Smoke bomb cocktail
While this edges close to hipster cocktail douchery, it is cool enough that I might have to give this a try just for being pretty cool.
3D movies without the glasses
MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses
MIT set out to create a display that lets people see the 3D effect in a movie theater, from any seat in the house – no glasses required. Teaming up with Israel’s Weiszmann Institute of Science, CSAIL managed to put together a prototype called ‘Cinema 3D’ that uses a complex arrangement of lenses and mirrors to create a set number of parallax barriers (think of Venetian blinds that show a slightly different set of pixels to each of the viewer’s eyes to simulate depth) that can address every viewing angle in the theater based on seat locations.
Police possibly 3D printing murder victim’s fingerprint to unlock their phone
Police in Michigan have a new tool for unlocking phones: 3D printing. According to a new report from Flash Forward creator Rose Eveleth, law enforcement officers approached a professor at Michigan State earlier this year to reproduce a murder victim’s fingerprint from a prerecorded scan. Once created, the 3D model would be used to create a false fingerprint, which could be used to unlock the phone.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/21/12247370/police-fingerprint-3D-printing-unlock-phone-murder
History tells us what may happen next
We are in unprecidented times. Trump is running for presidency on a platform unlike any other in modern history. The Democratic party is in shambles. Putin has rattled sabers with small invasions of neighboring countries. ISIS is spreading terror into Europe. Brexit vote passed despite being predicted to fail. We sit on the precipice of…something very different.
An excellent read by a historian looking at our current situation.
Beautiful camera work
Make me a nanosecond
Grace Hopper was a badass. She was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. Here she explains a nanosecond.
Mounting a Windows hosted samba share from Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu/etc) – with a domain account
Samba shares can be finicky beasts. Mounting a samba (smb) point shared from a Windows host doubly tricky at times due to cross-platform differences such as domains.
If you ever find yourself trying to mount a Windows hosted Samba share and need to log in with a domain account, here’s the format:
sudo mount -t cifs -o domain=<YOURDOMAIN>,username=<YOURUSERNAME>,password=<YOURPASSWORD> //<HOSTNAME>/TestShare /mnt/
This mounts <hostname> which can be either an ip address or host name to the directory /mnt/ when using the proper domain, username and password. Whew.
You can also test your connection by using smbclient, which seems to have a more forgiving syntax.:
smbclient //<HOSTNAME>/TestShare -U <YOURDOMAIN>/<YOURUSERNAME>
ex:
smbclient //myhost.com/TestShare -U ibmdom/billwaters
This would connect you to myhost.com/Testshare directory using the user account billwaters that is part of the ibmdom domain. It would then prompt you for your password. You can also optionally add the password to the command line, but this allows you to type it in separately.
Auto-colorize photos using a neural-net trained algorithm
Algorithmia has developed deep learning algorithms to automatically colorize black and white photos. Give it a shot on your own photos – and give them free data to experiment with :).
http://demos.algorithmia.com/colorize-photos/
Making electronics is easy
Tokyo Cityview is having a Ghibli show that raises the roof
Tokyo Cityview is doing a Studio Ghibli exhibit. One of the most amazing pieces is an incredible replica of a massive airship from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky. It features scads of lights, dozens of moving propellers and oars, and is surrounded by a sky filled with other aircraft.
https://vimeo.com/174210524