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you're probably already aware of this, but there is some US legislation trying to open up commercial data to gov't entities: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill…

for anyone interested, this paper has a nice background on numerical weather prediction http://www.elsevierscitech.com/emails/physics/climate/the_or...

ah, thanks, that's fascinating. "It also learns every time you actively report to the community on sky conditions and hazards, translating this information into weather predictions…

just curious, do you have references to smartphone sensors being utilized in numerical weather prediction? i'd been browsing through some WMO reports and other associated NWP lit r…

if you check out the CGAL library, they have code that solves surface parameterization problems. the least squares conformal mapping is pretty nice for creating uv maps. http://doc…

not so coincidentally, human conversation protocols (at a high level) look a lot like some communication protocols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_...

Stupid phone: secular-specular

Ray tracing is a more generic term that covers rendering techniques which trace rays between a camera and a scene. Back in the day everyone used Whitted style ray tracers to render…

i built an interactive virtual globe using open gl (like nasa worldwind/google earth, but with real time satellite imagery). it's super fun. when you're dealing with things like co…

conformality and area are preserved on globes, both physical and virtual (like in google earth). as a kid, i remember thinking africa was huge from the globes that teachers had in …