mjbrownie · HackerTrans

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I've been reading Finnegans Wake and not making much sense of it so I wrote a data pipeline to scour the web for interpretation books / guides (which I also can't be bothered actually reading) and coupled it with an prompt to image pipeline. It's now a readable albeit silly picture book to go along with an audio book... I call it finnegans slop.

mjbrownie

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nice. had no idea about that connnotation :) ... goes with black swan event as a saying that's ill fitting for these parts (in southern Australia all we have are black swans).

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I work with a shorebird expert who has been tracking migrations (Latham snipe whose range extends from Russia/Northern Japan to Southern Australia).

I think an early technique of tracking their migration before gps/chip/batteries were small enough was a primitive light sensor + data logger that would log day/night hours on the bird as it flew from island to island and the light data was enough to roughly estimate lattitute (and often enough to infer a location/date.

The data looked great in this form. It wasn't hourglass but with jagged edges and shifts. You could easily see which months the bird stayed in a single place for several days etc. clever stuff.

mjbrownie

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I'm using a slightly different method. Vimwiki diary and a code block runner (runs in another tmux window)... so it's doubling as a (markdown/html) documentation generator of all my work.

I'm actually enjoying it as it's providing a lot of context on the time and notes/discussion on every command I run. Also good for history searches as regular cli history ultimately relies on your own memory.

Still it feels like you need to already have paid your dues... (I'm 20+ years in...) .

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I've recently started working in this space. Loads of applications in research, Ag tech and environmental science and it's mostly using this tech stack (as well as GeoServer.) Definitely a nice change from my typical ecommerce/saas work. Working with some long term geo/surveyor types and they seem happy with the open source offerings.

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