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How can computers use tacit knowledge?
I’m seven weeks into my Master’s, and the clouds are beginning to clear around my research topic. But first, an aside… In my improv class at Impatient Theatre on Saturday, there was a scene that was described as “incredibly complex”. We were playing with the idea of an “analogous scene” that explores and expands the…
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Stuck in Real Time
At Friday’s DGP party, a projector and a webcam was set up. The webcam was aimed at the party, and the projector was aimed at a large white wall, displaying the party. This is all good and cool, and if you aim the webcam so that it sees part of the projection, then you get…
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Crazy Dream
So I’m in Toronto now, yada yada yada all is great and shiny and mucho-fantastic. But that’s another post. For now, let’s discuss a dream I had last night. I’m lucky to have pretty vivid dreams regularily, but this one was too odd to let go. I tried to send it in to my twitter,…
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A conversation with the Google Earth API
Dustin: Oh hey there, Google Earth, it looks like you have an API so that we can actually talk to each other.GE: Yeah, hello! It’s really useful.Dustin: Well, we’ll see about that. So, I’ve turned you on. Can you tell me what layers you have?GE: Of course! I’ve got the Geographic Web, Roads, 3D Buildings,…
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Weekend Roundup
This past weekend: – My best friend Dave came up from Guelph.– I volunteered for Admitted Students Day at Queen’s.– I saw Iron Man with Dave, and my other friend Daniel and housemate Jack.– Visited Free Comic Books Day, saw nothing I really liked.– Watched three famous movies I had not seen before: Shawshank Redemption,…
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I broke 50 kilometers!
I just got back from a 54 k bike ride! Here’s the google map. View Larger Map Now, my average speed sport of sucks, as it took over two hours, but that can be improved. I think I’ll need to buy a bike clock.
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Real-Life Spam
Well, the house just received 30 identical looking standard-size envelopes, none of which were addressed to any of us. Most of them were weird variations of either Phillip Van Stone (18) or Andrew Collins (9). I opened one for “Mike ColinManing”, which I assumed I couldn’t get prosecuted for since it obviously wasn’t a real…