Okay site update: there is a new section: Stories have a gander, read the stories then tell me what you think! Please! There is a link to that page in the header.
edit: comments will have to go here because I can’t get them to work on the page.
other things, I am still feeling all weird I think it is simply the lack of stuff to do. If I don’t hear from that one guy by like say, Wednesday, I am going to start applying for jobs at other places. Because
- The money would be nice
- I am bored
- Work is a good place to meet people
- It will get me out of the house
- It will get me out of this funk
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It has been just over a fortnight since my last posting. By the time I am done with this it will be a nice even 16 days I am sure. In those two weeks I have taken two tests, written 30+ pages of papers and reports, given two presentations earned one bachelors degree gone on one date and gotten an average of 5.2 hours of sleep a night and sat in my chair in front of my computer for probably a solid 5 days if not more.
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So there is about to be a lot of complaining and random ramblings. Do not follow the link if ya don’t wanna read it. =-) (more…)
Which way is up? The natural inclanation is to think of everything above ones head as ‘up’. What of the people who are postiontioned 180° away from us on this spining ball of rock? It seems ‘up’ along with everything else is a matter of perspective. What has made me think along these lines lately is the fact that I am working on a program to take the radial profile of an image. As a quick aside a radial profile is a method of sampling all of the pixels in an image radiating out in straight lines from the center of the image.
I was originally having some difficulty as I was thinking of it in that fashion. How do you write a program to draw lines from the center of a square image and sample all the pixels, its near impossible. Well it isn’t IF you change your perspective. I wish I was the one Who was responsible for the idea of the change but it wasn’t me.
The way it works is that you sample a pixel at a particular location (x,y), get the radial coordinate by taking the arctan of the coordinates of the pixel, compare that to your allowed bin values and you are done. Simple ONCE you have the perspective.
There has been a pretty pervasive theme to these entries lately. Almost all of them have had to do with programing. Indeed they started with my stating I don’t like programing. This, as it turns out, was a lie. The main reason I orginally became interested in programing is because it was the closest thing to magic to which I had access. Now I have discovered the joy of physics and the further access to what would appear to be magic, it’s Arthur C. Clarke’s third law.