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iseanstevens

434 karma · joined April 10, 2012

I create interactive art that inspires people to want to create their own art. I help artists create better/faster at San Francisco based non-profit Momentum Infinity.

http://patreon.com/momentumInfinity/

I make bicycle pedal powered sound systems - http://sustainablesound.org

And I teach people and create art for events with my Artup http://SustainableMagic.org

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iseanstevens··on The Story of Playdate
I think a lot of the appeal is about truly original content.
iseanstevens··on Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”
I think if Apple is forcing people to merge personal and work accounts, this is a problem.
iseanstevens··on Tesla: Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot
Wait, Tesla shipped 1/4 as many cars as Ford last year?

I had no idea they had grown so big compared to other car companies.

iseanstevens··on Tesla: Artificial Intelligence and Autopilot
I certainly don’t know what I’m doing, but many people have said I’m intelligent.
iseanstevens··on What will we do with all those solar panels when their useful life is over?-2018
First I am hearing of delaminating panels.
iseanstevens··on How we’ve built the World’s Most Experienced Urban Driver
The cost of stopping was extremely low. I think this was a totally reasonable action
iseanstevens··on Wokwi – Online Arduino Simulator
Great examples & support for FastLED etc - including visuals!
iseanstevens··on Winnebiko
This set of projects have been life long inspirations to me.
iseanstevens··on Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence
In San Francisco, people aren’t surprised to have cars broken into multiple times a year at this point. The only change I’ve seen is more auto glass repair companies. Sometimes we are stuck with “perverse incentive”
iseanstevens··on Tesla Megapack Caught Fire at Victorian Big Battery Site in Australia
I don’t see how it would possibly be worse than it happening in use V’s. Testing. This is part of why there is testing. Any system a small percentage of components will be out of spec or defective. Or damaged in transit. There are on the order of 1+ million or more individual battery cells in this installation, which means also multiple times that in electrical connections, plus BMS electronics. Assuming it stays isolated to a single unit, and no other fires occur, I would say their system design is excellent.
iseanstevens··on Playdate pre-sells 20K devices in 17 minutes
I’m really glad this is going to be a big success. It’s a group of people with skills doing it for the love of the game(s)
iseanstevens··on Looking Glass Portrait – Holographic Display
Nice link, thanks!
iseanstevens··on Recognizing People in Photos Through Private On-Device Machine Learning
I’ve found it super useful, personally, and am really glad both that it’s a feature and that it’s not on the cloud.

They have had a similar feature since iPhoto in maybe 2010, but it has only been on the phone since recently.

I reference photos of people I know all the time as well as use photos to track wiring of projects I work on, etc.

The same infrastructure allows searching for all kinds of different objects as well, which is pretty cool.

Especially interesting to me is to search for “art”. It shows things I’ve tagged, as well as what the model calls art which is often actual art (I’m an artist among other things) but sometimes is weird photo angles and interesting color schemes.

I think it has decent taste, even.

I’m pretty sure this blog article is just about one specific feature. I suspect that they use ML for other things in iOS but for clarity may have focused on one thing here.

iseanstevens··on Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery
Lead acid are not particularly great as far as DOD (depth of discharge) or longevity.

Comparing for example a 100ah lifepo4 to 100ah lead acid, the useable capacity of the lithium will be close to 4x more. Using the full capacity of the lead acid will make them wear out quickly.

iseanstevens··on Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery
I got the impression from their page that the cells are immersed in liquid electrolyte. I’d guess that humidity shouldn’t effect things much
iseanstevens··on Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery
Any sources to site?
iseanstevens··on Form Energy reveals the chemistry of its long-duration battery
I don’t think functional prototypes have negative value…
iseanstevens··on How to make a leather piston seal (2007)
This is a great knowlecule.
iseanstevens··on Photographic Reference Scale (2019)
Thanks, this is handy.

I’ve done some little experiments but having a standard-ish thing is better.

Would this integrate to give scale, in say, Meshroom? Or it’s manual calibration step someplace along the workflow?

I’m in it more for the reasonably accurate 2d/3d measurements, but approximately accurate color is nice as well.

iseanstevens··on Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVI: What Is the “Dark Forest” Hypothesis?
He could certainly get a pyramid built. And that is the best you can do.
iseanstevens··on Google Search Quality Rep Says Machine Learning Takes Care of Most Obvious Spam
I’ll have to re-check, if they have recently updated something- but my recent uses of Google have shown it worse than I’ve ever see as far as spam content.
iseanstevens··on How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?
Is that accounting for splits? Apple (for example) has split 28:1 since that time, making the equivalent price today around 4K/share.
iseanstevens··on One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
Sometimes, it’s something as small as a missing parentheses that makes things go wrong.

(Slight joke here)

iseanstevens··on Apps supporting account creation must also offer account deletion
That is not an app.

Also the stakes are a lot higher as it could delete all of someone’s photos, backups, music and video purchases - not to mention all of their apps and related data.

I believe you can delete it through the iCloud website.

iseanstevens··on Bosch opens German chip plant
Most cars still default to incandescent bulbs for many uses. Few cars attempt to understand the situation around them, beyond a rear camera and maybe ultrasonic reverse sensor for parking. Engine control units have gotten more complicated, but unless high end or EV, It’s mostly mid 90s tech. Disagree?
iseanstevens··on Apple-Developer Relations
I think clear pricing is a great potential solution to the App Store fee issue. Thanks
iseanstevens··on Accelerating Conway's Game of Life Using CUDA
Need to re-read in detail, but seems like great learning material.

I especially liked the line including “with less power comes greater simplicity” :)

iseanstevens··on Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
I make Sustainable Sound (1),a bicycle powered sound+light+robot interactive experience… can confirm the impressive power a human can create.

(1) http://sustainablesound.org/ (Deep apologies for how behind my sites are - recovering and working on it)

iseanstevens··on It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage
Yeah, can second this.
iseanstevens··on Tip: Don't record laser tattoo removal (2019)
Any chance you recorded any/could post?
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