Portland Wild Featured in Willamette Week’s “Best of Portland”
PortlandWild, my google maps mash up of the city’s extensive network of beautiful murals, special “Heritage Trees” and Little Free Libraries made it into Willamette Week’s Best of Portland 2019 as a Best of Internet! Portland streets are filled with...
My Two Favorite JSON Parsers
For quickly visualizing JSON content on the web, this French website http://json.parser.online.fr is excellent. But I’ve since begun to favor this Atom-based plugin, Pretty JSON, which works within Atom. (Atom has plugins for everything, probably even watching your dog and...
The Wisdom of Ancient Murals
His arrival was foretold by ancient murals, via Martha on Twitter:
Teaching Robots to Walk
This is an excellent demonstration of artificial intelligence, robots made from tree branches learn to walk through use of deep learning reinforcement (DRL), via BoingBoing. Here’s the abstract from the research paper: We present a study in the creative design...
Why Am I Scared to Ride a Bike?
For the most part, I’ve stopped biking in Seattle. The density of vehicles and aggressiveness of drivers has surpassed my comfort level. I appreciated Vreni’s visual guide to why biking has become so dangerous and how it could be made...
How Fighting Your Health Insurer is Rigged in Washington State
Six Independent Review Organizations Rule with Insurers in 80 to 89% of Cases