“My first step towards untangling some legacy code that I don’t yet understand is usually trying to draw a diagram of how it currently works.”
My first step towards untangling some legacy code that I don’t yet understand is usually trying to draw a diagram of how it currently works.Somehow @_______paul found these drawings of mine from @tumblr circa 2014 or 2015, and was nice enough to scan them for me ❤️ pic.twitter.com/i5qHnySZwV— Bryan Irace (@irace) February 26, 2019
Moderating the Planet
Jason Koebler and Jordan Cox of Vice penned a blockbuster investigation into Facebook’s content moderation practices that’s worth your time. They interviewed “dozens” of sources, including several on-the-record conversations with Facebook employees in charge of their moderation efforts: The thing that makes Facebook’s problem so difficult is its gargantuan size. It doesn’t just have to […]
Content Moderators Describe Traumatizing Work for Facebook and Twitter
Casey Newton of the Verge spoke with content moderators who are employed by Cognizant but working on Facebook’s behalf: Collectively, the employees described a workplace that is perpetually teetering on the brink of chaos. It is an environment where workers cope by telling dark jokes about committing suicide, then smoke weed during breaks to numb […]
BLOOMS: Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark
Blooms are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. Unlike a 3D zoetrope, which animates a sequence of small changes to objects, a bloom animates as a single self-contained sculpture. The bloom’s animation effect is achieved by progressive rotations of the golden ratio, phi (ϕ), the same ratio that nature employs to generate the spiral patterns we see in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotational speed and strobe rate of the bloom are synchronized so that one flash occurs every time the bloom turns 137.5º (the angular version of phi).* Each bloom’s particular form and behavior is determined by a unique parametric seed I call a phi-nome (/fī nōm/). -John Edmark
John Edmark is an artist, designer, and inventor. He teaches at Stanford University.
Website: www.JohnEdmark.com
To learn how blooms are made visit: http://www.instructables.com/id/Blooming-Zoetrope-Sculptures/
Cinematography and editing by Charlie Nordstrom - www.charlienordstrom.com
Music - "Plateau" by Lee Rosevere - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/Farrago_Zabriskie/Lee_Rosevere_-_Farrago_Zabriskie_-_03_-_Plateau
*For this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed in order to freeze individual frames of the spinning sculpture.
©2015 John Edmark
“I think cooking for yourself is one of the simplest ways to create without any pressure for validation. Additionally, unlike art / design, cooking is ephemeral. No matter how good or how bad it is, it'll always disappear, either in your stomach or the
I think cooking for yourself is one of the simplest ways to create without any pressure for validation. Additionally, unlike art / design, cooking is ephemeral. No matter how good or how bad it is, it'll always disappear, either in your stomach or the trash.— flex luthor (@kwuchu) February 23, 2019
“You likely have to get management approval for a $500 expense...but you can call a one hour meeting with 20 people and no one notices.”
"You likely have to get management approval for a $500 expense... but you can call a 1 hour meeting with 20 people and no one notices."— Farbod Saraf (@farbodsaraf) October 26, 2017