[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Noisebridge-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 46

Wed Mar 11 21:36:33 UTC 2009

DUDE!!

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/vniow/HTtp://m.flickr.com/#/photos/vniow/3347837052/

-Ani

On Mar 11, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Ani Niow <avniow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sign is already made, just need to pick it up tomorrow. You will all  
> soon experience a life sized Keanu Reeves bust telling you to be  
> excellent to each other when you walk in.
>
> And you will obey.
>
>
> -Ani
>
> On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Tracy Jacobs <kinetical at comcast.net>  
> wrote:
>
>> Mitch,
>>
>> I will make the sign!
>>
>> I was wondering about computer programs at Noisebridge.  Are there  
>> some good graphics and maybe video programs available on shared  
>> computers?  Sorry if that's a dumb question, I live in Oakland and  
>> I've only been there once:)
>>
>> Tracy
>> On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:37 PM, noisebridge-discuss-request at lists.noisebridge.net 
>>  wrote:
>>
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>>> 1. "Stuff" for Noisebridge (Bill Nye)
>>> 2. Re: Wednesday: sensory substitution hangout (Mikolaj Habryn)
>>> 3. Re: Be Excellent sign? (Asheesh Laroia)
>>> 4. Re: ML Wednesday: code up a neuron! (Christoph Maier)
>>> 5. Re: Drink Restock! (steve camuti)
>>> 6. Re: Drink Restock! (Christie Dudley)
>>> 7. RE: Be Excellent sign? (Mitch Altman)
>>>
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>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:27:15 -0700
>>> From: Bill Nye <nye2 at email.com>
>>> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] "Stuff" for Noisebridge
>>> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>> Message-ID: <49B71373.2070000 at email.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>
>>> Hello, due to the location of the dorkbot Wednesday,
>>> I have to drive to SF.  So I thought I would
>>> bring over some "stuff" for Noisebridge:
>>> - large capacitors
>>> - small electronics
>>> - a strip of R45 jacks
>>> - 2 old TV yoke coils
>>> - 4 basic barstools
>>>
>>> I know the "stuff wanted" page only mentions metal
>>> folding chairs, but these stools have a very small
>>> footprint good for crowds.  Also, when there is not
>>> enough table space, people could sit on these behind
>>> the normal chairs, to observe others working.
>>>
>>> Finally, I have this Audio Choice 100W Portable PA
>>> system that I actually bought for $199 from
>>> musiciansfriend.com.  It has 2 12x24 rugged speakers
>>> and the mixer/amp unit. Hardly ever used (I say very
>>> sadly). Handles 1/4" and XLR inputs.  Possibly people
>>> could borrow it for 1 or 2-day external events, if
>>> we had a sign-out sheet.
>>>
>>> I offer the "warranty" that if anything is not
>>> wanted, I will take it back (or get rid of it). :-)
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:34:27 -0700
>>> From: Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to>
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Wednesday: sensory substitution
>>>   hangout
>>> To: Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
>>> Cc: "noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net"
>>>   <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>>> Message-ID:
>>>   <cd7d9f3b0903101834n682057a9ybe3bfeacda136b19 at mail.gmail.com>
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>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Rachel McConnell  
>>> <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
>>>> Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
>>>>> I have a small bag of http://www.solarbotics.com/products/vpm2/  
>>>>> - one
>>>>> of the open questions is just how large a motor you're going to  
>>>>> need
>>>>> to be able to feel it through any given set of clothing. Empirical
>>>>> testing, ahoy.
>>>>
>>>> The vibration of a pager motor is felt quite clearly through  
>>>> layers of
>>>> pillow fluff.  On the head, through (say) a knit hat, no problem  
>>>> at all.
>>>
>>> That's true, but I guess I had in mind what levels of modulation you
>>> could distinguish. Let's say, for example, that you wanted to signal
>>> more than just direction. If, instead of just vibrating north,  
>>> you're
>>> signalling a vector to another person (logical extrapolation of all
>>> these social location maps+GPS services, right?), you might want to
>>> also signal distance and how long it has been since they moved.
>>>
>>> One of those you can signal with intensity of vibration, but the  
>>> other
>>> one you'd have to get more creative (not that it's entirely clear  
>>> that
>>> you have a large range of intensities available; for a given size of
>>> motor on the other side of a given piece of clothing, you might only
>>> be able to feel it vibrate at >80% power, for example).
>>>
>>> More creative might mean signaling with multiple motors, or trying  
>>> to
>>> pulse the motor in a detectable way, or something else similar, and
>>> some of these might work better with some motors than others. And,
>>> best of all, brains might do better at integrating some types of
>>> signal than others. Maybe it's easy to train a different  
>>> perception of
>>> pulsed vs continuous then it is to train for a combination of two
>>> motors vs one. I think it's going to be just fascinating trying to
>>> find out :)
>>>
>>> m.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Asheesh Laroia <noisebridge at asheesh.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Be Excellent sign?
>>> To: Ani Niow <avniow at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>>> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903101837110.4903 at vellum.laroia.net>
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>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Ani Niow wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vniow/3344371675/
>>>> Dude.
>>>
>>> (what does mine say?)
>>>
>>> Sweet!
>>>
>>> (what does mine say?)
>>>
>>> Dude!
>>>
>>> (what does mine say?)
>>>
>>> -- Asheesh.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Are you sure the back door is locked?
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Message: 4
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:11:03 -0700
>>> From: Christoph Maier <cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] ML Wednesday: code up a neuron!
>>> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>>> Message-ID: <1236744663.7504.36.camel at DrEvil>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:05 -0700, Josh Myer wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:56:41PM -0700, Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think most languages will look similar if written in accessible
>>>>> style. Real Python would say:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's why I wrote the ruby in the most naive form possible.  It's
>>>> like pseudocode with a slightly different syntax.
>>>>
>>>>> import operator
>>>>>
>>>>> def dot_product(a, b):
>>>>> return sum(map(operator.mul, a, b))
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I hate to yield the elegance plaque to python, but, well, it looks
>>>> like I must.  That's just nice, clean functional code.
>>>>
>>>> The most functional version in ruby I could pull together:
>>>>
>>>> def dot_product(a, b)
>>>> a.zip(b).inject(0.0) { |s, x| s+x[0]*x[1] }
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>>> Which just goes to show that most high-level languages look the  
>>>>> same
>>>>> when written in real style too ;)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sadly, ruby looks less like real languages than python does here.
>>>> Drat.  It does smell kind of like a handicapped lisp, at least?
>>>
>>> Speaking of handicapped Lisp, what is a poor Mathematica addict  
>>> supposed
>>> to do?
>>> The Dot[] function looks like this:
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> (as in
>>> DuNervst = Function[{gewichte,stimuli},Tanh[gewichte.stimuli]]
>>> )
>>>
>>> Ok, this is a commercial program and kind of off topic here.
>>> Mea maxima
>>> [ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/ 
>>> maxima_25.html#SEC85 ]
>>> culpa.
>>>
>>> Hope I can make it from San Diego in time for tomorrow night!
>>>
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:41:02 -0700
>>> From: steve camuti <mrcamuti at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Drink Restock!
>>> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>>> Message-ID:
>>>   <5a21f3510903102141l2ffd3b09wf7b54d5970fbdbe1 at mail.gmail.com>
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>>>
>>> I have been putting my monies in the donation box near the door.  
>>> According
>>> to Mitch, the treasurer, after our last meeting it sounded like  
>>> they are
>>> inter-related anyway...
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:46:42AM -0800, Shannon Clark wrote:
>>>>> I suspect an issue is that the payment box is seperated from the
>>>>> kitchen area so dropping money into it takes a second act & it  
>>>>> is easy
>>>>> to forget to do so.
>>>>
>>>> No it's not -- the drinks fridge has explicit instructions on it  
>>>> to the
>>>> cash can, which is in the cupboard.
>>>>
>>>>> 2. Put a drinks payment box in the kitchen and very clearly  
>>>>> market and
>>>>> visible. Ideally placed such that it doesn't get covered up (not  
>>>>> sure
>>>>> where this would work as the kitchen is getting cluttered)
>>>>
>>>> It's fairly visible, I think...
>>>>
>>>> -andy
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>>> Message: 6
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:01:58 -0700
>>> From: Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Drink Restock!
>>> To: steve camuti <mrcamuti at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
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>>>
>>> They eventually wind up in the same place, but they take a  
>>> different route
>>> to get there.  Everything should be really clear with the new  
>>> signs that
>>> have been posted.
>>>
>>> Christie
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM, steve camuti <mrcamuti at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been putting my monies in the donation box near the door.  
>>>> According
>>>> to Mitch, the treasurer, after our last meeting it sounded like  
>>>> they are
>>>> inter-related anyway...
>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:46:42AM -0800, Shannon Clark wrote:
>>>>>> I suspect an issue is that the payment box is seperated from the
>>>>>> kitchen area so dropping money into it takes a second act & it  
>>>>>> is easy
>>>>>> to forget to do so.
>>>>>
>>>>> No it's not -- the drinks fridge has explicit instructions on it  
>>>>> to the
>>>>> cash can, which is in the cupboard.
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Put a drinks payment box in the kitchen and very clearly  
>>>>>> market and
>>>>>> visible. Ideally placed such that it doesn't get covered up  
>>>>>> (not sure
>>>>>> where this would work as the kitchen is getting cluttered)
>>>>>
>>>>> It's fairly visible, I think...
>>>>>
>>>>> -andy
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list
>>>>> Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>>>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss
>>>>>
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>>>
>>> -- =
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>>> -- =
>>>
>>> Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
>>> ~ Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi
>>>
>>> If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell  
>>> people what
>>> they do not want to hear.
>>> ~ George Orwell
>>>
>>> Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
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>>> Message: 7
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:55:56 -0700
>>> From: Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>
>>> Subject: RE: [Noisebridge-discuss] Be Excellent sign?
>>> To: Ani Niow <avniow at gmail.com>, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>
>>> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
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>>>
>>> :)  !!Yay!!
>>>
>>>
>>> =
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>>>
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:43:12 -0700
>>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Be Excellent sign?
>>> From: avniow at gmail.com
>>> To: shannon at scatter.com
>>> CC: maltman23 at hotmail.com; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vniow/3344371675/
>>>
>>>
>>> Dude.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Ani
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What we need is a life-sized cardboard cutout of Keanu Reeves with  
>>> a speech=
>>> -balloon of it coming out of his mouth.
>>>
>>> --S
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Mitch Altman  
>>> <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Background:
>>> =
>>>
>>> There is a fairly new international organization called  
>>> Hackerspaces.org th=
>>> at exists to promote starting and continuation of hacker spaces  
>>> around the =
>>> world.  Every month they have a conference call where anyone can  
>>> join in.  =
>>> This month's call was yesterday, and I gave an update on  
>>> Noisebridge.
>>> =
>>>
>>> =
>>>
>>> When I mentioned our one rule:  Be excellent to one another,  
>>> someone on the=
>>> call asked if we had a sign that sez this at our space.  Anyone  
>>> think this=
>>> is a cool idea and want to make a cool sign?  Thoughts?
>>> =
>>>
>>> =
>>>
>>> Mitch.
>>> =
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> -- =
>>>
>>> Shannon Lee
>>>             (503) 539-3700        =
>>>
>>>
>>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
>>>
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