Premier hackathon

Pour la définition du hackathon allez voir sur l'internet mondial encore indépendant.

Premier hackathon donc, un ami me propose de me joindre à lui et à une équipe pour participer à la compétition. 24h dès vendredi soir 18h on est sous la tente de la Startupfest de Montréal.

L'équipe a un projet de biologie en tête avec plein de tuyaux et autres capteurs. L'idée est commencer des cultures d'algues utilisant le CO2 rejeté par des levures dans une bouteilles voisines, le tout relié par des tuyaux flexibles. Suivre les bulles est toujours aussi hypnotisant.

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Long story short, je ne suis resté que jusqu'à minuit le vendredi et suis revenu le samedi en fin de matinée. Pendant mon sommeil l'équipe avait bien avancé et les cultures évolué. On n'a pas gagné mais j'ai rencontré des personnages intéressants: un entrepreneur leader de bricobio à ses temps perdus, un biologiste ancien cultivateur de pleurote, un hacker de Québec descendu à vélo à l'occasion, un autre entrepreneur américano français en provenance de Boston et un Panda.

 Une entrée dans la fin de semaine percutante et innovante pour sûr.

Graphs en stock

Several meetings on Meetup and now one day of workshop on graph database organized by people behind Neo4j (check here neo4j). Answers bring new questions, what can I do with this approach? Using cypher you can ask your database in an almost "natural language way" and find information in your database. A nice feature presented here http://gist.neo4j.org/ allows you to run live query on the web and render graphs, several examples are presented.

Now for me the question is what do I do with that? Looking at my thesis references I could explore where I found relevant information (even so I kind of know the main source of information) or in which direction I could go. It is very close to study a social network, you are looking at the connections between authors and topic of research.

Regarding this blog, each post is a node and the nodes are sharing common features (keywords and dates) that can be used to navigate through the "database of stories". Here I would have to build my database (and being able to update it as the blog is evolving at each new entree) and to manage to create a nice visualization (a graph) that could be displayed for each post (to show how it it related to the others) or to give the possibility to look for all posts sharing similar keywords (and create new path into the database).

Regarding color science and metamerism, it could be interesting illustrate this matter for a database of spectrum (knowing that different surfaces with specific spectral properties can perceived identical under a common illuminant).

To me it is a lost about visualization and d3js is knocking on the door.

Vous reprendrez bien un peu de font?

Second time in Leipzig after last December. I continue my exploration of the Augustus Platz. Last time it was the opera this time it's the University. Last time it was for Wagner, this time it is for the Libre Graphic Meeting.

Yesterday was about color management stuffs, hacking camera, controlling your tone separation, playing with images and fighting with color profiles. Today, at least this morning, it is about fonts. Fonts united from all over the world, by that I mean not only Latin font. Everything for creating, using, studying font and typography. Very cool stuffs indeed.