-8 Alexandra, I received this note today about your work. I have been tracking most all the levitation technologies on the Internet for some time. Then I realized that you probably know all this already, except maybe acoustic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgzW_qRRRLs Taking clay from natural soils requires mixing with water, settling, separation. Or crushing and dry separation, to get the fine enough particles that have the properties you want or need. And usually a degree of experimentation and learning to find the right sizes and properties that give different ultimate results. And some luck and
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