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Post by pixelmonkey »

medymed wrote: post #672

Resident physician in NYC, not yet called as backup on the front lines. From comfort of home at this point refreshing my knowledge of ventilator settings. Also in spare moments have been considering similarities and differences between operating scheduling algorithms like multilevel feedback queues etc and heuristics used in crisis management, especially when there are both technical tasks like patient emergencies an…

I’m a programmer in NYC and my spouse is an MD/surgeon/fellow here. I’m also fascinated by the idea of applying queuing theory and Little’s Law to medical capacity issues, especially in times of capacity strain.

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Post by bobblywobbles »

_Mark wrote: post #610

I am still working on my business which was started during the GFC back in 2008. My business isn't important, but what is important is what you do over the next coming months. During the GFC, I was a contract programmer and was let go in November. In Australia I figured nobody was going to hire in December, January is basically a write off, and could possibly find work in February. Now I had 3 months up my sleeve. I…

Would you like to share with us what it is?

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Post by j15t »

davehcker wrote: post #300

I'm on a self-imposed sabbatical i.e. graduate school so I'm able to do quick context switching between the following things (no specific orders): 1. FINALLY, reading, chewing and digesting LISP. I can see the 'magical' prowess in it- but still not fully there. 2. Formalizing and standardizing an algorithm for one-shot learning using 'old-school' machine learning techniques that is freaking light-weight. Performs wel…

Hey do you have a link to some more information on your one-shot learning algorithm? Sounds interesting, thanks.

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Post by semireg »

A second child (due May 25) and adding “sheets of labels” support to Label LIVE (www.label.live). Basically, rendering dynamic text and barcodes to a PDF in the format of Avery, ULINE, etc. The epitome of Microsoft Office mail merge / template hell. Label LIVE is an Electron app I created almost two years ago.

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Post by nibuen »

Working on Iterary for mobile! If you are interested in game/board game design or tooling check and have Android (for now) check it out here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.boarbeard.... also check out website if you haven't seen that before for a beefier idea of where I am headed: https://www.iterary.com

Still early phases, so keeping it Android only for now, but I have been using Flutter so looking forward to expanding to iOS once I have the design flow and enough parity with the website.

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bartread wrote: post #233

I've just finished off (within the last hour) my version of Asteroids, which I started with enthusiasm two or three years back, then did very little after getting the basics of the game working: https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my ve…

The Asteroids game!

The graphics, music, and fluid motion are awesome.

But, I cannot stand the controls. I play games like this laying down in bed at night, which automatically disqualifies this, due to its use of my phone’s orientation. Also, the modal disconnect between throttle and direction controls (one orientation and the other button press) is too much to tie to muscle memory.

If you added an “old fashioned mode” with a dynamic joy stick (appears where ever I put my thumb within one bottom quarter of the screen) for direction and throttle (touch to engage and drag a small amount in any direction to turn and go that way), that’d fix the issue. NOVA 3 for iPhone got this 100% right. Then, a small section on the other bottom corner could house a few small buttons to engage hyperspace, etc. Just let the user pick right or left handed.

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