27 December 2020 - 31 December 2020
Table of Contents
Farewell 2020
1. EPICS
No progress - too many other distractions
2. Workshop
2.1. Clock weights
Two 1Kg steel weights from ~2" round stock. Failed basic arithmetic somehow because they came out to be ~1.9Kg. Need to cut down next week to proper weight.
3. Political Science
Imaginary reconfiguration of the US into 3 smaller countries: G-Land, R-Land, and B-Land:
It definitely was kind of a depressing exercise.
4. Words
wordnet is supported as a Fedora package, but crashes with some command line arguments. Was not fun to debug - clear array out of bounds error, but not clear why.
5. Brini Tracker II
Picking up long stalled GPS tracker project, and simplify to just a tracker; previous iteration was also going to have a graphics display.
6. Dodecahedron Mapping
Worked out approximate procedure to project spherical maps onto dodecahedron polyhedral nets. Essentially, each polyhedral face is a separate oblique orthographic projection centered and clipped to the face. Need a good 2d library; maybe GEOS http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
7. Books
7.1. The End of Everything
7.2. Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos
Katia Moskvitch https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4042/1