Some fascinating stuff by Nvidia: NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 allows the automotive industry to use artificial intelligence to tackle the complexities inherent in autonomous driving. It utilizes deep learning on NVIDIA’s most advanced GPUs for 360-degree situational awareness around the car, to determine precisely where the car is and to compute a safe, comfortable trajectory. …
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Blurred Background Generator
This tool helps you to generate beautiful blurry background images that you can use in any project. It doesn’t use CSS3 gradients, but a rather unique approach. It takes a stock image, extracts a very small area (sample area) and scales it up to 100%. The browser’s image smoothing algorithm takes care of the rest. …
La Latina Map
Nice work by relajaelcoco: La Latina Map and Pocket Guide is a full colour illustrated project realized in collaboration with Walk with me, a smart company. The idea was to represent the essence of a sunny Sunday in La Latina borough in Madrid, outlining all the hidden and interesting corners. La Latina Map →
Scrapbook, PHP Caching Environment
// create \Memcached object pointing to your Memcached server $client = new \Memcached(); $client->addServer(‘localhost’, 11211); // create Scrapbook cache object $cache = new \MatthiasMullie\Scrapbook\Adapters\Memcached($client); // set a value $cache->set(‘key’, ‘value’); // returns true // get a value $cache->get(‘key’); // returns ‘value’ Scrapbook is a caching environment for PHP. The cornerstone is key-value-store, which sets a …
Design for the bigger problem
Great stuff by my friend Thomas Byttebier: When designing user interfaces, the same rule of thumb applies: never start designing anything until you deeply understand the problem at hand. Go back to research, talk to real users. Be that 3-year old kid again that answers every answer with another ‘why?’ until all conversations ultimately end …
How Art Can Transform The Internet
Maybe the aesthetic value of internet art is measured by its ability to help us see the internet, just as as a novel can help us see language. I really like the mentioned “rainbow effect” which we can see in satellite images, as it gives us an insight in how exactly satellite imagery works (which …