September 04, 2003

Traffic
Wild speculation about traffic forming into Aggregate Traffic Animals. All we need now are some real live data, simulations, and maybe a touch of the quantitative to have some pretty cool papers on our hands. Fun reading. Bullshit alert, though: the abstract talks about emergence.
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Photos
Getting baby pictures online quickly is proving to be kind of challenging, mostly because having a digital camera makes it easy to take tons of pictures, and because having a digital picture means that it's just oh so easy to go into the Gimp or Photoshop or whatever and remove redeye, crop and rotate, what have you. For large numbers of pictures, this ends up being slow. Furthermore, the previous batch of pictures mostly caused people to ask, "Why are the pictures so big?"

(Answer as parenthetical aside: because digital cameras take pictures consisting of many, many dots; way more dots than your computer screen has. My camera takes pictures with 3,145,728 pixels but my computer screen has only 480,000 pixels, so you can imagine that I'd end up doing a lot of scrolling if my web browser didn't scale the picture down to a number of dots that fit on screen.)

One batch is ready. Have fun.
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