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One way to think about is that these techniques work by integrating exactly the polynomial that interpolates the function where you're sampling it, so you need to resolve the featu…

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/ATAP/

A great book on this subject is Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice: https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/ATAP/ Also chebfun! https://www.chebfun.org/

It's because when you orthorectify an aerial image, you cast rays from the earth's surface to the camera, so if your model of the earth's surface is off (like when there's a giant …

You can use pmtiles through mapserver via GDAL!

Breath From Salt is a great book on CF and it's history in medicine. https://benbellabooks.com/shop/breath-from-salt/

There's a lot on info/tooling on AWS' open data site as well for exploring these datasets: https://registry.opendata.aws/maxar-open-data/

Check out https://www.chebfun.org/ if you want to see some crazy stuff you can do with polynomials! Also the book Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice https://epubs.siam…

Albedo hasn't launched any satellites yet...

Bicycle Quarterly (magazine by the same folks) is a great read, always such a joy when it arrives in the mail! https://www.bikequarterly.com/

This is a nice tutorial on differentiable and inverse rendering (one of the Mitsuba authors also gives the tutorial): https://shuangz.com/courses/pbdr-course-sg20/ Inverse renderin…

Brompton's (folding bikes) are a really great option, just take it with you. brompton.com

I've also found Hugo's docs hard to use, but had a great experience learning it from https://pragprog.com/titles/bhhugo/build-websites-with-hugo/

This book is a fun read too!

There's a public effort to get it all mapped: https://seabed2030.org/

Here's a interesting talk on the underlying volcano and uplift. https://youtu.be/SPmT0aS0pK4

I enjoyed reading Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia which is all about how Polynesia became populated. https://www.amazon.com/Sea-People-Polynesia-Christina-Thomps...

One of my favorite books! Pure mind candy.

We use COGs at work with mapserver (and GDAL's /vsis3/ magic) to serve up imagery internally for qa/qc: https://github.com/pedros007/mapserver-docker Literally saves hundreds of th…

I watched with my mom, along with Touched By An Angel.

Already available: https://copernicus-dem-30m.s3.amazonaws.com/readme.html

I saw the Halide code in there, is that used in the main line or just an experiment?

Here in Colorado, we have a ballot measure on reintroducing them in the state: https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Proposition_114,_Gray_Wolf_...

Easy SIMD in the context of image processing is one of the cool things about Halide: https://halide-lang.org It was personally eye opening to see how vectorization can be the gift …