I’ve had an Ender 3 S1 Pro for a couple of years now and I’ve mostly printed little things the size of a benchy. Things like keychain ghosts for Halloween, ikea car to duplo adapter for Arlo, calibration pieces, and some mock ups for a small quadcopter. They didn’t need supports and could be completed… Continue reading 3D Printing Forklift
Zombie mortgages
https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/mortgages/602699/zombie-mortgages-come-back-to-haunt-property-owners-after-great Why? Questions: 1 how do these lending companies goout of business? 2. How is it legal to sell the debt at less than than the original value? 3. If it is possible to sell at less than the original value then the person who is actually living in the property should have the chance… Continue reading Zombie mortgages
Smart City
What is a smart city? According to Wikipedia: A smart city is an urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect data. Insights gained from that data are used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return, that data is used to improve the operations across the city. A… Continue reading Smart City
First Rock Stack Post!
Hi! I’ve moved my blog from http://drew.psib.org/blog/ to https://blog.rockstack.org. I’m excited to be running my own server and own my own domain name. rockstack.org 🙂 I’m hoping to be blogging about my new adventures with self-hosting and de-googling. It certainly has been a while since I last wrote on my blog. Maybe this will be… Continue reading First Rock Stack Post!
Feynman Lectures
Very neat lectures by Feynman on electricity: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_01.html#Ch1-S1
Renewables
This morning for some reason I started to think about making a manufacturing company in the US. I was thinking about how we import so much from other countries that wouldn’t it be neat if from raw materials we build something that people would buy. So, the thought process was then like oh boy, what… Continue reading Renewables
Riot Heatmap
I’d like to make a world heat map of the riots going on. Doing a quick google search didn’t get me any results of such an app. I was thinking about riots because of somewhat of a long story. There is a podcast that I listen to called The White Vault, that has a voice… Continue reading Riot Heatmap
Started new job
I’m now working at Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a Johnson and Johnson company) as a machine learning scientist for drug discovery. So, what that means is that I’m using state of the art techniques in machine learning and trying to use them to help discover new drugs with the right properties. I just finished my second week… Continue reading Started new job
Data with built-in functions
I think it might be helpful in the future to not just have json data be just the dataset but also contain pickled functions that can be used by the end user to easily access the data in a way that works for their application. Dill can be used to serialize a python function or… Continue reading Data with built-in functions
Macro Scale Agent Based Modeling
I was reading about this book called Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling that Bill Gates recommend reading. From this I found the Gapminder (which is a spin off from Han’s work) and their tool: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles which lets you explore a dizzying number of statistics… Continue reading Macro Scale Agent Based Modeling