Alasdair Allan
@alasdairallan.com
Scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. Writes, speaks, and builds. An accidental privacy advocate.
The arrival of open sourced world foundation models, that’s “physics grounded” models, giving AI an understanding of the world around it is probably tonight’s biggest announcement from NVIDIA at #CES2025.
January 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The arrival of open sourced world foundation models, that’s “physics grounded” models, giving AI an understanding of the world around it is probably tonight’s biggest announcement from NVIDIA at #CES2025.
One of my favourite demos from CES Unveiled last night at #CES2025 was the Holobox by Holoconnects, www.holoconnects.com. Using a live video feed that is projected onto a transparent screen and a light box, giving the illusion that the person in the feed is three dimensional.
January 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
One of my favourite demos from CES Unveiled last night at #CES2025 was the Holobox by Holoconnects, www.holoconnects.com. Using a live video feed that is projected onto a transparent screen and a light box, giving the illusion that the person in the feed is three dimensional.
You have to love the architecture of downtown Chicago.
December 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
You have to love the architecture of downtown Chicago.
Dwarf Fortress should be an entire course at undergrad level teaching new programmers how new code can interact with old code in unintended ways. It wouldn’t even be hard to fill a semester with this stuff, and plenty of analysis has been done around it already.
November 30, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Dwarf Fortress should be an entire course at undergrad level teaching new programmers how new code can interact with old code in unintended ways. It wouldn’t even be hard to fill a semester with this stuff, and plenty of analysis has been done around it already.
In today's mailbag, the COLMI R02 Smart Ring, www.colmi.info/products/col.... A smart ring that'll monitor you heart rate, blood oxygen, and sleep, for just $15. The best bit? Open source firmware, github.com/atc1441/ATC_..., and client, tahnok.github.io/colmi_r02_cl....
October 22, 2024 at 8:22 PM
In today's mailbag, the COLMI R02 Smart Ring, www.colmi.info/products/col.... A smart ring that'll monitor you heart rate, blood oxygen, and sleep, for just $15. The best bit? Open source firmware, github.com/atc1441/ATC_..., and client, tahnok.github.io/colmi_r02_cl....
I'll be speaking next month on the 7th November at Cyber News Group's Future of Cyber Security event in London at Prospero House. I'll be talking about. I'll be talking about the new attack surfaces opened up by Machine Learning modes and AI at the edge. cybereurope.events/vip-registra...
October 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I'll be speaking next month on the 7th November at Cyber News Group's Future of Cyber Security event in London at Prospero House. I'll be talking about. I'll be talking about the new attack surfaces opened up by Machine Learning modes and AI at the edge. cybereurope.events/vip-registra...
I'll be speaking next week on the 23rd October at Particle's Spectra 2024 conference. I'll be talking about wearable AI, the Humane Ai Pin, the Rabbit R1, hype, and technological readiness. spectra.particle.io
October 21, 2024 at 1:47 PM
I'll be speaking next week on the 23rd October at Particle's Spectra 2024 conference. I'll be talking about wearable AI, the Humane Ai Pin, the Rabbit R1, hype, and technological readiness. spectra.particle.io
Shooting video ahead of my talk at #ParticleSpectra in a couple of weeks time. #IoT #TinyML #AI spectra.particle.io?utm_campaign...
October 9, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Shooting video ahead of my talk at #ParticleSpectra in a couple of weeks time. #IoT #TinyML #AI spectra.particle.io?utm_campaign...
Big changes in the sort of things and companies here at #TheThingsConference from previous years. Far fewer bare circuit boards on show — although there is plenty of silicon — more white boxes. Solutions have overtaken products, and it looks like LoRaWAN has moved past the platform problem.
September 25, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Big changes in the sort of things and companies here at #TheThingsConference from previous years. Far fewer bare circuit boards on show — although there is plenty of silicon — more white boxes. Solutions have overtaken products, and it looks like LoRaWAN has moved past the platform problem.
This week I'm at #TheThingsConference in Amsterdam for the first time since the before times. A lot has changed in the LPWAN space in the last few years, and there looks like there may be some interesting announcements coming out of the conference this year.
September 25, 2024 at 9:13 AM
This week I'm at #TheThingsConference in Amsterdam for the first time since the before times. A lot has changed in the LPWAN space in the last few years, and there looks like there may be some interesting announcements coming out of the conference this year.
August 24, 2024 at 8:34 AM
Oh for goodness sakes! The Google Short Link service has been killedbygoogle.com.🫠developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ur...e/
July 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Oh for goodness sakes! The Google Short Link service has been killedbygoogle.com.🫠developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ur...e/
Hacking the #IKEA #VINDRIKTING also solves the granularity problem. The sensor itself is accurate enough considering the cost, but "green", "yellow", and "red" don't really give you enough to go on when it comes to air quality. www.airgradient.com/blog/ikea-vi...
June 24, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Hacking the #IKEA #VINDRIKTING also solves the granularity problem. The sensor itself is accurate enough considering the cost, but "green", "yellow", and "red" don't really give you enough to go on when it comes to air quality. www.airgradient.com/blog/ikea-vi...
There is a real argument that what open source licensing meant changed with the cloud, aallan.medium.com/data-portabi.... What "open" means now for the new #AI models, or whether it even matters anymore, is really unclear, www.nature.com/articles/d41.... (original paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...)
June 22, 2024 at 1:04 PM
There is a real argument that what open source licensing meant changed with the cloud, aallan.medium.com/data-portabi.... What "open" means now for the new #AI models, or whether it even matters anymore, is really unclear, www.nature.com/articles/d41.... (original paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...)
This is a fascinating one. A first step towards active debris removal. Close approach to a uncontrolled 3-ton rocket the size of a school bus by Astroscale's ADRAS-J. astroscale.com/historic-app...
June 21, 2024 at 2:42 PM
This is a fascinating one. A first step towards active debris removal. Close approach to a uncontrolled 3-ton rocket the size of a school bus by Astroscale's ADRAS-J. astroscale.com/historic-app...
In today's mailbag a #FlipperZero video game module, powered by the #RaspberryPi #RP2040, www.raspberrypi.com/news/flipper....
February 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM
In today's mailbag a #FlipperZero video game module, powered by the #RaspberryPi #RP2040, www.raspberrypi.com/news/flipper....
In today's mailbag, "Just Stab Me Now," by Jill Bearup, amzn.to/3OsgnEr. A genuinely clever adaption of her popular YouTube fantasy heroine shorts series, www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....
February 5, 2024 at 7:25 PM
In today's mailbag, "Just Stab Me Now," by Jill Bearup, amzn.to/3OsgnEr. A genuinely clever adaption of her popular YouTube fantasy heroine shorts series, www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....
In today's mailbag, "The High Frontier" by Gerard K. O'Neill, amzn.to/3SEgvUa. This is a modern day reprint of the 1989 second edition published by the Space Studies Institute, with a foreword from O'Neill who says the text is mostly unchanged from the original in 1976.
January 30, 2024 at 1:39 PM
In today's mailbag, "The High Frontier" by Gerard K. O'Neill, amzn.to/3SEgvUa. This is a modern day reprint of the 1989 second edition published by the Space Studies Institute, with a foreword from O'Neill who says the text is mostly unchanged from the original in 1976.
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