Weekly Random: #134

Miscellaneous

• Most detailed map yet of our place in the universe

• ACHIRES: Bipedal Running Using High-speed Visual Feedback
• 3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
• Glassified: Ruler with transparent display to supplement physical drawing

• The Windows Store is a Cesspool of Scams

• You can learn anything – Khan Academy

Music Videos

• Take Me To Church – Kiesza  (Hozier Cover)
• Waves – Mr. Probz (Robin Schulz Remix)
• Hideaway – Kiesza
• Giant In My Heart – Kiesza
• Peace – O.A.R.
• Do I Wanna Know – Arctic Monkeys
• Pills N Potions – Nicki Minaj

Technical

• Query – XKCD
• Yahoo no longer developing YUI

• VisuAlgo – Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
• Vision Blocks – Drag-and-Drop Computer Vision Experimentation

• Useful Unix commands for exploring data

Quote

In a response to the common sentiment of: “wtf do I have to be ungrateful for as a bored middle-class american” when seeing other people’s more dire situations:

“It’s because our emotions are primarily relative to our own experience.  Your discontent is no less real, it’s just that your new awareness of an emotional scale used by another person in a completely different context has led you to attempt to place your feeling of discontent on their emotional scale, where it seems so out of place as to not even fit on their scale at all.” – jay135 on reddit