Josh Horowitz

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"Standing waist-deep in an especially constructed manhole, an engineer recently went through strange antics to obtain valuable sound data for acoustics research. Facing each point of the compass in turn, he moved a dial until a tone signal heard in one ear, through a telephone receiver, matched the apparent loudness of a distant loudspeaker heard with the other ear. The tests showed the response of the ear to sounds from various angles."
"The technique you used here for finding the distance traveled is the technique of Integral Calculus. Integral means to integrate or sum many small parts. Calculus refers to many very small parts or layers which build up to make the sum. The name comes from minerals which build up in layers such as the calculus which builds up on your teeth. As the dentist scrapes it it flakes off. Each flake is a layer."
the first child is closer to the parent than the two children are to each other (vertically)
Figure 7 from Hutchins, Hollan, & Norman (1985) "Distances from User Goals" can be "Small" or "Large". "Engagement" can be "Interface as conversation" or "Interface as model world". Direct manipulation is close to user goals and has model-world-style engagement.
video of a man scrolling on his phone, but it's looking up at trees
a black square is dragged around a checkerboard. L-shaped trominos cover the rest of the board, pivoting in place to get out of the way of the black square
no-more-cover-pages interface, showing thumbnails of annoying cover pages that no-more-cover-pages will helpfully remove for you
clip art drawing of a muscular tree in tennis shoes, courtesy of the shutterstock corporation
Close up shot of barren street tree, with small yellowish green buds just visible.
a surface folded at a right angle across a curved arc, garishly rendered in orange
Handle Spout Vessel in the Form of an Owl with a Gourd-Like Body, made in 100 BCE–500 CE by the Moche people of Peru
tourist map of San Francisco; the area west of Divisadero St is horizontally contracted by a factor of roughly 4, so it takes up 1/3 of the width of SF rather than 2/3. it looks gnarly and cool.
bugs getting nasty on my flower
from https://numpy.org/install/, recommending uv and pixi as "project based" approaches for "new users who want a streamlined workflow"
"Diagonal paternoster", among others
A perfect little Steller's jay sitting in a tree with flowers and sunshine
index finger is looped around handle (in tension), thumb and middle fingers push against sides of mugs (in compression)
12 zucks
AOL Instant Messenger, but it's ChatGPT being insufferable
contour plot where the contour spacing adapts to the local gradient in order to maintain roughly-constant image-space distance between contours
coat of arms of the Seattle Wanderers Union – crow in a shield flanked by branches (apologies to heraldry enthusiasts)
grid of 24 diagrams
"⌘I to continue with Copilot"
photo of diagram in physics book. various hand-drawn labels are connected to their referents with arrows that zig-zag a few times.
DIY map of LA, labelling hill/mountain ranges and valleys atop a satellite image
long-exposure shot of the Hollyhock House
vscode on left editing JS code cells in paragraphs, rendered notebook on right
beautiful golden pin commemorating New York City synagogue tunnel incident
Screenshot from book: The letters J, U, and W are latecomers into the Roman alphabet, and printers have traditionally left them out when assigning signatures to their gatherings of folded sheets. Thus the following formula: 4°: A-Z⁴; 92 leaves is the one you would expect to find for a book containing 23 quarto gatherings.