Introduction One of the greatest sources of joy in my life are my close friends. People who bring excitement and novelty into my life. Who expose me to new experiences, and ways of seeing the world. W
On board the ship Garthsnaid at sea. A view from high up in the rigging. Image by Allan C. Green, circa 1920. View original image View dithered image The sailing ship is a textbook example of sustaina
I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquiring team and executives welcomed us and treated us well. We joined with gr
An dieser Stelle dokumentieren wir einen Beitrag über die Neuköllner Straßenraumkarte in der kartographischen Fachzeitschrift „KN – Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information“ – Info und Praxis
Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo Themen A-Z Thema Bezeichnung Augmented und Virtual Reality Die Geodaten von swisstopo bieten eine nützliche Grundlage für 3D-Visualisierungen in den Bereichen
by Ploum on 2022-12-05 All over the web, we are witnessing very spectacular results from statistic algorithms that have been in the work for the last forty years. We gave those algorithms an incredibl
It has been 25 years since the release of GATTACA, a film that tells the story of a credible near future in which society’s inequalities, formerly associated with race and class, have been replaced wi
Vor nunmehr 32 Jahren importierten Schweizer Neonazis das Konzept der neonazistischen Bruderschaft aus den USA nach Europa und gründeten 1990 die «Schweizer Hammerskins» (SHS). Drei Jahrzehnte, in den
Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay aloft
Ich habe nur wenige Erinnerungen an mein Leben als Vierjähriger – das finde ich jetzt, als Vater eines Kindes im gleichen Alter, beunruhigend. Mein Sohn und ich haben eine Menge Spaß zusammen. Zuletzt
Today's links Tiktok's enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2
None of this was my idea, Detective. Xavier came up with the whole plan. The black hole had been all the rage ever since it appeared, wreaking havoc in the Kuiper belt, but Xavier was the first one to
There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss, constant movement and the thrill of
This was written September 2021, originally meant as a project postmortem. (Spoiler alert: we're still alive and kicking) To support a traffic simulation, A/B Street's map model isn't just a graph. It
The Limits of "Computational Photography" Blog Jan 2023 I was recently discussing laser etching with an engineer/font-designer friend of mine, and I wanted to show him a picture of some really good la
Wie ein neugieriger Junge steckt der alte Mann mit der schmalen silbernen Pilotenbrille den Kopf aus dem Fenster. In der engen Gasse des einstigen Marseiller Arbeiterviertels Belle de Mai hängt Wäsche
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Gla
NEWS Q&A 13 December 2022 Public-health leader advises early-career researchers ‘not to be deterred’ by public vitriol. Max Kozlov View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMe
Ein neues Bundesamt gibt es nicht jeden Tag. Darum ist es wenig erstaunlich, dass Ende letzten Jahres intensiv um das neue Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit gerungen wurde. Verteidigungsministerin Viola
See A Satellite Tonight is my most successful side project so far, with 5 million users since launch in 2019. It's been entirely a solo project, and I've used it as a proving ground for a bunch of tec
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) is a relatively new technique that generates well-lit, complex 3D views from 2D images. If you've seen behind-the-scenes looks at how image/motion capture is traditional
Photo by Paula Mariel Salischiker As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarmi
Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, “The Switzerland Schedule” by Thalia Williamson. Thalia is a British author based in Riverside, California, where she
As Richard Feynman points out, every 'why' question in science needs to be treated with caution. This is because there are always several different levels at which a why problem can be answered, depen
NZZ magazin. Viktor Orban hat in Ungarn eine antiwestliche Insel geschaffen. Nun ruft er wertkonservative Westeuropäer dazu auf, in sein Land zu kommen. Vor allem Pensionäre, die von einem Häuschen im
In case you didn’t realize, we live in a multiverse1 of global street maps. It all started back in the early 1980s in the offices of two startups who were both based in Sunnyvale, California. One was
1.1.2023 For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Entrance to underground cavern on Pavonis Mons. HiRISE, 2011 The goal of this ess
This willingness to reconsider tele skiing is encouraging. It bodes well for the sport, but more importantly, it may signal a return to thoughtfulness more generally. This will take some time. Apart f
I have never written about my chest, which seems bizarre given that I’m a writer and I process everything by writing about it. I’ve been living in this body for 34 years, and had the tissue I’m having
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Peter Wayne Moe | Longreads | February 2022 | 22 minutes (5,932 words) I’m walking with my dog and the phone r
Es gibt zwei Kategorien von Frauen, die man nicht gerne sieht, schreibt die französische Philosophin Elisabeth Badinter: jene, die keine Kinder wollen, und jene, die sie um jeden Preis wollen. Kinder
Photo by Zhen Hu on Unsplash “Are you sure?” he says. That’s the director of my daughter’s preschool, trying to graciously decline my offer to install another air purifier. I insist. It’s based on a n
In vielen Ländern sind Gummigeschosse verboten. Nicht aber in der Schweiz. Warum nicht? Wie, wo und warum werden sie eingesetzt? Und was sind die Folgen? Fachleute erklären. Und sieben Menschen erzäh
This a guest blog post featuring OpenStreetMap community member and OSM US board member, Brian Sperlongano. Do you have a story to tell? OpenStreetMap US news or info to share? Message us at team@open
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Seit über einem Jahr ist in der Westschweiz eine Gruppe der rechts-feministischen Bewegung Némésis aktiv und hetzt gegen Migrant*innen. Um zu sehen, wie die Bewegung entstanden ist, lohnt sich ein Bli
Als Elon Musk im April 2022 ankündigte, die Aktienmehrheit bei Twitter zu übernehmen, tat er das mit einem starken Bekenntnis zu “free speech”. Unter anderem drückte er klar seine Erwartung darüber au
On Sunday, June 21, 1970, in an office building on Great Portland Street in London, a teletype sprang to life. Under the heading “HAPPY FAMILIES,” the machine rattled out a sequence of English sentenc
James Scott Geras can still remember the day he got the voicemail: If I ever catch you near my wife again, I am going to slit your throat.It was 2015, the same year Geras had relocated to Palm Springs