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mamoswined | 5 years ago | on: Google Poly is shutting down

I loved Google poly! It was a great place to find models for A-frame scenes. A-frame is VR basically built in HTML. I really liked it as a teaching tool especially for kids. Like learn HTML elements by finding a bear on Google poly and putting it in your scene.

It was a little frustrating in some places since a lot of it was oriented around their VR drawing tool (Tilt Brush) which my system didn't support.

mamoswined | 6 years ago | on: Glitch employees vote to form union, joining CWA

https://glitch.com/glimmer/post/the-year-in-glitches/ > But as we rapidly grew our team, we failed to commensurately grow the processes and infrastructure necessary to support everyone properly. The result has been a lot of needless stress and tension and frustration. On its own, this is a significant problem, but when we’ve talked a lot about wanting to build a company that does these things better, a failure here is twice as painful for the people on our team who are affected. As the person who most often talks publicly about the positive ambitions we have here at Glitch, I’m also the person ultimately responsible for the times we haven’t delivered on those promises.

mamoswined | 7 years ago | on: Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet

With the rise of contracting in IT, I think more and more people have crappy insurance. I didn't realize how bad it would be when I started contracting last year. The agency I was at only gave it after 90 days and it was $450 a month for a pretty high deductible ($3000) plan as a single person with no dependents. I ended up going back to full time and a major reason was the healthcare.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: Could the Nuclear Family Be the Reason We’re All Miserable?

Wow that must have been difficult. I would personally not homeschool my own kids, but I think it's a good option in certain situations. I'd like to send my own kids to a school, but one that's maybe more a "hippie" school that allows them ample free time and activity.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: Amish Mutation Protects Against Diabetes and May Extend Life

But they do! I have a sweet tooth and some of their stuff is just too sweet for me. It really depends on what part of the country they are in, but Pennsylvania Amish are known for their pies. One of the most famous types, Shoofly Pie, is basically sugar flavored sugar.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month

Yeah I always rec Adtech to people who have trouble getting jobs elsewhere. Adtech doesn't care about whiteboarding, if they don't like what you're doing they'll just fire you. I swear I never saw more abrupt firings than I did in my year at Adtech. Often the pay isn't great though.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: A Year of Tech Solidarity

Having been a member of a union, I've seen unions protect unpopular people, including sexual harassers. I have mixed feelings about this. I do think the harassers deserve to go through a fair process ultimately though.

Also see for example how "progressive" police unions are.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: Myths About Choosing a College Major

Yep, engineering was a different college within my university and that's common in many public schools. It was not easy to switch in, they only allocated a few spots a year for it.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: The evolution of eyes

Yeah, but no longer, it was very time consuming to care for them all. You have to care for them daily and a lot of them die anyway.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: The evolution of eyes

This is one of my fav papers: How (not) to train your spider: successful and unsuccessful methods for studying learning http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03014223.2015.112...

Because it has all the failed methods for training them that never got published. Some of them are unintentionally hilarious too. > In our laboratory, we also used sprays of water as an aversive stimulus—spiders that moved into one side of an arena received a spray of water. In pilot trials, there was no evidence of learning: spiders ran wildly when sprayed and then stopped to groom themselves. If accidentally sprayed too heavily, they became trapped by the water droplet.

I think more papers like this should exist.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: The evolution of eyes

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they were a bit more intelligent than jumping spiders through it's hard to judge relative intelligence in animals like these. For mantis shrimp color training probably doesn't resemble anything they encounter in the wild. For jumping spiders, they use colors for sexual selection in most species and also color is a major signal for "poisonous" in their prey — i'm not sure that's the case with mantis shrimp.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: Five quirky solutions to open office woes

I like how a lot of these are just cubicles. The rest are just private spaces but not enough for every worker, so workers will basically compete for them. I worked in several offices that had the "phone booth" concept and they were very hard to get. Some people would basically squat in them and who could blame them, really.

mamoswined | 8 years ago | on: The evolution of eyes

I'm surprised they didn't mention jumping spiders (Salticidae), which are notable because they are inverts, have the ability to see an unusual number of colors, and unlike the mantis shrimp can be trained on them. Also another advantage is they can be rewarded with sugar water. Evolutionarily, their eyesight is a marvel. No other spiders really have anything approaching it.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150518-jumping-s...

I have a couple as pets (https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/how-i-ended-up-with-pet-ju...) and sometimes have managed to get them interested in videos of other bugs but I'd like to develop something geared just towards them. There are a couple of things like this used in the lab, but nothing open sourced that I know of.

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