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Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It's a question of semantics but not everyone's answer to "what is a comment and where does it belong?" will…
East coasters keep your lunchtime open on Tuesday as NASA is celebrating Voyager's 40th Anniversary. Check out this description from APOD: Launched in 1977 on a tour of the outer planets of the Solar System, Voyager 1 and 2 have become the longest operating and most distant spacecraft from Earth. Nearly 16 light-hours from the Sun, Voyager 2…
In this video Tom Warren of The Verge uses some mixed reality headsets for Windows. Watching them I'm reminded just how far this industry has to go. I'd call much of what I see in this video very much beta-level hardware and software. It has only been 5 months since I wrote the aforelinked piece and we've seen…
Morning on Penn Avenue, Scranton, PA – August 2017
Jack Baty: Almost lost me in the first 15 minutes. Way too silly for its own good. Felt to me like they took what they thought made the first film successful and just cranked up those bits. I enjoyed the middle portion, so stuck with it. If I had written a review, this would be it.
👉 Saron Yitbarek on Twitter: A lot of amazing people don't speak at conferences because they think speaking requires being an expert. It doesn't. At all.
_DavidSmith: I’ve been steadily working on Pedometer++ now for nearly four years. Over that time the core conceit of the app has remained the same, to motivate you to be more active. It has done this with colors, confetti, complications and streaks. Now I’ve added another tool to hopefully motivate, achievements! Pedometer++ continues to be my favorite step…
I miss my iPhone SE. Everything I ever wrote about it here on my blog was awash with my overwhelming love of the device. I still believe it is the best phone Apple has made to date. The only reason I use an iPhone 7 Plus is the camera. I said I wouldn’t switch from the iPhone SE…
Bank Towers, Scranton, PA – August 2017
LEVY, Penn Avenue, Downtown Scranton, PA – August 2017
Ben Franklin Techventures, Bethlehem, PA – August 2017
Colin Walker: I've thoroughly enjoyed the time I've spent beta testing Summit and look forward to the new builds. Colin has provided excellent feedback on Summit. So have so many of the beta testers. I too am looking forward to publishing new builds. If you're on the beta list (which you can get on by putting your email…
Here are a few things that I think you should see. Video: Casey Neistat travels to see the eclipse – I regret not making plans to travel to see totality. Not just because of the myriad of stories I’ve seen over the last few days. But they don’t help! Chris Brolin thinks you should go offline – Great…
The Carbondale Grand Hotel & Conference Center, Carbondale, PA – July 2017
The Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup is an excellent community in the Lehigh Valley that meets monthly at the Ben Franklin Technology Partners incubator within the Lehigh University Mountaintop campus. The community around the meetup is excellent and the building is amazing*. While the tail-end of my presentation walked through my experience building my first iOS app Summit, the…
Apple: The training speech data contains a minimum of 15 hours of high-quality speech recordings sampled at 48 kHz. We segmented the speech into half-phones using forced alignment, i.e., automatic speech recognition to align the input phone sequence with acoustic features extracted from the speech signal. This segmentation process results in around 1–2 million half-phone units, depending on…
Colin Walker: It's always a little weird glancing at my visitor stats and seeing that someone has read a post that no longer reflects my position. 100% agree. Most of my posts are out-of-date and my opinions have changed slightly since I've written them. I love this bit: This is why I always refer to the blog as…
☞ Dan Kimbrough: Cool new step counter, created here in #nepa. https://cdevroe.com/summit
Fred Wilson: AVC has been going on for almost 14 years now. I write every day, mostly about tech and investing in startups and observations about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He goes on to say that this has created a public record. A record that shows when he was right and when he was wrong. And he really likes…
This is quite a feat. Photographer Trevor Mahlmann figured out where you'd need to be within the path of totality in order to capture the International Space Station transiting the sun during the eclipse. That alone is pretty awesome. But there was a hitch. The land area that you'd need to be on in order to capture it…
This evening, at a presentation at the Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup, I'm opening up public beta access to my new iOS app, Summit – The Adventurous Step Counter. I've stitched together a temporary web site for the app as well as a mailing list that will allow you to get access to the final few beta builds prior…
Martin McCallion: If you work with plain text, as I prefer to, then you probably try out different text editors from time to time (or, you know, constantly). For a long time I used plain text files via nvAlt (as McCallion does). I miss plain text files. Then I moved to Simplenote. Then for a short time to…
Amber Leigh Turner on trying bullet journaling: And I was hooked. I knew this was a way to not only help me get back on track and focused, but would pull me out of the rut and the mess I made. I needed some way to keep track of my goals in my personal life, business life, and in…
Pilots, Prompton State Park – July 2017