Amit Patel

Putting 3-d printing and robotics into libraries? hm - Amit Patel

"These beautiful structures, most likely now devoid of the table-top Pac Man machines, dot the American landscape. Some provide ethnic food, some, used cars, and a rare few are now municipal buildings. Whatever their current purpose, we can always be reminded of the mediocre pizza that was once served in these establishments. That, and those red plastic cups. " - Amit Patel

Mentioned on the 99 Percent Invisible podcast: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode... - Amit Patel

"Avast, Ye Mateys! Step up for some pillage and plunder!" - Amit Patel

Har har, "Fer Talk Like a Pirate Day only, take yer cutlass and slash 50% off R ebooks at shop.oreilly.com." - Amit Patel

Crowd-funded second Suez canal?! - Amit Patel

"The tracks first laid for Transport Tycoon two decades ago were in need of urgent maintenance - and it finally came in the form of locomotion sim Train Fever. Swiss studio Urban Games wanted to recapture the spirit of Chris Sawyer’s love letter to logistics in full 3D, and sales over the last month suggest they’ve been largely successful. Urban shifted 30,000 copies in two weeks." - Amit Patel

"Some of Train Fever’s royalties will stay in Switzerland. Some will be sent to mystery investors with deep pockets. But a significant amount will be split between 651 of its players, in a quietly radical extension of the Kickstarter principle." - Amit Patel

"Do you drink a glass of wine with dinner every night? That puts you in the top 30 percent of American adults in terms of per-capita alcohol consumption. If you drink two glasses, that would put you in the top 20 percent." - Amit Patel

Designer with a molecular biology degree makes new awesome illustrations every few weeks! - Amit Patel

"Hi guys! My name is Eleanor and I'm a self-employed artist from Seattle. This blog post is the first installment of what will hopefully be a year-long infographic design project. I've always been into biology and design, so I'm taking a year off after college to see if I can combine the two with at least marginal success." - Amit Patel

"It's more of an experiment than anything else, so feel free to leave comments about what works, what doesn't, and what might be scientifically incorrect despite my best efforts. I spend a lot of time trying to make these infographics accurate (for this post I read a 468 page textbook and used over 200 other sources) but naturally I'm not an expert in every subject I write about. " - Amit Patel

"PotatoStock 2014 was held in downtown Columbus and featured bands, food trucks, beer vendors and, yes, plenty of potato salad. With more than 3,000 pounds of potatoes, the charity-minded party was open to people of all ages." - Amit Patel

"Progress in the LED lighting industry can best be measured in two separate metrics: pricing and efficiency. Pricing gets most of the attention, but so many factors affect it — from the cost of materials to various subsidies — that it is primarily interesting as an overall trend. Efficiency, which is measured in terms of lumens-per-watt, is a better way to look at progress." - Amit Patel

"In keeping with these advances, today Philips announced that they have created the world’s most efficient warm white LED lamp. The prototype operates at 200 lumens-per-watt, a number that is more than double what is found in typical household LED products. The “warm white” part might seem like a minor detail, but it’s actually rather important. The majority of people prefer their indoor lighting to be at warm white, usually 2700K, so gaining efficiency at this color temperature matters. Raising the color temperature is an easy way to increase efficiency (less color shift is necessary), so hitting 200 lpw with a 5000K lamp would be less of an accomplishment." - Amit Patel

This! 2700K is acceptable, 3000K is too cold. - Bruce Lewis

People ask me sometimes how I make my interactive tutorials. I'm going to write some “making of” articles to share the techniques I use. - Amit Patel

Here's the article: http://www.redblobgames.com/article... - Amit Patel

Very neat, Amit. - SAM

Wow - bonus explanations i understand. Well done. - Steve C, Team Marina

So sad about this. Pimpzilla was, on the surface, pretty ridiculous, but it was actually a decent theme. http://www.pimpzilla.nl/ - Amit Patel

This was the only way I had more bling than my friends. - Amit Patel

The cheese stands alone. - Meg VMeg

Me either but.. I don't know, I might be interested. I have to see though. - MariWeaver

"Cosmic ray spallation after the Big Bang is thought to be responsible for the abundance in the universe of some light elements such as lithium, beryllium, and boron. This process (cosmogenic nucleosynthesis) was discovered somewhat by accident during the 1970s" - Amit Patel

Periodic table shows where the elements came from — big bang, cosmic rays (!), stars, supernovas, humans - Amit Patel

"Africans unite to save Norwegians from dying of frostbite. You too can donate your radiator and spread some warmth!" - Amit Patel

"Better information about thousands of drugs, built from clinical research and real life experience from people like you." - Amit Patel

So it's yelp for medications? - Stephen Mack

Colocate your data center and desalination plant. Use the heat from the data center to increase the efficiency of desalination. - Amit Patel

"This is the best ever recipe. Everybody liikes it, even if they don't like broccoli.If you choose only one thing on this blog to make, make it this!" - Amit Patel

"The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organization for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a single aperture of 100 meters [≈ height of the Statue of Liberty, foundation of pedestal to torch] in diameter." - Amit Patel

"The OWL could be expected to regularly see astronomical objects with an apparent magnitude of 38; or 1,500 times fainter than the faintest object which has been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope." - Amit Patel

Wow, this will make the 200 inch Palomar look like a toy. - Joe

Yeah, I love the comparison diagram, although I didn't realize OWL was on there at first - Amit Patel

Lots of charts about Android. - Amit Patel

"At Floored, our main rendering pipeline aims for realism and is great for many different applications. However, real-time photorealistic rendering in the browser is very performance intensive and sometimes we just need to understand layout and space without needing lights and materials. Because we designed our rendering engine to be data-driven, we were able to easily add a new “sketchy” look that is great for layout planning and produces a pleasing, artistic aesthetic." - Amit Patel

Lots of information about iOS 8 notifications, custom keyboards, and other features - Amit Patel

"Come to the Coe Park Tarantula Fest and rub elbows (so to speak) with some of our fuzzy, friendly eight-legged guests of honor. The event is held at the headquarters campground, which has breathtaking views across the ridges and canyons of the backcountry. With a meal ticket you can sit down and enjoy great home-cooked food at our barbecue." - Amit Patel

Barbecued tarantula? - Melly #FForever

Do you pull the legs off first? - Steve C, Team Marina

There are tarantula hikes on Mount Diablo this time of year, too :-) - Starmama

"Champions of photosynthesis, these unicellular organisms appeared at the time of dinosaurs. They produce a quarter of the oxygen we breathe." - Amit Patel

Ooh! My kids love diatoms ever since they got to use a microscope to view them at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. - Stephen Mack

Sounds awesome - Amit Patel

It was really awesome. Matt and Nelson were there too! - Brian Fitzpatrick

"New representations of thought — written language, mathematical notation, information graphics, etc — have been responsible for some of the most significant leaps in the progress of civilization, by expanding humanity’s collectively-thinkable territory." - Amit Patel

"But the dynamic medium offers the opportunity to deliberately invent a humane and empowering form of knowledge work. We can design dynamic representations which draw on the entire range of human capabilities — all senses, all forms of movement, all forms of understanding — instead of straining a few and atrophying the rest." - Amit Patel

Peter was telling me about this guy earlier this month - he went to some workshop up in SF Bret put on I think. - Laura Norvig

"None of us are angry about everything, or even most things, but in the whole slimy pond of troubles there is something to injure every one of us in a particular and personal way that makes us turn to the stream and yell this is bullshit. And each shout makes the water rise a little higher, because how can you not respond to your friends when they’re in pain? Add in the flood of information and emotion from something like Ferguson (or war crimes or an epidemic) and there we all are, gradually drowning. So people get huffy about the volume emotion that these events arouse—angry that others are angry about the wrong things or too many things or in the wrong register." - Amit Patel

"Beyond the tools, though, I’m trying to make an emotional shift from exuberant joyful angry frenetic Twitter to something subtler and gentler. When moved to discuss something about which I feel strongly, I’m beginning to default to a longer form first, to reduce the heat of my Twitter conversations and boost the light I work by elsewhere." - Amit Patel