Well happy Friday everybody!
And where I live… it’s HOT!
Happy North American Holiday weekend.
Links time let’s gooooooo…
World’s largest wet collodion plate created in abandoned house converted into a camera
“Wet colldion” is basically the old school, 1800s-era method of photography.
A house…. That’s actually a camera. Insane.
There is a full 30+ minute documentary in this article. Worth a look. Just beautiful.
“a Twitter clock by @studiomoniker”
This site will show tweets that state the current time based on your local computer’s clock.
A weird choice but okay!
Created by the an Ornithology team and a Machine Learning team at Cornell University.
“Our research is mainly focused on the detection and classification of avian sounds using machine learning – we want to assist experts and citizen scientist in their work of monitoring and protecting our birds.”
I used this to identify a red-tailed hawk that is nesting in my neighborhood. Pretty amazing technology here.
Sort of a “Lunar Lander” style game but without the concern of running out of fuel.
Challenging!
I hope you’re all still hanging in there wherever you are. It’s July! It felt like that would never get here.
Stay safe. Happy July. See you next week.
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