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Fourth Virtual Meeting

Saturday, February 11th, 2023
  • Details

Saturday, 11 Feb 2023, 20h CET

  • Plans
    • Alex: Maintenance project for Linux desktop.
      Wants to install Ubuntu on a singular hard drive.
    • Mark:
      Sent a first version of a Paper Heart video!
      He’s going to import it into Final Cut Pro.
    • Graham:
      Will work on some part of paper.

Joe stopped by, which was nice!

  • Reality
    • Alex:
      Finished the Ubuntu installation.
    • Mark:
      Final Cut didn’t quite import the project.
      Struggling to add more layers in Final Cut.
    • Graham:
      Worked on paper outline. Added caption to graphical model figure.
  • Links

Minimal Surfaces – Minimal Surface Repository
https://minimalsurfaces.blog/

Permian–Triassic extinction event – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

Minimal surface – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_surface

Osculating circle – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osculating_circle

Osculating Sphere — from Wolfram MathWorld
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/OsculatingSphere.html

Synapsid – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid

Dimetrodon – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon

Third Virtual Meeting

Saturday, March 26th, 2022
  • Details

26 March 2022, 20h CET, on Discord

Alex, Mark, Rob, Graham, and Joe were present!


Mostly we talked about many different topics:
Trips. Work. Notetaking with Notion. Alex repairing Joysticks.
Video and pinball arcades. The Rockband Network. Cavaquinhos.
Poker software that supports crazy variants. Music production.

Second Virtual Hack

Saturday, March 12th, 2022

Saturday, 12 March 2022, 20h CET Over Discord

Plans:

Mark – Wants to stitch together images using Processing/JS:
http://notlime.com/2022/paper-heart-parts/
http://notlime.com/2022/scallop/

Rob – Processing/JS, creating an object and clicking and dragging.

Graham – Hack Backward Simulation methods into mosaic frontend.

Alex – Wants to do basic “Hello World” program in Godot.

Reality:

Mark – Posted show and hide JS- loaded SVGs into p5.js.
Hit a dead end and start over by processing SVG individual frames.
Write XSLT to splatter frames.

Rob – Wrote a Circle that responds to mouse input. Ready for dragging, etc.

Graham – Integrated multiple outputs into frontend, but separate outputs
are not integrated well into DAW files, so more work to do.

Alex – Figured out how to load sprites and put them on screen,
and to export projects for Linux and Windows, but not HTML5 yet.


First Virtual Hack

Saturday, February 19th, 2022

Over Discord, 19 Feb 2022, 20h CET

Plans

  • Mark: sketching Bessel functions with Looom.
  • Lauryn: learning vim and tutorialing.
  • Martin: finishing a lentil soup, maybe working on webkit.
  • Rob: investigating Discord integration for his Destiny group.
  • Graham: small improvements to RSS reader.

Demos

  • Graham gave a small demo of his fraidycat inspired RSS reader.
  • Martin gave a small demo of his timezone inspired coworking tool.
  • Graham gave a small demo of QuoteRadish, a tool for navigating highlights and notes from a tolino eReader.

Reality – we mostly had a wide-ranging discussion.

Films and media discussed:

  • Baby Driver
  • The Triplets of Belleville
  • The Last Blockbuster
  • Joe Pera Talks With You
  • Los Angeles Plays Itself
  • Vancouver Never Plays Itself
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

New Years Eve Eve Hack

Tuesday, December 30th, 2014

30 Dec 2014 – Octane

also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershgorin_circle_theorem

Since Last Time-

Stuart – spent a lot of time reviewing papers, lots of very incremental research that should be tech report.

Vinny – trying to understand protocol buffers, a bin serialization format pop by Google (and in Common Lisp)

Mark – worked on NodeGraph editor, looked at Mohlenkamp (sum of separable function decom)

Jordan – made Rollerderby team, learning Ember – framework for JS frontends – angular- one big request and lots of little API updates, still in flux.

Rob – built an Arduino thing with a knob – Metropolis scene where the human responds to the clock, digital counter to count number of times. always something else to respond to. learned soldering and Arduino.

Xana – new!, learning pastry chef, have done puppet shows, and crafts and arch knowledge

Diana – sold a scarf, had the flu, learned how to knit.

Graham – finished subjective mosaicing audio experiment, did lots of plots of the data.

Plan this Time-

Xana – working on script for show that will debut in April (Lina und die Sperlinge).

Mark – play in Mathematica with function approximation. sketched curves that he drew will be approximated.

Vinny – gonna serialize and find a schema for image data and image data requests.

Jordan and Rob – draw dogs Tuesday with Paper (mac). Brian Lee makes comics proclaimed it.

Graham – trying brutal optimization on score building process. when making score, consider only local neighborhoods of parameters, when making new tracks, try a sampled subset of source positions.
mark suggests progressive rendering (first patches of pixels, then images)

Stuart – matlab issues, how to code pitch-synchronous overlap and add.

Diana – working on website and social media

What happened-

Mark – didn’t get func approx., has a transformation, add a wiggle to it. copying velocity and rotating velocity by a sine curve

Stuart – listened to music and reviewed Hamiltonian mechanics – why? entropy is fascinating and mechanics answers it.

Jordan and Rob – fashion dog is one of 8 dogs (4 each), will send fashion dog

fashion dog

fashion dog

Diana – changed the design of website, erased text, tweeted about Splinter and vegan taxidermy

Xana – added two written songs to the script, wrote 4 scene descriptions, organized the script by color

Graham – introduced stubs for computing a square subset of correlations.

Vinny – figured how to do union types to have one message for (update/data). protocol buffers don’t really have official union type, just optional fields. have to enforce that only one thing is set (or new feature: only one)

Atlhack 8 Jan Octane

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Atlanta 8 Jan meeting, Octane

* Since Last Week

** Graham
*** Fixed some bugs in mosaicing code, found others.
*** Mark helped compile unaudicle for Mac, it basically works.
*** Also helped me find some bugs, put them in my org-mode bugtracker.
*** Vinny showed me how to use org-mode’s time tracking C-x C-c [C-i, C-o]
*** C-c C-x C-j takes you to current clocked item.

** Rob
** Jordan
*** they are entering Killscreen and ouya CREATE competition
(24 Jan deadline!)
*** settled on the platform and have a plan of attack.

** David
*** went to Israel.

** Vinny
*** changing coworking spaces from Strongbox to Atl Tech Village.

** Karthik
*** isosurface extraction, and some nonlinear least squares, in python
using marching squares (for shape deformation, for a new project).
*** found multiprocessing python, probably better than threading.

** Mark
*** worked on upper body in Tango interface.
*** found a human population map for whoblinked.org

* This Week’s Plan

** Graham
*** Try to get supercollider accepting code over OSC.

** Rob
*** get controller input working.

** Jordan
*** Install Unity and play around with it.

** David
*** working on an iphone app.

** Vinny
*** working with collections in backbone-js (client side js)

** Karthik
*** create an animated sequence from slices.

** Mark
*** model your tango database and synthesize a dance.

* This Week’s Reality

** Graham
*** got a basic OSC shell that executes a working supercollider file.
*** looking for a way to safely compile bad code. looking into try/protect

** Rob
*** has a joystick-controlled vomit guy.

** Jordan
*** made a triangle move and read about metaball – a way to fake fluids.

** Vinny
*** has listItem rendering, but no appropriate data to render.

** David
*** switch statement.

** Karthik
*** extracted slices and wants to run some tests on them for patho cases.

** Mark
*** wrote a class that impl. histograms + main loop of synth +
drank a beer + talked to Hamza about genetic memory.

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New Year’s Day 2013

Tuesday, January 1st, 2013

Mark’s house – 323 4th St

* Members Present
** Kelly
** Graham
** Jordan
** Mark
** Rob

* Since Last Meeting
** Kelly
** posted new versions of aquarium
*** www.kellygallagherprojects.com/gamedev/aquarium/cambrian/
** started new Berzerk clone (new computer)

** Graham
*** First time visiting ATL since moving to Germany.
*** Livecoding editor in the tradition of audicle
**** https://github.com/ravelite/basicEditor

** Jordan
*** Got bachelors degree in CS. Not much else.

** Rob
*** Writing design docs for VomiTennis.

** Mark
*** Showed us fivecolor, animated drawings for drawing synthesis.
*** Showed us tango authoring interface.

* Today’s plan

** Mark
*** Fix bugs in both of the things.

** Kelly
*** Reading cloud atlas on Kindle.

** Rob and Jordan
*** Setting up dev log to track issues.
*** Translate design doc into action plans, milestones.

** Graham
*** Investigate custom renderer for table in Qt.

* Stuff done

** Graham
*** Didn’t find understandable way to change interestingly indent.
**** update: it’s simple, but in a privately composed class (QTreeViewPrivate)
*** Started on connecting to sclang; starting first with named pipes
and QProcess.

** Mark
*** Fixed both bugs.
*** Started added timeline to fivecolor recorder, added lots of timelines.

** Jordan and Rob
*** registered killpack.biz
*** made a git account on assembla.
*** put the explosion.gif on her awesome website.

** Diana
*** Took awesome nap.

provisional sunday afternoon meeting

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

22 August 2010 – hacking in Octane, 2:20 Sunday afternoon

present are Mark and Graham
Matt, who is in the last year of ugrad, who makes experimental recordings, and who wants to move to Brazil, is our barista.
we met Brandon, who is involved in a lot of ATL startup culture, who is doing some integration with SalesForce, also he is an award winning area debate coach.

since last week:
Mark- came back from Disney in Burbank, CA, where he worked on technology intern and he should publish sometime soon.
He is readjusting to ATL humidity after being in the LA desert.
Graham- participated in classyHack, (see notes here), where I worked on formulating convex problems.

this meeting’s plans:
Mark- some kind of NPR edge thickness based on shading. Hopes to finish the rendering and make images.
Graham- will start with some odd tasks for administration, then install Matlab and try to hack in CVX into his superposition mosaicing.

to remember: Kunst Haus in Graz.

this meeting’s reality:
Graham- chatted, wrote email to boss, booked a flight for DAFx ’10 in Graz.
Mark- wrote some Processing Java for detecting and shading silhouettes, currently debugging.

 

updates: Puyan is here, we’re talking about his upcoming semester.
he brought some screwdrivers for replacing a hard drive in his machine…
he mentioned hudson for build managing?
random:
(possibly re-)discovered palindrome: meh, ahem
Rob looked for the blood on the first release of the Snow Leopard’s lips.
apparently there is a Freeside meeting on Tuesday.

challenge: Macro this picture and post it as a comment!

Graham: installing Matlab dependencies for my mosaicing code.
update: hooray! my code still works.

food related:
Vicky shared fried pickles with us (earlier).

We made a fruit salad from dragonfruit, lychee, and papaya.
We also made a stir fry with tofu, baby bok choy, and garlic shoots.
Bill and Rob are here from tasting Pauley’s chili at rush!

classyHack (Athens) trial meeting

Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Athens Hack Trial Meeting – 8pm 9 August 2010 – Trappeze
names: classicHack? classyHack?
present: Kelly, Graham, Marilyn
Kelly wants to join because he wants to congregate with other free-time programmers.
Marilyn is founding this chapter.
Graham is here to participate in the pre-first trial meeting.
Bo is here! He came to hang out with us!
since last week:
Graham: installed cvx and l1_ls on his Matlab installation.
Kelly: not much.
Marilyn: downloaded something on BitTorrent. worked problem 1 on Project Euler in Python (she is the first marilyn).
this week’s plans:
Marilyn: make a basic webform for posting to her website without ssh. and do another project Euler problem.
Kelly: no laptop tonight. If he had a laptop he would fix the fade in/out until all resources loaded.
Graham: compare and verify cvx and l1_ls with a simple numerical example.
this week’s reality:
Kelly: drew an awesome graphed out Rip-em off Dan.
Graham: wrote solvers.m that produces equal results for l1-regularized non-negative least squares problems, and adds a few linear terms using CVX.
Marilyn: almost done with script, got the HTML, just have to finish the CGI perl.

Athens Hack Trial Meeting – 8pm 9 August 2010 – Trappeze

Marilyn (mmm) is starting a group in Athens! She hasn’t started to invite people yet, we just scoped out a possible venue, a downtown pub called Trappeze. (if you are in Athens and want to join, leave a comment or drop us a line!)

names: classicHack? classyHack? ASS? (Athens Segfault Society, contributed by Bo)

present: Kelly, Graham, Marilyn

Kelly (his site) wants to join because he wants to congregate with other free-time programmers.
Marilyn is founding this chapter.
Graham is here to participate in the pre-first trial meeting.
Bo is here! He came to hang out with us!

since last week:

Graham: installed cvx and l1_ls on his Matlab installation.
Kelly: not much.
Marilyn: downloaded something on BitTorrent. worked problem 1 on Project Euler in Python (she is the first marilyn).

this week’s plans:

Marilyn: make a basic webform for posting to her website without ssh. and do another project Euler problem.
Kelly: no laptop tonight. If he had a laptop he would fix the fade in/out until all resources loaded.
Graham: compare and verify cvx and l1_ls with a simple numerical example.

this week’s reality:

Graham: wrote solvers.m that produces equal results for l1-regularized non-negative least squares problems, and adds a few linear terms using CVX.
Marilyn: almost done with script, got the HTML, just have to finish the CGI perl.
Kelly: drew an awesome graphed out Rip-em off Dan.

addendum:
southern_drawl(I have always depended upon the flexibility of data abstraction.”);

Hackfest 10000011

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

22 Dec 2008 – special session

Several aspects of our plans fell through. We ate dinner at Mark’s house and were about to leave 9ish, but Octane closed at 9. Emily suggested we go to Inman Perk. We did and later continued the meeting at Mark’s house.

present- Graham, Mark, Rob, Emily, Richard, and Alberto.

Mark and Emily discussed the existence of evil.
Rob is installing XP on his audio machine.
Graham worked on an elevator in Inform 7.
Mark is making something in processing.