Technology
That time 12 million people showed up for a concert in Fortnite
While for a lot of us this is now week 7 of isolation, some 12 million people got together earlier this week for a concert. In Fortnite.
Read MoreGPT-2 experiments with AI-generated copy
We write and send hundreds of emails for Giving Day at Cornell. Wouldn’t AI be great to find new ways to talk to our donors? I tried GPT-2 for you.
Read MoreStuff I want to try: Projection mapping
Projection mapping, at the intersection of computer vision, augmented reality, and creative coding, feels like a something I should really get into.
Read MoreLeaving Apple: Step 1
I am slowly preparing to leave the Apple ecosystem, stating with my MacBook Pro.
Read MoreNew robots: Magni, Misty, and Loomo
Every week or so, I see a new robotic system pop up in my social feed. I do a bit of research and digging around and move on to other…
Read MoreDiscovering cobots through Universal Robots
I recently attended a Universal Robots seminar and I had to draw parallels with Rethink Robotics’s cobots.
Read MoreTurtleBot3: First explorations
My TurtleBot3 is assembled and I look into the LiDAR and the first 3D visualizations of the space “seen” by the robot.
Read MoreBuilding the TurtleBot3 Burger
I got myself a TurtleBot3 Burger for my birthday, this year. Here I’m documenting the process of building the hardware and setting up the software.
Read MoreHomePod is not large enough to hide Siri’s flaws
Apple released its smart speaker, HomePod, on Monday. Not a big surprise: We were expecting them to. I was surprised by the angle they used, though, to sell it during…
Read MoreTrying Particle’s Photon
I was excited to receive four ESP8266 ESP-01 but I ran into a few issues. I anticipated a few power issues from Arduino to the ESP8266 so I ordered a…
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