Jupyter Notebooks have the code and markdown, and can even do rudimentary LaTeX, but no drawing to speak of. OneNote has the drawing and some LaTeX-lite syntax for equations, but no code or Markdown. Various markdown/LaTeX editors exist, but don't support drawings or code (certainly not both).
I have this dream, of a magical note taking solution that combines the best aspects of OneNote, Markdown, LaTeX, and a computational notebook. Just a workbench where I can write MarkDown (my preferred method of organizing notes), use the really quite fantastic drawing tools that OneNote seems to be unrivaled in, write equations/formal notations without wanting to rip my hair out, and be able to run code.
Took a break from writing my thesis to write some fun nonsense about a programmable mechanical keyboard: https://ryandlewis.dev/posts/mck142pro/
I was sitting in my desk, trying to solve the mystery of why my MatLab plot wasn't showing in the screen but wasn't throwing any errors either.
The data seemed ok.
The plot command was fine.
And then I noticed a sneaky line, where it read set("LineWidth", 0.01). I commented that line.
The plot thickens.
#PWA #Firefox
This is sad news, Firefox walking away from PWA installation on desktop :(
https://www.fastcompany.com/90597411/mozilla-firefox-no-ssb-pwa-support
Cool thing of the day: wheel-legged robots https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/wheels-are-better-than-feet-for-legged-robots
I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more of them in sci-fi depictions of robots. They seem like a natural combination: you get the advantages of both form factors while mitigating their weaknesses.
In some news of a personal variety: my first published paper as a First Author just got publicly released! It's only a workshop paper, but still feels like an accomplishment.
Open access link, because all good publicly funded science should be publicly accessible: https://github.com/HPCSYSPROS/Workshop20/blob/master/Log-based_Identification_classification_and_behavior_prediction_of_HPC_applications/ws_hpcsysp106s1-file1.pdf
Robots, AutoHotKey
I get if you don't want to make your industrial biorobotics interface code open source (I don't like it, but I get it). But at least give me some APIs or a way to interact with it besides your menace of a GUI. A robust CLI, perhaps.
Otherwise I have to figure out how to puppet it using an AutoHotKey script, and nobody wants that. Not you, not me, not Dr. Steve the biologist who has to rely on my ability to foresee every corner case of interacting with your GUI. Ugh.
Update: it turns out the problem was with the renderer, and not my bezier patch code. My honor as a Computer/Math nerd is restored.
Ryan D. Lewis | I'm a master's student/developer/researcher/roboticist who writes free and open source code in his (admittedly limited) free time.
I try to make the internet a friendlier place!