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The kind Canadians from D-Wave gave me a couple great books for the holidays. Merci.
Machine Learning. Quantum Computers. A grand concordance. I just noticed that the talk I gave at the U. of Toronto on the opportunity for quantum computers to accelerate deep learning is now online
I'm the one doing the learning, not Flash. This dog's ability to focus is amazing. Just show him a ball and his eyes will remain fixed on it better and longer than your AF lock function can.
In the police K-9 school, they train police dogs using tennis balls, rewarding them with a game of fetch whenever they complete a task. I don't know how they do it, but these dogs are absolutely obsessed about balls (I've met a few retired police dogs apart from Flash). Whenever I come home, the first thing Flash does is to grab a ball, then run to greet me. When he wakes from his sleep, that is also the very first thing he does - look for his ball. If humans were this easy to satisfy, we'd be a very happy species, don't you think?
Kym is doing some learning in the garden, I'm being sneaky and taking photos of her :D
Thank fuck for 1/8000! It's bright today!
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This juvenile bald eagle is learning to maneuver on its perch while mom looks on. It kind of looks like a tightrope walker at the circus with its wings helping with balance.
The Cathedral of Learning, a Pittsburgh landmark listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is the centerpiece of the University of Pittsburgh's main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Standing at 535 feet (>163 m), the 42-story Late Gothic Revival Cathedral is the tallest educational building in the Western hemisphere and the second tallest university building (fourth tallest educationally-purposed building) in the world. The Cathedral of Learning was commissioned in 1921 and ground was broken in 1926. The first class was held in the building in 1931 and its exterior finished in October 1934, prior to its formal dedication in June, 1937. The Cathedral is a steel frame structure overlaid with Indiana limestone and contains more than 2,000 rooms and windows. The building is often used by the University in photographs, postcards, and other advertisements. (Wikipedia)
A young girl affected by polio, learning to walk with her new orthoses (leg braces). Taken at the Cambodia Trust's Phnom Penh rehabilitation centre.
Photo: copyright Wendell Phillips/CIDA
Here are photos of our fourth maker art class for lower school children at the Lycée Français in Sausalito. Students are now making a Chinese New Year Wonderbox, creating a small diorama with an animal from the Chinese Zodiac in a decorated cardboard box -- combining art and technology to bring their work to life.
In this class, children started working on their animal characters, using wood figures we made earlier with a laser cutter. They explored different ways to make their animals move, using hobby motors connected to a AA batteries with alligator clips.
Students loved this activity, and all succeeded in making their motors work and animate their art, as this video shows. This hands-on, project-based activity seems effective for teaching how electricity and motors work, in a playful way that makes science more fun. The children are responding well to this approach: they learn by doing and seem engaged by the freedom to create their own interactive art.
Next week, they will add LEDs for the eyes, decorate their animals and install them in their boxes. You can follow our progress in our Maker Art photo album, where we post weekly updates: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157663074065150
Many thanks to my associate Cynthia Gilbert, who provides invaluable help in the classroom on a volunteer basis — as well as school parent Jules Maeght, Josephine’s dad, who kindly offered to give us a hand today. We’re very lucky to have so many generous collaborators on this project. Merci!
View more maker art photos in this Flickr album: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157663074065150
Learn more about this art maker course: bit.ly/maker-art-sausalito-2016
Learn more about the Wonderbox program: bit.ly/wonderbox-overview
One of my photography goals has been to try a levitation photo, and I think I can successfully check that off my to-do list. It was easier than I expected, at least with a levitation photo this basic. But damn, no one tells you how much your back hurts after balancing on a stepladder for a photo! Sacrifices for art.
Day 79 - Learning
Hitting The Books
I love the looks of the local llibrary here in Newark, New York. I'm sure as the days move forward I'll take more pictures of the building.
This time around I grabbed our middle son for the picture. I had him look like he was studying while enjoying some Friday afternoon sun. Who knows, maybe the picture will inspire him to study more. (LOL!)
This picture is taking part in the 2009 Photo Challenge Group.
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Every year in China, millions of rural residents migrate to cities for work. Most of them lack the skills needed to make a decent living. Chongqing, China. Photo: Li Wenyong / World Bank
Credit original photo - my father.
Just removed the yellowish and tried to soften
the contrasts a bit. /M
So as with every time I learn a new technique I must try it out on poor Domo. After our last time out doing portraits with a flash I really wanted to know how to achieve better results and nicer lighting.
Turns out, flash photography is a whole new world of learning and of course buying things! So I went and got a light stand with umbrella and some wireless receivers and here we are again.
We went to the same park as the last photo trip and this time tried some off camera flash stuff. It took a while to learn and honestly I'm still trying to understand it, but we took some really cool shots I think. Here's the first one hot off the presses.
I want you to understand that I am not the same as yesterday. You were the turning point and although maybe not. I just wake up without talking to the pillow, learning to rest from you and my thoughts.
Learning the difficult task of using your trunk to drink (~40,000 muscles to figure out!).
Inlet off the Zambezi River near Chiawa Camp, Lower Zambezi National Park.
okay, so, the other night, while I did get some stunning shots, none of them were of what I wanted to be shooting, which is the sky. this frame is the best I got that night. I know I can do better, but I'm sick of having the limitations I have with this cheap mount/drive/scope. I've basically chewed through this scope (somewhat literally), and I've learned what it could teach me.
I've been looking for something more robust that's still in my budget, and I'd like some input.
what I've zero'd in on so far is a vixen vmc-110, and a celestron cg-4. these two together fit into my budget, and give me something that, I think, tracks reasonably well, and will let me mount my camera. also, it seems to all facilitate the process (i.e. no fumbling around in the dark... well, not so much anyway).
other things I'd appreciate input on:
-is the cg-5 mount worth the extra $400?
-is the celestron omni xlt 127, with the cg4, for the same price, a better idea?
-would I be better off with a refractor of some flavor?
thanks.
grandpa is trying to teach little man to play the piano...
My dad is having major back surgery tomorrow. I am so worried, but hope today's technology makes it an easy recovery. Say a prayer for grandpa if you will.....
It is amazing to see how little babies learn to balance, to stand up, to walk and then to run... In this picture you can see my daughter concentrating on controlling her little body to sit down so that she could pick up a magnet that was lying on the floor.
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