Weston Renoud

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he/him/they/them 📈 born at 345 ppm CO2 ⛴ hydrographer 💻 software engineer (C++/Python) 🗺 planoterrestrialist, and I'm serious about it 🦮 dad - auntie to my friends' kids 🐘 https://mapstodon.space/@wrenoud

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Instead of conclusions... We are living in a digital revolution era; it is up to our generation to keep our expertise level high and integrate technology without loosing our humanity "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - DUNE
"I confirm that Al / LLMs have not been used in the creation of this presentation nor abstract. If your work has been done using Al/LLMs, there is no basis to give away rights under CC as there is no way to know for sure that the machine was not trained on copyright material."
Screenshot of Rotten Tomatoes Boondock Saints page showing 26% critics and 91% audience scores.
"When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1. TV news will fixate on incidents of violence, even if rare and uncharacteristic of the overall event. 2. Opponents will try to delegitimize protesters by claiming they are "paid" or otherwise dishonest. This is almost always untrue. 3. Measuring crowd size is an imprecise, politicized enterprise. Be skeptical of hard numbers: view aerial photos and compare sources. 4. Beware loaded terms such as "riot" and "rebellion." They often reveal the political leanings of the media outlets using them. 5. Crowds at protests are so diverse that the media can tell any story they want. Beware broad conclusions based on extreme people or events. 6. Coverage often considers whether protesters left a mess, or helped clean up — a subtle jab or praise. The truth is somewhere in the middle. 7. Protest coverage tends to be episodic, not long-term. Seek out stories that place events in their larger political and historical context. 8. The media will try to tabulate immediate successes and failures of protests. Remember, their impact may not be felt for years.
Demonstrators carrying Syrian flags seen through the passage under the Dom Toren.
Picture taken from inside, water stains, a red smiley sticker, and lighting reflections visible on the glass. The scene is of an unused courtyard between a campus library and 5-floor parking garage covered in green ivy, giving the feel of a hidden urban canyon. Sunlight saturating the clouds overhead and splashing on the greenery.
Me, with a pensive look to the camera, in a GDAL t-shirt, on the train. The shirt is full of nerdy geodesy and geodesics references. It features a cartoon style globe in the center, with the Americas side showing, a satellite seemingly doing satellite imaging or radar altimetry. And several planets to show how GDAL is used also in planetary sciences.
Headlines from Google search showing reporting on Trump's interview on Fox and Friends. Guardian reporting "Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move." White House website releasing "President Trump Honors Charlie Kirk, Calls for Unity Through Success in Powerful Interview." The Wasington Post says "Trump vows to punish critics after slaying of Charlie Kirk."
A perspective shot, taken from ground level over bricks. A hedgehog in full profile facing left in the middle foreground, lit from behind by street lamp. Cars parked on the left, trees and hedge on the right.
Isolated graffiti on a brick wall. A bunny character with outstretched hands, palms facing each other but slightly up turned, with a quisical head tilt.
A shot from the ceiling of the car showing Alfie sleeping splayed across the back seat.
Screen shot of the site Clearsky showing top five most blocked accounts. In first place is jd-vance-1.bsky.social with 146,953 blocks. Next highest is 81,549 blocks.
Looking top down on the surface of the pond. Several lily pads have made it to the surface, but many more are visible, still curled, just under the surface.
Me, making a silly face and showing off my digital badge, conference badge, and beer branded with our company logo.
Shows my reply to a now blocked post. My reply was "I see you're going for linguistic purism."
Soviet styled poster saying: "Trump vs Penguins, COLD WAR II, Cold War II escalates as Trum places sanction on a penguing colony 1,000 miles from anything remotely human." Witha very stern Trump facing a group of three ambivalent penguins.
Adapting Legacy Code with Boost.Geometry: A Hydrographic Perspective QPS maintains a substantial legacy codebase of approximately 5.5 million lines of code, developed over the past 35 years to collect, process, analyze, and deliver hydrographic spatial data. Updating this codebase to incorporate new libraries often requires significant refactoring to accommodate new data types. Recently, we successfully transitioned from an in-house solution to Boost.Geometry for spatial indexing. This transition required far less refactoring than anticipated, primarily due to Boost.Geometry's ability to adapt to our existing geometry types. Boost.Geometry's geometry types are concrete implementations of "concepts," which facilitate the adaptation of user-defined geometry types to seamlessly integrate with its algorithms and spatial indexing features. In this presentation, I will: * Provide an overview of the unique spatial data we handle in hydrography. * Share our success story of transitioning to Boost.Geometry. * Discuss how Boost.Geometry enabled us to generalize our spatial indexing. * Demonstrate, through a brief code example, how to use concepts to adapt existing types for use with Boost.Geometry. Join me to learn how Boost.Geometry can streamline your transition to modern spatial indexing solutions while minimizing codebase disruption.
Wife and doggo walking towards the camera, but down a tree lined path adjacent to a road.
Movie poster for "Wag the Dog" with an 'e' appended to the title so it says "Wag the DOGE"
Screenshot of the https://50protests.com/ website showing a map of protests across the US.
Letter from an American February 3, 2025 Heather Cox Richardson Today at 8:05 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate. They also control the White House and the Supreme Court. If they wanted to get rid of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for example, they could introduce a bill, debate it, pass it, and send it on to President Trump for his signature. And there would be very little the Democrats could do to stop that change. But they are not doing that.
Zoomed in map of Newfoundland, Canada, showing place names Spread Eagle, Dildo, and South Dildo.
Split image. Top half is a tortilla with butter and hagelslag. Bottom half is the tortilla rolled up, with a bite taken off the end showing a cross section of the rolled tortilla and hagelslag.
Tintype photo of me and my wife. She standing, hands folded on my shoulder. I'm sitting, with my hair down to my shoulders.
"Really" dog meme
Adorable 7 month old hound taking up 3/4 of the back seat of the car, with Alfie (also hound) sitting in the remaining corner of the seat, looking slightly unsure what to do.
Alfie laying at the edge of a dock, looking into the camera, but presumably out over the water.