jimduk

6 ms·

1.
by jimduk 3y ago
Really promising analysis and best of luck with the work. A sincere thank you.
2.
by jimduk 3y ago
I've got ALS (MND). Completely agree UX is the problem, gazing at a keyboard on a screen designed to stop multiple keys clogging (QWERTY) feels wrong. Some ideas - gesture based eye movements, maybe two sweeps on a nine by nine grid,
3.
by jimduk 3y ago
The math for cheap amazon microscopes is often based on the ratio of a digital image. So use a 60" monitor rather than 30" you have an extra 2x magnification. But not better resolution!
4.
by jimduk 4y ago
Not sure it is a good saying. Brett Devereaux covers it in detail in his "fremen mirage" articles which I find a good read. https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
5.
by jimduk 4y ago
Did this in a shortlived startup 20 yrs ago. Other cofounder was the ideas guy. Pitch was to roll up granular, factual project achievements up into reporting data , and cascade objectives down. This avoids the red/amber/green fic
6.
by jimduk 4y ago
Agree with this. The Lib Dems had an existential crisis at that time (2010) as Labour and the Conservatives were both fighting for the centre ground and it seemed that would become the norm (deeply ironic given Corbyn, Brexit and Truss lat
7.
by jimduk 4y ago
> I wrote a little while back about narrative control as being the thing which divides the ruling classes from the consumer classes Could you post a link? Can't find it and am just watching the Queens 70th Jubilee service which
8.
by jimduk 4y ago
Management is about sensemaking. Management provides the last answer (if one is needed) for 'Why are we doing this?'. It carries accountability for calling 'when to stop', and in the obverse provides belief and is the ba
9.
by jimduk 5y ago
It's always ok to leave a company - if they can't survive without you, you are doing them a disservice. But it's an interesting question - I've been intrigued throughout my career (5-25 person project management) "W
10.
by jimduk 5y ago
Also Managing the Professional Service Firm By David Maister Helps understand how consulting type firms as a whole work
11.
by jimduk 5y ago
Question - I've managed (bottom-up, servant-leadership, small smart teams) a few very very smart people who may or not have had ADHD, or been partially on a spectrum or ... I truly appreciated the awesome work and have been open and ho
12.
by jimduk 6y ago
Thanks, we are pretty low budget. Image circles are in the 1/3", 2/3" range and we are looking at patterns with say 5 to 50 um pitch on a flat planar object, monochromatic, we control illumination, standard 3.45 um pixel
13.
by jimduk 6y ago
The back to back infinity-focussed objective set up works nicely with 2 sets of cheap infinity microscope objectives 2x or 4x back to back in a thorlabs tube. Paired lenses cancel out a lot of aberrations (but not all of them). I use this s
14.
by jimduk 6y ago
Agreed, and I would add pre-web well authored Microsoft help files/ hypertext were often really valuable and could be very well done. Also you could build them after the software was done, or before, as the spec in progress. Think msf
15.
by jimduk 6y ago
Was working with the x264 crowd fun or exasperating or ...? Video-encoding is such a polymath topic (compression, perception, optimisation) and that code was so smart. I clearly remember mb-tree coming out and x264 quality/bitrate perf
16.
by jimduk 6y ago
Weirdly, IMHO, one of the great advantages of the early BBC website infrastructure was directly because they had no state or need for customisation or dynamic pages. Some BBC Techs told me, back in the early days (1997?-2004?) when other co
17.
by jimduk 6y ago
Hi, apart from Hayek (and maybe Ursula Le Guin, and A Hamilton), has anyone got any good pointers on theories for when you favour local over global knowledge or vice versa. Either political theories, or game-theoretic. Transaction cost econ
18.
by jimduk 6y ago
Thanks. So for the manufacturing class, do you mean things like creaform or similar tools from hexagon and atos and the like, or are there some specific niches for 'slower but much more accurate ' photogrammetry ?
19.
by jimduk 6y ago
Question - if you had a really accurate fiducial (say 1/1000 or 1/10000 of a pixel absolute accuracy, sub micrometre) that could be fixed on/ near the model - is that interesting and would it help speed up the photogrammetry
20.
by jimduk 6y ago
Dumb question - if I want to do simple image processing on a pi4 (2d ffts, small kernels, summing 2d arrays in one dimension, finding Maxima), and I care about performance, is this a reasonable stack to use,with decent prospects or is it fa
21.
by jimduk 6y ago
Agreed. It might (or might not) be lovely if personalities and culture and power and ways of learning didn't come into things, and everything was truly meritocratic/anarchist/optimised or whatever, but this is not the human c
22.
by jimduk 6y ago
Hikvision are an interesting company with performant products. You can view CCTV as having had 3 stages. Stage 1 - the model is like a TV studio - closed circuit TV, analog cables, control rooms, monitor banks (some setups are still like th
23.
by jimduk 6y ago
Another take on conviviality is from its root - 'to live with'. Hannah Arendt (and I'm sure many others) argues that 'living with' other people, well, in a polity, where you inevitably have different views, is a key
24.
by jimduk 6y ago
Agreed both being very impressed by Illich, but it not being workable. I dimly recall The Alphabetisation of the Popular Mind arguing that possibly you shouldn't teach language. Maybe this has merit (on the lines of Lanier arguing the
25.
by jimduk 6y ago
Support for the Ozzie comment - Groove was an interesting thing - strong, user friendly, permissions model built on groups as the user perceived them (as opposed to the corporate LDAP model). Once had a (cancelled) gig to deploy it for shee
26.
by jimduk 6y ago
All of the above, Life and Fate is essential, but also add Middlemarch: George Eliot - grown up problems, don't lie, be careful around money Bleak House: Charles Dickens - avoid lawyers, don't let money get to you More left field
27.
by jimduk 7y ago
A build on this, is as a soft-core participant in a game, often it is more enjoyable to participate in a game where the meta is not known, and everyone is in the 'finding different strategies' mode - bit like early days starcraft.
28.
by jimduk 7y ago
I think at various points in life, you worry about the whole system and its effects on people, not just maximizing your local niche. This seems good, both morally and from a systems perspective. For me when younger this was about Ivan Illic
29.
by jimduk 7y ago
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Was a good name, still will be. Great progress has been made, but it's not AGI as anyone who goes to CVPR will tell you.
30.
by jimduk 7y ago
As you point out, the books don't solve consciousness in a formal way (or they would be more famous), and they have a significant amount of analogy. They are more 'grounded' than say Daniel Dennett. I liked the attractor anal

More ›