I'm a CS professor from #Oregon. My research projects involve deep convolutional neural networks applied to photos of (meteorological) #clouds and building video games (using #unity) to teach people about #earthquake preparedness. Hobbies include #fire #dancing, #boardgames (including #go), and #GameDesign (https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/siva-afi:-the-fireknife-dance-of-samoa).
#introduction #introductions #SivaAfi #ComputerScience #DataScience #python #MachineLearning #scifi #ai #pdx #portland #pnw #FlowArts #unity3d #game #games #gamedev
I couldn't find a good reference diagram of the relationships between #Python types, so a while ago I made one.
The BikePortland podcast interviews City Council (District 4) candidate Chad Lykins.
Joe Biden today on the 4th anniversary of TFG telling Americans to inject bleach to cure COVID:
"Don’t inject bleach.
And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject bleach."
Let's watch Sarah Cooper again, who brought the idiocy of the trump years to life in this funny lip-sync video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDKW75ueIU&list=PL-8pDWAJLeYjt_QWcEZ_t7eYdax-YkkS5&index=2
Read Stephanie Bower's slim volume 101 Sketching Tips, from the Urban Sketching Handbook series. Lots of neat points in here!
Our new Google Pixel phones have all sorts of neat camera features like "take a one-second video and grab the best single frame".
I thought, "Editing on a tiny phone touch screen is a huge pain. I'll just upload these pictures to Google Photos, made by the same company, and use those features there, where they will surely be available."
Reader, they are not.
They are are pitching this for "wildlife control or ice removal"?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U83BfU1phCw
Crossing my fingers for this.
https://clip.cafe/the-producers-1967/we-find-the-defendants-incredibly-guilty/
Devs sometimes talk about being "close to the metal" but there is no other software engineering team in the world right now that are simultaneously as close to and as far away from the metal as the people keeping Voyager working.
Lewis & Clark College, where I work, got top marks for socially and environmentally sustainable investing:
https://www.ai-cio.com/news/how-endowments-can-evaluate-their-sustainability-levels/
Biden Marks Earth Day by Announcing $7 Billion in Solar Power Grants https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/04/22/1629217/biden-marks-earth-day-by-announcing-7-billion-in-solar-power-grants?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Happy Earth Day!
Here’s a set of waterfall greeting cards I made long ago. I deeply enjoyed the process of making these. I was able to switch off my brain and just let go. But deciding which waterfalls to do? Crazy hard!!
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.