Charlie Loyd
A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
- Please make all necessary preparations to read my wonderful partner’s wonderful book.
- Sending good vibes to the adult whose feelings I hurt as a teen in 1998 for suggesting that Deepak Chopra might in some way lack credibility or integrity.
- (Mostly off social media right now due to The Horrors, which I do not optimally digest in this format. If I follow you, I would welcome an e-mail or other asynchronous communication from you. Otherwise, expect me when you see me.)
- checking my spam folder
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- Critics are raving about Potato!
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- Here’s a thread of comparisons as I have time. The source data will all be © Vantor, CC BY-NC if from their Open Data Program. My goal here is not to deride standard pansharpening methods, only to show what’s different – what this is all about.
- I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/
- They laughed at Galileo. Louis Pasteur was only allowed to present his results as Pierrot. They made Simone Weil wear a diving helmet and swim fins. I guess senses of humor have really changed.
- Alison Gopnik’s AI interpretations continue to interest me in way that almost no one else’s do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmz...
- Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.
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- Every time I notice how this dashboard software labels its axes I emit a pulse of psychic distress strong enough to rustle papers, nudge the empty seltzer can on my desk, make the more nervous of the crows on the power line out the window take off, etc.
- Best thing I saw last week was someone posting a video of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” with the caption that it was too bad they wasted a nice guitar riff on a song about furniture. The tsunami of poorly typed replies from old men, properly harnessed, could have sent a tractor to Aldebaran.
- I’m sick of all the damn helium littering. These days every back alley and vacant lot is strewn with the refuse of irresponsible balloon animal artists and feckless blimpeurs.
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- If you look at the buoys near the Kamchatka earthquake (www.ndbc.noaa.gov) you can see it nudged enough water to make easily measurable waves even in deep ocean. Heaps of energy.
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- It’s amazing how little you have to capitalize in written English to be (1) clear and (2) formally correct! RAW photos? Those are just raw photos! RE the last e-mail? That’s the Latin word “re” and not an abbreviation! Are you learning Martial Arts? That’s not a trademark! Let that shift key relax!
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