Ex-Illustra, Sleepycat, Cloudera. Currently: Board member at Cityside. Working on: Climate. Politics.
Not a tech bro.
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I’ll be givinga talk on the project on Friday, Mar 27 at 6pm at UQBAR cafe in Berkeley, which is where the clock is hanging. Stop in if you’re in the Bay! If you come by early, 5 or so, you can buy food and drinks. I’ve had a lot of fun with this project and look forward to talking about it!
https://www.uqbarthecafe.com/calendar/clock-talk
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Here’s a video of it working with the front open.
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Hey guys, I built this clock. I had a friend help me with the woodworking for the case. I used an Arduino board as the compute platform and designed and 3D-printed the display components using several LED strips. I wrote all the code.
It shows hours and minutes, metric time and the current decibel level.
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The problem is not the FBI buying tracking data without a warrant. Police forces don’t need a warrant to ask people what they saw or look at voluntarily disclosed CCTV footage.
The problem is that this data is being collected and aggregated in the first place. Oppression does not get better because you privatise it.
Charles Bennett and Giles Brassard have won the Turing Award for their work on quantum information science. It's very much not my field -- I don't know the winners or their work. It's an interesting choice by the ACM, highlighting the near-term importance of quantum cryptography and (happily!) shifting the focus from work on synthetic text extrusion.
Here's a really good summary of who these guys are and what they did:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryptography-pioneers-win-turing-award-20260318/
Came my way via Scott Aaronson's Shtetl-optimized.
Void Chicken
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
Sam Litzinger
Peter Gleick