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jpatten

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About jpatten

James Patten - www.pattenstudio.com - Interested in interactive and kinetic art and design, tangible interfaces, electronics, robotics and software. On the amateur radio airwaves I'm WC1A. I like to use Emacs, C++, Python, Kicad, Fusion and Blender.

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    Comment #49201865

    I hope you guys are successful because I would love to see more US options in this space. Realistically, you can get boards in 7 days from China, and competing with them on price s…

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    Comment #48843581

    I'm not sure I see the distinction you're making between 3D design and other spatial reasoning tasks. You can use RL to teach navigation or video game play too. Does that mean thes…

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    Comment #48839091

    Out of curiosity I gave Fable (on max effort) a CAD task yesterday, which was to design a space efficient carrying case for a set of fasteners in my repair kit for work. It used Ca…

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    Comment #48632229

    I don't agree with the conclusion here. The issue in the sports court example could just as easily be addressed by adding granularity. If the system allowed users more granularity …

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    Comment #48116198

    haha that's right I'd forgotten about that one!

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    Comment #48112731

    Reminds me of Put That There https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

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    Comment #45063362

    Love these! On the record player, would be fun to play Morse code “records” where the message was encoded by selectively removing spots of copper from the rotating plate.

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    Comment #44996361

    I use Thinlinc. It's free for under 5 concurrent users

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    Comment #44743908

    Thank you for sharing this! The part of this problem that I’ve found most challenging over time is keeping quantities up to date. I wonder about a function where you could say “I b…

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    Comment #44732749

    I’m sure that Apple did tons of A/B testing, focus groups etc. with different image processing parameters to arrive at the settings that their phones use for photos, and from these…

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    Comment #42781881

    I'm biased but I think the most interesting opportunities involve software that interacts with the physical world in some way. These projects will definitely involve some electrica…

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    Comment #42779189

    Yeah I agree. The market for companies that do something in a web browser may be saturated, but outside of that world it feels like there are more opportunities than ever. For exam…

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    Comment #40690866

    Skimmed it, so perhaps I missed something, but what is the purpose of reputation if negative facts can never be incorporated into one’s reputation? Seems like the harm caused to a …